PS I Made This
Share great title, great book. Part designer DIYPart fashion Part lifestyle inspiration guide. I counted 27 projects in this book. All are practical and with easy (obvious) to follow instructions. Sample Trendy Fashion Project 1 How to Make a Fancy Ruffle Shirt (Upcycling a plain boring white t-shirt) Sample Trendy Fashion Project [...]
DIY Postcard Journal / Calendar
Share Pin It Need a new calendar for 2012? Don’t buy anything *. Make one yourself instead. Like how? Here’s an idea: perpetual postcard calendar / Asley from ‘Under the Sycamore’ showed this really sweet perpetual calendar / journal idea last week at designsponge.com, and I want to share it with you today, as it’s [...]
Great Deals, Great XMAS Gifts (upto 40% off)
Share I’ll resume regular ‘how-to make contemporary things’ – articles tomorrow, but today, I want to give you the heads-up on some too-good-to-miss deals. I scoured around for the best XMAS gifts and ‘need now’ creative ideas, and here are my Top 5 for today. Cyber Monday on Amazon is actually all week and has [...]
Book Review: MicroCrafts Teaches Tiny Treasures
Share I It’s been a while since I’ve done a book review, but this one is interesting. It just came out last week: ‘Microcrafts’ by Margaret McGuire, Alicia Kachmar, Katie Hatz and Friends. It is published by a wonderful publisher, Quirk Books, who only seem to feature titles that I like, love or that at [...]
DIY Bejeweled Bookmark
Share Step-by-Step Instructions 1. Collect materials: string, or strip of leather, or yarn or jewerly wire coverd in fabric,….. ~ or equivalent.. + pretty beads + tools to attach beads. 2. String them together, creating a long beaded jewel for the book bottom end, and a tiny beaded end-jewel to be topping out of the [...]
Birthday Reminder Tag Board
Share Absolutely darling is this scrapbooking tag board by Jaime Lyn at Crafty Scrappy Happy to help her poor memory in celebrating the birthdays of those around her. Best of all, she shares the how-to with us on how to make our own. source: http://jaimelyn11.blogspot.com/2011/07/have-hard-time-remembering-birthdays.html
Butterfly Prints
Share Just added some great summer art prints to our Butterfly Crafts collection. This gorgeous vintage butterfly clip art originated from a 1880’s Natural History Butterfly print (four stages of butterfly transformation). Butterfly Craft Resources Collection How to Make a Simple Butterfly Mosaic (free tutorial) Butterfly Soap (for inspiration)
Fathersday Scrapbooking :: Dad Album :: Free Template
Share Nope. You haven’t ran out of time yet to make something personal for fathers day this year. Here’s Rose coming to the Rescue. Last year, one of the Fathers Day projects I (Rose) had in mind was to share a little DAD book with you. It took me until now to finally made one [...]
4th of July Paper Craft GiveAway
Share I thought to share two great giveaways today for fun paper art & craft projects to help you celebrate 4th of July in the craftiest of manners. What better way to celebrate independence day with a vintage map of the USA and Lady Liberty holding up the American flag? How-to Use these 4th of [...]
How to Make An Art Journal
Share Today I want to feature a lovely series of videos on how to make an art journal. Millande from Millande.com creates page after page layout in her journal,, using all kinds of art making techniques that range from painting to collage. But best of all, she shows us how to just do it, hum-ti-dum, [...]
Book of the Month :: Kids Craft :: Klutz Kits
Share Today, I don’t just want to promote just one book, but rather a whole slew of them: Klutz Kits. Their books are not normal books, but craft project books that often come with tools and materials to make the projects described within. My niece and I have come to look for their books at [...]
Fine Art Print Books – Artist Interview
Share Meeting a real artist is always inspiring. Today I met book artist Alison Kurke in the ancient little town of Civita Castellana, Italy. An artist: she does not want to teach, she wants to create. She loves making handmade books. “Making handmade books is easy” proclaims Alison. “However, you must have the binding [...]
Handmade Business Cards in Pouch – the Perfect Gift
Share When I noticed these wonderfully unique business cards on a Medieval Craft Market here in Northern Italy, featuring quality handmade cotton paper and presented in leather pouches that were also made by hand, I knew instantly that I would make a blog article out of them. Craft Gift Aren’t those wonderful leather pouches…!? They [...]
How to Make a Book Cover With Butterfly Rubber Stamps
Share Today I’ve created a free paper crafts tutorial with butterfly rubber stamps. This is a craft that children could do, but one that seriously crafting adults would like as well. Rubber stamps are incredibly versatile craft supplies, and it is a good idea to create a themed-collection of stamps as well as color-matching ink [...]
Craft & Art Instruction :: Books I’m Currently Reading
Share Today I thought to share with you the books that I like reading / am getting inspiration from / am currently plowing through. Most are related to projects I am either doing right now, articles I am planning to write, projects that are coming down the pipeline, and then of course, good old food [...]
How to Bind a Book? 3 Simple Bookbinding Methods
Share This article will soon be replace by more accurate & fun book binding info. ‘Thank you’ to the reader who pointed it out that it needs an update!!! “Bookbinding is becoming one of the best hobbies to spend time on. Many people have found it great and continuing to improve their skills in this [...]
Perfect Binding Tutorial to Bind Your Own Book
Share ‘Perfect binding’ is one of the simplest ways to bind your own book. If you are a beginner, then use this method because it requires simple steps and you can also do it quickly (if you have the signatures ready). ‘Perfect binding’ is technique in which a paper cover is attached to a stack [...]
