Story of St. Patrick
: fun culture note. This year St Patrick’s day will be on March 17. Before I share with you our list of St Patricks Day craft, let me share a bit about his life. Was St. Patrick Irish? According to History.com, St. Patrick was actually born in Britain. At the age of 16, [...]
Happy Valentines Day (Cards + Crafts Overview)
Wishing you all lots of love in your life! To help you make / gift something creative, I’ve made an overview of our beautiful and fun Valentines: craft tutorials for Valentine gifts; free downloadable templates for wrapping and cards; handmade Valentine card instructions; sweet recipes; gift ideas; and more lovely things like this. Valentines: [...]
St Patricks Day Background
Let’s prep today for St. Patricks Day, and share that luck of the Irish, from now till then. When is St. Patricks Day? March 17 St Patricks Day :: 2 Free Phone Backgrounds for You I found a four-leaf clover for you, and am sharing it with you as a [...]
Paper Paris Vacation Toys
: this great freebie! I have the ultimate toys for bad-weather days and dreaming with your kids of going on vacation in …. Paris!! These travel-sized paper landmark buildings allow you to enact the most wonderful vacation adventures in Paris. Free!! And you don’t even need to pack! The printable paper city play set comes [...]
Gorgeous Hearts :: Free Printables
THAT LOVING HEART: 15 free darling heart designs to embellish just about anything. Enlarge them: to create a wall-decal/ furniture print stencil or bleach-dye them on t-shirts (gifts or keep). Keep ‘m small: to print in red and adorn that Valentine Card; to create loving embroidery patterns; or make into stamps. Or make a darling [...]
Chinese New Year Greeting Card
Chinese New Year will be really early this year, January 23. To celebrate with your Chinese friends, I’ve designed you again a Chinese New Year card. As a gift. This year will the year of the Water Dragon. Meaning of the Chinese Dragon The symbol of the mythical Chinese dragon stands [...]
Personalized Desk Calendar Tutorial
January 2012 Here is the scrapbooked January page in my personalized CD Jewel Case Calendar. Like it? So easy, so fast, so fun. How-to: Calendar Page: Recycle a cereal box; cut to CD-case size. Glue on wrapping paper remnants. Glue on printed calendar month. Embellish with (very old) recycled foam flower. CD Jewel-Case [...]
Free Christmas Gift Tags
: The Christmas countdown’s almost over. The house is probably already decked out, and last minute gifts bought just now. To wrap everything up, I have some free printable Christmas gift tags for you today and tomorrow. To make your gift giving special, and especially easy. From Dardik: cute tags which will be [...]
Beachy Bath Mittens
Another great contribution to your beach cottage: starfish, coral, seaweed and fish-shaped bath gloves. Aren’t they both lovely and fun? Depending on the colors in your bathroom, use either pastel or brightly-colored hand towels and the templates below. There’s a fish, starfish and a coral shape. My favorite bath mitten shape is the coral and [...]
Thank You :: Free Greeting Cards
A selection of 6 fresh, fun and free printable ‘Thank You’ greeting card designs with decorated envelops have arrived here for you. A big ‘thank you’ goes out to Do-It-Yourself Invitations who is so kind to share these with us. Download here Greeting Cards More Free Downloads, how-to’s & Ideas Mothers Day [...]
Vintage Wedding Clipart
Planning a wedding? Two great free ideas for you. Wedding Tip 1 Cathe Holden’s free, printable wedding labels and ornate vintage clip art will suit a variety of your paper wedding accessories & decorating needs. Click here to obtain Your Own Set of Vintage Printables source: Cathe Holden Wedding Tip 2 [...]
Fourth of July Clipart
Stars have to be the most versatile home decorating shape ever. All it takes is this printable Fourth of July clipart (star stencil) to make lots of stars for a fun & festive Fourth of July party. Fourth of July Clipart Star Stencil With this star stencil, you can add a star .. in blue, [...]
Vintage St. Patrick’s Day Postcard
this vintage St. Patrick’s day postcard . So cute, I just have to share it with you. Click on the image for the large, printable version. Free: now that’s lucky. ha ha. The picture reads: ‘Only a bunch of Shamrock gay From the Emerald Isle so dear But ‘t will bring you luck [...]
Tassel GiveAway: Luxury Spring!
Just thought I share that one of my fav blogs, Between Naps on the Porch (I love that title alone), is giving away a free tassel. Not just any kind of dinky thing, but instead you get to choose from the grand-deluxe, super cute & elaborate tassels you’ve ever seen. This is one of them. [...]
Free Paint for Your Home Decor Projects
If you want to do a test run of a paint color scheme, or just do a simple stencil painting project, then this paint freebie is exactly what you’ve been looking for. Free Paint Sample Kit, with $5 Lowe Discount Coupon You can choose from ‘ooos of rich, beautiful colors to receive a free [...]
Free Knitting Pattern Hermes Great Gatsby Sweater
Some days I want to be romantic, other days I wear something artsy, other days again, I go for goth (although not often) and then one Saturday, yes, once in a while, I want to be preppy. And I own all that I need to be just this. However,… this amazing Hermes tennis-themed pullover would [...]
DIY Linky Party 19
Welcome to the DIY Craft Tutorial Linky Party again today! ((I’m pleased to be able to share with you all, that we are now officially a PR3- PR4 site, with over 1000 unique visitors a day, who, on average hang around for a while, looking at several pages. That’s nice for us, and that’s nice [...]
Kids Room Decorating Ideas
What’s the verdict: are your kids’ rooms tidy or trash? Or is that toy room driving you nuts? Scream no more. I’ve just made some free and dare I say, gorgeous labels for a princess’ palace tidiest abode. (it was about time, i hear you grind… ha ha). Seriously, by giving kids pretty organizing boxes [...]
Hopeful Home
Halloween in Fall …. lots of scary things & fear about (In N. America, that is; Here in the Italian country side, we’re mostly celebrating All Saints Day & All Soul’s Day, the days after Halloween; Literally none decorates her house for Halloween, except we do)…. Well, with all this fear & scary things around, [...]
Free Halloween Polka Dot Background
I’ve decided that our Halloween decorations all are going to have Polka dots. So, I just designed a full sheet of Halloween / Fall colored polka dot specialty paper. I am going to use it for our Halloween party invitations Guest masks Party glass tags Halloween scrapbooking Gift tags Ribbons for my pumpkin splash * [...]
DIY Tutorial Linky Party 16 + Halloween Giveaway
This is the 16th DIY Tutorial Linky Party. In this post: 1. HOW to submit & policies 2. WHERE you can add your project. My contribution to this Craft DIY Party Our BRAND NEW Halloween Central 30+ articles 100+ free tutorials Many more ideas. Halloween Freebie To [...]
Want an Amigurumi Monster ??
Into monsters? However, for some reason this little creature here caught my eye. Maybe because it is pink??!! Maybe because it reminds me of Niki de Saint Phalle’s monster head sculptures? I loooove this artist’s work, which you can find particularly in museums in Paris & the Cote d’Azur. Anyhow, for some reason I [...]
Embellish Your Uggs
Sometimes Martha Stewart’s craft tutorials are so good, that the best thing I can do is to simply link to it. Half of Amsterdam is wearing Uggs these days (yes, it’s already Fall here in September!!). So, I thought it would be a good time to feature a tutorial: How to Embellish Your Uggs with [...]
Quilted Backpack Pattern
A beautiful Back to School project! This girl backpack is quilted, has ribbons & buttons, has contrast front cover, is covered with flowers ~ in one word: is cutter than a button. I love this sweet quilted backpack and just know that thousands of young girls would love their mom to make this for them. [...]
Celebrate World Peace Day, or How to Make Your Own Peace Pole
I love World Peace Day. It’s September 21, and hopefully every day hereafter. While the UN initiated a world peace day as ‘early’ as 1981, it was not until 2001 that the date was set: The International Day of Peace is September 21. The UN "declares that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be [...]
Adirondack Chair Plans
You can find them in fun beach resorts, fisher man villages, both romantic and nautical-themed B & B’s They’re so comfy and so beautiful….: Adirondack chairs! Want one? How about making them yourself for your own patio or elsewhere, outdoors ? Adirondack Chairs are durable. This is why grandma still has hers… Yes, [...]
4th of July Image Collection
First of all, Happy Canada Day (1st of July) to all northern North Americans. May you have a blessed day today, full of festive celebrations! For the other North Americans, that celebration is a few days ahead: 4th of July: Here are some additional pictures for our collection of free 4th of July downloadables. I [...]
DIY Tutorial Linky Party 3
3rd DIY Tutorial linky party. Your beautiful and successful ‘Do It Yourself’ or craft project tutorial is welcome. My contribution: How to Make Your own 3d BUTTERFLY ARTWORK – Free Tutorial. You’ll love making this, by yourself or with the kids.
4th of July Paper Craft GiveAway
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 July [...]
Free Butterfly Craft Ideas & Tutorials
Spring, that annual period of transformation… So, I thought it’s time to work with a symbol that marks ‘transformation’ like no other symbol does: the butterfly. We ALL need butterflies. To create ‘how to’s for my craft readers, I’ve collected and developed ideas and free craft tutorials, stencils, templates, plus other design tools~ of use [...]
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