Art & Craft Ideas, How to Tutorials, Handmade Gift
Finished the Easter brunch, done the Easter egg hunt, and now need to calm the kids down after the sugar rush, with something calm and creative? Be ready and print out these free craft downloads ahead of time. I made a set of Easter Eggs kids of a variety of ages can color in. They [...]
Here are some fun ‘So Lucky’ St. Patrick’s Day gift bags. The gals from the Daily Digi dreamt them up, and are offering free downloadables for you, so you can print your own and steal the show with ease. These free St Patrick templates are grouped together for you in a zip file, so one [...]
Oh, the pressure of Valentine, year after year…. Most men dread the day or rather the implied obligation, I think. Looking beyond the social obligation, however, I think all want to do something kind and ideally, we’re all looking for some real originality? Something really NON-frilly, yet romantic? This is tough to find this, [...]
At the end of February 14, Valentine’s Day will be over, but Chinese New Year will have just began! It’s a whole week! This year, 2010, will be the year of the Tiger. To celebrate both the New Year day and every 365 days in this upcoming Year of the Tiger, enjoy my free New [...]
Yep. You get to create your own book of love…. That is: you can use it as a Valentines Book with love verses, lovely Baby Album for photos, or Affirmation Book with notes. No matter how you’ll use it, I ‘m sharing with you the ‘how to’ for a craft a lovely scrapbook project! I [...]
This week I’m going to hold a workshop here in Rome, Italy, and I thought it would to issue some fun certificates of attendance. It will be a souvenir from their workshop, to remind them they can be proud of themselves and can now go on on their own. Free Download My ‘Certificate of [...]
Free Funky Calendar 2010 on a zero $ budget? Yes, here are 4 fun & crafty calendars that you only have to … print! How lovely a start of the new year is that!
Lovely Barbie dresses? Affordable ones?? Look no further. Let the dress up games begin. You can now create your own Barbie. I searched and searched and found these 5 to be the best dress patterns ever. Complete with free, illustrated tutorials and enticing pictures. Best Barbie Party Dress – Free Pattern 1 Click here [...]
My state: REALLY INSPIRED. I just read this story about this young man who actually tried living without money. Inspired, however, I can’t just pack up and live in a caravan, completely without money (nor do I want to). (photo: Benjamin Earwicker) When I finished my economics degree, I equally came away with the [...]
Handmade Gifts for HIM (Dad, Sons, Grandpa, Uncles & Friends) Many of the gifts for mom could dub as gifts for men also. Just choose your colors right: strong blues, greens, browns, yellows and black. Man prefer straight lined patterns over curly romantic designs, so just choose what they’ll like. As well, consider their hobbies [...]
We would all like to go home for thanksgiving this year. However, for some of us, it’s not possible. Download this free Thanksgiving Greeting card to delight your loved ones abroad and far away…. This card could also be used as a tag for any Thanksgiving gifts you may wish to hand out, or as [...]
Oh, what the heck?! I am so into making coloring pages now, and just featured Thanksgiving Winnie the Pooh coloring pages. I might as well celebrate our own wonderful Mickey Mouse on his birthday with a lovely free coloring page. Mickey’s birthday is today, November 18. Happy Birthday, Mickey. Have fun coloring. [...]
For a fellow blogger with whom I share some of my creative interests, here is a free downloadable greeting card, designed today, just for you. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! Click on the image to downloadyour free birthday card.* Top up your greeting card with an instant Birthday Gift Card from Amazon Other Free [...]
OK. All inspired by our pumpkin carving ideas?? Free Pumpkin Carving Designs If you prefer to carve your pumpkin with a free online pattern, here are several free stencils by FineCraftGuild.com that you can use to make both very easy and very complicated Halloween pumpkin carving designs. For easier designs, try the images on the [...]
Need some good pumpkin carving designs? Here are a dozen carved pumpkin pictures for inspirational Halloween ideas, and some of the best pumpkin patterns from FineCraftGuild.com. Great Pumpkin Carving Designs These 12 fantastic pumpkin carving designs are so simple that you won’t need a downloadable pattern for them. Just copy the designs you see [...]
By now I have my whole family in the fold, and we are all coming up with crafty ideas for the holidays. Ha ha… This morning, we experimented with Halloween pancakes. What a joy it was to make these. Without any toys and tools other than a knife and a bit of Nutella, we created [...]
I don’t know what got into me, but this simple haunted house stencil for Halloween just wanted getting more and more detail. I love it. It became a wonderful picture that tells a spooky story!! Personally, I think it’s so pretty now, what I want to do with it, is simply framing it in a [...]
Stencils are one of my favorite things, as you no doubt have discovered on this craft blog. And we use them here at FineCraftGuild.com for everything, from cooking stencils, wall paper stencils, and other home decorating stencils. This Halloween, I had a bit of a scour around for Halloween Stencils and could not find anything [...]
OK. I thought that I was ‘done’ with digital scrapbooking and design for a while, but I guess not. Yesterday, these two little monsters in the form of a ‘Witchy Witch with Bats’ and a ‘Rather Hissy Cat’ had to be realized by way of FREE TWITTER or COMPUTER BACKGROUNDS. Like them? I made them [...]
I was just reminded on Twitter of looking into the color trends for the upcoming Fall. ~ Yes, you can follow me at http://www.Twitter.com/freecraft, albeit that I believe that daily visits to my blog, my newsletter and my RSS feed are useful ~ . OK Back to … Choosing Fashionable Craft Colors for Fall [...]
UPDATED! “One More Coffee for the Road?” my husband asked as I post this tutorial for reusable (Starbucks) coffee cup cozies! He just confirmed the usefulness of this craft project. Making a coffee cup cuff, holder, sleeve or cozy – whatever you like to call it – is simple to do and a [...]
Sophisticated Vintage Paper Dresses Making paper dresses has been around for centuries and I have scoured around for some examples to get your creative juices going. Also note that the materials used and their treatment varied over time. In the ‘20s they used plain crepe paper for the vintage theater costume dress (picture on the [...]
Last minute celebration preparation can still turn out really great Let me enhance everybody’s Fourth of July holiday decoration projects and Independence Day celebrations with this FREE fourth of July clipart STENCIL template for this holiday weekend. I designed it in such a way that you can simply print this, copy it many times and [...]
This super easy craft project allows you to complement the hand-made Fathers Day card or gift that you might have made in school or from a free craft template/project here at FineCraftGuild.com, with a Fathers’ Day Certificate that celebrates your dad’s special talents, hobbies and lovely things he does for you, year-round. Actually, you can [...]
As you know, the third Sunday in June is Father`s day, and here is one of 10 cards that I have created for you to celebrate this happy occasion. This Father’s Day card is for a dad who is busy on his computer all day. It spells ‘I love you’ in 0’s and 1’s ~ [...]
Wish Happy Fathers Day to your ‘Golf Pro’ dad with this personalized golf puzzle template / Fathers’ Day greeting card, which reads: “You swing being my Dad really well.” Simply click on the thumbnail to download your free template. Print the page and sign it with your name and a personal message for your dad [...]
If you have an Office Executive – type of a dad, you can give him this ‘paperclips and post-it note’ Father’s Day Card . He is sure to be in his element with it. Click on the image on the right here to download your free greeting card. Print it on nice thick card [...]
This Father’s Day card for new fathers features a lovely baby coming fresh out of the cabbage. It is an absolutely adorable image, and yes, mom, you get to give it to the new dad. Click on the thumbnail to download your free greeting. Suggested Embellishment Give this greeting in a nice-looking frame. Suggested [...]
If your dad loves the sun and Mexican vacations, send him some sunny rays with this sunny Father’s Day card. Click on this thumbnail for your free downloadable card. Complementary Fathers Day Activities : Make a Mexican Lunch Make lunch for your dad today, featuring tacos filled with healthy Mexican goodies. If cooking [...]
This lovely teal and sand -colored card says all, and does so in a simple way: ‘I love dad’. The paisleys and the design are somewhat oriental, however, they probably appeal to Texan dads as well… Happy Fathers Day! To get your free downloadable greeting card, click on the thumbnail here. Complementary Fathers Day Ideas [...]
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