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. Here is a sample of a project: How to Make a Fancy Ruffle Shirt (Upcycling a plain boring white t-shirt) Get Inspired Not [...]
Curly Grosgrain Ribbons for Valentines Day Wreaths
Share Something nifty today: Curly grosgrain ribbons! So cute! I happen to fancy doing this today. Besides making darling wreaths with them, curled grosgrain ribbons are ideal to embellish a bunch of creative projects I’m working on. You need them too? How to Curl Grosgrain Ribbons The traditional recipe of baking curls [...]
Scrapbooking Canvas Art (Pinterest Fave)
Share ‘Soul Smile’ ‘Laugh with your eyes, hug with your soul, and smile with your heart’ (Anonymous quote) Wow. Powerful quote on canvas art. Paper art creation. Scrapbooking collage on canvas. Below is my favorite Pinterest pin today. Inspirational? Love the colors, style and sincerity statement. Comes with a very detailed [...]
Valentine Greeting Cards
Share Love this pop-up card. Classy, simple. Love the color ~ not pink for a change, with a universal message that any lover will understand. Perfect. Best of all, it comes with a free template. You will need some precision scissors however to cut this perfectly, but if you do, you’ll have a stunning [...]
Personalized Desk Calendar Tutorial
Share 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 [...]
Recycle Holiday Cards into Tags
Share Yes, the holidays are really over now that the three wise men are arriving (the 6th). So now is the perfect time to get the ship back into order and clear received holiday cards and gift packaging. Rather than tossing them away, reuse recycle as next year’s gift tags. Simple and fast. Get [...]
DIY Animal Stencil Mugs
Share : this fun and easy way to spruce up plain white mugs and to personalize them with the kids (or your) favorite animals and designs. Stencil your way to the farm …. Country Living offers free stencils to download of cows, sheep and pigs.
New Year Table Centerpiece
Share We all celebrate New Year’s Eve in our own merry way. This year, my hubby & I are not planning to give a party but to kind of quietly stay at home instead…, (although Italy is FULL OF SURPRISES and one can never be sure as to what kind of fun might actually happen…). [...]
Merry Christmas
Share Just taking this opportunity to wishing you all a peaceful Christmas. Hope you are enjoying the thousands of creative holiday projects we have been doing together over the last month. May You all be Merry & Feel Blessing in your Heart
Wall Design Stencil Cutting Machine
Share A few days ago a reader, Shannu, commented on my Inspiring Stencil Projects that he/she wants stencil cutting machine for wall design purpose. Features of stencil cutters is really good point to cover, so I thought to answer it here on the blog instead of in a personal email. Not all stencil cutting machines [...]
Letters and Flowers Paper Art
Share Promised I’d show you this artful paper quilling shop window in LA, California. Well, here it is. Pictures were taken of the Sephora shop, 3rd St promenade in Santa Monica. I hope it will inspire you to a paper art or quiling craft decoration project or so…. and who knows, if you keep on [...]
Free Christmas Gift Tags
Share : 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 [...]
Auguri!
Share That’s Italian for "Merry Christmas", "Congratulations" and more such happy wishes. It’s my wish for you in this XMAS season. With lots of delightfully happy & creative projects over the days to follow. On that, I’m sharing one such projects: Here’s a basket of wrapped little chocolates that just went out of the door. [...]
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 [...]
Christmas Tree Alternatives
Share Pin It It’s perfect if you don’t yet have a Christmas tree. There’s something far better: an adorable Christmas tree alternative that you can make on a dime, and that’ll be loved by Mother Nature and your kids alike. Materials for Alternative Christmas Trees There’s no limit to the materials you could use [...]
Christmas Cards
Share “Not too late yet”, says our site sponsor, greeting card specialist TinyPrints. Still plenty time to get gorgeous, personalized photo holiday cards made and delivered in time. “Plus” they say …. “two more days left to get 20% off” their gorgeous photo holiday cards. Given their top quality, professional designs and outstanding personalization, they’re [...]
Scrapbooking Projects + Supplies Up to 50% off
Share I don’t know about you, but this season is the time of the year that I find myself doing some sort of scrapbooking activity nearly every day. It’s that cozy indoor season where I want everything to be pretty and happy. Hence, I decorate everything. Don’t you? I bet you do too. Therefore, I [...]
Calendars 2012
Share That time of the year again: the creative calendars for 2012 are out. Calendars, desk organizers and day planners make the best Christmas gifts, don’t they?! BEST MUM’S CALENDARS & PLANNERS FOR 2012 Anne Taintor 2012 Wall Calendar Mary Engelbreit’s Hats Off!: 2012 Weekly Planner Calendar Life Is Sweet with Mary Engelbreit: 2012 [...]
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 [...]
Halloween Giant Cat Template
Share Hi all. Just came across one of our earliest posts, Fall & Halloween-themed Crafts (elementary school kids) , which has great 3 classroom decorating & craft ideas. To help teachers (or parents) make the Halloween Card project for kids, I designed a huge, mean black cat template which the kids can use to decorate [...]
Halloween Ghost Crafts
Share Pin It 7 projects. What’s Halloween without a spooky ghost? Must-have decorative Fall season displays have at least one or two ghosts hanging around, spooky or friendly. Kids consider both kind of ghosts to add to the family fun. Halloween Ghost Crafts to Entertain: These are all easy, fun & fast to [...]
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 [...]
Thanksgiving Dinner Place Cards
Share Let’s plan ahead. This Thanksgiving I would like to have a number of people over for dinner. As this is a bit daunting to me, I usually like to have all the small details, such as the artsy & crafty decorative elements as well as the main dish to be made well ahead of [...]
Back-to-School Notice Boards, Schedulers, Organizers & Desk Accessories
Share I haven’t gone back to school for a ‘000 years. However, every Fall I still enjoy that feeling of a fresh start. Lovely. One of my best memories is how I used to get very nice new book wrapping paper, calendar and others kids desk accessories and stationary. We would making matching schedulers and [...]
French Pillows w Bird Collage & Bunny Portrait
Share Today I have for you beautiful & unique French Bird & Bunny pillows, spotted in hip-groovy Marait, Paris. Bird Pillow If you’ve made our ‘bird with umbrella’ pillow, you could make this French bird pillow as a companion. Techniques: To make a pillow like this, however, you must first create the whole pillow [...]
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
Thank You :: Free Greeting Cards
Share 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 [...]
Call for Artists :: Christmas In July #2
Share Win a unique, personalized prize by participating in this special Holiday Crafts linky party. Call for Holiday Crafts: Submit Your Best Project Plans WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO THIS YEAR FOR THE HOLIDAYS? I love to hear about YOUR BEST craft projects, and so I am doing a contest / round-up of what [...]
Beach Cottage Decor :: Wall Art
Share Decorating your home to feel like a beach cottage requires some concerted effort, and some fantasy. Some dreaming of the mind. Today I’m treating you all you need to create beach cottage wall art: a beach quote, free beach clipart and a tutorial on how to create an exquisite wall hanging for your summer [...]
