Art & Craft Ideas, How to Tutorials, Handmade Gift
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. [...]
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 easily [...]
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 to [...]
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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 want [...]
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 Day-to-Day [...]
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 already [...]
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 their [...]
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 make. [...]
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 least [...]
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 time. [...]
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 organizers, [...]
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 closed [...]
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
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 [...]
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 craft [...]
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 porch. [...]
I’m going to see that I’ll send you up to 10 Christmas freebies this summer to get a head-start on a fun Winter Holiday season this year. This will be my first of these 10 ‘Christmas in July’ posting. Let’s begin with this fun free clipart, which you can transform into paper bunting, wrapping [...]
Today’s LINKY PARTY is themed ‘Fourth of July’ or ‘Red, white and blue’ – Party ideas. Come show off your inspirational ideas, completed crafts, home decorating results or DIY tutorials to celebrate the day of Freedom. Best Fourth of July Party Ideas Table Centerpiece Get Flowers for your Fourth of July Party here: Best [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
So totally up my alley, I could have made it. But I didn’t. Featuring the work here of Dom, from Sydney, Australia. Cool chick. Totally love it. Yes, this is easy. Actually, this is a project to file for when the kids are home, for weeks,, during the summer vacation. Let them help with the [...]
Once you start stamping, there is no stopping, is there? That’s what I found at least. Last night I was preparing for this weekend’s art demonstration. I was using some watercolor paintings in the category ‘misfits & unfinished works’ as the base for some fresh Spring artwork to bring along. What did I do, besides [...]
This adorable birdhouse is the culmination of a few different craft techniques: creating floral wall art from toilet paper rolls, making a beaded accent charm, and painting, stenciling and decorating a birdhouse. What makes this wall decoration work is repetition of color, shape and pattern. The How-to How to Make Toilet [...]
So, you thought that ribbons were only to decorate the Christmas tree or making simple ribbons bows. Well, in contrast, ribbons have to be one of the more versatile craft materials around that can be used in scrapbooking, fashion sewing, or any other craft, DIY or home decorating project ranging from fun embellishments for handmade [...]
So, this little half-litre wine bottle from the Merryvale vineyard has been with us ever since our honeymoon in the Californian wine country. We stayed at the Harvest Inn, In Napa Valley, and our honeymoon suite was fitted with a complementary gift basket which included some Merryvale wines. WEDDING SOUVENIR As an [...]
Joining DIY & Craft LINKY parties are a great way to share your techniques, tips & howto’s and learn new ideas from others. We’re building a collection of CRAFT & DIY LINKY PARTIES around a range of themes. The party that opens this week is THEMED Mothers Day’. We also feature linky parties below with [...]
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)
Wonder where can I buy the latest Cricut die cut cartridges online? I had a similar question and did my research which I’m sharing with you today. As a beginner with Cricut, I realized that it does not matter if the cartridges were released last week or last year, as I had none yet… So, [...]
Today, I was challenged to wear pink and yellow as a color combination. My first reaction was that I don’t have any pink/yellow items. However, I managed to create a great outfit out of cloths I haven’t worn for years. I love it. I thought to treat you all the same deal, going over [...]
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