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.
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 [...]
Fourth of July Clipart
Share 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 [...]
Stamping :: Simple Painting Technique
Share 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, [...]
Upholstered Headboards: Make Your Own
Share Comfortable bed headboards are easy to make and transform ordinary bedroom furniture. Actually good bed headboards have to follow certain design criteria: 1. Decorative items on (or above) the headboard should not be able to fall onto my head. 2. It should be high enough to support my back when having breakfast in [...]
Build Your Own Birdhouse
Share 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 [...]
Create Cool Child Bedroom Furniture w Stencils (DIY Tutorial)
Share ** How to Stencil Furniture. ** Lovely. Fun. Doable. Those are the three worlds … I mean words… that come to mind when I saw this dresser make-over. You love it also? Image source: Lena Corwin, via Etsy. Free Tutorial On Hand-Printing Your Cabinet This design & tutorial for this [...]
Art in Paris
Share It’s not what you think. No art deco here, ma’am. Manhole mandalas, that’s art, instead. Yesterday, I spotted this post by Laurie of Scene of the Grime (fun name) popping a manhole cover (roadside find) into her car. It was going to survive the junkyard and live as decoration in her backyard. A cool [...]
Original Easter Craft Ideas
Share No matter what your craft medium might be, here are 5 original ideas for you: 1. SEWING: Carrots for the Easter Bunny Free Tutorial These great looking carrots give a fun whimsical note to your Easter Brunch table. You can fill them with chocolates and give them as gifts to guests. Or [...]
Let’s Design a 3D Butterfly ‘Painting’
Share We all know the symbolic meaning of butterflies to be Spring and transformation. Well, I feel for me, Spring, as well as Transformation is in the air. When butterflies flutter in your belly, you’re in love. Such lovely symbolism… I thought today to craft a lesson plan tutorial for classroom use. Needless to [...]
Handmade Valentine Cards Ideas
Share Need to whip up an easy Valentine greeting card, or clean and simple stamped note cards? Good. What I want to show to day is how easy it is to make lovely cards with minimal tools. Easy Valentine Craft These rubber stamped cards with hearts, squares & rectangles will do the trick for [...]
Best Homemade Advent Calendars
Share My friend was cleaning her closets the other day, and asked if I was interested in her old house-shaped letter box. It looked … a bit dated, a bit odd-shaped, a bit bland as it was plain wood, and … I did not know what to do with it. Mentally, I was running my [...]
Halloween Costume Accessories for Kids ~ ‘How-to’ Video
Share Today I want to share with you 3 very fundamental costume accessories that can be used in a wide range of Halloween costumes. ‘How to Make Some Great Halloween Costumes for Kids’: This video offers 3 inexpensive and easy accessory ideas for children Halloween costumes to make yourself. SIMPLE TUTU For elf, ballerina or [...]
Craft Book of the Month Embellishings a la Anthropologie
Share Favorite Craft Book Complete Embellishing: Techniques and Projects This book includes an collection of 25 projects, illustrated with more than 170 photographs and clear step-by-step directions. All are original designs inspired by the author’s years as a crafter and visual manager for the hip New York store, Anthropologie. The ‘thing’ that makes Anthropologie [...]
Halloween Stencil: Raven
Share A raven is an important omen, according to Native American Indian wisdom. When you see a raven, expect magic, shape-shifting and creation! That sounds perfect for Halloween, right?!! So, download your free raven craft stencil and decorate with a bunch of them, all around the house. I have seen some cute executions of the [...]
Cotton Tote Bag Design Contest
Share I like bags and if I see any opportunity to design a bag, well, I’m on it. Today I’m sharing an opportunity with you to not only design a bag, but also to get some free publicity from winning a contest. What fun. For the first time ever, City of Craft is inviting craft [...]
Halloween Cupcakes
Share For someone whose house is too hot to even consider cooking, let alone baking, my mind is set now on making Halloween Cupcakes this year…. mmmm… later…. in Fall. So, I scoured the web and found half a dozen wonderful Halloween cupcake designs: spiders, spooky ghosts, bloody faces, eyeballs, witch-pinned ones and other [...]
Bed Sheets with Shell Print – Easy Home Craft
Share I came across this easy & free tutorial on how to make shell printed bed sheets, while I am prepping my future craft photos & articles on “How to create a Beach Shack nowhere how far you are from the ocean”. (Thank you, Martha Stewart, for your ‘Craft of the Day’ today!) [...]
How to Make a Sophisticated Stencil
Share When I came across this video of ‘How to Make a Sophisticated Stencil’ to create a glamorous door decoration, easily by using a stencil, I thought to feature it here at FineCraftGuild.com. While I have already written on the topic of ‘how to create your own stencil’ and other stenciling tips, there are [...]
Happy Fourth of July
Share I realize this is a bit of a last minute thing, BUT why not be celebratory! 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 [...]
Inspiring Stencil Projects
Share I’ve collected a number of art, design and craft projects which use stencils as basic tools. I love the variety that you can achieve with stencils, as well as the wide range of graphic styles. I tried to offer a sample of everything here… well, of many things. Something Simple (Possible uses: Applique Patches, [...]
How to Make Your Own Stencils
Share In this Free Tutorial by FineCraftGuild.com you will learn that stencils are for serious artists like Banksy* or Warhol, as well as for absolute beginners like the rest of us. They are a great tool to make larger artworks fast. And, they are a great tool to create, yes, diversity, while sticking to a [...]
Which Glue To Use For The Job
Share Before I let you know on the in and outs of all the different glues out there, with an article by a guest writer, let me share with you my personal all time favorite glue (for all my paper craft projects): Yes Glue Sometimes called the original Yes! paste rather than Yes glue, this [...]
Passionate for Stencils? Stencil Tips
Share Get a quality template When using stencils the template quality is of utmost importance. It should also include a detailed guide and even some images to show you how to apply the stencil. Tools Stencil paint should be applied with a brush, a sponge or a roller. The stencil brush you are going to [...]
