- image by Close To My Heart
Heat embossing your stamped images in a fun and easy way to add shine and dimension to your projects but have you ever wanted to have two colors on embossing on the same image?? Well…
Tutorial: Bat Bracelet
For more Halloween fun over at Ornamentea check out their bat bracelet tutorial.
As usual they have really clear instructional photos and a sense of humor in their instructions.
You can leave this bracelet as pictured here, or there are also instructions on…
Because Coffee Gets Cold Too…..
You knit scarves to keep your neck warm, mittens and handwarmers for your fingers, and slippers for your toes. You even knit cute little coats for your cats and dogs. Well, how about keeping your coffee warm with this FREE…
Shop: Sugar Letter
image by Sugar Letter
Getting married soon? Stamping your favors, save the date and RSVP return addresses can give you an elegant look and it will also save you some time (and what bride doesn’t need more of that?). Sugar Letter on…
More decor for Halloween
Canon (as in the printer) has put together some incredible paper crafts just in time for Halloween. Just print off the pages and assemble with the instructions given. There are decorations, gift boxes, and masks. Very cool!!
See all of the printables…
Virtual Halloween Parade
Did you make your child a Halloween costume this year? Then join in the virtual Halloween parade that Ashley from Make It and Love It is putting together! She’s going to compile all the submissions and display them on the…
Design Team: Paper Garden Projects
image by Paper Garden Projects
Paper Garden Projects is looking for members for a new design team, for details visit their blog.
-Heather
Creepy Crawlies
Ornamentea has new bugs and more now available here.
There are many great choices for this creepy time of year. I love the raw brass scarabs and can think of tons of projects to make with them.
There are also candy colored…
Sugarloaf Craft Festival Ticket Giveaway!
I have four free tickets to the Sugarloaf Craft Festival in Sommerset, NJ next weekend, and one of our lucky readers is going to get them! Sugarloaf is a juried show featuring over 250 craft designers and fine artists. In addition to…
Competition: Papercrafts Monthly
image by Celeste Rookwood-Jones and Papercraft
Each month Papercrafts magazine has a themed contest, submit your ideas and you could win prizes and be featured on their blog. Visit their Flickr Gallery and post your cards before Oct 26th, this months theme…
Free Issues of Jewelry Artist
Click here to subscribe now to Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist and receive 24 issues for the price of 8.
I do love this magazine and it can be expensive to by issue by issue on the newsstand, so this is a good…
Wire Gauge Discussion
If you are a beader thinking of moving into using wire, but don’t know much about which gauge to use, read this newsletter from Denise Peck at Beading Daily.
She includes a good list of which gauges you might want to use…
2010 Masters Symposium
The course schedule for the 2010 Masters Symposium classes at the Revere Academy in San Francisco are now available.
These 3-5 day classes will take place next April and look very exciting. They include topics such as Stone & Metal, Hot and…
Project: Halloween Paper Wreath
image by Making Memories
As papercrafters don’t well all have lots and lots of scraps of pattern paper and cardstock laying around everywhere, I know I sure do! Well here is a great way to use up those strips of unused…
Pink Sheep Tutorial
Check out this tutorial for making a super-cute pink sheep from Deviant Art member Shatya! Click here to go to the tutorial. The text is not in English, but there are lots of pictures that are easy to follow.
Sale: All That Scraps: Stamps, Digital and Papers
image by All That Scraps
All That Scraps is having a great sale from now until Wed. Oct 21st!
All CC Designs stamps are 25% off, all their digital stamps are 25% off too and all other items in the sale category are 30%…
Gypsy 24 Hour Design Challenge
The Gypsy 24-hour Design Challenge is the ultimate creativity proving ground. They will tell you what cartridges to use and what project categories are involved and you design anywhere using Gypsy. But remember, you only have 24 hours! (US Residents Only)
WHERE: Challenge details…
Spooky Raisin Spiders GIVEAWAY!!!
Look at the spooky raisin spiders I made with the sweet, lovely box full o’ goodies that I received today from the sweet, lovely people at California Raisins. My box had everything I needed to make these yummy, creepy spiders.…
Inspiration: Halloween Tags
image by Tim Holtz
Scare up some fun with these amazing distressed Halloween Tags from Tim Holtz. He used lots of glitter and grunge and tells you all the products you need to make these cool tags on his blog. I love…
A List Of Pattern Links
A reader sent me this list, pretty cool! Still haven’t checked all of them out, but I’m working my way through them.
http://www.appliancepartspros.com/socks-patterns-sewing-tips-kitting-techniques-and-more.aspx
Thanks, Sarah!