Here’s a quick little project for using your orphan charm squares (or maybe just some scraps you’ve cut to charm square size). Lisa from A Spoonful of Sugar shows how you can make a small fabric tray. Your fabric tray … Read More...
Preserve Your Favorite Blossoms With This Pressed Flower Botanical Jewelry
This is the time of the year when we notice the beautiful blossoms coming up in our yards and we can enjoy the wonderful colors of Spring and Summer. This post shows a great way you can preserve those blossoms … Read More...
Tutorial: Mod shift swim cover up
You can make a mod shift swim cover up out of two towels. Catherine from Frisky Scissors shares a vintage project sheet from Martex towels telling how to do it. They’re made like a pillowcase dress, but out of absorbent … Read More...
Technique: Inked Embossing Folder
Did you know you can add color to your embossing folders by inking them before embossing? This add a whole new layer to using those folders! Kristine over at Stamping and Scrapping in California will show you how to make … Read More...
Tutorial: Dollar Tree Rag rug bag
Ronja from Nur Noch shows how a rag rug can become a cool new bag. The woven rug creates a colorful and textured outside for the bag without you having to do any actual weaving. The tassels on the ends … Read More...
Red, White and Blue Cupcakes
Wow! Am I the only person that needs to stop time for one day! It’s hard to believe that Memorial Day is next weekend! For us, it is the official kick off of the barbecue season! Everyone gets excited to … Read More...
Free pattern: Travel sewing caddy
Irene from Serger Pepper shares a free pattern at So Sew Easy for making a travel sewing caddy. This clever sewing kit carries like a small purse, but it opens flat to give you easy access to all the contents. … Read More...
Free Pattern – Mr & Mrs Chair Wedding Sign
How adorable is this? Perfect for a country or shabby chic wedding. These chair tie backs are dainty and could be hung in a bedroom or off a bead-head as a keepsake. These would make wonderful bridal shower gifts. Free … Read More...
Cutting Practice Spider
It is a good idea to come up with fun and creative ideas to help preschoolers practice their cutting skills! After all, it is better to let them practice cutting on paper, yarn, and other items than to have them … Read More...
Project: Recycled Coaster Art
Do you have any chipboard coaster laying around, I have a huge stack I use for parties. You can recycle those coasters into art buy die cutting a shaped hole in them, layering them and making a niche’, add some … Read More...
Tutorial: DIY yoga mat
Jess from The Sewing Rabbit shows how you can make your own yoga mat. It’s made from quilting cotton with a batting inside to give padding. The rainbow print she used is so happy it might actually make me want … Read More...
Tutorial: Doctor Who reversible infinity scarf
Angie Pederson from G33kGirl.Creative guest blogs at Punk Projects with a tutorial showing how to make a reversible infinity scarf. She used a Doctor Who themed novelty print to make it a Doctor Who scarf. If Doctor Who isn’t your … Read More...
How To Color Rice For Use At Your Wedding Ceremony
The long tradition of throwing rice at the end of a wedding definitely still stands, although some more modern brides have turned to other methods of send off. If you like the idea of keeping with the more traditional style … Read More...
Tutorial: Tiny House Mobile
Today I had the lucky chance to hook a new polymer clayer. She asked me how she could make houses. Since I am, mostly, a bead maker and a caner I pulled out my list of links to look at … Read More...
Free pattern: Little girls purse
Ines from La Folie shares a free pattern at The Sewing Rabbit for a little girls purse. The body of the purse is gathered, which is a nice detail on the small scale bag. It’s lined so the inside is … Read More...
Mittens Made for Broadway
Sometimes I lose things in my email, and so I’m really late in sharing these fun Broadway-inspired mittens from Kat at Just Crafty Enough (sorry, Kat!).
They were made for Russ at NY Star Cards, a longtime participant in … Read More...
Tutorial: Ruffle fabric flowers
Fabric flowers are always a fun way to use up your fabric scraps. The Crafting Chicks share a tutorial at Riley Blake Designs showing how you can make simple gathered fabric flowers. The bloom is a ruffled fabric circle with … Read More...
Free Pattern – Amigurumi Cupcakes
Celebrate Happy Guppy Toys’s first birthday with this free amigurumi crochet mini cupcake pattern! Each cupcake is cuter than the last one. How cute would these be as a brooch on a Birthday invitation or take home bag. Super Cute! … Read More...
Throw a Cow Themed Party for Baby’s First Birthday
This adorable cow-themed birthday party makes me think of my nephew, who loves anything farm related. I think this is an ingenious idea for a first birthday party theme, since it looks really easy to pull off. (Even someone with … Read More...
Different Ways to Use Color Coloring Pages
No, the title of this post is not a misprint or typo… It is about different ways you can use coloring pages that teach colors. Cassie, from 3 Dinosaurs, offers some adorable, free color-themed coloring pages and she also shares … Read More...