Dreams Layout
Samantha created a beautiful swirl of stars using a stencil with paste and adding blue watercolor over top for this Dreams layout. The black and white photos of her boys sleeping really stand out against the blue and white background. … Read More...
How to make high end looking cast pendants with gold leaf accents
Are you into casting like I am? I have worked with plaster, clay, resin
and more. These pendants with gold accents are just beautiful I bet all sorts of things could be embedded and they could be embellished with all … Read More...
How to Make Machine Embroidered Kids Masks
Need a fun and unique project to make for your kids? Then look no further than this machine mask embroidery tutorial from Stitching Sewcial over at Brother.
The article is designed for makers who use a Brother embroidery machine. You … Read More...
Free Riley Blake Quilt Pattern
Julia Frazier over on the Riley Blake Designs
blog brings us this lovely blue and white quilt pattern. It is an easy quilt to make, yet it looks quite striking, especially in the colors she used.
About the size of … Read More...
Book Review – 50 Art Lessons For Kids
Fifty K-12 Art Lessons: Deluxe Color Edition
: Creative Differentiated Explorations In Art
This FULL COLOR book contains fifty differentiated art lessons for K-12 students, with extensions for advanced classes. Many include links within lessons that will connect to mini-video … Read More...
Book Review – The Zenki Way: A Guide to Designing and Enjoying Your Own Creative Softies
A Guide to Designing & Enjoying Your Own Creative Softies by Trixi Symonds
A perfect sewing project for kids
A big part of my work in the last few years has been coming up with … Read More...
Mother’s Day Paper Crafts
This sweet grouping of a Mother’s Day Card, Box, Tag and Pocket will put a smile on any mom’s face this year. The floral and faux stitching make for a pretty feminine design! The matching gift set is simple to … Read More...
3 Ways to Sew on a Patch – DIY Tutorial
Patches are a fun way to customize a bag or a garment. You can buy all kinds of cute patches
at the fabric store, or (my preference) collect them as souvenirs from trips and big events. Patches can also be … Read More...
Happy Happy Happy…. Birthday
I love the rainbow of colors on this festive Birthday Layout! Jackie used a “Happy” stamp and stamped it multiple times down one side of her layout in different colors of ink. It’s a fun way to fill half a … Read More...
Re-usable Glacial Spa Cloth
Pretty and practical, this spa cloth uses basic crochet stitches to create an off-set shell stitch pattern to create its simple yet elegant design. Perfect for making your own makeup removing cloths. Save the Environment with these easy to make … Read More...
Birthday Sentiments Printable
I’m sure most of us card makers make more birthday cards than any other type of card, right? So this set of Happy Birthday printable sentiments from Scrapbook and Cards Today is super useful! There are 8 different font styles … Read More...
Flower Stencils Layout
Using stencils allows you to be able to create designs with custom colors and place images anywhere on your page that you would like. Lilith used flower stencils and stamping ink from Altenew
to create the lovely floral background for … Read More...
The Child Yoda Cross Stitch Pattern
I know most of us crafters can’t get enough of Baby Yoda (aka Grogu, aka the Child) from “The Mandalorian,” but it’s often hard to find patterns because they get taken down by the franchise.
If you want to stitch … Read More...
10 Free Charm Pack Quilt Patterns
We all buy them. We walk into the quilt store and see these brightly colored small stacks of squares and declare that we must have them. Then they sit around our quilt rooms for longer than we would like to … Read More...
Ink Smooshing and Embossing Technique
Natasha did something I’ve never heard of and that’s heat embossing with water! She first ink smooshed her background panel with stamping inks and water then left some sections wet and poured on glitter embossing powder and then heated. The … Read More...
Circle Sundress for Girls and Dolls – Free Sewing Pattern
This breezy sundress for girls is perfect for twirling! Emily at Life Sew Savory has a free sewing pattern you can use to create a matching circle sundress for girls and dolls. Made from knit fabric, it’s easy to sew … Read More...
Border Punch Background
Long border punches 
can create easy shapes and patterns to a layout, you can create just a single border or fill the entire page like in this design from Erica. I love how she used just plain white cardstock to … Read More...
Drawstring Makeup Bag – Sewing Tutorial
Tackle the mess on your bathroom vanity with this easy makeup bag. The round drawstring makeup bag opens wide so it’s easy to find what you need. And when you’re done, it’s quick to cinch closed. Go to Easy Peasy … Read More...
Upcycled Nature Explorer’s Kit
This upcycled nature exploration kit from Barley and Birch is supposed to be for kids, but if I’m being honest I’d love to have one for myself.
It starts with a shoebox that gets lots of embellishment and additions so … Read More...