These bias knit eyelet knitting patterns are as easy as lace knitting gets. The simple repeating patterns give you a nice, open look and feel that’s great for summer and beyond, and they teach you the basics you’ll need for … Read More...
How To Make Pop Up Slider Cards
These awesome Pop Up Slider card pop up to reveal either sentiment or gift card, how fun are they?! Using stamps and dies from Sunny Studio Jennifer McGuire shares her tutorial for making several styles of these cool cards.
Travel Pocket Pages
Soraya has some great ideas for making journal cards to slip into pockets for a fun travel page. I especially love the use of an old fashioned typewriter for journaling and using an airbrush for the banner. We-R-Memory-Keepers
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How to Use Specialty Die Cutting Pads
When it comes to die cutting the cutting pads you chose are very important. Focusing on their Silicone Rubber, Impression and Crease pads Sizzix has a helpful post and link to a Facebook live video to help eliminate some of … Read More...
Natural Aphid Garden Spray
Getting rid of aphids in your garden doesn’t have to involve toxic chemicals! Not when you can make your own natural aphid spray in just a couple of minutes!
Sewing pattern: Fring circle swim cover-up
We might be seeing ads for back-to-school sales, but summer isn’t over yet and there are still plenty of pool days to be had. Laura from A Beautiful Mess shows how you can sew this circle swim cover-up perfect for … Read More...
Free Soap Making Printables
Love these handy soap making printables by Three Little Goats. These free printables allow you to jot down your recipes as well as take notes on each DIY soapmaking batch. This soap making printable is available here.
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“Coloring” Your Stamps with Bleach
This cool bleaching technique is sort of anti-coloring. Stamp your image and then using a paint brush with bleach to “color” inside your image to remove the papers color for a neat white out effect. I’ve done this technique on … Read More...
Sewing pattern: Zipper cosmetic bag with vinyl lining
I love a good zip pouch for a quick sewing project. This makeup pouch would be fun to sew up, and it makes a great gift! With a wristlet strap and a vinyl lining, this makeup pouch is a step … Read More...
Pineapple Die Cut
Tropical designs and styles are really trendy right now and I’m seeing Pineapples pop up on everything. Add this fun and fruity die cut to your next scrapbook page with a FREE pineapple cut file from Miss Mandee.
Quilted Sling Bag Tutorial
Easy and fun quilted sling bag sewing pattern to make and gift. The quilting tutorial comes with detail step by step photos.
DIY Flamingo Summer Party
Nothing says summer quite like flamingos and tropical decor! Make a splash this summer whether it’s a birthday or a backyard barbeque. The colors are bright and cheery. There’s no better way to have fun in the sun this summer. … Read More...
Big Argyle Basket Pattern
Who else loves a big basket? One you can stuff many skeins of yarn into or maybe a few throw blankets? If you’re someone who likes that, then this basket is for you! It’s got so much space but the … Read More...
Learn to Make a Tassel
Learn how to make your own tassel using Bakers Twine, it’s perfect for bookmarks or accents on cards or other paper crafting projects. Stephanie added hers to this fun cross stitched bookmark made using dies from My Favorite Things.
Sewing pattern: Hedgehog softie that kids can sew, with free pattern
This sweet hedgehog softie is so cute and also easy to sew! Linda from Sewing Bee Fabrics has a tutorial and video showing how. She created the project and tutorial as part of Sew a Softie month which is about … Read More...
How to Fix Missed Yarn Overs
Mason-Dixon Knitting has a great knitting technique video you’ll want to check out if you ever knit lace.
The most common mistake in lace knitting is probably missing a yarn over, and it makes a big difference because it messes … Read More...
Free sewing pattern: Lemon coin purse
I’m loving this lemon coin purse for summer! Amy from Sew Incredibly Crazy shares a tutorial and free sewing pattern at Therm O Web. She made the little zip pouch with a mix of cute lemon-y yellow cotton prints. You … Read More...
Embroidery Inspiration – Free Motion Pillow Dolls
Love this free motion embroidery doll by Crescendoh. I am sharing this pillow doll to help inspire your creativity as you learn to free motion embroidered. It doesn’t even have to inspire you to free motion, how about stitching something … Read More...
Felted Wool Journal
How beautiful is this felted journal, it’s elegant beyond belief. Only a felting artist could truly feel worthy of writing in its pages. Check out the full Etsy listing here.
softly needle felted from hand dyed wool and wool curly … Read More...
Tiger Lily Layering Stamps Cards
Layering stamps give such a realistic look like with this Tiger Lily set from Hero Arts. The flowers just really pop right out. Designer Yana has some color suggestions to use with these stamps on a few different cards.