These adorable needle felting Christmas ornaments are made using simple cookie cutters and roving. All of these designs have been handmade and needle felted. You can follow the full tutorial here.
Edible Crafts – Christmas Fruit Wreath
Festive Essential Oil Blends for Christmas Crafts
When the holiday season comes around, there are few things more enjoyable than seasonal
smells and enjoying great crafts. For many people, baking cookies and sweet treats while also
making holiday crafts is a standard tradition of the season. … Read More...
Look What She Does With These Magnolia Leaves
These magnolia leaves are turned in to an amazingly decorative Christmas wreath, You will need some gold and silver paint and a whole bunch of Magnolia leaves. learn how to make it here.
Project: 1/2 Page Easel Card
Over on the Stempeleinmaleins blog you’ll find complete cutting, scoring and folding directions to make a fun 1/2 page easel card where 1 /2 of the card slides up to form and easel and reveals images underneath. There’s also loads … Read More...
A Great Scarf You Can Knit in a Day (Really)
I’m not saying I recommend this course of action, but I did recently learn that it is possible to knit a scarf — not even with bulky yarn! — in a day.
These are the things you do when a … Read More...
How to Photograph and Print Your Own Holiday Cards
Check out this simple tutorial for creating a holiday backdrop and printing your own Christmas cards. If you’re all about the DIY then this is for you! You’ll get some handy time saving tips, and links to useful resources.
And … Read More...
Tutorial: No-sew wool felt poinsettias
Lisa from Cucicucicoo shows how you can create these felted wool poinsettias, with no sewing required. You can use them to make beautiful wreaths, ornaments, or other Christmas accents. I think they’d be gorgeous on napkin rings for your holiday … Read More...
Printable Advent Calendar Activities
If you totally spazzed on the Advent Calendar it’s not too late! Here’s Smitha to the rescue with this free printable set of holiday activities that you can use to count down the days to December 25th. This can be … Read More...
Clay Polka Dots
Sculpey has a fun tutorial with polka dots. Side benefits include some creative uses for Soufflé clay and some of the Sculpey tools I like best (the Etch n’ Pearl). As syndee holt mentions, you could make a retro tree … Read More...
Tip: Setting Up Your Own Water Color Palette
Water coloring is a very popular coloring medium in stamping right now. But if you’re starting from scratch or want to move up from pre-selected palettes it can be a bit intimidating if you’re wanting to try using tube water … Read More...
Tinkering Trees: An Easy STEM Activity
Here’s a holiday/winter STEM idea that adults will love trying as much as kids.
Left Brain Craft Brain has all the details for making an invitation to build tinkering trees.
These are pretty easy setup, particularly if you’re at … Read More...
Knitting Pattern – 5 hour Quick Socks
Someone once asked me, when I wrote a pattern for worsted-weight socks, why I would do such a thing because they wouldn’t really fit inside shoes.
Well, first of all, depends on the shoe, but who says we always wear … Read More...
Sewing Tutorial and pattern: Upcycled dog sweater
Kate from See Kate Sew shows how you can take an old sweater that you don’t wear any more and turn it into warm winter wear for your dog. This refashion works best for smaller dogs and her free pattern … Read More...
Christmas Joy wood blocks embellished with buttons and beads
Nothing adds more fun to painted wood than buttons, beads, sequins and half pearl dots from Buttons Galore and More!
They are perfect for adding details to projects of all sorts materials. In this case I painted wood blocks, … Read More...
Printable 2018 Calendar
get your free printable 2018 calendar to see the entire year at a glance. It come in two versions, one titled with the number 2018, and the other with the year written out. Take you pick, or download them both. … Read More...
How to make Pillar Candles
What is the difference between a Pillar candle and a normal candle? A Pillar candle needs to be free standing so the wax needs to be hard and not soft. You need a strong Paraffin wax. Learn the differences and … Read More...
DIY Elf on the shelf Slime Idea
Naughty Elf on a shelf Slime – Has your Elf been naughty and got slime everywhere? Well, this little guy sure has. Here is the recipe for your Naughty Elf slime activity. The kids will have hours of fun playing … Read More...
Needle Felted Acorn Ornaments
These needle feltedacorns are adorable. They would make wonderful gifts! These little Acorns are perfect sellers for market stalls and booths too. You can learn how to make them by following this felting step by step tutorial here.
Amazing K-mart Garden Ball Hack
These K-mart balls have taken a Christmas hack. At just $15 these concrete balls are the perfect medium for Christmas painting.
You will need Acrylic paints in red, green, black and silver.
Choose a design from either a Christmas … Read More...