If you know a child who is fascinated by guitars I highly recommend that you check out this tutorial posted by Ashley on Make It & Love It. I had to do a double take when it came to looking … Read More...
Tutorial: Girls ruffled jeans skirt
Deborah from Sew Much To Give shares a tutorial showing how to make these cute tiered ruffle jeans skirt. Her tutorial is for the Skirting the Issue series by Simple Simon & Co. to encourage sewists to make new skirts … Read More...
Freebie: Mosque Silhouette
For those Craft Gossip readers who are celebrating Eid Ul Fitr (end of Ramadan), here’s a free download I found over at Creativity Window.
Click the link, Mosque Silhouette, to get yours.
{Image credit: Creativity Window}
Free pattern: Cherries Applique
Quilters, this project would be a great introduction to Sue Spargo’s q-world view. She uses a felted wool ground for her applique shapes and finishes them with pretty embroidery stitches.
Kimara of Wee Folk Art shares this cherries applique pattern … Read More...
10 Ways to Make and Design a Mini Album
Mini albums are a big trend right now in scrapbooking, and because of their petit size, they can be made fairly quickly. This post gives you 10 ideas for ways you can both make and design a mini album. Different … Read More...
Tutorial: Cactus pincushion in 3 variations
Laura from A Beautiful Mess shows how you can make a set of cacti pincushions. She includes all three styles of cacti you see here. The felt succulents are potted in teracotta pots. Any pins or needles you stick in … Read More...
Blog Handmade Link Up
Guys! It’s time for the 2nd week of Blog Handmade! What is that? It is a weekly feature I started here at Indie Crafts that will go up every Friday!
Blog Handmade is a weekly link up by indiecrafts.craftgossip.com where … Read More...
5 Galaxy Scrapbook Papers That Are Out of This World
Let’s keep on with the galaxy trend a bit longer! If you want to document the Pluto drive-by, or work on galaxy projects with your kids, you might be looking for some outer space themed papers to work with. Here … Read More...
Tutorial: Clay Stamps
This tutorial from PolymerClayCentral.com works just fine without an extruder but with one it goes so much quicker. The various strands and shapes of strands you can extrude can be laid out to create words and images fairly quickly. This … Read More...
10 Must-Have Adhesives
What are some of your go to adhesives and glues? Rachel, from the Crafted Life, wrote a whole post about her top 10 favorite must have adhesives!
As crafters we pretty much all use some form of glue, so I … Read More...
Free pattern: Baby doll carrier wrap
Know a child who carries her (or his) baby doll around everywhere? Emily from Nap Time Creations shares a free pattern for this doll carrier that will let her carry it hands-free. It wraps around and ties, just like a … Read More...
Make Your Own Peppermint Extract
I love my peppermint patch and so does the cat. I think the cat prefers it over the catnip! Anyways, I love using the fresh leaves in tea, ice water or drying the leaves for peppermint tea. I never thought … Read More...
Tute: Patchwork Slippers
You can never go wrong with polka dots and patchwork, as Sweet Carolain, of Through the Window, proves with these adorable slippers. She shares on her blog how she made them.
Click the link Patchwork Slippers, to get the … Read More...
No-sew party flags tutorial
Melanie of “You Are My Fave” is sharing her darling (no-sew) party flags and they are easy and fast to make. She was sent a deluxe pack of shimmering Martha Stewart glitter and it beckoned her to create these glitterized … Read More...
Giveaway- Make Garbage Great: The Terracycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle
Enter to win a copy of:
Make Garbage Great: The Terracycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle
by
Tom Szaky and Albe Zakes
Leave a comment in today’s post by July 24th, 2015 and you are in the running for … Read More...
Tutorial: Drawstring jewelry pouch
Jill from Creating My Way To Success shows how to make this fancy little pouch to store your jewelry. It has pockets sewn all around the inside for smaller pieces like rings and earrings. Larger pieces can go in the … Read More...
Knitty Surprises Are Here
I always love Knitty surprise day, because it is, in fact, a surprise to get a couple of new patterns from the web magazine.
This time around (which is still first fall), we’ve got an amazing baby blanket called Dunfallandy… Read More...
Maple Bacon Bourbon Popsicles
For the foodies! Here is a popsicle for you to try. This might go well at a barbecue for the adults. I like the sound of maple and bacon, but I don’t know about it as a popsicle. If you … Read More...
DIY Mini Scottie Dog Decoupage Tray
Today I wanted to share with you guys this adorable DIY Mini Scottie Dog Tray! Katie from Running with a Glue Gun published this tutorial on the Blitsy (a great place to get craft supplies, btw) blog.
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7 Crafts To Help Teach Your Kids About Outer Space
With the recent hype of the studying of our “ex-planet” Pluto, there has been a lot of talk of all things outer space. If you’d like to teach your kids a little more about the solar system, or maybe they’ve … Read More...