This snowman is totally adorable! You can download the Silhouette die cutting file for free over at the What’s Next Ma blog.
-Heather
Freebie | Printable Christmas Card & Customizable Gift Tags
Stop wracking your head about your Christmas cards this year and use this free printable version from Minted Strawberry. This printable comes in a pdf format. It’s sized 5.5″ x 8″ – you have to fold it in half. … Read More...
RAK Giveaway at Becky Higgins | Project Real Life Class
Becky Higgins has a very special giveaway on her blog right now. Jana, one of the winners of her card design contest, has very generously donated her prize money, and Becky is using it to give away one spot in … Read More...
Inspiration du Jour | Snow
All of the Colours
Polymer clay is instant gratification for colour – one of my favourite parts – but you can do so much to add to it, to make it pop. Blends, chalks, translucents… you name it.
1. Color, color, color…., 2. … Read More...
How Many Cute Crochet Christmas Trees Can We Use???
More cute crochet trees for you. These things just keep coming my way and I love to share them with my readers. Again, these work up so quickly that there’s no excuse for not making a bundle of them. Since … Read More...
Who’s up for a Snowball fight? DIY Indoor snowballs
I have been making these snowballs for Christmas for the kids for a indoor snowball fight. I used Martha’s Sheep tutorial without the head, tail or legs and her method works well. I am going to bag them up for … Read More...
Idea file: NICU shirts with lots of snaps
Ruby from Zaaberry shows the little shirts she sewed up for a friend, whose baby is in NICU right now. She designed the shirts to be reversible, with lots of snaps so they’d be easy to put on or take … Read More...
Gifts For The Guys
This manly man round up of gift ideas is from Pottery barn, not exactly the first place I would have thought to go Man shopping.
Gifts for Guys Roundup from Potterbarn
Tutorial: Rolled hem, three ways
A rolled hem is a quick way to finish the edge of fabric. It has a rolled or turned edge covered with stitches in a matching thread. Melissa from Melly Sews tells three ways you can make a rolled hem … Read More...
Project: Stand Up Card with Box
Here’s a very detailed card to make for someone really special, it stands up and also has a small box to hold a small gift. Find all the directions and templates over on the Stempeleinmaleins blog.
-Heather
Knitting Patterns Quick Fingerless Gloves
I know it’s about time I need to stop talking about things you can knit for Christmas, since we’re about down to the wire here. But there really are some projects you can still finish if you have some time … Read More...
Felt Gift Bags with Buttons tutorial
Every year near Christmas Karin of “Leigh Laurel Studios” is compelled to pull felt out of the fabric stash and come up with a new way to use it. In addition to a variety of ornaments, this year, she created … Read More...
String Art Christmas Tree
Admittedly, this will take someone with more patience and skills than I have.
Learn to create a String art Christmas tree from the creative brain behind My Poppet blog – AKA Cintia.
She does make it look easy though, with … Read More...
Christmas Tree Cupcakes
In our house, it isn’t Christmas till the tree is up and decorated. These cupcakes look intimidating, but the blog does have a video and tutorial on how to decorate these beauties. I love the fact she uses store bought … Read More...
Felt Snowflake – Easy Christmas Ornament
These “Felt Snowflakes” are so pretty and you can make them is any color you like; for the tree or gift toppers. Heather of “The Sewing Loft” grew up in a family that reused everything, not because they were thinking … Read More...
Stripey Christmas Tree
Over at Nuts About Needlepoint, Janet M. Perry is showing off how to create a stripey Christmas tree using two common Needlepoint stitches. She also provides a tutorial for the Smyrna Crosses on the post and will have tutorial for … Read More...
French Cross Stitch Pattern
If you like holiday projects with an international flair, then here’s one just for you. Now, I need someone fluent in French to help me out here. I know the saying has something to do with little shoes, but I … Read More...
Tutorial: Burlap ribbon favor bags
Shauna from Satori Design for Living shows. She uses a wide burlap ribbon for this project, but this will work with any wide ribbon. I can see them being beautiful out of wide organza ribbon, maybe some of the ones … Read More...
Giveaway at Craftside: 4 Books and 2 Sizzix dies and 2 fun recycled projects
Over at Craftside you can get yourself in the running for another great gift package that include 2 of Jo Packham’s Where Women Create Sizzix dies-the house box and the milk carton box along with a collection of 4 … Read More...
