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...
Tutorial: Easy snowflake Christmas ornament
Heather from The Sewing Loft shows how to make this cute felt snowflake ornament for your Christmas tree. I am soooo loving this! With 5 cats in my house I’m always looking for pretty ornaments that are also unbreakable. Those … Read More...
Tutorial: Ruffled iMac cover
Angelina from Jo Jo & Eloise made a pretty cover for her iMac to keep the dust off of the screen. With buttons down a ruffled center, it looks like the bodice of a little girl’s party dress. The flannel … Read More...
Tutorial: 10-minute infinity scarf
Marissa from Rae Gun Ramblings shows how to make an infinity scarf in just 10 minutes. If you’re needing any last minute gifts to finish off your Christmas list, this might be what to make. You could make a stack … Read More...
Freebie | Printable Pink Christmas Tree
If you love Claudine Hellmuth’s designs and illustration, you will definitely want to go download this free printable Christmas tree she is offering. Once you save the file, you can print it out and cut out this adorable pink Christmas … Read More...
Free pattern: Santa Pants Treat Bags
These Santa Pants Treat Bags are SO stinkin’ cute!! Amy from Positively Splendid shares a tutorial showing how to make them out of craft felt. You can fill them with any small wrapped candy. Or, maybe some shred fill and … Read More...
{Monday Moods at DIY Weddings} Powder Blue, Blush, & Gold
I love the pairing of soft pastels with a little metallic gold shimmer in this calm and romantic inspiration board at Elizabeth Anne Designs. Get all the details here.
An Easy, Colorful Striped Cowl
I love a chunky garter stitch cowl (I’ve actually designed one and it’s my go-to neck warmer when the weather is cold), so I’m really liking this cowl pattern from the Uniquely UK Blog.
It calls for five different colors … Read More...
Freebie: Christmas Tree Digital Stamp
The Blackberry Jelly Digital Stamps blog has a color and black and white Christmas tree digi stamp to download for free.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital stamps at Design Bundle
Looking for more paper crafts … Read More...
Inspiration | Holiday Color Palettes
Christy Strickler from My Scrapbook Evolution has come up with a set of stunning Holiday color palettes drawn from the brightly decorated trees around Nassau, Bahamas. These are gorgeous and really appeal to me since I am a Caribbean girl … Read More...
Inspiration du Jour | Love…..This Way
Paper Christmas Decorations Tutorial using Dingbats
Forget the notion of classic Holiday images and take a look at this Handmade paper cones made using Dingbats.
Birgit from bynumber19.com shares her wonderful and little unusual tutorial.
The Passing of Harvey Littleton – Founder of The Studio Glass Movement
I wouldn’t be sitting here writing for all of you out there about glass if it wasn’t for Harvey Littleton, the founder of the Studio Glass Movement. He has passed away at the age of 91. He started the “movement” … Read More...