The October Creativity prompts from A Matter of Memories are now available. Click here to go to the download.
Tutorial: Ghostie Card
Send this cute little ghostie along to wish your friends a Happy Halloween! Katie at Punk projects shows you how to make this card. Click here to go to the tutorial.
Looking for more fonts? Check these out at Fontbundles.com… Read More...
Inspiration du Jour – 14 Years
Get even more inspiration from her gallery and blog.
DIY: Hair Treatments
Beautylish shares a few DIY hair treatments, including one that will remove product build up and residue.
Funky Flower Bead Tutorial
It’s tutorial time!! And this one’s a video of how to make a funky flower bead. I love making funky flowers. They make great pendants and earrings and I even use those that I make as focals on macramé bracelets … Read More...
Tutorial: Bound buttonholes
Gertie from Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing demystifies the bound buttonhole. The bound buttonhole is definitely more difficult than the typical machine-stitched ones, but they’re worth the effort. She shows how to make one with easy to understand, step-by-step … Read More...
Tutorial: Flip Side Pillow
Jennifer Casa from JCasa Handmade shares a tutorial on Sew, Mama, Sew! showing how to make her Flip Side Pillow. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from Sew, Mama, Sew! blog]
Halloween Pen Project
Our sister site CraftBits.com is celebrating Halloween with lots of Free Halloween Projects.
Today we are featuring This Witches Broomstick Pen Craft project.
Tutorial: Scrappy fabric pumpkins
Virginia from ginia18 and Gingercake shows how to make these scrappy fabric pumpkins. I love the mix of prints! They don’t take much of any one fabric print, so they’re easily made from your scrap bin. These would make such … Read More...
Tutorial: Slipcover a child’s foam chair
HoneyScrap had a child’s foam chair (or should I say her daughter had a foam chair) that was starting to show wear. Instead of replacing it, she created a new cover. It took just a yard of inexpensive fleece, making … Read More...
Broccoli Cupcakes
See? A trend! There. I declared it. (I’m sure others have as well, and long before me, but please let me have my delusions of insight.) Check out these latest cupcakes, broccoli baked right in to look like trees. … Read More...
Kid-Friendly Halloween Food
And the Halloween treats keep coming! Find a great roundup of easy, kid-friendly dinners and treats HERE at Parents.com, such as ravioli spiders or Frankenstein pudding.
Laura Felting in Tel Aviv, Israel
Laura is from Greenfield, Indiana, the Heartland of America, and now lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, also known as the Holy Land. She lives with her husband Doron and their three girls, Lili, Elli and Emili. After moving to Israel, … Read More...
Sewing Tutorial: Team spirit Cheer Ribbon Hair Bows
Sew4Home shows how to make cheerleader ribbon Pony-Os. Make them in your school colors for an almost-instant splash of team spirit. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from Sew4Home]
Tutorial: Little Cheerleader Uniform
Free embroidery design: Cupcake
Shalae Tippetts of mother, wife and artist is sharing a sweet embroidery design to let you get a feel for her work. If you like it, you can buy a whole set of coordinating patterns from her Etsy shop! … Read More...
Chocolate-Filled Rodents
Remember these? Well learn how to make those creepy fingers and how to make these semi-cute semi-eerie chocolate filled rodent pastries HERE at Just My Delicious. (Translation tool in the sidebar.)
Ridiculously Awesome Star Wars Party Food
I don’t even care that the subject line is way too long and that I used a dated adjective (“awesome”). I could barely contain my edible crafter’s excitement over this Star Wars party at JustJENN Recipes. And the party … Read More...
Creative Clocks
You can purchase a clock mechanism at any hobby and craft store and pretty much make anything into a functioning time piece. So whether you are revamping an out dated clock you found at a thrift store, or you are … Read More...
Free desktop calendar from JMD
October’s free desktop calendar is available now from JMD Designs. Each month’s calendar features another of Janet M. Davies’ beautiful stitcheries. Get the download.
Folded paper spider webs
Check out these cool spider webs Jennifer of the blog Muse Lodge sent in. She made the paper template in Excel. I vote for this being the best re-purposing of office software in a craft project yet! See more of … Read More...