Vanessa from Punkin Patterns celebrated Earth Day yesterday with a tutorial showing how to turn your scrap fabric pieces into pretty little bookmarks. This is a great way to recycle! Go to the tutorial.
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Create Scrapbooks Live Show!
Join the Create Scrapbooks team for their live show tonight featuring Illustrating Stories. The team from Illustrating stories will show how they create custom backgrounds for their scrapbook pages. Plus Jana will continue the tag book series showing a masking … Read More...
Tutorial: How to make a bow-tie
Prudent Baby shows how to make a bow-tie out of your favorite cotton fabric print. Think of all the fun possibilities!! Go to the tutorial.
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Sewing Pattern: Make a pair of simple pajama shorts
Dana from MADE continues the Celebrating Mom series with a tutorial showing how to make a simple pair of pajama shorts. The more fitted, to-the-knee style is both figure flattering and trendy. Love ’em!! Go to the tutorial.
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Inspiration: Altered Photo Frame
I wanted to share with our readers this stunning altered photo frame posted on the Craft Gossip Flickr group by Matz Monkey Farms. Didn’t she do a wonderful job, what a pretty spring addition for any home! Click here to … Read More...
Scrap Green: Eco Green Crafts
Yesterday was Earth Day but we can do our bit for the earth every day! Eco Green Crafts is a new company that produces environmentally sound and safe products for crafters. Their line includes craft paints, stamping inks, organic glue … Read More...
MY MOTHER IN LAW’S MOTHER IN LAW’S TOTE
By now, you all know that I’m not the world’s best photographer. But, I had to TRY to show you this lovely tote. Here’s its story.
My mother in law is 87 years old. She married my now deceased father … Read More...
Match Tombow Pens to Bazzill Cardstock
Last year I wrote about the Bazzill Matchmaker Tool for matching their cardstocks with a variety of patterned paper lines. Now you can use the tool to match up your Tombow Dual brush Pens! An example is shown above. Click … Read More...
Article: 6 Cheats for Faster Scrapping
Jennifer Wilson of Simple Scrapper has posted some great tips for scrapping faster. This information is very timely for those doing the Week in the Life Project. Click here to go to article.
Inspiration du Jour – Learning to read
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Totally Twisted Blog Tour and Giveaway!
Welcome to the 6th and final stop on the Totally Twisted Blog Tour! (If you are interested in checking out the previous stops, they will be listed at the end of this post.)
This blog tour celebrates the book T… Read More...
Tutorial: Soda Can Jewels
Here is another project that might be fun to try with the kids. This one comes from Polwig and includes step-by-step instructions on how to create jewelry from old soda cans with the easy use of punches in varying shapes … Read More...
New categories on CraftGossip.com
In an effort to streamline the ton of cool information that CraftGossip Editors produce everyday, we have decided to make sure that all our blog posts get divided into one of 9 categories. This should make it easier for CraftGossip … Read More...
Tutorial: Apron with pockets from an embroidered pillowcase
Sally from Kitchen Clothesline shares a tutorial for making an apron out of a pillowcase. The pockets across the front show off any detailing from the edges of the pillowcase. This would be so lovely made out of an embroidered … Read More...
Sewing Pattern : Make a bread bag from a tea towel
Emily from Saltwater Kids shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a pretty little bread bag from a tea towel. You can whip one out in no time (She made 6 of them in just half an … Read More...
Tutorial: Scrappy gathered clutch with interior pockets
Anna from Noodlehead shares a tutorial showing how to make this fabulous scrappy gathered clutch. It’s part of the Celebrating Mom series going on at MADE. Not only is this little bag pretty on the outside, the inside features … Read More...
The Flow – Your Source for Lampwork Information!
More stuff from Las Vegas…got a new copy of The Flow magazine and wanted to share some of the contents. The Flow is part of a family of glass publications that provide tons of stories and tutorials about glass and … Read More...
Party Cakes, no, Wait, Loaves
I just don’t know if I can get behind the party loaf. I think it’s because my corporeal response to seeing a sweet cake totally conflicts with the response after cutting into it and seeing salty things. I can absolutely, … Read More...
New Release: Peachy Keen Stamps
If you like to make paper dolls or do alot of paper piecing and are looking for faces for those paper creations look no further than Peachy Keen stamps! They’ve just released a bunch of cute new clear stamp sets … Read More...
Knitting and Felting Ideas for Earth Day
Favecraft.com has 10 ideas for re-using old sweaters from unknitting them and re-using the yarn, felting, making pillows or potholders, plastic bag holders, felted floral designs, cup or bottle cozies, using bits of felt in your paper designs, making a … Read More...