The Close to My Heart blog has some helpful tips for pocket scrapbook layouts. Stick with a color scheme to keep it cohesive, pick a single event or story and plan out your pattern. There’s even some template for page … Read More...
DIY Cactus Lollipops
Cute cactus crafts/treats are all the rage right now! This tutorial shows you how to make your own cactus shaped lollipops for a party or event.
Sewing pattern: Zip pouch from a candy wrapper
How cute is this little zip pouch made from a candy wrapper! Joan Hawley from Lazy Girl Designs shows how you can make one. Though I’d recommend making a bunch of them because that gives you an excuse to buy … Read More...
Knit and Felt Bunny Bowls
I love the look of felted bowls. In fact, the very first felting project I ever made was a felted bowl.
They’re really easy to do — much like knitting an oversized hat — and super useful because they’re thick … Read More...
Amazing Party Ideas Inspired By Artscapes
These amazing artscapes are the perfect inspiration for your next party. Sometimes it is what you don’t do that sets you apart from all the rest. So forget about traditional party decorations and take inspo from this collection of photos. I have … Read More...
10 Quilt Inspired Crafts
So you love quilting but you don’t always want to sew fabric right? Check out these amazingly fun Quilting inspired crafts and home decor projects. Such a nice way to add Quilting crafts to your home. All of these crafts … Read More...
A Lamb Easter Basket and Critters to Knit
I just came across this cool treasure hunt Easter knitalong from Deramores, which is mostly finished as far as the knitalong goes, but you can still grab the patterns for free.
The pattern makes a super cute lamb-shaped basket and … Read More...
Tropical Vacation Card
These Hippos look like they are ready to head out on a fun tropical vacation. Using some current trends like inking, stenciling and Nuvo Drops Allison created this pretty travel card.
Tutorial: Fabric covered plant pots
Brighten up your spring porch or patio with plants in colorful fabric covered pots! Angie from Country Chic has a tutorial showing how you can make this easy spring craft. There’s no sewing involved, but you do get to use … Read More...
How To Make A Envelope Mini Album
If you have a few photos from a memorable occasion that deserve a special display this envelope mini album is perfect. It’s small so it can be carried around and also makes for a great gift.
Jackie has a tutorial … Read More...
Polymer Clay Sea Turtles
I was looking at other work by Meg Newberg – everyone should look at Meg’s great tutorial shop – and stumbled across an oldie but goodie sea turtle project in her generous free projects. The directions to make the simple … Read More...
A Colorful Shawl to Knit for Spring
Things are turning green where I live and I couldn’t be happier about it. I want to see color everywhere, from spring flowers to my knitting needles.
The Vibrance Shawl pattern from AbbyeKnits is a great choice for knitting up … Read More...
Sewing pattern: How to use a seam ripper
Your seam ripper
is probably NOT your favorite sewing tool, but it’s one that most of us reach for quite often. Petro from Easy Peasy Creative has a tutorial showing how to use a seam ripper effectively so you can … Read More...
DIY Sparkly Earrings and Accessories
HI guys! I´m Renee from the blog and Youtube Channel Cute Simple Things and I wanted to share how to make sparkly, cute, super easy, budget-friendly clay earrings. If love shiny things, sparkle, stars and shiny disco balls, these are … Read More...
Marbling Card Technique
These colorful cards created by Carly were made using a marbling technique with alcohol inks. The backgrounds are the star so some simple die-cutting and sentiment is all that is needed to finish these off. Honey Bee
How to make a recycled Plastic Egg Carton Wreath
Don’t toss those clear plastic egg cartons, you can remove the cups and make a darling fresh as spring wreath. Pop on over to Whimziville for the step by step tutorial on how to make a recycled plastic egg carton … Read More...
3 Tips to Correct Photos
Do you have some photos that just aren’t looking as good as you hoped they would when you snapped them? Elif has 3 helpful tips on how to digitally adjust them to fix underexposure, remove unwanted items and changing perspective.… Read More...
Sewing pattern: Add sleeves to a store bought dress
Have you noticed that most dresses in stores are sleeveless? It can actually be quite difficult to find a dress with actual sleeves. Heather from Heather Handmade shows how you can add sleeves to a dress. Her tutorial includes instructions … Read More...
Happy Easter Cross Stitch
As with just about everything else you can think of, Alita Designs has a lot of sweet Easter cross-stitch patterns.
I wanted to share this Happy Easter cross stitch design in particular because it’s very cute, colorful and springlike and … Read More...
Three Cards Made Only with Dies
I find it challenging to create cards using only dies so I was really inspired by Jung Ahsang. She created three amazing cards with no stamping, using some of the Die D-lite dies from Spellbinders . All her extra touches … Read More...