Epsom salts are a great fake snow idea for creating craft projects with. We have seen several of these projects that are perfect for creating a crystal snow effect.
Use recycled jars and you have a great luminary for Christmas … Read More...
Felt Tree Ornament with Decorative Machine Stitching
Karin made this darling “Felt Christmas Tree Ornament” with a few scraps of felt, a piece of fusible interfacing and some quick decorative stitching. If you don’t have a machine you can hand stitch or needle felt designs or glue … Read More...
Project: Snowman Package
Here’s cute packaging idea……..Wrap a tall container (I think a Pringles can would be perfect!) with holiday pattern paper , add some punched eyes, nose and mouth and you’ve got an adorable snowman gift box! Find more info over on … Read More...
Make Yarn Trees for Modern Winter Decor
Hannah B. Slaughter was part of the Jo-Ann Blogger Challenge and Make It! She is a graphic designer for HGTV and DIY who loves taking something old, making it new and then adding sparkle. She loves weekend’s activities of thrifting … Read More...
Make a Hanging Snowman Craft
This “Make a Hanging Snowman Craft” is so cute and looks easy to make. This comes from Better Homes and Gardens. There are complete instructions for this project. They have some very neat Christmas tutorials for us.
Felt candy cane tutorial
Liz is located in kyoto, Japan she is a felt maker and craft enthusiasts on “feltcafe”. This is an easy and fast way to make “felt candy canes”, felting around pipe cleaners to create the shape. No previous felting experience … Read More...
Sock Snowman Easy Tutorial
Mary of “Hometalker” says she didn’t make this yet but a friend did. This would be so cute to make a family of “snow people”, one for every family member. You can hot glue thin twigs as arms and then … Read More...
Technique: Mosaic Stamping
Splitcoast Stampers has a cool technique to share, using tiny squares of scrap paper you can make a mosaic pattern to stamp on for a unique looking card, click here for a step by step directions.
-Heather
Tutorial: Pleated burlap tree skirt, #JustAddMichaels
Today I’m going to show you how I made the pleated burlap tree skirt for my Michaels Dream Tree. My theme was an Icy Woodland Dream Tree, inspired by the beauty of an ice-encrusted tree.
I was able to … Read More...
Tutorial: Felt holly wreath pillow
Melanie from The Crafty Cupboard shares a tutorial in the Bake, Sew, & Craft Along series at Skip To My Lou, showing how to make a felt holly wreath pillow. The pillow cover is made from a white cotton and … Read More...
Project: Stamped Fabric Tree
Add some paint and stamping to some canvas fabric and stitch up a beautiful holiday tree, I love the wintery blue and white colors on this! Find the instructions here, from Stampington and Co.
-Heather
Tutorial: Christmas tree fabric napkin
Caroline from Sew Caroline guest blogs in the Bake, Craft, & Sew Along series at Skip To My Lou with a tutorial showing how to sew a Christmas tree napkin. Instead of a traditional square napkin, these are cut as … Read More...
Projects: Holiday Cards and Layouts
Echo Park papers has a new idea booklet to download for free. Inside you’ll find 3 cards, 8 layouts and 7 altered projects for the holidays, click here to download. ( you’ll need to “check out” but it’s free)… Read More...
Clay Christmas Ornaments
A big plus for polymer clay ornaments is how easily you can personalize them. Some great Etsy examples:
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| Bear and Station Wagon Ornament by PersonalizedOrnament | Christmas Tree by dewsdreams |
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| Baby’s 1st Ornament by ClayArtbyDaresa | Snowman Ornament by MistysClayCuties |
Christmas Gifts DIY: the pillow home sweet home
Linda of “Bread, love and creativity” is starting on her Christmas list with her latest creation: a welcome cushion with the words Home Sweet Home! She thought it would be a great gift idea to her friends. She has a … Read More...
Tutorial: Poinsettia Pin
Niki Meiners, writing for Polyform (the Sculpey people!), offers us this simple but pretty poinsettia pin. She makes an off white poinsettia but you could do the same design with a red poinsettia by using pomegranate mixed with a … Read More...
How to make a recycled cereal box gift box
I’m posting this now so you can start saving all your cereal boxes to make gift boxes for the gift giving season (whether the gift inside is handmade or not) the recipient will surely giggle. As with all Jeannine’s tutorials … Read More...
Book Review: Snowflakes, Sunbursts and Stars
Snowflakes, Sunbursts and Stars by Ayako Brodek
and Shannon Voight is a beautiful hard cover book containing 75 projects for making quilled, kirigami cut and paper folded origami projects. Inside you’ll find basic techniques, the tools you’ll need (most … Read More...
Happy Holiday Ornament
Stickeule always posts great patterns and here’s another one for us to enjoy. I am thinking that “Frohes Fest” basically translates to Happy Holidays in German – at least loosely. So stitch up this design in holiday colors to make … Read More...
Christmas Glimpses
I realize it’s barely the end of Thanksgiving (where I am!) but I’ve been making Christmas items pretty solidly since summer and as a result I’ve been seeing all the OTHER Christmas work the talented clayers out on the internet … Read More...