I’ve seen lots of ideas for using coloring books for more then just coloring on the page. Here’s a fantastic idea from Alison at 21st Century Pillow Book. She used a coloring page as a template to decorate a drinking … Read More...
Project and Pattern: Egg Shaped Treat Holders
How adorable are these egg shaped treat holders? Untie the ribbon at the top and they open up and inside is little pocket for candy. The Stempeleinmaleins blog has directions, a free printable pattern and lots of sample designs to … Read More...
Project: Pop Up Snow Globe Card
Wow! This Pop Up Snow Globe Card is absolutely stunning! Shelly Hickox made it using various dies, pattern papers and stamps and if you visit her blog, The Stamptramp, she’ll show you how she made it.
-Heather
Freebie: Pillow Box Bag Pattern
The Marianne Designs blog has a fee pattern template you can print for a fun Pillow Box Bag. Cover it with stamped and die cut images for an adorable way to give a gift this holiday season. Click here for … Read More...
Freebie: Striped State Shape Die Cuts
State shapes are all the rage right now, showing up on jewelry, clothes, bumper stickers and more. If you’d like to add your home state to a card, scrapbooking or home decor project using your Silhouette die cutting machine the … Read More...
Technique: Paper Piecing
Add easy color, texture and pattern to your stamped designs by using a paper piecing technique. Stamp your images on pattern papers that has tiny designs and then cut them out and piece them together, like a jigsaw puzzle. You … Read More...
Project: Paper Kleenex Holder Box
Know someone who is feeling poorly? Grab some pretty patterned cardstock and make them a cheerful tissue box holder. You can find directions over on The Heart Desires blog.
-Heather
May the Fourth Be With You!
Happy Star Wars Day! Having a Star Wars event? Grab your Silhouette die cutting machine or an exacto knife and cut out some awesome Star Wars characters shapes for a party banner. The May the Fourth Be With You Party … Read More...
Project and Template: Good Luck Clover Card
Wish someone good luck with this amazing clover shaped shaker card. The Marianne Designs blog has free downloadable template for the card and shaker sections, along with project directions. Click here.
-Heather
Looking for supplies to make your own Shaker … Read More...
Tutorial: Bunnies and butterflies quilt | pillow
Bunnies and butterflies in soft pastels capture the joy of Spring in this mini quilt made by Amanda, from Jedi Craft Girl. She did a guest post at Thermoweb blog showing how to make it. She includes instructions for … Read More...
Project: 3D Paper Trees
Add these cool 3D paper trees to your holiday decor this year. Put a few under glass, scatter them around a table or line your mantle with them. You’ll find direction for making these trees from pattern paper over on … Read More...
Square Peg quilt | Tute
The colors in this quilt make it sing (opera). Alison Vermilya, of Little Bunny Quilts, made it using fabric from the Basic Mixologie collection. This StudioM fabric line is so popular right now, thefat quarter Shop has a waiting … Read More...
Free Star Wars Snowflake Patterns
May the force be with you when you’re making these snowflakes! Last year we featured Anthony Herrera’s Star Wars snowflake designs here, and since he just released new designs for this year I wanted to share those as well.
Anthony … Read More...
Free Star Wars (The Force Awakens) Snowflake Patterns
Artist Anthony Herrera has updated the PDF patterns for the next Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens.
His free patterns are perfect for a Star Wars enthused Christmas decoration
, featuring snowflakes that you can make at home.
We brought … Read More...
Project: Bottle Box
Here’s a fun twist on a treat box. Fill a small bottle with sweets and put it inside this cute side hinged box. The Poodles blog has directions for cutting, scoring and folding cardstock and adding pattern paper to make … Read More...
Project: Birthday in a Box
Dawn from Dawn’s Stamping Studio has the most adorable birthday gift idea! She’ll teach you how to cut, score, fold and decorate this fun little box and fill it with a decorated tea light and match book. I love using … Read More...
Template: Paper Basket
Create a lovely centerpiece full of flowers that will never wilt. The Craftwork Cards Blog has a template and directions for turning a piece of patterned cardstock into a basket that you call fill with die cut or punches 3-D … Read More...
Geeky Hooker’s Adorable Crochet Superhero Patterns
Every year, the geeky hooker, AKA, well.. the geeky hooker (as she doesn’t reveal her true name), crochets some of these cute little creatures based on, you guessed it, comic books. And she then drops them around the annual … Read More...
Felt Apple Brooch Pattern & Tutorial
Lark Crafts has this sweet downloadable PDF pattern for this adorable brooch by Lisa Jordon. The Apples are coming in and we are all ready for them. What fun it would be to make one for the little ones to … Read More...
8(bit) Free 3D Perler Bead Patterns
Check out these printable perler bead patterns that Aleksandra created of classic video game characters in honor of the release of the Pixels movie this week! These aren’t your ordinary perler bead projects- they’re 3d! cool!
Did you ever play … Read More...