Fabric Binder Purse

Jolie's Junebug Boutique share a visual tutorial of sorts for this fabric binder purse. With a little studying, I think you could conceive of how to put one together for yourself. Take a look and see. [link]

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Upcycle Spoon Mirror

There are times crafters repurpose or upcycle an item to the point where you no longer see the individual parts but the beautiful whole new creation first. It is rare, but it does happen. Just like with the Chrysanthemum Mirror, you see the beauty first and then see it is made from plastic spoons. What to give it a try? Here is the tutorial from Addicted 2 Decorating. [link]

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Melted Jewelry

Cut Out + Keep has a really cool tutorial (no pictures unfortunately) on how to make melted jewelry out of pony beads. The post was created by JK<3 [link]

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Free Valentine's Printables

Craftionary has collected links to 75 Valentine's Day printables. [link]

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Alphabet Inspiration

Education.com has fun alphabet pages to color. While they are created for children and learning, I can't help but wonder how a crafter could use these. How about iron ons? Creating an alphabet book? Maybe quilt them? What could you make? [link]

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Creative Kids Drawing Idea

Let kids creativity go wild! – and they’ll feel like they are getting away with something. This drawing surface exists in your house - check it out.  [link]

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Submit Your Creativity to Sharpie

Sharpie's YouTube™ Takeover is coming. On August 27th, YouTube's homepage will showcase drawings, doodles, poems, pics, ANYTHING started with Sharpie! Submit your Sharpie creation to be part of it. What are you gonna start? [link]

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Butterfly Party Package

Looking for a way to create your own birthday party theme? You can purchase a digital party package and create your own celebration. Print as many or as few as you need. They are even customizable if you desire.

This cute birthday party theme is pink and orange butterflies! Adorable, bright and sure to make anyone smile.

This party package includes:
Flat 5x7 invitation
Folded 5x7 invitation
Folded 5x7 Thank You note
Party Hat
Cup Cake Wrapper
Purse box for crafting or take home goodies
Avery 5160 labels for addresses or name tags
Place cards or food labels

You can purchase it from V-Studios Artfire store. [link]

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Hairclips and Magnets: Summer Flower Crafting

Summer crafting with a group of girls once a week produces some interesting projects. We used a scrap booking kit of flowers and buttons this week. Stacking them together to create beautiful arrangements. This project was created with girls ranging in age from four years old to ten years old. A hot glue gun was used in the process with a lot of parental supervision.  more

Product was purchased through Crop Chocolate

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Friendly Plastic Give Away

Win an assortment jar of Friendly Plastic® stich with 40 sticks total (1 ½" x 7"), four each of 10 exciting colors.

Lightweight, flexible, quick and easy to use Friendly Plastic® Designer Sticks are non toxic and soften quickly in hot water for modeling. They are easy to manipulate using a variety of techniques and can be shaped, molded, stamped, cut, layered or rolled.
Retail Value: $58.95

Win the Friendly Plastic Assortment Jar! [link]

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Everyone can be Crafty

materials

Honestly, anyone can craft. I created a few boxes from templates I downloaded from Mirkwood Designs, they were free, and there are a lot of other templates there you might be interested in.

I decided to create them using ordinary easily found objects. I cut with my daughter’s child scissors. In order to create folds, some lines needed to be creased. I did so by tracing over the lines on the template with a ballpoint pen on top of the decorative (scrapbooking paper) paper to create an indent. If I couldn’t draw a straight line, I used my TV remote to help guide me. Then I used a little glue stick as needed to seal the flaps. Oh, and just a suggestion, If you find it hard to keep the template in place when you are cutting, a few clothespins can be used to keep everything in place.

So with little to no crafting supplies, you can create something crafty! Give it a try. 

finished boxes (and a few beads made from the scraps)

Scrapbooking papers, rub-ons and stickers were provided free of charge from Crop Chocolate.

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Craft Idea - St. Patrick's Day - "Pot of Gold"

Outside of box

Inside of box - gold, paper, glitter

I knew the moment I received my package in the mail from UHU that I wanted to play off the idea of a pot of gold, given the theme of St. Patti’s Day. I began by painting the box with antique white on the outside and gold on the inside. I then lined the inside with the green ribbon like paper (using the UHU glue stick) that I had punched with clovers so that the gold would show through. For an added sparkle, I took one of the foam clovers provided and applied green glitter.

On the outside, I stamped the bottom half with stamps in a variety of green and gold to give it a visual texture similar to grass. Then, I applied the foam clovers to the top and let them trail off one side.
The Uhu glue, green paper, foam clover pieces and the star box were provided free of charge from Saunders.

Uhu glue can be found at http://www.gluewithuhu.com/ 

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Come and see the huge list of what has been made: food craft or traditional craft. There are tons of links and a huge variety of handmade items. 

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Martha's Having a Sale

Tons of craft items discounted up to 60% off at Martha Stewart Crafts. [link]

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Card Making Freebies

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New Craft E-books Available!!!

Valentine's Day Crafts: Blogger Edition eBook- This Valentine's Day craft eBook is dedicated entirely to bloggers. With the contributions of 14 craft blogs contributing 15 craft projects, we have created this fun 42-page resource for Valentine’s Day decorating, homemade gift-giving and more.

Cupid's Handmade Crafts eBook - Get in touch with your romantic side with over 30 cute Valentine ideas for handmade accessories, gifts, cards, home decor and kids' crafts. Surprise your loved ones this Valentine's Day.

 

Beautiful Beads eBook- Explore this inspiring collection of 45 beading craft projects, including jewelry sets, necklace, earrings and home decor items. Beaded jewelry can really dazzle as a homemade gift for just about any occasion.

 

24 Simple Scrapbooking Layouts eBook offers great memories - This eBook provides you with 24 great scrapbook pages and layouts including pages for great family memories, fun summer days, special moments and much more.




 







Click here to get them now!

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Craft Forum Contest

Do you like to craft? How about considering entering a monthly craft contest? Each month Craft Forum posts a new contest. If you post and enter a photo, you are entered to win. They randomly draw one winner each month and that winner will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift card. You can join the forum here. link

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Valentine Freebie

Download, print, cut and fold this adorable Valentine Pillow Box Freebie. Fill it with treats and surprise your Valentine. Down load the file here.

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Freebie: Valentine Digital Images

image by Rubber Punkin

Click here to visit the Rubber Punkin blog and download this lovely digital Valentine images for free.

thanks Craft Gossip

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Help for Haiti

ThriftyFun is donating $5 to the Red Cross for every eligible craft, pet, photo, tip or recipe submission they receive between now and the end of January, 2010. Yesterday's total was $235. They are making the payments daily and have donated $975 so far. You can participate too. Linky...

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