Beaded Earrings Free Tutorial

Oh what a grand find. There's a ton more free tutorials at BeadsMagic but here is the link to the earrings pictured above. [link]

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Beading and Embroidery

*Jamie Cloud Eakin talks about bead shops, teaching, and her books in this short interview that includes a wonderful downloadable index of all the embroidery stitches used in her books! http://bit.ly/yEGFQC

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Bead Fantasies Necklace - Free Tutorial from Lark Books

Sabine Lippert’s Beaded Fantasies presents 30 of Sabine’s jewelry designs; all the projects utilize peyote or right angle weave, beading’s most popular stitches. The book includes plenty of beautiful photography, excellent instructions and how-to illustrations, a special chapter by Sabine about how she approaches design, and a gallery of photographs of beadwork Sabine admires. The book will officially publish on May 1. In the meantime, let’s give you a taste of it: Click here to download a PDF of the project Les Fleurs Necklace from Sabine Lippert’s Beaded Fantasies. If you look at the PDF, you’ll see we’ve included the book’s table of contents, which has teaser photos from throughout the book.

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Free Beading e-Book

5 Free Beading Projects to
Learn How to Bead

Everyone needs a place to start and every beader is always searching for new beading ideas.

This free eBook is a complete beading for beginners guide with quick and easy bead instructions. Each bead project includes a fabulous photo and step-by-step instructions. Turn to pages 6 and 7 for illustrated descriptions of the essential beading techniques such as crimping, knotting, wireworking, oxidizing silver, and more. If you already know how to string beads and are looking for inspiration or quick bead designs to make for your friends, this free eBook will also suit your needs. Don't wait! Start creating these easy pieces and use the inspiration to create your own designs. Download your eBook today!

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Free Printable Calendar

From The Craft Map, a free printable calendar that includes craft tutorials. [link]

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Cozy Toes Free Pattern

A free pattern for cozy toes slippers from Sew News. [link]

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Cooking Conversion Chart

Every Nothing Wonderful has a great free printable Cooking Conversion Chart. It is listed in their resource area here. [link]

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Free Gift of Thanksgiving - 2

A set of six napkin rings to download and print. A fun craft to do for the holiday and with children. Get your free download. [link]

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Avery Makes Holidays Easier

Who needs a team of elves when you’ve got a sleigh-full of free holiday templates from Avery!

Just in the nick of time—personalize your address and shipping labels, gift tags, invitations and more.

To get started: just download the all new Avery Wizard 4.0 software. Then add the free holiday designs (separate download) and you're on your way! [link]

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Dazzles e-book from Paper Wishes

Paper Wishes is offering a free gift of Thanksgiving. An e-book about Dazzles. It includes projects, videos and printable designs. Download yours for free [link]

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Tea Bag Folding

Have you heard of tea bag folding? This craft seems to be becoming very popular. There are many websites with free instructions on how to fold. There are others that offer free printable patterns for you to use. One I found is very interesting in that it is a kaleidoscope generator that you can control and then save your image and print out for your own tea bag folding. You can see it here.  http://www.masikatiwebdesign.com/teabags/kaleidoscopes.asp

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Free Patterns for Spring

Baby Lock has posted free pattern downloads for spring. My favorite is a beautiful tutu for little girls.
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Online Craft Resource - Kalmbach

Kalmbach Bookstore has a ton of craft oriented products. You can choose from magazines, DVDs, free downloads and much more. The topics are sorted into Beading and Jewelry, General Crafts, Needle Arts and Paper Crafts. [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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Paper Doll Freebies

image by The Angel Company

I have always loved paper dolls and still do, so much fun to cut, color and dress and now to print. If you or your little one loves them too visit the Angel Company to download this cute paper doll template for free.

 

Thanks to Heather from Craft Gossip

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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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You Can Make This

Sign up to receive -  1 online YCMT episode on “Making Initial Tees”, as well as 8 ebooks on a variety of subjects- all for free! It is a bundle package worth $75. We are also thrilled to announce a 2nd NEW newsletter, all dedicated to the world of sewing. It is called the, “You Can Sew This!” newsletter. Those who subscribe to this will also receive 5 free, exclusive projects to download.  Just click on the image above.

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Free Snowflake Machine Embroidery

Anna Bove Embroidery is offering six free celtic snowflake patterns for machine embroidery. The file is free but you have to register to download it.

Sizes: 2 sizes for 4×4 and 5×7-inch hoops
Available formats: Art, Pes, Hus, Vip, Shv, Jef, Xxx, Dst , Exp
Colors: 1

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Free Digital Scrapbooking

ArtsCow offers a variety of free digital scrapbooking kits. more...

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HP Daily Surprise

The HP Daily Surprise brings you a calendar-full of creative ideas with a single click. This widget is available for free and currently works on both MAC and PC computers.

http://h30440.www3.hp.com/daily-surprise/index.html

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