Archive Category: 'Crafty Ideas'

• How To Make Photo Lanterns: Craft Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Bridal Party Tees with this Craft Tutorial: Photo Lanterns: blockquote>These lanterns are adaptable to any occasion and perfect for the warm weather that’s just around the corner. The photos you select can be anything – old family snapshots would be of interest at a reunion for example, or you could play it simple [...]
• How To Dry Petals & Leaves Flat: Here’s another goody that was sent in to Tipnut’s Mailbag, this tip is from Sherri Hanley: blockquote>I’m a certified craft junkie and love to do many different kinds of crafts, but my favorite projects are those working with dried flowers. Here’s a trick I picked up along the way to dry rose petals and leaves flat [...]
• DIY Project: Studio Table Redo: Today’s feature is from Pink And Polka Dot with this budget friendly DIY for a Studio Table Redo: blockquote>I had a table cloth over this table, but my sewing machines & computer kept getting caught and bunching up the fabric. So I decided to give it a face lift and do a little studio redo We call [...]
• Crafters Medley: 25 Neat-O Projects To Make (March): li>Fat Quarter Reading Companion: Very clever, here’s a tute for a fabric bookmark attached to a case to hold your reading glasses. Tutorial: Hot Pads: Love these, designs made by using reverse [machine] appliqué. Doily Lamp Makeover: Clever idea to transform a lampshade into something pretty & unique. Ribbed Lip Balm Holder: Hang this goody on your keychain, [...]
• DIY Craft Table & Desk: How To: Today’s feature is from Ikea Hacker with Spring Chick’s to-die-for craft room: blockquote>Kari says, “I recently moved to a new house and am lucky enough to finally have a whole room for my crafting hobbies/business. I do a lot of sewing so I wanted a big, flat, and high (to save my back) work surface where [...]
• An Irish Medley For St. Patrick’s Day: I’ve updated Tipnut’s Irish Medley with a few crafty projects, printables & ideas for St. Patrick’s Day along with some recipes and fun tidbits of info. ul> How To Make Green Beer: Leprechaun Style Homemade Irish Cream Recipe St. Patrick’s Lucky Charm Card & Envelope Printable St Patrick’s Day Bag Topper Printable Lucky Penny Card: Cute, email needed to receive [...]
• How To Make Etched Glass Pantry Jars: Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with this simpler-than-you-think project for making Etched Glass Storage Jars: blockquote>Keep pantry staples organized with a set of glass storage jars customized with etched lettering. The idea is to mark off the design area with tape, position vinyl letters and any type of design feature you like, then cover with etching [...]
• DIY Project: Basket Drawer Unit: Today’s feature is from Crafty Nest with this nifty DIY project: Basket Drawer Unit: blockquote>I couldn’t find the right piece of furniture that had small drawers and deep drawers. I found these Branäs baskets at Ikea, but Ikea doesn’t make a unit like this to hold them. So, I drew up the plans to build this [...]
• China Pattern Craft Ideas: Painted Vase: Today’s feature is from Country Living with China Pattern Crafts: Painted Vase: blockquote> Want to salvage a chipped piece? Just paint it. Use painter’s tape to cover the parts you want to preserve; on the rest, apply two coats of flat, light blue oil-based paint. The result: a striking contrast between the pattern and the blue paint. I am [...]
• DIY: Make Fabric Shades From Mini-Blinds: Today’s feature is from Little Green Notebook with this clever DIY: Make Shades Out Of Mini Blinds: blockquote> Do you love the look of fabric shades but don’t want to fork over the cash? Shades can often cost you an arm and a leg (especially custom fabric shades). When my cheap white IKEA shades were safety-recalled, I decided [...]
• Tipnut’s Picks: 41 Free Baby Patterns & Projects: Here’s the latest batch of free baby projects and this time I included a handful of vintage embroidery cuties that would be perfect to add to bibs, blankies, shirts, hats and whatever else you like. Just click on the pics to get your copies (save to your computer’s desktop first before printing). To view the first [...]
• Ribbon Phone Charms: Crafty Tute: Today’s feature is from Sweet Tidings with Mobile Fone Charm Tutorial: blockquote>Here’s an easy mobile phone charm tutorial to get you into the crafting spirit! It’s super fast and easy to make and best of all it doesn’t require any sewing skills. A mobile phone is quite easy to locate inside your purse if it’s got a [...]
• Sewing Pattern Twinkle Lights: How To: Today’s feature is from Everyday Beauty with Sewing Pattern Twinkle Lights: blockquote>I have them strung around a mirror at the moment, but they’ll probably move into my craft room eventually. I really really really love these lights. Beige is one of my favorite colors {does that mean I’m boring?} and sewing pattern paper is such the perfect [...]
• DIY Project: Mosaic House Numbers: Today’s feature is from IDEAS with this Mosaic House Numbers Project: Mosaic is the art of covering and decorating a surface or item with small mosaic tiles or tesserae (individual mosaic pieces). Anything from pieces of glass and tile to marble and ceramics can be used and arranged in a pattern before being glued into place. The [...]
• Crafters Medley: 30 Neat-O Projects To Make (February): Dilly Bag Tutorial: Here is a lovely little Dilly Bag – 24″ in circumference, 9 1/2″ high and 7″ diameter base (approximate measurements). Log Cabin Block Pincushion Tutorial: You know at this time with the economy, you need to get as much as you can out of what you got. So very little fabric has to [...]
• How To Make Old Candles New Again: Today’s feature is from Chickens In The Road with this tip for Recycling Candles: Since I usually gravitate to “food” scents like apple, vanilla, cinnamon, pumpkin pie, etc, those blend well. (If you’re not recycling from strongly-scented candles, you might need to add more scent as you may “cook” the scent out while re-melting the wax. [...]
• 14 Crafty Valentine Projects, Tutes & Printables: Valentine Pennie Pockets: Four little nosegay Pennie Pockets of Valentine happiness. Fill with treats and love… hang on a front door handle… ring the doorbell… and RUN! Hello! Adorable! Found at Moda Bakeshop. How To Make Woven Fabric Hearts: Learn how to make Danish woven hearts out of fabric. Tutorial is in video format. Found at [...]
• How To Make Herb Garden Markers: Today’s feature is from Reese Dixon with a nifty idea for making Herb Garden Markers: I just rolled out some rectangles big enough for the name of each herb, and used my new Martha Stewart stamps to create the names. I knew I wanted to use armature wire to poke them into the ground, so [...]
• Crafters Medley: 28 Neat-O Projects To Make (January): How to Make a Patterned Vase: If you plan on putting fresh flowers inside, you’ll need a smaller vase or container to fit inside and hold the water. Tutorial: Jewelry Wrap: Really nice zippered wrap with all kinds of places to hold jewelry. Fabric Bookmarks: Super easy how-to for pretty bookmarks from How About Orange. Bound Books: Book [...]
• Project: Asian Paper Floor Mat: Today’s feature is from Style At Home with Project: Asian Paper Floor Mat: This project, inspired by Asian wall hangings, will add some Eastern flair to your floors. Use your favourite Asian papers on the floor by laminating them to a sturdy canvas base. Choose a light to medium weight paper that will easily absorb the diluted [...]
• How To Make Custom Magazine Files: Today’s feature is from Apartment Therapy with How To Make Custom Magazine Files: Having gone to many different stores in the Bay Area, we decided that to be most efficient we would have to embark on a journey to create our own boxes. This turned out not only to be the most cost and space efficient [...]
• Top 100 Crafty Tutorials of 2008: Today’s feature is from The Long Thread with Top 100 Tutorials of 2008: Happy New Year! Here’s a list of free tutorials and craft projects from 2008 to inspire you to create something in 2009. I’ve sorted the tutorials by category to help make some sense of this list, but otherwise they are in [...]
• Recycle Used Wrapping Paper Into Thank You Cards: Today’s feature is from Eco Child’s Play with Recycle Your Used Wrapping Paper Into Special Thank You Cards: Now that the presents have all been opened many houses are covered in torn pieces of wrapping paper, ribbons, and tags. You can gather it all up and toss it in the recycling bin, or reuse it [...]
• Winter Craft: Lace & Ice: Today’s feature is from Resurrection Fern with Lace and Ice: I came up with another very inexpensive, quick and easy cold climate decorating idea for the outdoors (unless you live in an igloo). All you need are some lace doilies (all mine are from the thrift store or rummage sales), some flat round pans (I used [...]
• Free Gifts In A Jar Recipes + More (Updated): Gifts in a jar typically include all the ingredients to make or bake something that are stored in jars (like mason jars or jam jars, etc.) and presented as gifts. They can be cookie mixes, cake mixes, bath & beauty ingredients (like bath salts and foot soaks), hearty soup mixes, bread, buns, pastry ingredients, seasoning mixes, [...]