Archive Category: 'Crafty Ideas'

• How To Make Photo Snow Globes: Today’s feature is from Photojojo with a nice project for Photo Snow Globes. Very basic supplies needed and the snow globes are surprisingly easy to make: Items Needed: Water Bottle or empty mason jar Two photos (or 1 transparency) Clear packing tape, the wider the better. Scissors Goo Gone Glitter & sparkles Clear (light) Corn Syrup Good old-fashioned Water If you don’t have any Goo [...]
• Patchwork Sewing Basket Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Little Thing with Patchwork Sewing Basket Tutorial: Materials and tools: sewing machine, scraps of fabric, light weight batting, leather cord (or ribbon or jute), trim like rick-rack or lace, one wooden button (plastic or metal if you like too), a piece of heavy cardboard (big enough to make the top of the [...]
• Recycle Project – Magazine Bowl: Today’s feature is from A Little Hut with a Recycle Project – Magazine Bowl: The beauty of this project is that you can make the bowl any size you’d like by changing the width of the base and by stopping at any point during the process of building the sides. I’m thinking that this bowl will [...]
• Homemade Smelly Jelly Recipes: Homemade Gel Air Freshener 2 cups water 4 packages Gelatin (plain) 15 to 20 drops Essential Oil (adjust to personal preference) 1 to 2 TBS salt Food Coloring Directions: In a small pot, mix 1 cup water, essential oil and food coloring. As soon as it starts to boil, remove from heat. Completely dissolve gelatin and salt in the hot water then add [...]
• How To Cover A Lampshade Frame: Today’s feature is from Kirin Notebook with instructions for How To Cover A Lampshade Frame: Equipment Lampshade frame (these can be tricky to find – I buy mine from Handworks in Prahran, VIC) Fabric (anything that can hold it’s own when the light is on – you want to be able to still see the pattern!) Some sort of [...]
• How To Make Chocolate Dipped Spoons: Chocolate dipped spoons are easy to make and are a nice treat for your coffee, great gifts for coffee lovers! Here’s how to make them: Ingredients Milk Chocolate (use a bag of chocolate chips if you like) Dark Chocolate (2 squares or small handful of chips – used for decoration. Amount will vary depending on embellishments used.) White Chocolate [...]
• How To Make Shrinky Dinks: Here’s a fun one for the kids, today’s feature is from Curbly with DIY Shrinky Dinks: Materials Needed: Clean #6 Plastic Permanent Markers Scissors Aluminum Foil Oven and Tongs or Oven Mitt One of the comments suggests using this process to make zipper pulls and cell phone charms, great ideas! If you’re worried about what the heck #6 plastic is, the author explains [...]
• Furoshiki How To: Today’s feature is from DIY Life with DIY Definitions: Furoshiki – multi-use wrapping cloths. Normally the feature tip slots here on Tipnut are filled for a couple weeks in advance, but I had to bump this one in NOW because it is so unique and new to me, I’ve never heard of Furoshiki. Have you heard [...]
• Homemade Herbal Bath Bag Recipes: Herbal bath bags (also known as bath tea bags) make a lovely soaking bath that can be beneficial to your skin, ease stress and help soothe aches and pains. They’re similar to the Shower Spa Bags except these soak in the tub with you, making the bath a luxurious tea spa. If you just need some [...]
• How To Turn An Umbrella Into A Kite: Today’s feature is from HomeOfTheSampler.com with a cool tutorial – September How-To from Rose Travale: How to Turn an Umbrella into a Kite. You take apart the umbrella by removing the wires then reuse the nylon umbrella fabric and wires to make a kite. Even the umbrella handle is utilized! Supplies needed are very basic: Pliers Scissors Permanent Marker Sewing Machine Kite [...]
• How To Prepare & Preserve Pine Cones: Gathering your own pinecones is a great way to save some money on Christmas crafts, plus gives you a little exercise and fresh air while out collecting them. If you’d like to gather your own pine cones to use for crafts like pinecone wreaths and ornaments, you first need to prepare them so they’ll be [...]
• How To Make Crayon Nibbles: Today’s feature is from CraftyDaisies with the instructions How To Make Crayon Nibbles For Toddlers: A friend of mine told me awhile back about melting down crayons to make chunkier ones that are easier for little hands to hold (and tougher for them to break). This is also a great way to use up broken crayons [...]
• Collecting Vintage Tablecloths – Crafts Ideas & Resources: It’s no secret that I love vintage patterns, crafts and fabrics–and that includes tablecloths. The fabrics are soft and durable, usually a good quality cotton or cotton/linen blend and the patterns deliciously whimsical, folk artsy and retro. Perfect for brightening up the kitchen or sewing with! Here are a few craft ideas using the tablecloths, as [...]
• How To Make Cell Phone Charms: Today’s feature is from Made-By-Kali with the tutorial for How to Make a Cell Phone Charm (or zipper pull): I don’t quite understand the appeal of dangling things hanging from your cellphone, but who am I to argue with trends? This tutorial will explain, as simply as possible, how to make your own cellphone charm. Materials needed [...]
• How To Make Gel Candles – Easy Oven Method: Try making a small batch or two of these to get the swing of things, then setup an assembly line to whip up several at once. How To Make Gel Candles Materials Needed: Gel Wax Liquid Dye for Gel Wax (optional) Gel Safe Fragrance Oil (optional) Zinc Core Wick (pre-tabbed) Glass container to hold candle Prep Materials: Large Pyrex Measuring Cup Metal Spoon (for stirring) Candy [...]
• How To Make Handmade Designer Bubble Mailers: Today’s feature is a professional secret revealed from 27 Things: Make Your Own Bubble Mailers… Make Your Own Bubble Mailers I love making my own mailers! It adds a personal and stylish touch to all my orders and it’s helped me stand out in the marketplace. A few months ago, I decided to open a second shop [...]
• Homemade Gift Baskets – The Ultimate How To Guide: Have you always wanted to learn how to make beautiful homemade gift baskets or have a large running list of basket themes and gift ideas at your disposal? Then this is the ultimate How To guide for you! Today’s tip is jam packed with videos for how to make gift baskets as well as lovely homemade [...]
• Reuse Plastic Bags – Fuse Them!: Today’s feature is from Etsy Labs with a great tutorial for How To Fuse Plastic Bags: Do you have one zillion plastic drugstore and grocery bags under your sink, or perhaps smushed into a drawer? Ever wanted a cheap and easy use for them? One that leaves you with an intriguing and useful homemade craft supply? [...]
• Fabric Burn Test Chart: Today’s feature is from Ditzy Prints with a full page chart for unknown fabric testing–Fiber Burn Chart: To identify the fibers in an unknown piece of fabric, cut off a snippet — it’s best if it’s about 1″ long and a triangle at most 1/4″ wide (try to cut from one of the already cut ends [...]
• Craft Tutorial: Charming Corkboard Wall Pocket: Today’s feature is from Craft Apple with a tutorial on How To Make a Corkboard Wall Pocket: Materials Needed: 12″x12″ piece of 1/4″ corkboard tile (available in office supplies at Target for around $4/4-pack, or art-supply stores for around $10/4-pack) 11 3/4″ x 11″ cardboard piece (I cut mine from an old box) 11 1/2″ x 11 1/2″ [...]
• Block Printing With Eraser Stamps: This is an excerpt of an article detailing how to make your own stamps from erasers and use them for stamping projects (on paper, fabric and other items). How To Block Print With Eraser Stamps Though stamps are, of course, limited to size of face of eraser, they are easy to make and work very well [...]
• Create A Craft Idea Digital Catalog File: Here’s a simple way to keep track of all those great projects and ideas you come across online, no special software necessary! Create a folder on your computer: Craft Ideas Inside that folder, create a folder for each category: Christmas, Easter, Gifts, Quilting, Sewing, Crochet (whatever works for you) Place a text file in each folder named: Index Whenever [...]
• How To Print On Fabric With Computer Printer: Today’s feature is from Sewing Star with the easy to follow instructions for How To Print On Fabric. Breaking it down: Use a 200+ thread count piece of fabric Iron fabric to the plastic side of freezer paper (cut both to fit 8.5 x 11) Place freezer paper backed fabric in the printer (fabric side up to be printed [...]
• How To Dry Flowers: A Collection of Tips: After yesterday’s Homemade Potpourri information, I thought this collection of flower drying methods and tips was a perfect follow-up. Tips For Drying Flowers Collect flowers first thing in the morning (after the dew is gone) and at least two days after a rain. Handle them carefully so they don’t get bruised. Choose flowers that have reached near [...]
• How To Make A Lavender Wand: Today’s feature is from GardenGate Magazine with nice instructions for how to Make a Lavender Wand: After it is dried, the heads and buds of lavender can be used in soothing sachets, potpourris and bath bags. Or you can save the entire stem and use it in flower arrangements or as a fragrant fire starter for [...]