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Okay, I’ll admit I’ve never entered a craft contest, but I’ve always wanted to. Here are a couple of interesting contests that you should enter!
Indie Home Decor Challenge – Send a picture of your DIY home decor project and have a chance to win some really cool indie craft prizes. This contest ends June 18th.
PEEPS on Film – Create a video telling your PEEPS story (how you met them, or whatever…), or create a video showing what you can make with PEEPS. The winner receives several things, including a year’s supply of PEEPS! and a video camera. Nice. The deadline has been extended until May 31st.
So go enter one of these contests and win some cool prizes.
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I got this book, The Cool Girl’s Guide to Crochet, a while back for my birthday, and I have been meaning to share my thoughts about it. Overall, it’s a fun book.
The beginning of the book gives some basic tutorials on crocheting, which is helpful for anyone getting into crochet. I have heard some negative reviews on Amazon, stating that the book isn’t very good for someone brand new to crochet, so keep that in mind.
The book also has several crochet projects, and some of them are actually cool (Sometimes things that label themselves cool are actually quite the opposite. There’s a pattern for a beanie hat, a scarf, a couple of blankets, different purses, and some other fun items. The wide variety of projects makes it good for me, because I like to try new things.
As I said, on Amazon, there were several negative reviews, but overall for me, I love The Cool Girl’s Guide to Crochet.
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Mother’s Day is coming up soon, so if you don’t have a gift picked out, consider making one of the following fun crafts.
Herbal Bath Tea – She says they’re easy to make, and they certainly look like nice gifts.
Cute Bag – If you’re a sewer, this bag is awesome!
Rice heat therapy bag – Wonderful for pampering and soothing aches and pains.
Bookmark with vintage fabric – For the reader mom.
Glass Terrariums – A fun project you can make together with your kids.
Tin can pin cushion – Cute, and easy.
Bottle cap magnets – Super cute, and what mom doesn’t like fridge magnets? (Or is that just my mom?)
Paper frames – Make your own paper frames inspired from a Japanese book. Perfect for framing a photo for mom.
*Photo courtesy of Kanko
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To help inspire me (and maybe inspire you as well) I thought it would be fun to share the craft projects you are currently working on. I am still working on getting my craft area set up. That could take a while!
So what are you working on? Leave a comment and let us know what craft you’re working on these days. And if you have pictures of the craft, even better! Post a link so we can see.
Let’s inspire each other!
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I just moved from one apartment to another this weekend. Moving is stressful and difficult, to say the least. However, it’s gotten me to think about my craft space and how I want to organize it.
I wish I had a whole room to dedicate to crafting, but I’m lucky to get just a corner of a room. I want the space to be organized as well as creative, but that’s a tall order, especially with limited space. I’m inspired by some of the great ideas at Country Living’s Make a craft room photo gallery. Check it out and look at all the cool things you can do with your craft space.
What about your craft space? Do you have a whole room set aside for crafts, or just a desk or a closet? Does your space inspire you, and if not, what could you change in order to make it inspiring?
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Have you ever been in a craft funk? That’s what I call it when I have projects I’m in the middle of but I don’t feel like doing them, or when I see all kinds of cute crafts around me but I still don’t feel inspired to craft.
If you’ve been in a craft funk, how do you cope with it? Here are some of the things I’m thinking about doing:
Those are my thoughts on getting rid of this nasty craft funk. Anyone else have some tips they’d like to share?
–Holli Jo
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Earth Day is just around the corner (April 22nd). In honor of Earth Day, I thought I’d highlight some of the crafts you can make from used material. Craft something that’s earth friendly today!
PAPER CRAFT IDEAS
Tealight Decoration using recycled cardboard tubing.
Magazine Bowl – a bowl made of magazine pages. Amazing!
Make your own Paper – Use up your paper scraps and make new paper.
Handbag made from books – This is the coolest! Refashion an old book into a cool purse.
FABRIC & YARN IDEAS
Peasant top – Cute shirt made from a thrift store muumuu.
T-shirt into Tube Top – It even has cute pockets.
Refashioned T-shirt – Make an oversized shirt fit you.
Field Bag – Use your old clothing to make this cool field bag.
Denim Potholder – Cute way to reuse your old jeans.
Knit Tea Cozy – Use up your leftover yarn stash!
PLASTIC IDEAS
Crocheted Plastic Bag Tote – Cute bag made from plastic bags.
Messenger Bag – Another crocheted bag using plastic bags.
Fusing plastic bags – This tutorial teaches you how to fuse plastic bags together, which can then be used to make all kinds of cool stuff!
VCR Tape Evening Bag – Have a bunch of old VHS tapes you don’t need? Crochet the tape into this fabulous bag!
METAL IDEAS
Aluminum Can Jewelry – A beautiful way to reuse an aluminum can. And it’s wearable.
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I wanted to share one of my favorite new blogs with you: Millie Motts. She is a self-proclaimed collector of all things 1940s-60s, and she shares all kinds of awesome photos on her blog. Here’s one example of the great pictures you’ll find on the blog (From a post entitled “banana appeal”):
Check out Millie Motts for yourself and tell me you’re not hooked!
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To go along with my theme of refashioning envelopes, I decided to make a mini dry-erase board from the window part of an envelope. It’s so easy and fun to make. I got the idea from Claudine Hellmuth’s project here.
Supplies:
Here’s all you do:
You should end up with something like this:
Here’s my final result. It’s pretty amateurish, but a good first try:
Now I need to get some dry-erase markers and write some fun messages on it!
Since I’ve been talking about baby hats lately, I thought I would share this awesome way to get involved and make a difference in the life of a child.
Save the Children is calling on knitters (and non-knitters willing to learn) everywhere to knit newborn baby hats to send to newborns around the world. A hat protects infants in other countries from getting pneumonia and potentially helps save their lives.
So check it out. If you’re a knitter, perfect! And if you’re not, they even have a section dedicated to teaching us non-knitters (I don’t know how to knit yet, either) the basics of knitting. Pretty cool. Let us know if you decide to do it – I’d love to see your pictures.
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I’m having my first baby in August. Because of that, a lot of my craft ideas have turned toward baby things. What I’d like to make is a baby hat that won’t be too warm to wear during the summer. Here are three different crochet patters I’m thinking about. Ignoring the color (because I’ll probably choose different colors), which hat pattern do you like the best?
1. Baby Swirls
So which one should I make?! I would love to hear your thoughts – leave me a comment and vote on your favorite baby hat.
–Holli
I was feeling crafty today, so I found an easy tutorial I could do with the supplies I had on hand. I’ve been wanting to try out the Inside Out Security Envelopes tutorial from design*sponge, and it didn’t require many supplies. In fact, I modified the supply list as follows:
And that’s all you need! Unfolding the envelope without ripping it is really tricky, but I did my best:
Once you’ve got it apart, it should look something like this:
After that, you glue the sides inside out, and it’s ready to mail something wonderful to a friend. I inserted a paint sample inside to make it prettier:
This seriously took me less than 10 minutes, so it’s worth trying out. Save your junk mail today and get crafty.
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There have been so many awesome crafts being circulated for the Easter holiday. I thought I’d share some of the fun Easter crafts that I’ve found around the web.
GENERAL CRAFTS
These adorable egg matryoshka dolls look worth making!
Easter window clings are perfect if you have children.
There’s a cozy for everything, including one for Easter eggs. Check out this Egg cozy tutorial.
FABRIC & YARN
Learn how to sew these secret pocket Easter eggs.
Make these adorable knitted Easter egg ornaments.
I love these colorful knitted Easter chickens.
Another Easter egg cozy. Knit one today.
EDIBLE CRAFTS
Chocolate bird’s nests. Make these cute bird’s nests for Easter, and then eat them!
Make these fancy golden chocolate Easter eggs.
If you’re looking to decorate your eggs a little differently this year, check out these variations.
This post gives tips for dying your Easter eggs naturally.
Happy Easter, everyone! And happy crafting.
*Photo by Lin Pernille
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I wanted to pass along a great new craft blog I found. They’re called The Village Shop, and they feature fun tutorials and craft ideas.
During March they’re also sponsoring four giveaways. The first one ends tonight, so head over to this post and leave a comment to win the first giveaway.
I’m looking forward to more great things from them.
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Hi! As Eve mentioned, I am going to keep Craft Tutorials going. I’m very excited to be part of such a fun blog, and I plan to make sure there are plenty of tutorials and fun things going on here.
Stay tuned for interesting things to come. I’m planning a site redesign and will probably be moving the site to its own domain. Pardon the dust around here while I’m getting everything situated. I have plenty of tutorials and fun craft ideas coming soon, so be sure to check back.
I appreciate your support of Craft Tutorials and am happy to be part of this crafting community!
-Holli Jo
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Yay for Holli who has taking over Craft Tutorials blog. Thank you, thank you, thank you Holli!!
YOU ARE FABULOUS!!
and thank you to everybody else who has offered to help out. It is very much appreciated.
It is really nice to feel the crafty-love.
* eve *
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Hi Everybody!
Unfortunately Craft Tutorials will be closing down on the 1st of April this year. I no longer have enough time to update, add new tutorials BUT if you want to take over and give it your won spin please do not hesitate to contact me….!
Eve
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I received this photo from Elsa to show another idea of what to do with the paper globe ornaments. These looks so cute!
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I love these paper ornaments. They look so complex, but they really aren’t.
To start, you need 20 paper circles of whatever patterns you choose. I made mine about 1.5″. If you have a circle template or jumbo punch, it makes it really easy.
Fold the edges of each circle up in three places, so that it looks like a triangle with three tabs.
To make the top of the globe, take five of your circles. Glue the tabs together so that the five form a ring. Repeat this for the bottom of your globe.
To make the center of your globe, glue 10 of your circles in a line. The “triangles” will alternate pointing up and down, so that you have a straight band. Then glue the end circles together to make a ring. Glue the top and bottom pieces onto your ring.
I made a little paper dangle for mine. Once your done, just punch a few holes, put on a wire or ribbon hanger, and voila! All finished.
Enjoy!
Lisa
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