Crochet. A knit and crochet community. Bloomin’ Handmade Greeting Cards You Can Plant. You’ve might have seen seed paper recently.
Make your own unique heart bookmark. Make an instructables patch to apply to your projects. 5 Minute Projects. Crayon Hearts and more creative crafts projects, templates, tips, clip-art, patterns, and ideas on marthastewart.com. No Slip Bookmark Tutorial. How to Make a Cardboard Picture Frame. Measure the photograph you wish to frame and add 2 1/2 to 3 inches to each dimension.
For example, if your photograph is 8 inches by 10 inches, add 8 plus 3 plus 3 to equal 14 and 10 plus 3 plus 3 to equal 16. The outside dimension of the cardboard frame will be 14 by 16 inches. Cut out two pieces of cardboard that equal the dimensions you calculated. Use a ruler and pencil to measure and mark out the space in the center of one of the pieces of cardboard to create the frame.
Make this space about 1/4 inch less than the width and height of the photograph. Cut out the shape from the center of the cardboard with the craft knife. Lay the piece of cardboard with the cutout window on a flat work surface and decorate one side of it. Determine which end of the frame will be the top and which will be the bottom.
Place the decorated piece of cardboard facedown. Place a thin line of glue just outside (away from the window) of the pencil lines you drew. Insert the photo into the frame through the top. Heartbreaker valentines. Who said valentines were only red and pink?
In bright colors, these Heart Breaker Valentines work great for boys and girls. So get out your scissors and stapler, because today, you’re tearing up my heart….. (cue N Sync) Each valentine is stapled together to create a pouch full of secret candies. And the only way to find them, is to break my heart! Skill Level: AnyNeeded: * colorful paper* computer printer* stapler/staples* scissors* candy. Removable Bracelet that won't come off. This is one of the best ways to start and finish a bracelet so that it is removable, but won't simply fall off.
Some people have that problem with the common knot that goes into the loop. In this tutorial, I show how it's done with a four string, two color bracelet. I assume you may be able to do it with any number of strings, but I haven't tried it. Do not attempt this tutorial until you know the Macrame Knot, instructions for which can be found here. Foam Roses. Mother’s Day is hours away, but there’s still lots of time to make these beautiful foam roses in minutes.
They’re much more dainty than the no-fuss paper roses I made for Valentine’s, and perhaps far more versatile. In a few simple steps, you can make these sweet rose magnets, rose pushpins, and rose jewelry. You have probably made paper roses before by cutting and rolling spirals of paper. Life in general: yarn bowls. Okay, here's how it goes.
It's super easy and just a little bit messy. ;) Supplies: yarn + glue + bowl Prep: Cover a bowl with plastic wrap. Tutorials by Lee. Fingerless Mitts parts 1+2: Recycled Sock Mitts! Remember the Fingerless Mitts Times 3 project I had in Craft: 10 back in February?
Well, now that it’s getting colder, I want to share the tutorials with all of you do stuff! Readers! I’m dividing the 3 mitt types into 2 parts, because the first 2 go together – the 2 different recycled sock mitts, shown together below. So I’m just going to cut and paste my original article/tutorial, which was edited and cut down a bit to fit in the magazine… here we go!
Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag! Tutorial time!
I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed!
As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter… Fun and Easy How to Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books At Home…FAST. Here’s a simple, but great way to bind your own paperback books at home If you like ebooks but don’t like reading them on your computer screen, this How-to post is for you.
I’ll show you a quick and dirty book binding technique you can use to turn your ebook into a real book with about 5 minutes worth of effort. In fact, this is so easy, you might end up self-publishing your own books on demand for profit.