Handmade gifts are great! What’s even better is if they are also functional. Vicky Fortier, aka Crafting Vicky, altered a desk album into a desk calendar as a gift for her husband and she shares her tutorial with us today. Last Christmas, I had some homemade gifts ready for my family. The previous year, my…
A junk journal is typically made with craft supplies, recycled paper, junk mail and other found materials. Do you see where we are going with this? Yes? YES! We all have plenty of those! Craft supplies, scraps of paper, found fabrics and other cartable elements. Now, instead of proudly hoarding them in boxes hidden all over our…
Easy canvas envelopes for any occasion – sounds good, right? But… canvas??? Yeah. Why not? They are just like the paper envelopes but made of canvas. With both sides blank, you can dye them, paint them, mist them, ink them, stamp them, stencil them, iron-on them, monogram them, screen print on them or do whatever…
It´s time for the first challenge of the year! Janary is a month of festivities, parties & events. But also a month filled with lazy moments just chilling Indoors. Incorporate lace and lazy in your Project this month! The How to: To enter this challenge you need to link up your entry Blog…
With the New Year, many of us are full of hope for better things, for more happiness, better luck, improved health. Our Crew member, Mona Leonard made a burlap wreath on which to display her 2018 wishes. I thought it would be nice to make a wreath for your hopes in 2018 so I took out a…
There are plenty of ready made chipboard or cardboard shapes but what if you’re looking for something simple and you cannot find it? The answer is simple – you’re a crafter, right? Do it yourself! Our Crew member, Ilana Polakiewicz cut a big sheet of thick cardboard into small house shapes and using collage technique embellished…
In between Christmas and New Year, we’d like to inspire you with a set of slightly distressed, vintage Wings on Wednesday. Cathy Frailey is here with her slightly steampunk-ish take on our theme. I love old, rusty things and bought a few old springs for decor and upcycling. So what better way to both upcycle and…
Lots of us are spending our evenings sitting under the warm blankets and reading all the books we didn’t get chance to read during the summer so why not make a nice bookmark that we can use for remembering the pages if not for ourself maybe for our fiend or child. – shares Anges Kieler….
Are you in need of some last minute Christmas decor ideas? Our Crew member, Nancy Hawes loves Christmas and her home is always full of festive decorations in every corner. Take a look for yourself… I just love filling every corner with a little holiday cheer. Then I like to adjust and add some extra love…
The Canvas Corp canvas postcard set consists of 3 100% cotton double-layered cards, which are perfect for any type of mixed media project that you can later on share with your friends or paypals via snail mail. I’m really enjoying embroidery projects at the minute and when I saw the canvas postcards in the shop,…