Crafts

Craft tutorials and tips for crafters. Knitting, sewing, crochet, art projects, kids' crafts, scrapbooking, and more. Lots of arts and crafts for kids and adults alike.

Make your own personalized coloring books

Take coloring books to a whole new level – a beautiful, personalized book a child will enjoy for years to come as a joint effort between the two of you.

Free quilt patterns and tips

Quilting is a great way to make something beautiful and useful out of fabric that has otherwise outlived its usefulness. Enjoy this collection of free quilt patterns for beginners, intermediate and advanced quilters.

Free book templates kids can make themselves

Bookmaking can be a fun craft for kids. These simple free book templates are easy enough for some kids to make them unsupervised, or with just a little help from an adult.

Handmade Mother’s Day Gifts for Kids to Make

Since it really is the “thought that counts”, as the saying goes, you can avoid expensive Mother’s Day gifts and still express your appreciation for the moms in your life in a really thoughtful way. Your thought, your effort, your sentiment.

10+ DIY Wedding Favors {Cheap & Easy to Make}

Making your own crafty DIY wedding favors is a great way to create something memorable and save some money. These DIY wedding favors look beautiful and are easy enough for anyone to make.

DIY Party Favors: Make Them Yourself and Save Money

Party favors are some of the easiest crafts you can make yourself. DIY party favors impress guests and create an instant memento of an enjoyable party. And they can save you money.

Classic Crafts Roundup

Years ago, I had a lot of short articles that were basically nothing but links to various neat craft tutorials I’d found around the internet. They were practically Twitter entries before we had Twitter. I decided it would be better to consolidate all those into one big giant post. Here it is for your enjoyment

Make your own gift tags this season

Green Bee has a tutorial for a Matchbook Notepad (see photo) you can use as a stocking stuffer or party favor. I thought you could also turn it into a gift tag by writing your To and From message on the first page and attaching it near the bow, like usual, and that gave me

Teach yourself egg tempera painting

Egg tempera is a form of painting that uses powdered pigments mixed with egg yolk. It was very popular during the early Renaissance, and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is just one example of a famous painting in this medium. Although it doesn’t produce colors as rich as oil paints, tempera paintings have lasted without color

Contact Paper Stencils

The Little Green Bean has found a terrific way to make stencils: cut them out of contact paper with a Cricut: I made an amazing discovery today. Did you know that you can make your own stencils with your cricut using contact paper?? Why it took me this long to figure out, I have no