Handcrafted & Finished Pieces Archive

  • Holiday: Easter

    Holiday: Easter

    That huge magazine stack that’s been collecting under your bed can be used in many ways. Try creating your favorite quotations from assorted sizes and colors of letters you have cut out: one of my favorite tricks! When cutting out letters, consider taking them...

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  • Cards: New Baby

    Cards: New Baby

    If you have a huge magazine stack collecting under the bed, there are many ways to finally get some use out of it. I favor cutting out letters in various colors and sizes and putting them together to spell out aphorisms and quotations. You can...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Handpainted Items

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Handpainted Items

    Supplies are all around you, all you have to do is look around! Masks can be made from paper plates using scissors and markers, a large wall collage can be made from a cut up pizza box or a decoration can be created from dry...

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  • Cards: Invitations

    Cards: Invitations

    Should you decide to blow the dust bunnies off your old magazine collection, you have several options for finally getting some use of it. Cutting out different sized and colored letters and making sayings or quotes is a technique I love. Letters can be cut...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Latch Hooked Rugs

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Latch Hooked Rugs

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! With scissors and markers, a pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta can be painted and glued on as a decoration paper plates can be masks. When you’re crafting, look around the house...

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  • Home Décor & Accents: Pillows

    Home Décor & Accents: Pillows

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! Everything has a use, and you can make masks with scissors and crayons or markers or use a large pizza box for a collage, decorating it with dried, painted pieces of pasta you glue on. You can find many crafting...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Hardanger

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Hardanger

    Be observant with your surroundings and you will find a vast assortment of materials. You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box,...

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  • Cards: Thank You

    Cards: Thank You

    I am a serious scrap-booker and enjoy making homemade crafts, so I realize that it can be very expensive to purchase supplies from art supply shop. So, here I’ve compiled all of the ways I’ve found to save on supplies and still be super unique...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Hand Crocheted Doilies

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Hand Crocheted Doilies

    Be observant with your surroundings and you will find a vast assortment of materials. You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box,...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Woven, Rag & Braided Rugs

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Woven, Rag & Braided Rugs

    If you have a large collection of periodicals that have been piling up around your house, there are a variety of different ways to put them to good use. I really enjoy the method of cutting out various colors and sizes of letters to make...

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