Creative DIY Finds: 2012

Friday, October 26, 2012

Saturday, June 23, 2012

White Pearl Christmas Ornament | AllFreeChristmasCrafts.com

Beaded Ornament Hooks | AllFreeChristmasCrafts.com

Beaded Angel Ornament | AllFreeChristmasCrafts.com

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Patriotic Mason Jar Lanterns

Patriotic Mason Jar Lanterns: These patriotic luminaries are simple & inexpensive to make. Glitter, Mod Podge, jars, a star stencil, craft wire and a candle will do it!

DIY Napkin Rings Tutorial

DIY Napkin Rings Tutorial: Upcycle cardboard tubes into custom napkin rings - full tutorial!

Valentine’s Day Printables

Valentine’s Day Printables: There are so many awesome Valentine's Day printables out there! Here I've posted some of my favorites. Cute printables! Image via Eighteen25

Make a Simple Vinyl Wallet

Make a Simple Vinyl Wallet: Stitch a vinyl wallet to hold cash or gift cards for dads or grads.

Cheerful Quilted Playmat

Cheerful Quilted Playmat: A cute little playmat that's a great gift for any time of the year. (via purlbee)

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Collage Sheet

Collage Sheet: You can download this free digital collage and use it in your craft projects.

Pretty Packaging

Pretty Packaging: A clever idea for recycling and prettying up the simple ziplock bag

Adorable Post Stamps Bracelet

Adorable Post Stamps Bracelet: Great story about polymer clay and decoupage craft by Maria

Easy Gumpaste Flowers

Easy Gumpaste Flowers: Simple instructions on how to make these gumpaste flowers that you can use to decorate cupcakes or about any dessert.

Tutorial: Chair Bag

Tutorial: Chair Bag: How to sew a bag that hangs on the back of a chair.

DIY Coffee Bean Favor Bags

DIY Coffee Bean Favor Bags: DIY coffee bean favor bag tutorial with free printables.

Reusable Felt Christmas Gift Bag

Reusable Felt Christmas Gift Bag: A green alternative to paper wrapping: reusable gift bags.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Craft website found on Pinterest

I was searching on Pinterest as I do everyday, and I came across a link that I have never seen before. I'm sure most of you have seen or at least have notice a time or two. But they have so much stuff on there, it's going to take me forever to get through it all. Then I realized, that a lot of the crafts that are posted on Pinterest came from this site. This is the site I found http://craftgawker.com and like I said, it has a lot! I posted a few on my blog today to share but then thought I would just share the website! http://craftgawker.com/customize/page/41/?sort=latest

3D Paper Stars

3D Paper Stars: Add instant ambiance with super easy paper stars, perfect for everyday AND lots of holidays.

Pretty Pleated Pouch – Owls

Pretty Pleated Pouch – Owls: Cute pouch that is perfect for a wallet/change purse. I love mine!

Gussied up $1 Decorative Birdhouses

Gussied up $1 Decorative Birdhouses: $1 birdhouses from a craft store + scrapbook paper

12 Free Printables

12 Free Printables: A dozen free printables.

Birthday Suitther/Fathers Day Card

Birthday Suit: Dress up your birthday cards or this would be a great idea for a fathers day card!

Triple Chocolate Sprinkles Tutu

Triple Chocolate Sprinkles Tutu: Handmade baby tutu soft and fluffy! Can be made in any size and length, perfect for birthdays and portraits.

Wristpix

Wristpix: Wristpix are comprised of the most precious gems of all… your photos.

Tips for DSLR Photography Beginners

Tips for DSLR Photography Beginners: Learn the basics of photography, including lots of great examples!

Salt Dough Decorations

Salt Dough Decorations: Preserve those tiny hands and feet in salt dough with some decorations for your tree.

2 Buttons

2 Buttons: DIY tutorial how to make buttons.

20 Easy and Creative DIY Bookmarks

20 Easy and Creative DIY Bookmarks: A collection of 20 easy, creative and unique DIY bookmarks for you, or as a gift for someone sweet. (in Hungarian)

Easy Envelope Clutch Tutorial

Easy Envelope Clutch Tutorial: Add a pop of color to any outfit with this easy DIY envelope clutch tutorial.

Bouquet of Tulips

Bouquet of Tulips: See how to make your own tulip baking cups with a little parchment paper and patience.

Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispy Pops!

Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispy Pops!: When put on sticks and wrapped with ribbons and colorful paper, these chocolate dipped rice krispie treats make wonderful gifts!

DIY Anthropologie Inspired Letters

DIY Anthropologie Inspired Letters: Make your own Anthro inspired letters with this simple tutorial

Felt Flower Pillow

Felt Flower Pillow: Follow this tutorial to create a beautiful pillow adorned with a lovely felt flower.

Colorful Mobile DIY

Colorful Mobile DIY: Create a colorful mobile to decorate for a party!

DIY Glitter Shoes

DIY Glitter Shoes: DIY Glitter Shoes! The ultimate twinkle toes. Kate Spade's got nothing on these shoes. Perfect glitz for the holiday party circuit!

How to Make Mini Cake Stands

How to Make Mini Cake Stands: Learn how to make these adorable cupcake stands, perfect for your next party! This quick and easy tutorial will show you how in minutes.

Teacup Reinvented

Teacup Reinvented: Teacups are just so pretty! Here are four ways to reinvent them for your next event! {pic via etsy}

Sequins Sunburst Mirror

Sequins Sunburst Mirror: Make the gorgeous looking mirror with some sequins and old cardboard for just a dollar!

Vintage Souvenir Scarf Dress

Vintage Souvenir Scarf Dress: Vintage souvenir scarves make the most charming summer dresses for little divas. Follow this easy tutorial.

Christmas Ornament Wreath

Christmas Ornament Wreath: Make your own Holiday Ornament Wreath--it's simple, but beautiful. Shiny, too!

Creative DIYs and Ideas for Entry

Creative DIYs and Ideas for Entry: 15 DIY’s and ideas that can make an entrance hall fun and unique. (DIY via Design Sponge)

Sunburst Mirror {Tutorial}

Sunburst Mirror {Tutorial}: I love this sunburst mirror from Layla Grace, but at $308 a pop it just wasn’t in the budget. So I decided to make my own.

Christmas Bows

Christmas Bows: 5 tutorials for making beautiful bows. Use them for gifts, packaging or decoration.

Flower Headband Slider

Flower Headband Slider: Made on the cheap from fused plastic grocery bags, a button, and a little piece of felt.

Bat-o’-Lanterns

Bat-o’-Lanterns: Instructions for adorable bat-o-lanterns. If your like me I always like to get a jump start on Halloween...

Cutest Handmade Halloween Costumes

Cutest Handmade Halloween Costumes: A selection of adorable handmade Halloween costumes for kids

Create Pinwheels

Create Pinwheels: Add splashes of color to your next party with these beautiful pinwheels!

Fabric Button Crafting

Fabric Button Crafting: Make a fun gift for all the girls in your life!

Card Keepsake Journal

Card Keepsake Journal: Save your greetings cards from baby showers, birthdays and holidays and more with this simple keepsake project.

DIY Fabric Paper Owls

DIY Fabric Paper Owls: Warm up your home this fall with this sweet DIY project: Fabric and Paper Owls - great for decoration or sending a special invitation.

Pretty & Functional Ribbon Frames

Pretty & Functional Ribbon Frames: Don't leave your pictures on a CD or in your computer! Make these pretty & functional ribbon hanging frames & display them on your wall.

Tree Favors!

Tree Favors!: Lovely little DIY bags filled with mints! Great wedding favors!

Friday, June 1, 2012

CLOTHES PIN MIRROR

Hi everyone, Hope everyone is having a great friday and looking forward to a wonderful weekend. I have been working on my clothes pin mirror and I finally finished. I did mine a little different than the ones I have seen on Pinterest though. As I plan on giving this on to my granddaughter to hang in her room with a frame to match. I picked out some scrap paper that I liked that was fun for her. I cut each piece to fit, I Mod Podged it each clothes pin. When I was finished with all of them, I had a round piece of wood I glued my mirror to that I bought at Micheals. I put hot glue in the middle of each clothes pin and placed it directly on the mirror and held in it place for a couple of seconds. I had to put a picture hanger on the back of the mirror to hang it on the wall and I was done! I like the way it turned out...

Monday, May 28, 2012

FREE RECIPE CARD TEMPLATES

http://sweetlyscrappedart.blogspot.com

I found a blog today that offered free recipe card templates. This is the web address!!!

MY DRESSER REDO

I recently redecorated my 19 year old daughters bedroom and gave it a more grown up look. It use to be 2 shades of bright neon pink, a light and a dark. It was blinding when you entered the room. Now, it is a calming cool ocean blue. It is decorated with old pictures of Marlyn Monroe and Kathryn Hepburn, two of her favorites. She has an old soul, we say, lol. Along with the ocean blue, we have red (deep maroon) black, with tiger stripes and white. She is a lover of clocks, all clocks. So, I got this brilliant idea to redo her white dresser and I think it is turning out good so far. I first covered the dresser with a more expensive scrapbook paper that cost me $.99 cents each. It was super thick and I knew it would outlast anything. I coated the paper with hod podge on bottom and top. I let that all dry. I found some scrap paper that had clocks on it and I cut out the ones I wanted. Once again I hog podged them on to the top. I still have a lot of work to do, as I am still adding more color to the top, as well as doing the drawers the same way. I'm just not covering the entire drawer with the design. I will post the finished dresser when I'm done....

Friday, May 25, 2012

Create.Craft.Love.: Craft Swag Bag {Giveaway}

Create.Craft.Love.: Craft Swag Bag {Giveaway}: It's the day you have all been waiting for... GIVEAWAY!! {Ok maybe you haven't been waiting for it but I'm really excited about it s...

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Sam's Club - In Clubs Now - Kimberly-Clark Family Showcase

Monday, May 21, 2012

Something old to something new...

I started off today to make something old that I found at Goodwill and make it into something new. I think I succeeded! It really turned out better than I thought it would have. I just measured out my paper to fit and of course put a thick coat of mod podge on top. I painted the rest of the box with Martha Stewart Metallic paint. When all of that was finished, I put a nice thick coat of triple thick on the areas where I put the paper to make it look extra shiny. I really like the outcome!

As this crafting and blogging is new to me, I set out today to find vintage soup lables that I could print out for free. I did not have any success with this. Does anyone know where I can go to print out vintage lables of any kind? I did find two, but this just happened to be on someones blog page. If anyone could help it would be great...

I found something new and FREE for EVERYONE today!!!

http://blog.worldlabel.com/2012/organizing-labels-for-more-stuff.html

As I was searching for vintage lables today, I came across a website that offered FREE templetes for organizing. So I attached the link to share with everyone. They are cute on top of that!!!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Tutorial: How to make an origami box with wallpaper

A few more creations from the dollar store.

Just a few more that I created from the good ole dollar store!!!

CUPCAKE/CANDY TRAY

I created this using glasswear I found at my dollar store. I played around with it until I came up with something I like. I then epoxy'ed it all together. I was thinking for a special touch adding doilies and pearl or colored beads around the edges. I will experiment some more and post another one later...

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Starting my Blog....

Hi I'm Mary Ann...I am wife, a mother of four, a grandmother of one soon to be two. I am into crafting and extreme couponing. Between the two, I stay pretty busy. I wanted to create my blog to share with you, turning inexpensive finds from places such as Goodwill and other's into works of art. As well as, saving you money on your week to week grocery budget using and stacking coupons. I hope that my blog will be an inspiration to other to be able to save and create as much as possible in their spare time!