DIY Advent Calendar - Countdown to Christmas!

New tutorial! This week we're creating this advent calendar! Count down to Christmas by turning over one card each day, starting on December 1st. On Christmas, turn over the last card and the complete picture is revealed!

A photo or message can be placed inside each card, such as a bible verse, a fun activity idea, etc.

Please click the link above or the video below to watch.

Polymer Clay Cat Earrings

New tutorial! Learn to create these cute cat themed post earrings out of polymer clay!

Favorite Free Fonts - October 2016

Here is a list of my current favorite free fonts that I use in my projects. As of when this was posted, these fonts are all free and can be used for commercial use! Links to download each font are below.

Links:

Modesty

Shellahera Script Demo

Sortdecai Cursive Wild Script

Black Jack

Bringshoot

Ribbons and Banners

Happy Camper

Limetart

Cookies and Milk

Josefin Slab

If you have any favorite free fonts, feel free to share them in the comments below! I'd love to hear what yours are! Also, these fonts are free - but I'm sure the authors would appreciate a donation if you have change to spare. Most of these links have a way to donate to the font creator if you'd like to.

Halloween Paper Gingerbread House

New tutorial! Learn how to create this Halloween themed paper gingerbread house!

Here are the patterns you'll need to create it (make sure to print these at full size - 8x10):

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DIY Pumpkin Diorama + Free Patterns!

New tutorial! Shows how to create a pumpkin diorama with a miniature haunted house in it!

Pumpkin dioramas are very popular this year and they are so fun to make! You can really get creative with these. If you don't want to do any carving (or minimal-carving), this is a great pumpkin decorating idea!

Here are patterns (make sure to print these at full size - 8x10):

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Materials (and where I got them):
•fake pumpkin (from Michaels, with the opening pre-cut)
•patterns at the link above
•Xacto knife or scissors with sharp point
•card stock or construction paper in multiple colors
•glue stick
•hot glue (Walmart)
•black spanish moss (JoAnns)
•firefly lights or a led tealight (Hobby Lobby)
•mini pumpkins (Hobby Lobby)
•pebbles (from my garden)

Polymer Clay Maple Leaf Earrings

New tutorial! Shows how to create these maple leaf post earrings out of polymer clay!

Here is the leaf pattern (print this page at full size - 8x10):


Please click here or the video below to watch!

DIY Arm Knit Infinity Scarf

This tutorial is from last year, but never got posted here. Arm knitting is really popular again, and it is actually super easy to do! It doesn't matter if you don't know how to knit - you can make this.

In this video, I'll be going over:

-how to cast on

-how to knit

-how to cast off / bind off

-how to stitch the 2 ends together to form the infiniti scarf

Before stitching the ends together to create an infiniti scarf, mine measured 34" Long x 12.5" Wide. It is 15 stitches wide.

Tips:

*Keep in mind, a very bulky, heavy-weight yarn definitely works best for this project. You can try it with other types of yarn, but you'll get a different effect than what is shown here.

*If you have a scarf you like the length/width of, measure it and use it as a guide for this.

Wax Resist Birthday Card

New tutorial! This one shows how to create this wax resist watercolor birthday card!

Anyone can create this card, even if you have no experience with watercolor. It is super simple and quick to make! 

Materials I used:

• Very light colored heavy weight paper (white works great, too!)
• Purple card stock
• Prismacolor colored pencil, in white (crayons will also work)
• Loew Cornell Watercolor Cakes 
• Pentel Aquash Water Brush: buy here - affiliate (a regular paint brush is fine, too)

DIY Dog & Cat Bookmarks!

This week's video shows how to create these cute dog and cat bookmarks!

You'll need to print and cut out these pieces:

5 Cute DIY School Supplies Ideas!

This week's video shows these 5 cute ways to decorate school supplies!

In this video, there are four different ways to decorate a notebook, folder, composition book, or binder, and a way to decorate mechanical pencils and pens. 

Related post:

DIY School Supplies 2015