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How To: Craft a sparkly "Peaceful Wishes" Christmas card
Still haven't made out your Christmas cards yet? Then tough luck finding a nice one at the store - chances are 75% of all the Christmas cards are sold out by now. So save yourself some money - and a crappy Christmas greeting - by making a card yourself.
How To: Make a photo/ATC carousel for cheap
In this video, we learn how to make a photo/ATC carousel for cheap. First, take clay in a cylinder circular box and let it set. Then, insert in a long object to create the spine of it. Push the clay around this after spraying with water. Then, fold trading card stock as well as card stock for photographs. Cut these out so you create little pockets where you can insert your photos into. Then, once you have all of these cut out and your photos inside, you will adhere the sides of them to the ce...
How To: Craft a simple decorative frame with Mod Podge
Mod Podge is well known in the world of crafts, and if you haven't used it yet for your découpage needs, then you have to check out this video tutorial from Mod Podge Rocks. You'll learn a simple frame project, in which you'll make a beautiful DIY handmade frame with Mod Podge in a matter of minutes.
How To: Make adorable glittered Easter boxes
Easter is one of the best times for crafters to indulge in and even overdo pastel spring hues, vibrant flecks of glitter, and flower decals galore. Which is why this craft, a combination of all of the above, is such a perfect project for celebrating Easter.
How To: Make a recycled hybrid board book
Creativity Prompt demonstrates how to make a hybrid board book. First, select printed paper of your choosing. Cut off the excess paper with a cutting blade and crease the paper for the spine. Fold and burnish the paper. Apply a generous glue stick layer to a recycled board book and adhere the paper to it. Burnish the paper with a brayer to strengthen the adhesion. Let the glue dry and trim off the excess paper. Cut the rest of the paper for the board book pages. Cut out photos and titles for ...
How To: Make a schoolyard chic scissors holder with kids
With inflation making even simple household wares like cups and pencil holders going for $10 a pop, it's easy to see how attractive making your own home essentials is.
How To: Make a bow for a Christmas wreath
Interested in making a custom bow for a Christmas wreath? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this seasonal decorator's guide can present a complete and thorough overview of the process in just over five minutes. For complete, step-by-step instructions on making your own bows this X-mas season, watch this helpful free video tutorial. Make a bow for a Christmas wreath.
How To: Make your own memo book with paper bag
This video teaches the viewer how to make a memo book with a paper bag. For this craft you will need two paper bags, memo paper, adhesive, ribbon, and scissors. To begin, you'll need to cut off the bottom of the bag and discard it. She explains where to make decorative edges on the bags before sewing them together or using hot glue. Fold and crease the open end down about one third of the way. Open and then fold a little farther down to allow room for the spine of your memo book. Repeat this ...
How To: Make a drop spine box
This is a video demonstrating how to make a drop spine box perfect for holding mementos or small scrapbooks. This box is a great gift for almost anyone. Make a drop spine box.
How To: Craft an inexpensive skinny notepad
Got a case of the wintertime blues? Then use a snow day or just a boring Sunday afternoon to put together this simple and inexpensive skinny notepad. Yeah, we realize you can purchase notepads at just about any office supply store, but these pretty, beribboned notes will cheer up your day every time you write on them.
How To: Make a Cricut spinner "dream" card
How to make a creative card. You can use different colors of paper and decorative embellishments. This is a great idea for a scrapbooker that has supplies already on hand and wants to give a special gift to a friend or relative. This activity is a great idea for someone who needs a cheer-me-up but if you change the paper and embellishments, you can make any kind of theme card.
How To: Make a steampunk style holiday snowflake ornament
This tutorial shows you how to make a snowflake out of washers and other bits of hardware to make it look like a steampunk Christmas ornament. This only takes a few minutes, and is an easy accent to any gift or tree.
How To: Make an envelope for a 3 x 3 card
Sending loved ones letters in the mail isn't what it used to be, especially with e-mails and text messages playing a big part. But for those who still do so, you may have a problem trying to fit certain sized cards into enevelopes. This video focuses on 3x3 cards specifically and how to make an envelope for them. Enjoy!
How To: Pour pulp and press it into paper
So you're midway through the paper-making process, with the pulp in your blender ready to go. In order to turn pulp into an actual, solid piece of paper you must complete a few more steps.
How To: Stamp & heat emboss on a card
In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to stamp & heat emboss on a card. First you rub in a powder on the paper on which you are going to emboss, because embossing powder is really sticky. Then you select the stamp that you want to emboss and apply sticky transparent ink on the stamp. Make sure you do a through job of this. This will make the embossing powder stick to it. Now stamp the card and press it evenly to ensure that the impression is complete. Then pour embossing pow...
How To: Make a vertical Easter greeting card
In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to make a vertical Easter greeting card. Take a 6x6 yellow card and fold it in half. Using the Valentrio Fiskars corner punch, you can punch one corner. Cut a 2 1/2” wide metallic cardstock, a 1” wide paper strip, stamp a picture or a design and punch it with Fiskars punch. Punch the 1” wide strip with the Fiskars border punch and glue both the pieces above and below the metallic card stock. Glue the metallic card stock and the pic...
How To: Craft spring/Easter bunny and chick boxes
There's nothing that makes us feel more like the flowers are a bloomin' outside and the weather is sunny and warm than baby animals. During the spring, they herald the return of life after a long and frigid winter.
How To: Decoupage keepsake boxes for Valentine's Day
A great gift to offer someone for Valentine's Day is something you make yourself. In this tutorial, learn how to make a celebrity style keepsake box using decoupage techniques. This box can hold anything from gifts to precious items to little trinkets.
How To: Make pocket cards for Christmas & spring
This how to video shows you how to make a pocket card. You will need a trimmer with scoring blade, fiskars corner boarder punch, circle squeeze punch, 3 pieces of 12" x 12" card stock, small pieces of patterned card stock, tape, and embellishments. First, score the stock at 4" and 8". Next, trim about 1/4" off. Now apply adhesive down to the sides of the card. From here, use the circle punch on the edge of the card stock. Fold the stock together to create a pocket. Next, trim unwanted strips ...
How To: Make a challenging geometric wood puzzle
Summer is in full swing, but after a few weeks hitting the beach every day, grabbing a bite to eat at Mike's Surf and Turf, and then catching up on "Twilight: Eclipse" in the sand can get, well, pretty redundant.
How To: Make a handyman greeting card
This video will show you how to make a homemade greeting card for a handy man and the materials you will need.
How To: Craft a Valentine's Day "I Love You" scrapbook layout
If you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, then Valentine's Day is truly a beautiful, memorable occasion filled with lots of dining, wining, and hearts popping out of your heads like those cheesy cartoons.
How To: Make a card using the watercolor technique
This video tutorial give instructions for how to make a quick and simple card creating a water color effect. Learn how to craft this card to send out for a gift, greeting, holiday, or any occasion.
How To: Craft a simple woodland cardinal Christmas card
Times are tight right now, but that doesn't mean you can't have a holly jolly Christmas! Rather than purchasing a bunch of pricey Christmas greeting cards, why not make some personalized ones yourself?
How To: Make a scalloped hearts card
Store bought greeting cards can be impersonal and sometimes stupid. This video will show you how to create a mega-cute card with hearts all over it. Whoever you give this card to will surely smile when they see it being passed their way.
How To: Create homemade zigzag mosaics for DIY greeting cards
Homemade greeting cards are a great way to show the people you love that you care. You can come up with any style card, completely personalized and beautified to meet you recipient's needs. This zigzag mosaic pattern adds a wonderful touch to any card! Try it out...
How To: Make a paper cup mini album
Emerald City Elegance Paper Crafting with Joann is really very interesting to watch. It takes us through the process of making a beautiful paper cup mini album. It explains us to properly cut the edges of the paper cup, to stick first the color page in the folded paper cup, making ready the plain album pages and punching it altogether. Finally embellishments are also done to add beauty to the mini album. Now the album is ready. After watching this video, any viewer develops the art of creativ...
How To: Make cardstock roses
In order to make Cardstock roses, you will need the following: cardstock, stencils, scissors or cutting utensil, a cutting mat, color glimmer, a hole puncher, and acrylic paint.
How To: Make a Lattice Background for Your Paper Crafting
In this project I have use a die from the Tim Holtz range of Frameworks dies, in the standard lattice style and I show you how I use the Lattice and the throwaway pieces to make a great background for your cardmaking, scrapbooking and paper projects. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial
How To: Make a paper pumpkin for a card
For anyone looking to dress up a card, learn how to make a paper pumpkin using punches in this video tutorial. Take a white piece of paper and distress it with Memory Mist (with the pale ale color). Use a box to distress the paper, while avoiding getting the mist all over your work space. To actually make the pumpkin use a store-bought punch (either round or oval). Make the punches with orange cardstock. For each pumpkin, you will need either three ovals or circles. Using a chalk ink to distr...
How To: Create a plump hamburger greeting card
We all know fast food is not healthy for you, but this adorable hamburger greeting card allows you to indulge in the American fast food staple without having to worry about calories! Whether you're making a "Congratulations" card for a recent grad or a "Thank You" note for a well-thrown party, adding this hamburger to the front will instantly set off smiles and taste buds.
How To: Make a flip square album
This video tutorial is in the Arts & Crafts category which will show you how to make a flip square album. Take a 12 x 12 inches square cardstock and make a score line at 3 inches on all 4 sides of the paper. Now cut along the score line at the top and bottom of the paper up to the 3 inch line. Next you fold along all the score lines inwards and you have all the flaps ready. Then mark along the edge of the center part of the sheet and punch two holes for tying the album as shown in the video. ...
How To: Choose the right paper to make an impression
Need a little help choosing the right paper for the job? When it comes to making a good impression, choosing the right paper can make all the difference. Use guidelines will help you pick the best type for your project.
How To: Make a Double Acetate Snowflake Shaker Card
This cardmaking tutorial is for the very popular style of the shaker card, I have put my own spin on it and made this a double acetate shaker card complete with snowflakes & snow, this demo shows you how easy it is to make and how impressive it is when it is finished. Step 1: Items Used
How To: Craft a mini patterned clipboard
Clipboards may possibly be the most humdrum of office supplies. They're underwhelmingly plain, and serve no other function than holding a notepad steady.
How To: Make a stencil
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a stencil. The materials needed for this project are: contact paper, scissors and a pencil. Begin by drawing the design, shape letter or number on the contact paper. Make sure to draw the stencil on the back of the paper and make it reversed. When finished drawing, carefully cut out the design. To use it, simply peel off the invisible paper and place it onto the surface of the artwork. Then trace over it. This video will benefit those viewers ...
How To: Make a nut cup with the Cricut
Materials you need to make a nut cup: 1) A thick sheet of paper; 2) a mat; 3) a Cricut Machine.
How To: Make a wallet out of a playing cards
Here is a great gift idea for any Texas hold'em poker player or other card player. Find out how to make a playing card wallet using packing tape, scissors, and six playing cards. Make a wallet out of a playing cards.
How To: Make a Victorian Vintage Cherub Valentine Card
I have made this Valentines Day card in a classic vintage Victorian style and I think it looks amazing with so much detail that all co-ordinates together. Once you see how I have made it you will see how easy it was and quick.. Step 1: Items Used
How To: Craft a sweet "I Love You" Valentine's Day card
When it comes to Valentine's Day presents, let's face it: Non-handmade is best. It's not that we don't want that hand knitted heart sweater, but it's nice on the romantic holiday for a sweeter and couple-centric treat like a couple's massage or tickets to a play.