Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Giveaway: Estate Sale from Bella Blvd

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST

Scrapbooks and Cards Today is giving away the new Estate Sale collection from Bella Blvd. Click here to go to giveaway

Tutorial: Pincushion in a teacup

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 06:39 AM PST

Larissa from mmmcrafts shares a tutorial on her blog for making this lovely teacup pincushion.  Old teacups are easy enough to find at thrift stores, and when you buy singles they tend to be fairly inexpensive.   Go to the tutorial.

[photo from mmmcrafts]

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Penguin Party

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 06:25 AM PST

Gourmet Mom on-the-Go has a roundup of food ideas for a penguin-themed party, inspired by Betty Crocker. Find the ideas HERE, including an igloo cake, penguin cheeseball, penguin sandwiches, and blue JellO ice cubes.

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Shaping Technique

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 06:23 AM PST

On Berroco’s excellent blog, today is a post on Managing Shaping. Shaping on both sides of a garment, simultaneously, is easy with these techniques!

Go here to read the whole post: http://blog.berroco.com/2010/02/23/at-the-same-time/

Thanks Berroco!

Freebie: Squigglefly Digital Stamps

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 06:04 AM PST

image by Squigglefly

Visit Squigglefly and download this adorable turtle and snail stamp for Free! They also have several other free digital images as well!

-Heather

Freebie: Victorian Images from Stampington

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 06:00 AM PST

Stampington&Co has two Victorian postcard images for free download. Click here to go to download

Tutorial: Temperance the Tortoise applique block

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 05:48 AM PST

Marion from Mad Cat Art Studio blog shares how she made this totally rockin tortoise; I’m digging the scallops. Get the how-to.

Giveaway: Jan Krentz package

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 05:29 AM PST

You don’t want to miss this one! Danielle Dews from C&T Publishing blog is giving away the newly released book by Jan Krentz, Quick Diamond Quilts and Beyond. Shown here is one of the 12 projects you can learn to make. This is Dancing African Ladies quilt. It’s fabulous.

But that’s not all. If your name is drawn, you will also win these additional items by Jan…

February Challenges at Paper Secrets

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 05:00 AM PST

You still have time to get some enter some challenges at Paper Secrets this month. The current challenges due on February 28th are a scraplift challenge, sketch challenge, supply challenge and color challenge. If you’re looking to jump start your scrapping this weekend, these should help! Click here to go to challenges.

Tutorial: Toddler jumper from a sweatshirt, plus a tulip stencil template

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 04:54 AM PST

Natasha from Samster Mommy shares a tutorial for making a toddler’s jumper out of an adult sweatshirt, and she also gives a free template for the tulip she stenciled on to the one she made.  Go to the tutorial & template.

[photo from Samster Mommy]

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Tutorial: Easter Clipboards

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 04:00 AM PST

Two Southern Girls has this tutorial posted on making Easter themed clipboards. Great for Easter baskets! Click here to go to tutorial

Overcoming creative block

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 03:39 AM PST

Writer’s block really means creative block. It happens to writers, crafters, artists and anyone in a creative position.

This article on ISO50 The Blog of Scott Hanson is really great. He interviews 25 artist’s on “What do you do to inspire your creativity when you find yourself in a rut?“. The answers are very interesting!

I would be interested to know what you crafty…

Inspiration du Jour – Where the Wild Things Are

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 03:00 AM PST

Get more inspiration from her gallery

The Jane Austen Collection

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 01:00 AM PST

Julie of Latherati is now offering a collection of Jane Austen soaps. This trio includes soaps inspired by Austen’s books Emma, Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility.

Synergy 2 is underway!

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:06 PM PST

Are you like me, dreaming of being at the Synergy 2 conference, but tied to home by other obligations or conflicts?

Isn’t it nice to know that we can enjoy the conference vicariously through the wonders of the internet, and bloggers like Libby Mills, HERE?

If you’re blogging about the conference, be sure to use that “Send Us Gossip” link at the…

Tutorial: Little girl’s tunic dress

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 07:53 PM PST

Sachiko from Tea Rose Home and Tea Rose Company shows how to make a tunic dress for a little girl.  Ruffles at the neck and a tiered skirt give it plenty of the frills that girls can’t resist.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Tea Rose Home]

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Tutorial: Baby name pennant banner

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 07:38 PM PST

Rebecca from Happy Baby Designs and This Present Life shares a tutorial for making a pennant-style banner to welcome a new baby.  The points of the banner spell out baby’s name.  If you’re hosting a baby shower, this would make an awesome decoration!  It’d look pretty for the shower, and then the mother-to-be could take it home to put in the child’s…

Tutorial: 45-minute t-shirt makeover

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 07:28 PM PST

Vanessa from Punkin Patterns shows how she gave her son’s t-shirt a makeover in just 45 minutes.  She started with a plain short-sleeved shirt and added long sleeves and a stenciled motif on the front.  What a cool shirt in just 45 minutes!! Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Punkin Patterns]

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Tutorial: Build-your-own play car roads from fabric

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 07:16 PM PST

Polly from Helping Little Hands guest blogs over at seven-thirty-three with a tutorial showing how to make a set of fabric roads for your kids’ play car.  If being made out of fabric isn’t cool enough, what’s really spectacular about this project is that the fabric road pieces can be assembled and reassembled into any combination.  It’s a build-your-own road for play…

How to make a mini recycled greenhouse

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 05:32 PM PST

Want to include a little bit of engineering into your recycled crafting? Here is a great transformation of a “bendi” straw. It being the perfect structural element to create the corner for the framework of a greenhouse. Pop on over to Homemade Momas to see how to build a mini greenhouse.

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Inspiration: Think Pink

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:23 PM PST




Think Pink b068

Originally uploaded by inpamo

Here is another great piece from inpamo. This lovely brooch is made with Italian eco suede, sateen ribbon and metallized yarn and glass pearls.

This cluster would be great to wear with an all black outfit.

Technique: Masking Stamps with Die Cuts

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 01:25 PM PST

image by Poppy Paperie

Masking is a really great technique to have in your stamping arsenal. Masking is a way to have your stamped images be in front of or behind each other by covering up (with a “mask”) all or part of a stamped image and then stamping over top of the mask, when you remove the mask the images…

Bullseye Resource Center – Santa Fe, NM

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 01:16 PM PST

I am so excited for the glass artists in Santa Fe and those that don’t even know they will be glass artists. Bullseye Glass is opening a resource center in Santa Fe. Yea ha!! I’m kind of jealous…but congratulations to all involved and all that will benefit from the opening. The grand opening is July 14th and I’m looking forward to…

Shoe Ice Cubes

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 08:43 AM PST

Check out these shoes ice cubes from CB2. I found them thanks  to this lovely looking drink from   Evie Eats Everything.

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You Knit This With What???

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 07:47 AM PST

For this exhibition, Tsumura shows fabrics, reusing plugs and LAN cables, which were destined to be industrial waste. It is not just because he has been very good at using themes such as "recycling" and "ecology". But also classical working techniques with his hands, such as "knitting by hand" and "patchwork" are based on his pure sincerity as artist, who…