Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Latest gossip from Craft Gossip

Tutorial: Scrap fabric bookmarks

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:12 AM PDT

Vanessa from Punkin Patterns celebrated Earth Day yesterday with a tutorial showing how to turn your scrap fabric pieces into pretty little bookmarks.  This is a great way to recycle!  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Punkin Patterns]

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Create Scrapbooks Live Show!

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Join the Create Scrapbooks team for their live show tonight featuring Illustrating Stories. The team from Illustrating stories will show how they create custom backgrounds for their scrapbook pages. Plus Jana will continue the tag book series showing a masking tape  and water color technique. Show starts at 9 pm EST tonight. Click here for more information.

Tutorial: Hooded bath towel for little kids

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:51 AM PDT

Jackie from Handmade by Jackie and  Blessings Overflowing shows how to make a hooded bath towel.  This would make a great birthday gift for a child!  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Blessings Overflowing]

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Tutorial: How to make a bow-tie

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:41 AM PDT

Prudent Baby shows how to make a bow-tie out of your favorite cotton fabric print.  Think of all the fun possibilities!!  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Prudent Baby]

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Tutorial: Make a pair of simple pajama shorts

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:20 AM PDT

Dana from MADE continues the Celebrating Mom series with a tutorial showing how to make a simple pair of pajama shorts.  The more fitted, to-the-knee style is both figure flattering and trendy.  Love ‘em!!  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from MADE]

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Inspiration: Altered Photo Frame

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:03 AM PDT

image by Matz Monkey Farm

I wanted to share with our readers this stunning altered photo frame posted on the Craft Gossip Flickr group by Matz Monkey Farms. Didn’t she do a wonderful job, what a pretty spring addition for any home! Click here to see it on our Flickr group and feel free to post any stamping or paper craft items…

Scrap Green: Eco Green Crafts

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Yesterday was Earth Day but we can do our bit for the earth every day! Eco Green Crafts is a new company that produces environmentally sound and safe products for crafters. Their line includes craft paints, stamping inks, organic glue (all with no and low VOC's), rubber stamps using no hardwood mounting, recycled paper surfaces, board books, plant fiber clay…

MY MOTHER IN LAW’S MOTHER IN LAW’S TOTE

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:24 AM PDT

By now, you all know that I’m not the world’s best photographer.  But, I had to TRY to show you this lovely tote.  Here’s its story.

My mother in law is 87 years old.  She married my now deceased father in law when she was 15 and he was about 20 years old.  My father in law’s mother died when he…

Match Tombow Pens to Bazzill Cardstock

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:00 AM PDT

Last year I wrote about the Bazzill Matchmaker Tool for matching their cardstocks with a variety of patterned paper lines. Now you can use the tool to match up your Tombow Dual brush Pens! An example is shown above. Click here to go to tool.

Article: 6 Cheats for Faster Scrapping

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT

Jennifer Wilson of Simple Scrapper has posted some great tips for scrapping faster. This information is very timely for those doing the Week in the Life Project. Click here to go to article.

Inspiration du Jour – Learning to read

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Get more inspiration from her gallery and blog

Nail Care & Nail Biting Advice

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 02:00 AM PDT

I bite my fingernails and have for as long as I can remember. As a child, my mom tried everything to break me of this “nasty habit” – her words still to this day! Tabasco sauce, gauze taped around my nails…none of it worked. I have been able to grow nice, long nails when I put my mind to it…

Totally Twisted Blog Tour and Giveaway!

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:01 AM PDT

Welcome to the 6th and final stop on the Totally Twisted Blog Tour!  (If you are interested in checking out the previous stops, they will be listed at the end of this post.)

This blog tour celebrates the book Totally Twisted: Innovative wirework & art glass jewelry, written by Kerry Bogert and published by Interweave.

Totally Twisted is a great book to have…

Tutorial: Soda Can Jewels

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:29 PM PDT

Here is another project that might be fun to try with the kids.  This one comes from Polwig and includes step-by-step instructions on how to create jewelry from old soda cans with the easy use of punches in varying shapes and sizes.

New categories on CraftGossip.com

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 08:16 PM PDT

In an effort to streamline the ton of cool information that CraftGossip Editors produce everyday, we have decided to make sure that all our blog posts get divided into one of 9 categories. This should make it easier for CraftGossip readers to follow the topics that are of interest to them, across all the CraftGossip blogs. These categories are:

Tutorial: Apron with pockets from an embroidered pillowcase

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:51 PM PDT

Sally from Kitchen Clothesline shares a tutorial for making an apron out of a pillowcase.  The pockets across the front show off any detailing from the edges of the pillowcase.  This would be so lovely made  out of an embroidered pillowcase, as she did in her example.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Kitchen Clothesline]

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Tutorial: Make a bread bag from a tea towel

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:23 PM PDT

Emily from Saltwater Kids shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a pretty little bread bag from a tea towel.  You can whip one out in no time (She made 6 of them in just half an hour!), and then use it to gift a loaf of homemade bread.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Saltwater Kids]

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Tutorial: Scrappy gathered clutch with interior pockets

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:08 PM PDT

Anna from Noodlehead shares a tutorial showing how to make this fabulous scrappy gathered clutch. It’s part of the Celebrating Mom series going on at MADE.   Not only is this little bag pretty on the outside, the inside features a pocket just the right size for a driver’s license or bank card.   Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Noodleheads]

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The Flow – Your Source for Lampwork Information!

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:07 PM PDT

More stuff from Las Vegas…got a new copy of The Flow magazine and wanted to share some of the contents. The Flow is part of a family of glass publications that provide tons of stories and tutorials about glass and the glass industry. There’s also Glass Patterns Quarterly and Profitable Glass. The Flow’s focus is lampwork. Beads and other goodies made…

Party Cakes, no, Wait, Loaves

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

I just don’t know if I can get behind the party loaf. I think it’s because my corporeal response to seeing a sweet cake totally conflicts with the response after cutting into it and seeing salty things. I can absolutely, however, take trips down foodie history lane. I adore glimpses of our recent cooking past, and so I thank dessert girl for…

New Release: Peachy Keen Stamps

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:31 PM PDT

image by Peachy Keen and Nikki Foraker

If you like to make paper dolls or do alot of paper piecing and are looking for faces for those paper creations look no further than Peachy Keen stamps! They’ve just released a bunch of cute new clear stamp sets for spring including a fun set called “Everyday Face Parts” or check out any of…

Knitting and Felting Ideas for Earth Day

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:48 AM PDT

Favecraft.com has 10 ideas for re-using old sweaters from unknitting them and re-using the yarn, felting, making pillows or potholders, plastic bag holders, felted floral designs, cup or bottle cozies, using bits of felt in your paper designs, making a blanket or quilt and making fuzzy toys.

Read the whole article here

Learn filet embroidery

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:08 AM PDT

Filet embroidery involves weaving a pattern over a netlike base. The result is lacy — a kind of retro-technology pixel art. If you’d like to give it a try, there’s an excellent tutorial on Elinor’s Website. See the tute.

And many thanks to Racaire of Racaire’s Embroidery & Needlework for sharing this link.

Aunt Martha gets a makeover

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:56 AM PDT

Kittykill shouted out on feeling stitchy that Aunt Martha’s new line of hand-embroidery patterns is finally available. It seems Aunt Martha has felt the need to update her style a bit. The new line is called Stitcher’s Revolution. (Oh, Aunt Martha, girl, the war has already been won. C’mon.) I’m loving the designs kittykill showed us, but I’m having trouble finding a source…

Join the blessings SAL

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:44 AM PDT

This is the sweetest inchie I’ve ever seen. Ever. EV-uhr. You know this makes you itch to stitch!

The 39-Squares stitch-along started by Amy of inspireco is complete. (I believe this darling nest is from that project.) But Amy surveyed her blog readers to find out whether another stitch-along was in order and, if so, what should be the theme. The results: Yes! It’s time…