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The Best Blogger Crafts: Funky DIY Doll House with Duck Tape

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This month we’re celebrating our bloggers and their creativity. In January 2014 at CHA, bloggers gathered at our CHA Networking Event to meet companies and to work more with us here FaveCrafts. After getting a bunch of crafty swag from the event, they set out to make projects out of the materials they were given. We’re featuring these projects all month with giveaways so you can make your own versions of their wonderful crafts.

Funky DIY Doll House

Funky DIY Doll House Help your kids learn how to make a doll house from duct tape with this Funky DIY Doll House from Duct Tape tutorial. Not only can they create their doll’s dream home, but furnish it as well. Using a variety of different duct tape patterns and colors, your kids can become architects and build their own homemade doll house. They’ll have just as much fun making their house as they will playing with it when they’re done.



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You can find this project, as well as many other fabulous blogger projects, in our new eBook, The Best Blogger Craft Ideas 2014: Decoupage, Sewing, Jewelry Making, and More free eBook. Download your own free copy today!





Enter to win today’s prize

Duck Tape Prize

Today’s prize is a variety of Shurtech products. Included in the prize is:

  • Frog Tape Shape Tape – Chevron
  • 5 Duck Tape Crafting Tape Sheets (colors may vary)
  • 1 Roll Duck Tape Colored Duck Tape (colors may vary)
  • 1 Roll Duck Tape Prism Duck Tape
  • 2 Rolls Duck Tape Craft Tape
  • 5 Rolls Duck Tape Mini Duck Tape (colors and styles may vary)

Be sure to check out these other best blogger craft projects that use items from this Shurtech prize!

Fly Free, Create Freely DIY Home Decor FrameNifty NotebookPretty in Pink Chevron DIY Picture Frame



In order to win today’s prize, all you need to do is:

  1. Like the AllFreeKidsCrafts Facebook page here, AND
  2. Like the FrogTape Facebook page here, AND
  3. Leave a comment on this blog post below telling us:

What pattern would you like to see on Duck Tape?

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Thank you all for participating in yesterday’s giveaway! You all had some really great pattern ideas. Congratulations to Laura who answered “I would like to see puzzle pieces, in support of autism awareness.” This sounds like a great idea Laura! Enjoy your prize!

To see the current giveaway, please check our giveaway schedule.

Enter to win our Super Spectacular Grand Prize Giveaway! Filled with more than $500.00 worth of amazing prizes from 15 companies, this is the ultimate way to get crafting this month! The deadline to enter is April 25, 2014 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern time.

Super Spectacular Grand Prize Giveaway

OFFICIAL RULES FOR DAILY CONTEST

  • There is a maximum of one entry per person. The entry will be based upon a comment left on this blog post. Duplicate comments will be deleted and are not tallied.
  • You must “like” both the AllFreeKidsCrafts and the FrogTape Facebook pages to be eligible.
  • Winner will be selected at random from the comments on this blog post below.
  • Winner will be announced here on the blog tomorrow as well as contacted by the email address provided.
  • You have until tonight, April 16th, 2014 at 11:59p EST to leave your comment on this post. Comments posted after that will not be counted.
  • Contest open to anyone 18+ in US and/or Canada.

Crafting in Miniature: Yay or Nay?

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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with making miniatures. My favorite exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago was the Thorne Miniature Rooms. I’d spend hours just marveling at the teeny tiny furniture! When my teachers assigned a diorama, I went all out and designed the most complex display I could. I received Tiny Treasures as a gift one year and I tried out all of the projects. It’s unfortunately out of print now, and I (even more unfortunately) donated my copy when I “grew up.”

You can craft in miniature without the help of a book though! I just compiled a list of 20 Mini Handmade Craft Ideas, many of which only take a few minutes to make. I love the Doll House Flower Pot and Mini Flower Bouquet, both from Flower Soft. They really do look like miniature flowers, and they’d be perfect if you wanted to make your own Thorne Minature Rooms!

The Mini Cupcake Pin Cushion combines my love of miniatures, cupcakes, and recycling crafts. Plus, this little cutie is a useful sewing accessory, and it would make a great gift for a sewing enthusiast.

I really can’t get enough of the Mini Spring Bonnets either. They’re so colorful and festive for spring and summer parties. This project is also a great recycling craft, and it looks really easy too.

You can see the rest of my picks for miniature projects in my article, 20 Mini Handmade Craft Ideas. And if you’re thirsty for more, here’s what I found around the web:

This is a miniature replica of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story, created over at Dollhouse Miniature Furniture. Amazing!

I could spend all day looking at her blog. I also found instructions on how she made the vintage sink in this photo:

If you’d like to make your own DIY dollhouse, I found instructions for that at Sutton Grace. I love the way hers turned out!

Don’t forget to check out 20 Mini Handmade Craft Ideas. And tell me: Have you ever crafted in miniature before?

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