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This Week on Cool2Craft TV – Gifts from the Heart

November 27, 2011 by Tiffany

11-28-11 Gifts from the Heart 4-up FaveCrafts Cool2Craft
Join host Tiffany Windsor for a new episode of  Cool2Craft TV. This week’s show theme is Gifts from the Heart. Tiffany is crafting a textured glue heart frame, EcoHeidi Borchers is creating watercolor gift tags and Candace Jedrowicz is crafting Teddy Bear Gift Wrap.

It’s easy to watch the Cool2Craft TV Channel right from your computer. Monday November 28, 2011 at 9 am Pacific/ 10 am Mountain/ 11 am Central/ noon Eastern. Watch craft demos and join in the live chat at showtime at Cool2Craft.com. See you Monday!

 

Watch live streaming video from cool2craft at livestream.com

Filed Under: Cool2Craft Tagged With: Candace Jedrowicz, cool2Craft, cool2craft tv, EcoHeidi Borchers, frame, Gifts, glue, heart, heidi borchers, Tiffany Windsor, watercolor

Framed Crochet Purse Tutorial

August 5, 2011 by TheCrochetCrowd

Crochet Your own stylish Change Purse
Crochet this unique change purse using the tutorial included on this blog.

Darla of “The Needle Nerd” on Facebook has completed her oversize coin purse ready for this fall. She has provided us with a link with a written tutorial on how to make your own.

Create your Crochet Coin Purse.

Enjoy this free detailed tutorial.

Filed Under: Crochet Tagged With: Create, Crochet, DIY, Follow, frame, free, free crochet patterns, Lesson, Make, michael sellick, purse, The Crochet Crowd, tutorial

How to: Make Unique Christmas Gifts for Women

December 9, 2009 by FaveCrafts

The Christmas season is always a tough one for me. We know it’s coming and we count down the days, yet every year it surprises me and I am never prepared for it. With the economy slowly coming back, it’s still tough to spend a lot of money especially for those with large families like me. This year, my budget is very tight and therefore I have resulted in making some homemade gifts. You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on such extravagant gifts, but now you can have a low budget and still create something beautiful, after all, it’s the thought that counts, right?

The women in my immediate family are my three older sisters and my mom. I know them well and I know their personalities. Unique gifts for women can be far and few in between if you don’t quite know what they’re into. Luckily, I have a few ideas that may help you out.

If there is a woman in your life who likes to drink in social situations or even collect beautiful glasses then a great gift for her can be a wine goblet. All you have to do is buy a wine goblet of any size and any shape, whatever you wish. Get some paints and go at it. My favorite goblets are ones that my mom and I both have. They have ladies painted on them. Using fun paints, like a pink color you can paint a skirt and add some yellow for some blond hair. The most fun part about this kind of goblet is the stem. You can paint it whatever color you wish, draw a vertical line down the center and it becomes her legs. You can then paint a pair of shoes on the base part of the glass. I love it! The painted nutcracker goblet is somewhat of an example. He has blue pants. Use your imagination and creativity. Your woman friend will love it!

Some other great and unique gifts for women are the more sentimental ones like a scrapbook, a calendar or a photo frame. These are all pretty similar in the way you make them. For all of them you can collect as many or as little photographs as you want. My suggestion for the calendar is at least 12 photos, one for each month, but the more you have the more fun it is. To make a scrapbook, you can really go old style and use construction paper for your pages. Glue your photos on the pages; however you wish to arrange them. I personally have the fun scissors with the designed edges; it makes for a pretty borderline for the photo. After gluing is all done you can take markers, glitter, stickers and fun embellishments to make the pages look how you want. Once this is all done you can use a hole puncher, make three holes along the side of the scrapbook and then tie all the pages together. If you want something more sturdy you can always put the scrapbook in a folder of some sort.

As for the calendar, just glue whichever photos you wish on any month. I like to go in chronological order and use Christmas photos for the winter season and vacationing for the summer months. Again, you can use stickers and embellishments of your liking.

For a photo frame, you can buy a wooden frame, any size. Buy some wooden letters to glue on top of the frame. Plan accordingly so you can spell something out like sister or best friend. You can then paint the actual frame and the letters then glue the letters on. Add some glitter and some glam, put the photo inside and you’re done. Add a personal note on the back so they’ll always remember who it’s from.

Some other Christmas gifts for women:

Crochet Winter Gear
Wall Decor
Felt Needle Book

Filed Under: Holiday, Photography, Scrapbooking Tagged With: Christmas, frame, Gifts, glass, Holiday, photo, Scrapbooking

First Day of School Picture Frame

September 23, 2009 by FaveCrafts

Every year, I have a picture of my child for her first day of school.  This year, I decided to get creative with her picture.  I wanted something to represent school while still decorating the picture.  When I think of school, I think of pencils.  Therefore, I came up with the idea to make a picture frame out of pencils.  It is such a simple way to frame out the picture that any school-age child could do it.  Teachers can also have their students do this with a picture as a class project.  It could become a Christmas gift from the child to the parent’s by just using Christmas colored pencils.

Check out the School Picture Frame at my website, OneMinuteCrafts.com. My family crafts website is unique in that each craft has a one minute instructional video.  All of my crafts are inspired by my three children, ages 1, 4, and 8.

Check out the craft at FaveCrafts here!

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Projects Tagged With: child, craft, family, frame, school

Crafty Gifts for the Teacher

August 24, 2009 by FaveCrafts

With school quickly approaching or having already started for many, back to school crafts are popular here at FaveCrafts. We have two new projects for cute teacher’s gifts. Kids can help create these crafts and present them to their new teachers, especially on Teacher Appreciation Day. (National Teacher Day is the first Tuesday of May.) Crafting teachers might also appreciate making the beaded necklace with shrink plastic school shapes. Kids will also enjoy making the garden frame just for fun.

School Bead Necklace

Tribute to Teacher

More Back to School Posts:

Learning Can Be Fun

Child ID Tags

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Projects Tagged With: frame, Kids Crafts Projects, plastic, school, teacher

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