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Cinema Saturdays: How to Make a Simple Wire-Wrapped Ring

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Looking for some simple accessories to spruce up your holiday ensemble? Or maybe you just need a cute idea for a last-minute homemade Christmas gift. Well this simple Silent Night Wire-Wrapped Ring tutorial is the answer to all of your accessorizing aspirations! Featuring a golden “Star of Bethlehem” bead and three sapphire-colored “night sky” beads, this beautiful wire-wrapped ring is the cutest way to show your holiday spirit this season.

This handy video tutorial will teach you the basic wire-wrapping techniques to create your own Silent Night ring. Once you’ve become familiar with these basic fundamentals, you can experiment with creating different wire-wrapped ring designs of all kinds, for all the holidays! You can even carry over these basic skills to creating other wire-wrapped jewelry, such as bracelets, earrings, and necklaces.

Follow along with Catherine to create this Silent Night Wire-Wrapped Ring and celebrate in style this holiday season!

How to Make a Simple Wire-Wrapped Ring

How do you show your holiday spirit through your style? Do you have any (or have you made any) special “holiday” jewelry?

Cinema Saturdays: Thrifty Christmas Pillows

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Repurpose decorative cloth napkins in Christmas designs into festive pillows for the Christmas season with this video tutorial from AllFreeHolidayCrafts.com. If you have a holiday napkin set that’s missing too many napkins to use at the table, try making decorative pillows out of the remaining napkins. You can preserve your favorite fabric prints in these easy pillows. This is also a great way to use Christmas napkins you have may have gotten on clearance last January. If you loved the design when it was a napkin, you’ll love it even more as a throw pillow!

Watch this simple video tutorial to learn how to make Christmas pillows from upcycle napkins, or print out step-by-step instructions on AllFreeHolidayCrafts.com.

How to Make Fabric Rosettes

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A blooming bouquet  is a sure fire way to brighten up a day. I guess that’s why we love getting flowers (gentlemen take note)! Unfortunately, it can get  pretty pricey to buy fresh flowers everyday. That’s why these fabric rosettes are a perfect sewing project!

If you have lots of ribbon and fabric scraps lying around then you have the makings of your own fabric floral garden. Embellish your purses, cardigans, jackets, headbands and whatever else you can find with these pretty rosettes. They’re a great way to liven up your wardrobe, home decorating, or even your wedding. Best of all, they never wilt!

These fabric flowers might look intricate but they are actually really easy to make. This video tutorial takes you step by step through the process.

How to Make Fabric Rosettes:

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What are you going to decorate with your fabric rosettes?

 

Cinema Saturdays: How to Make a Robot Candy Cake

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It seems these days that everyone has a birthday, so make yours special by serving an amazingly unique birthday cake. Don’t just buy it though; make it! It doesn’t matter how crafty you think you are or don’t think you are, anyone can make this awesome kids’ treat with the help of this wonderfully clear tutorial. If you’re having trouble thinking of other crafty treats to accompany the great cake, over at AllFreeKidsCrafts we have plenty of ideas for you!

There won’t be any malfunctions during your birthday party when you make a robot candy cake– that is, as long as you don’t press your robot’s buttons. This cake is perfect for a mixed crowd because it involves both cake and candy, which means it’s been programmed to please everyone. If you’re a little “rusty” on the trends, listen up: robots are all the rage (see below). Make your birthday party trendy and tech-savvy with an intelligent sweet.

Robot Frame

Follow the video tutorial, and you and your kids can easily make this amazing cake. Twist Twizzlers, program M n Ms, and roll chocolate wafers into this incredibly soft, delicious cake to design the perfect robot pal (whom you’ll soon eat, so don’t get too attached). Kids and adults alike will be in awe over this adorably creative cake. Once you’ve mastered the robot candy cake and seen the extremely favorable response, perhaps you’ll be able to create a cake on your own. Follow the tips from the tutorial, and you should be a cake making master in no time!

Watch and learn the nuts and bolts of making a robot cake.

How to Make a Robot Candy Cake

Overload your party with robots with these robot crafts!

What is your favorite birthday party theme?

Cinema Saturday: How to Make a Starry Candle Luminary

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It’s difficult keeping one’s Christmas home decor looking new and exciting every year, and in-store prices are not easy on a tight budget. Thankfully, there are always thrifty craft projects that can show you how to make your own Christmas decorations for less. Sometimes, all you need is a few festive materials to brighten things up. Follow this tutorial courtesy of AllFreeChristmasCrafts to make a luminary that can fit in anywhere. You’re definitely going to be using this creative craft tutorial later in the year too!

How to Make a Starry Candle Luminary

What Christmas decoration do you think is the most important? Tell us below!

Cinema Saturdays: How to Make a Baby Sun Hat

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Now that summer is in full swing, you are probably spending as much time as you can outside with your little ones. Days at the pool or beach are fun, but spending all day in the sun can be harmful for your toddler. Protect your little bundle of joy from the harmful rays of the sun with this adorable baby sun hat. Not only will it keep your child safe from the sun but it also looks so cute (and it’s reversible)!

You’ll smile when you see your little boy or girl looking up at you from this delightful baby sun hat. Just watch this video tutorial as Maureen Wilson from Made by Marzipan  will show you step-by-step how to sew a toddler sun hat.

How to Make a Baby Sun Hat

What baby sewing project are you making this summer?

Cinema Saturday: Make Your Child a Complete Superhero Outfit

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Today’s Cinema Saturday includes two new videos that will help you to create a Superhero outfit. If you know a superhero kid, here’s your chance to help them dress the part. Our designer and friend, Maureen Wilson, created this superhero outfit complete with a cape, utility belt and mask. Any kid with a playful imagination will love saving the world in this special costume!


 

 

Find more playful outfits here:

 

Do your children like dressing up? What’s their favorite dress-up outfit?

 

 

 

 

Cinema Saturdays: How to Make Seed Bead Dangle Hoops

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Spice up some plain silver hoops by adding a stunning array of seed bead dangles! This free DIY jewelry video tutorial from AllFreeJewelryMaking.com will show you how to make earrings that positively sizzle with style using very simple jewelry making techniques.

The tapered cascade of metallic seed beads instantly amps up the volume on these basic hoop earrings, taking them from drab to fab effortlessly! Choose a variety of seed beads in a monochromatic color scheme for a chic, sophisticated effect, or choose a random rainbow assortment of beads for a colorful, eclectic look. This tutorial is great whether you’re creating brand new earrings or upcycling some boring old earrings you have lying around. Watch the easy-to-follow video tutorial to create a pair of your own!

Have you ever tried upcycling old items you never use into something new? Tell us about it!

 

Cinema Saturdays: Halloween Treat Boxes

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Make a customized homemade goodie bag for your Halloween party guests, grandchildren, or even trick-or-treaters. This video tutoria from AllFreeHolidayCrafts.com will show you how to make completely handmade Halloween treat boxes. These treat boxes are made with die-cut candy jar chipboard shapes with windows cut in the center so you can see all the goodies inside. To hold the candy inside the box, you can recycled plastic packaging to make transparent windows for the treat boxes. Alternatively, you can slip a cellophane bag of candy inside the treat boxes. Embellish the boxes however you like using scrapbook paper, flowers, stamps, and more. Find out how to make these adorable treat boxes with this video tutorial:

Cinema Saturdays: Rag Quilting Tutorial

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Even if you’ve never tried quilting before in your life, we promise this rag quilting tutorial will be easy enough for you to follow. All you have to do is cut out a pile of squares from your favorite fabrics. Use pastel colors for a baby quilt or novelty fabrics for a Christmas quilt. Then sandwich a square of batting between two pieces of fabric, stitch the sandwich together, and you’ve got a rag quilt block. To put the quilt together, you’ll just sew all of the sandwich blocks together in columns and rows. When the whole quilt is finished, snip the seams so they fray and ruffle and get all snuggly. You won’t be able to resist this adorable, easy quilt project!

Learn how to make a rag quilt and watch the whole process in this video tutorial from FaveQuilts video producer Christian Tamez. Christian will show you exactly how to sew each rag quilt block. He’ll also demonstrate how to sew the blocks together so that all the seams are on the right side of the quilt.

Rag Quilting Tutorial

Have you ever made a rag quilt? Tell us about it!

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