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Crafty Goodness

Here you'll find some of the craft goodness we've created on Dabbled.

Like what? Well... lots of stuff! You'll find tutorials -- you'll see some featured ones in the sidebar here, or see all of the tips/tutorials posts. Some of our best tutorials are from our great guest bloggers. Do you have a great tutorial you'd like to guest blog here? Just email it to submit.

You'll also find

Shrinky Dinks from Recycled Plastic (Lots of experiments and projects)
Freezer Paper Stencils
Recycled Sweater Projects, like the Elephant Purse, the Sweater Snake, the Octo-puppet, Monster Puppets, a Wine Cozy, and more!

How to make a Paper Rose Wreath

January 20, 2012 | Also posted in Topic: Seasonal/Holiday

Artist, and Dabbled favorite, Diana Evans has a great tutorial on making cute paper roses and a paper rose wreath.
Perfect for Valentines Day, no? I think individual flowers would be nice on 3-D Valentine’s Day cards, too. Go check it out! Her hand drawn tutorial is adorable too…

“Don’t Blink” Treetopper (and more awesomely geeky/crafty Dr. Who links)

January 13, 2012 |

Dude! Totally love this nerdy DIY Don’t Blink Angel treetopper by The Domestic Scientist! For the non-Dr. Who fans, this is the reference to the weeping angels. Although I’m not really sure Dr. Who is nerdy anymore now with the modern Doctors. Old school Dr. Who is still nerdy, but I never got into that – I must admit I just love the new stuff (I started watching with Eccleston, and adored Tennant, and now Smith is just too much fun!)

Renee says: From I made her out of Paper Clay. Best stuff

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Buy Now – Clearance Candy canes for Valentines treats

January 4, 2012 | Also posted in Topic: food, Seasonal/Holiday

I was at Target the other day and all the xmas stuff is at 75% off. I picked up a box of multiflavor mini candy canes, because I always see cool things people make with candy canes for valentine’s day, but you can’t find the candy then! So this is your reminder… pick some up now…! Here are a few things you’ll be able to do with them.. Candy Canes and White Chocolate Heart Pops Candy Cane hearts on a stick Spell LOVE out of candy canes I’m sure we’ll think of… Read on...

How to: B&W wood photo ornaments and keepsake gift tags!

December 13, 2011 | Also posted in Topic: featured, Featured Craft, Seasonal/Holiday, Tutorials/Tips

I recently did a guest post on the FedEx Out of Office blog, with a tutorial on making personalized wooden ornaments and gift tags from photocopies of your photos and drawings. It’s pretty cool, go check it out: Personalized Black & White Wood Ornaments for all the step by steps. It’s a really neat technique that just uses acrylic gel medium from the art store– no toxic chemicals or anything like that. The toner from the photocopy remains on the wood, so the white areas of your photo become wood colored,… Read on...

Hassle-Free Handmade Holidays

November 18, 2011 | Also posted in Topic: Guest

Please welcome Dabbled’s special guest today, Rachel from the fabulous inspiration website One Pretty Thing!! Hassle-Free Handmade Holidays By Rachel Klein of One Pretty Thing

Photo by tilaneseven

If you’re anything like me you think the same thing every year. “This year I’m going to make all my own gifts/bake the desserts from scratch/grow all the decorations myself! It’s going to be awesome!” It sounds so festive, so heartfelt. But how many of us actually have time to do it? It’s taken me a few years but I’ve… Read on...

Nifty pendants from Toilet Paper Rolls? Cool!

November 8, 2011 | Also posted in Topic: inspirations

Meg over at MegaCrafty has these fun pendants, and you’d never guess they are made from toilet paper and paper towel rolls! Go check it out: http://www.megacrafty.com/2011/10/pt-and-tp-roll-pendants.html

Halloween Roundup: Costumes, food and drink

October 26, 2011 | Also posted in Topic: Halloween, inspirations

A few more cool links to get those halloween juices flowing:

A gory brain cap how-to at Craft
Make this cute little Boogie Bot at MAKE
DIY Super large fake lashes
Make Brains in a Jar cake.. yum!
This cute little peacock tutu, and more at Superpunch
Halloween Food and drink recipes at Talk of Tomatoes
Plus, be sure to check out the Best of Dollar Store Craft halloween roundup for some great ideas..
And flip through our old Halloween stuff here at Dabbled: Go Halloween!

Daphne (Scooby Doo) little girls costume

October 25, 2011 | Also posted in Topic: Halloween, inspirations, Tutorials/Tips

This was actually supposed to go up last year (!) but you know how the time around halloween gets around here! My friend Cecily made this costume for her daughter… She writes:

For my daughter, I didn’t like the Daphne costumes available for sale from the costume stores. They are kind of skanky and not the cool retro Daphne from 1970! She wanted to be the original Daphne for sure.
I used Simplicity: It’s So Easy, pattern #2825 (Dress and Backpack (didn’t make the backpack). I used purple Kona cotton and lavendar bias tape for the trim. Honestly I have

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BRAAAAINS! Conehead Zombie… PvZ costume

October 24, 2011 | Also posted in Topic: featured, Featured Craft, Halloween, Seasonal/Holiday, Tutorials/Tips

kids conehead zombie costume from plants vs zombies

The Cutest Little Conehead Zombie: I promised you guys a second costume for The Boy’s halloween (you’ll remember he’s also doing Draco Malfoy, Death Eater), and here it is! He’s a big fan of the Plants Vs. Zombies video game, and insisted on being a Conehead Zombie. We also considered buckethead, but we had the cone, so that sealed the deal. This is easy to put together, and tons of fun. I think this would be a great group costume idea – everyone picking different zombies to play… Read on...

How to Make a kids Harry Potter robe out of Tshirts

October 20, 2011 | Also posted in Topic: Featured Craft, Halloween, party, Seasonal/Holiday, Tutorials/Tips

For The Boy’s Draco Malfoy costume, I had a brainstorm one night when he was using a XL men’s tshirt as a sleep shirt. It was the perfect size for a wizard robe for a 6 year old. This version is meant to be a Death Eater robe (I took the liberty of having it double as Draco’s school robe as well). This could of course work for a wide variety of hooded robes, including Jedi robes! So I grabbed it, and a couple more old t-shirts and with… Read on...