Want a cute graduation mortar board cheap and easy for grad parties or kid fun?  Here ya go!

The Boy graduated from Pre-K the other day, and they made these cute graduation caps for them.  So I reverse engineered it (and improved upon it) to make it into a tutorial for you guys!

These mortar board caps are made from poster board and foam core… easy and fun to celebrate a graduation milestone.

Needed:

• Black foam core board – about 12 in square.
• Black poster board (cut to 22 in wide x 6 in tall)
• Gold fringe and gold floss (60 inches)
• 1 gold colored brad
• Staples &…

Since Cinco de Mayo is coming up, just wanted to remind you guys about the fabulous Piñata tutorial from last year, by Joanne of Ready Set Craft!!  It’s it just gorgeous?

• Go read: How to Make a Flower Pinata, just in time for Cinco De Mayo!
• For more party ideas: Piñatas, Cinco de Mayo, Fiesta ideas, and more!
• And for food ideas: We’re having a Fiesta! Foodwhirl’s Gone Mexican…

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I’ve been working on a way to sell some of my artwork, in a way that is both affordable, and more ‘useful’ than just a picture you hang on your wall. So this is a couple of prototypes of my latest idea! (Excuse the pics, these aren’t the highest quality!)

I’ve been playing around with glass tile necklaces, with either prints from my artwork, or original drawings, as fun and wearable art.
Here are the 2 prototypes–based on the watercolor series (“Robot World“) which is currently in the Museum of Science in Boston. One is the robot from “A Clockwork Red” and…

These are just fabulous ideas on how to show off gorgeous blown decorated Easter Eggs, from Dabbled fave, Wisdom of the Moon. (We linked to her “How to Blow Eggs” tutorial here.) Tons of ideas for making your blown and decorated eggs even more special, for hanging and displaying — including using buttons and snaps! So clever… Read the whole thing!

She’s got a great idea for a simple way to make a very functional Egg Drying Rack. Again. Clever.

And, how to color those eggs using the Ukrainian style technique (Pysanky) is here.

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Hi Everybody!!  My name is Chrissy P. from Felted Chicken!  I’m your average-everyday Felter living & working on Hollywood, CA.  I’ve been needle-felting for about a year and a half now, and am always looking for new, interesting, and easy ways to add some extra UMPF to my sculptures.  Nancy was kind enough to ask me to share a tutorial on one of these processes.

In addition to the traditional felting techniques that everybody uses (needle & wet-felting, dying my own wool, accenting with tufts of colored wool)  I also use an Airbrush to add shadows & gradients to my pieces. …

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How to Make A Fabric Easter Basket:

My friend Heidi make this way cool Easter Basket – And then was cool enough to write up a how-to, and even provide a pattern for you to make your own!  This is from last year, but I thought it was worth a re-post.

We had a bunch of readers make their own last year… if you make one, be sure to send me a pic!

Make Your Own Easter Basket Tutorial

Creative Egg Dying Ideas

Also from last year, but worth a repeat as the season draws near. Tons of cool ideas on how to creatively…

Here is a fun little idea I came up with last year, a cute valentines (or anytime) gift for a little girl. A stacked felt heart or flower pin.

This was inspired by the fact that kids grow out of clothes so fast, and while I was going to make a shirt or dress with a heart applique, instead I decided to make this pin (and a few others) so they could be used for a longer time. This looks adorable pinned on a dress or jacket, and would even work pinned to a hair elastic for a cute hair accessory.

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A lot of people liked the super easy sewing of the Treeskirt project, so here’s another quick and easy project!

My son has a favorite t-shirt that was getting a tad small… he wore it layered with a long sleeve shirt to a party the other day, which gave me the idea to make a long sleeved, slightly larger shirt out of it for him to wear this winter and spring.*

I forgot to take a “before” pic, but you’ve seen t-shirts and long sleeve shirts before, so just imagine them, hehe.

So, Here’s how I did it.

Materials:
1 long sleeve (LS) shirt (can…

I spent way too much time and money at the 75%  off at Target the other day, and found this great snowflake cotton tablecloth.  It’s a nice heavy weight, and I love the red and whites!  But I didn’t really need a tablecloth, and I have been really meaning to make a treeskirt, since I usually just wrap some spare fabric around the bottom of the Christmas Tree.

So this was my quickie project for today…

Since my space for my tree is squared off, I made this one a square, but if you tree is in a more open area, you…

Here’s a great little stocking stuffer you can make yourself. My 4 year old played a game similar to this* at grandma’s over Thanksgiving, and loved it, so I thought a pocket version would be a great little ‘handmade’ Christmas gift. I’ve included (almost) everything you need to make one for yourself as free downloads! Just grab the file, print, and add your own Altoids tin for a cute little gift that fits perfectly in a stocking! This freebie is a present for you, my readers, because if I didn’t have you, there wouldn’t be much point to this.

You…