Tag Archives: christmas
Last Christmas I gave you my heart…
ell, at least I gave you some cool tutorials…
Here are a few you might want to go check out again!
Links:
Picture Frame Ornament Tutorial
Recipe Related Gift Ideas
How to Make Homemade Eggnog – Both Cooked and Uncooked versions
Illustration Friday – “Hatch”
A couple of fun little doodles for you (and IF)…
First is a little monster/alien I’ve been doodling lately, hatching from his egg! Second is the little monster, in holiday mode! Which do you like better?
Free Download of the Santa Monster, if you’d like to use it for holiday cards or crafting! Just click through to flickr and download it there.
Christmas Tutorials!
Today I’m over at Dollar Store Crafts — Go check out my tutorial for making a cute, easy and cheap Stocking Ornament / Gift Card Holder!
And, in case you missed it, while I was off in London last week, we had 3 lovely tutorials last week by three lovely guest posters!
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Tutorial – Make Resin Star Christmas Tree Ornaments From Kerry at www.pennydog.com A great project if you’ve been wanting to try crafting with resin! |
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Moss Terrarium Tutorial – The Gift that Keeps Giving All Year ‘Round!
Moss Terrarium Gift Tutorial from Shrimp Salad Circus
Hola, and happy Week After Thanksgiving! I’m Lindsay from Shrimp Salad Circus, and I would like to help you out with your Christmas gifting! I have a few people on my list that are nearly impossible to shop for, and I’m willing to bet that you can all relate. That’s why I have a little tutorial to make something in just twenty minutes that will look great on Mr. or Ms. Impossible-to-Shop-For’s desk, shelf, or countertop! This is one of… Read on…
Happy Almost December!
You can’t deny it now, the holiday are really upon us now… Stay tuned this week for 3 Holiday Tutorials!
Some Fun holiday stuff from Last Year, while you’re waiting…:
- Make a Shrink Ornament Santa HERE (includes template)
- Lemon Pie – Decorate with a winter snowflake theme HERE
- Some great ideas for Holiday Up-cycling! Finalists in last years Dabbled Upcycled Craft Contest… Here!
- How to Make Homemade Eggnog. Try it! HERE
- Make and Freeze Homemade Stock (Any of those holiday recipes that call for broth will be better with homemade!)- HERE
- Holiday links:
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Handmade Christmas Ornament Tutorials
If you’re making Christmas ornaments, you’d better get started now! So here is the first of the 2009 collection of links to holiday ornament tutorials! (For more ideas, check out Last Year’s here).
I love this Polaroid Ornament from Katie Cupcake! And she has a detailed tutorial on making these on her blog – Go Here!
Such a clever idea, and a great way to display family photos. Plus what a perfect gift for Grandma…
Want more ideas? Here are some I collected from flickr (links below the big pic)…
1. Bolinhas de natal, 2.… Read on…
Holiday Cookies – Christmas Tree
This is a fun and impressive cookie project that makes a great gift. This project is from last year, but I figured it was worth repeating for this year!
These little Christmas trees are stacks of iced sugar cookies, with a Reese’s cup on the bottom for a stem. Thanks to Aunt Denise and Aunt Barb (and family) for including me in the process of making them last thanksgiving, and letting me take pictures for posterity!
(If you like these, you’d probably like the wedding cake cookie version that they made previously, too!)
For all the steps, go here!
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Planning for the Holidays
November means we’re getting close to the Holidays… So here’s a reminder on some simple steps to help you plan ahead to have a handmade holiday, from Rachel at the fabulous blog, One Pretty Thing. (And check out the interview with Rachel the other day @ Craftypod!
Hassle-Free Handmade Holidays
By Rachel Klein of One Pretty Thing
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
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Christmas is already stalking us…
Apparently, there was a little spurt of Christmas in July in the past few weeks. And, as Rachel explained, if you’re planning a handmade holiday this year, you do need to start early.. Well, I refuse to actually start on Christmas prior to Halloween (oh yes, at Dabbled we’ll be doing a month of Halloween fun again this year!) But for those of you who are planners, or just like to imagine cool weather in the heat of summer, here are a few Christmas in July (ok, it’s August) related goodies you should check out!
Crafting with Cat Hair… Read on…
Bunches of Christmas Ornaments, many with Tutorials
Make something cool for the xmas tree! Below are several cute ornament tutorials I found on flickr, then under that are more ornament links… And please feel free to add your own links in the comments!
Edit: Check out this new Shrinky Santa Ornament Tutorial!
Click through to the picture for a link to the tutorial: 1. Scrap Fabric Ornament, 2. felt ornament dove, 3. Heart and Star Ornaments – free tutorial!, 4. stocking ornament tutorial 021.JPG, 5. more snow folk ornaments, 6. snowman ornament guts with instructions!, 7. hang him… Read on…
