Easy Reversible Headbands

The Long Thread has this easy tutorial on how to make reversible headbands. I love the fabric she used, last time I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics they didn't have anything that great. I like going to local fabric stores, they usually have a huge selection.

Swatch Artwork

I've found so many great tutorials on the Purl Bee blog, here is another. I don't do embroidery but I think these embroidery hoops look great as a frame for different colored fabric. This would be a great way to decorate your home.

Coffee Stain Coffee Table

I found this really neat way to salvage your badly stained coffee table. Instead of throwing it away add to the stains and create some cool art. You can find a tutorial on ReadyMade.

Flower Artwork

I found a really neat tutorial on how to create this beautiful flower artwork. All you need to do is scan a flower and you'll get some really interesting results. Check out the tutorial.

Taxidermy Craft

This taxidermy craft has got to be the cutest thing! This stuffed fish was created by Kayte Terry of Love Forever I found this via craftershock. I've been seeing a lot of taxidermy crafts lately, felt and crochet. This would look so nice in your craft room.

Card Tutorials

World Card Making Day has some great tutorials on how to make your own greeting cards, from baby showers to Christmas. I like making my own cards, it gives it a more personal touch. There are lots of different creative tutorials, with detailed info on what materials you'll need. World Card Making Day is a holiday for card makers around the world to celebrate the creativity of handmade cards. The first Sunday of each October is the official date. Card making can be any day for me.

Earrings Tutorial

I've always wanted to make my own jewlery, I love these dangle earrings. Lounge Brigade has a great tutorial on how to make these earrings. I'm gonna go to Michael's and get all the materials, I'm sure you could use the same utensils to create necklaces and bracelets as well.

Coaster Tutorial

Foofanagle has a great tutorial on how to sew together these fashionable coasters. You can match the decor of the room and make a few for the different seasons, these would make for a great conversation. All I have are some ugly cork coasters, I think it's about time to get rid of them and make these.

CD Case Pen Holder

Craft Chi has a tutorial on how to make this pen holder out of 4 cd cases. They even decorated it with a tape transfer, which they show how to do as well. This is a nice, creative and inexpensive way to get all those pens, pencils and markers all in one spot so you can find them.

Free Crochet Cuff Pattern

I always love it when I find free crochet patterns, especially trendy patterns like this crochet cuff. I can't wait to make this, I would so wear it. I found this link through craftzine, you can download a pdf here of the pattern.

Button Flower Tutorial

I've been seeing a lot of flowers made out of buttons lately and just came across a tutorial on how to make one. The artsy-crafty babe blog has a great tutorial on how to make a flower pin out of these.

Child's Artwork Collage

Artist Jane Eleni creates this framed collage of your child's artwork through her website LOVE. This is such a great idea, you send her a collection of all your child's artwork and she'll compile it all together in a print and frame it. Such a great way to archive your child's artwork in style. Instead of displaying on your refrigerator, you can make it look even more special.

Picture Frame Tray

Design Sponge posted about this great picture frame tray tutorial created by photographer Ashley Ann. This is such a creative way to display your photographs, you could make a collage of photos to put in this tray. All you need is a double glass picture frame and some handles. This would be a cute gift for mother's day, breakfast in bed and pictures of the family in the tray.

Shadowbox Cut-Out Painting

I love the cut-out art like this that has depth to it. The first time I saw this type of style was on the Little Hut blog, I've been wanting to try this myself. Well, I found this farm cut-out painting tutorial by Arounna Khounnoraj. A craft project great for kids and to preserve your child's art work in style.

You'll need to make a line drawing or find a line drawing, possibly out of a coloring book, that has depth to it. Let them paint away or color away, then cut out the foreground, background and the middle. Finally, you'll need to cut out some foam core to secure the different pieces you've cut out to make them stand out. Check out the tutorial.

Paper Flower Tutorial

I posted a while back about a tutorial on how to make a butterfly and branch decoration. I came across this tutorial on how to make a paper flower and I love how it looks with the branches. Now if you don't want to have butterflies on your branch decoration you can switch it out with these beautiful flowers. This tutorial was created by Dozi Designs.

Fingerpaint Wall Art

Looking for a creative way to preserve your child's handprints and footprints? I found this neat craft on the tutus and turtles blog. You just let your child have fun and paint away with one color of acrylic paint to fill a canvas. Then with white or a lighter color of acrylic paint, get it on their feet and hands to make prints on the canvas. You may want to make sure it's a kind of paint safe for kids or make sure they don't eat it! These make for nice wall art!

DIY Shoji Lamp

Found this great tutorial on how to create your own shoji style lamp, out of chopsticks and paper. If you don't have your own chopsticks, you can probably find those cheap wooden ones that break apart and paint them to your liking. I think rice paper or some off white textured paper would work best for the shade. This would make a great decorative lamp for the home.

Word Photography Picture Frame

Yay! I found this really neat photography idea on the Trans-craft-inental blog. If you are into photography pick a word you like and find the different letters in nature or your everyday life to photograph. Or if you don't have a great camera you can do a search on flickr for some high res photos of letters, put them all together and frame them. I think this is something I'll try the next time I'm out taking photos. I love how the tree is in the shape of a Y.

Sony Handycam For Sale

If anyone is interested, I am selling my MiniDV camera on ebay. It is a Sony Handycam DCR TRV950 MiniDV 3CCD, it's in good condition and was barely ever used. I bought this camera in 2004 and spent $2000 on it, I was taking a class in video editing in college and got into filming, but I decided I like taking still pictures better. I tried selling it on ebay before but someone made a false bid and it cancelled my listing so I'm trying again. I hope someone will get some use out of it. Just wanted to let everyone know incase any of you are film making buffs or like taking family video.

Felt Squares Blanket

I love this blanket, it's made out of felt squares and each square is hand sewn. I found a link on Purlbee to a tutorial on how to make this beautiful blanket. I was excited that this blanket is hand sewn because I don't have a sewing machine yet.

Puffy Paint Terra Cotta Pot

The Apartment Therapy website has a great tutorial on decorating your plain terra cotta planters with puffy paint. I never thought I could find a good way to use puffy paint, I remember using it to decorate sweatshirts when I was younger. I have a bunch of plain terra cotta planters that could use some sprucing up so I'll have to try this one out.

Zipped Pouch Tutorial

I found a really great tutorial on the twelve 22 blog on how to make a zipped pouch for your makeup, change, etc...This is a great tutorial to try if you want to know how to sew on zippers.

Panda Kirigami Card

I posted about Kirigami cards a few months ago and I just visited the easy cut pop up website again today and found that they have some new patterns. These new patterns are so much more intricate, before they only had flower patterns which were really neat but now they have animals and nature scenes you can create. They offer a free tulip pattern you can download and try. These are great to use as birthday cards, mother's day, etc...

Vintage Pillowcase Lunchbox Tutorial

Oh Fransson creates some really pretty lunchboxes and bags, I finally came across a tutorial on her blog to make one of these beautiful lunchboxes. You can use an old pillowcase for this tutorial, I love finding crafts where you can reuse something you already have. You'll have to download a pdf once you follow the link to the tutorial.

Recycled Newsprint Art

I love the art at A Little Hut, the artist, Patricia Zapata creates beautiful framed art with cut out paper. I was excited when she posted a tutorial on how to create this recycled newsprint piece. My walls are pretty barren, I'm going to have to try this out to get some art up there.

Crayon Nibbles

Looking for a fun craft or gift for a kid? I found a neat tutorial on the Crafty Dasies blog on how to make "Crayon Nibbles". All you do is melt together different colored crayons to make big chunky crayons for younger kids to hold onto and create art with. You can put them in little plastic baggies and tie them up for a gift.

"Life" Scrapbook

I found this really cool tutorial on how to turn an old game of Life into a scrap book cover on Cleanhomejournal.com. I haven't tried scrap booking yet but I'll be sure to try this tutorial once I have a bunch of pictures to put together. I love board games and Life is one of my favorites, I would have to buy a new one cause I wouldn't want to cut mine up. This would be the perfect cover for a scrap book of your family.

My Own Creation: Amigurumi Cactus

After seeing these amigurumi cacti all over the internet I decided to take a stab at it and create my own cactus. It was pretty simple and only took me one night to complete. I purchased the mini terracotta pot at target, they were selling seed kits and I bought a sunflower kit for $1. Well the sunflower grew out of the pot pretty quickly so I used the empty pot for this project.

DIY Photo Bookmark

If you are a book worm you'll love this tutorial. Photojojo has a neat tutorial on how to make a photo bookmark. You can pick out your favorite picture of a full person or even pet and use it as a bookmark. All you need are scissors, photo paper, transparent tape, glue and flat magnets. I'm always using whatever piece of paper I can find that's closest to me like a receipt sometimes pens this will be even better to have an actual bookmark.

Tote Bag Tutorial

Hip To Piece Squares has a great tutorial on how to make this tote bag. I love these tote bags and it would be great to create one with your own style, have a new color for every outfit. I'm definitely not a big purse person, I am pretty picky with picking out the right one I usually only get a new one every year. Now that I know how to make them I think I'll have more.

CD Case Frames

Found this really great video tutorial on how to turn your cd cases into picture frames, through photojojo. I have hundreds of empty cd cases laying around that I could use for this project, I barely listen to my cds, I usually just listen to music through my computer or ipod now so they are just taking up space.

Crayon Roll Tutorial

I thought this was such a cute gift to make for a kid I had to share. Skip To My Lou has a great tutorial on how to make a crayon roll, a cute holder for your crayons. The first time I saw something like this was at Urban Outfitters, they had a pencil roll with a spot to place a notepad. I always wanted to buy one but figured I could just make it myself, finally I found a tutorial to do so. You could easily make this taller for colored pencils, paint brushes or even crochet hooks.

Bubble Mailers

Since I live far away from my family members I need to mail their presents, so I'm always trying to find cheap and creative ways to mail them. I found this great tutorial through the 27 Things blog on how to make your own bubble mailers. This is great because you can customize it to your own size.

My Own Creation: Birthday Card and Envelope

After posting about a tutorial on how to make your own envelopes I decided to make my own Birthday Card for my sister this year. I created the design in Photoshop and had to print it out a few times to get the position of the design right on the card. I followed the Etsy Labs tutorial on how to make envelopes and added the wood grain backing to the envelope to give it an extra touch. This was such a fun project, I think I'll be making Christmas cards this year!

Happy 4th of July: Last Minute Flower Decorations

Happy Fourth of July everyone! Here is a last minute 4th of July decoration tutorial I found through the Make and Takes website on how to dye white carnations red and blue. I never really knew exactly how to change the color and all you need is some food coloring. The patriotic red and blue food coloring in the water looks pretty. It apparently only takes a few hours for the color to show up so hurry up!

Cassette Tape Wallet

There are so many cute crafts out there where you can recycle old electronics. I've been seeing these cassette tape wallets all over. The Chezlin blog posted a tutorial on how to make these nifty wallets.

4th of July luminaries

These luminaries are made by using balloons, I thought this was the neatest way to make these. Once you create your mold you put a tea light in them. Head over to candletech.com for a tutorial. This would be great to use for your 4th of July cookout at night time. You could even make these for other holidays and just change the color.

Camera Inside A Camera

I want one of these camera cases! Artist Hine Mizushima did such a great job with these one of a kind camera cases. I have the same camera shown in the picture and it fits perfectly into these. Love the little pocket for the memory card because I like to be prepared and carry every necessity possible. You can head over to the hine etsy shop and purchase one, I only see one for sale right now, I'm sure you can request one to be made or keep checking back. Glad I stumbled upon (literally) the craftershock blog.

Marble Magnets

I found this really cute idea on not martha. All the supplies you need to make these marble magnets are silicon glue, cut out pictures, magnets, and marbles. Another great inexpensive craft.

4th of July Pinwheels

The Martha Stewart website has some really great crafts for your 4th of July get together. These pinwheels would be a great decoration and fun for the kids! They are pretty easy to make and inexpensive. All you need is some patriotic patterned paper, clothes pins and map tacks. Here is a tutorial on how to put it all together.