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I’m not the best at card making, but I’m certainly enjoying learning how to do it! I’ve come up with a very basic pattern I can follow and make some very basic cards. I’m making 6 x 4 cards so I can include pictures in it easily, but you can use 5.5 by 4 1/4...
I love making charm bracelets, and I love Christmas, so if you put the two together, you get Christmas-y charm bracelet fun! I make my charm bracelets using either 8 mm rings and 4 mm rings to join them or 10 mm rings and 5 mm rings to join them. You’ll want to get at...
These Christmas snowflake forms are a lovely way to make ornaments for your tree, and at $4.00 for eight, they’re also inexpensive. I suggest using acrylic beads for this project – they’re inexpensive, weigh less than glass or wooden beads, and come in tons of pretty colours! For these projects I used 4 mm clear...
Only 21 days until Christmas! I’ll be posting a few tutorials for how to engage your kids and teens in making handmade products for the holidays…stay tuned for more! I love making bubble bath and body wash with my craft groups. It’s such fun to see what colour and fragrance combinations they come up with,...
I hope you had fun last night, despite the melting mess ups with the microwave! But there are no such things as mistakes, just things we know don’t work! Remember the techniques we learned last night can be applied to dark and milk chocolate – we used white so we could have fun with colours...