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Crafts

Category: <span>Crafts</span>

Crafts keep our hand busy and our minds open. From punch needle to rug hooking, macrame and personal gifts, crafts make our homes, lives and gifts unique and personal.

Paper Crafting

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Collection of seven mobiles

Spotlight: Karolina Merska, Pajaki Artist

Artist Karolina Merska takes the traditional Polish folk art of pajaki and transforms bright papers and modern materials into contemporary art mobiles. Karolina's work sparks joy from every angle, introducing...

Flower Kirigami

Spotlight: Ghylenn Descamps, Paper Artist

Passionate about Japanese culture and creativity, French artist Ghylenn Descamps writes, illustrates, makes (especially with paper) and coaches creative people. Constantly exploring the potential of her own creativity, Ghylenn's energy...

Seeshall by Yulia Brodskaya

Spotlight: Yulia Brodskaya, Artist and Illustrator

What's in a name? In illustrator Yulia Brodskaya's case, her name was instrumental in discovering her unique process of creating paper art. Reaching for a way to illustrate "Yulia" in...

Outdoor DIY Ideas

Final tin can flowers with added paint from paint pens to add more interest.

DIY Tin Can Flowers

I look out the back windows of my home to a fence, where the ground is too rocky to plant a garden. I wanted something more interesting than a fence...

Monster feet yarn bombing

How to Yarn Bomb: Fun, Easy and Inspired Ideas

Take your fiber art to the streets – bus stops, benches, light posts, car bumpers, gardens, playgrounds, bike racks – you get the idea! (Local ordinances vary, so if you...

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Garden Collage

Spotlight: Cathy Taylor, Mosaic Artist

Taking inspiration from the lakeside environment that surrounds her studio, mosaic artist Cathy Taylor creates realistic images that she pieces together from bits of colorful glass. Working from her own…
Collection of seven mobiles

Spotlight: Karolina Merska, Pajaki Artist

Artist Karolina Merska takes the traditional Polish folk art of pajaki and transforms bright papers and modern materials into contemporary art mobiles. Karolina's work sparks joy from every angle, introducing…
Fused glass lantern

Spotlight: Joyce Pruysers-Emmink & Peter Emmink, Fusion Arts

Joyce Pruysers-Emmink and Peter Emmink of Ivy Cottage Fusion Arts are two glass artists working in different styles while sharing studio space (and life) - and they make it work!…
Fabric dolls

Spotlight: Delanie Holton-Fessler, Craftsman & Apprentice

Artist and teacher Delanie Holton-Fessler fulfills her own need to make things, but she also helps others, especially children, experience the joy of creating with their hands. Drawing on the…
Photo by Ramakant Sharda on Unsplash

How to Find the Right Class for You

Be honest. You loved opening a fresh box of crayons on the first day of school. Have you had that feeling lately? We were thinking about pivotal classes that have…
Eli Maor - Piece of natural soap with thyme.

Spotlight: Eli Maor, Lifelong Crafter and Teacher

Eli Maor grew up in a home that breathed art and content, so she absorbed creativity with her entire essence. She recently authored The Craft Kingdom, featuring over 90 craft,…
Final tin can flowers with added paint from paint pens to add more interest.

DIY Tin Can Flowers

I've seen yard art made from cans and thought, why not tin can flowers? Super-easy, cut the petals with metal snips, decorate with paint and nail to a trellis.
Finished Fabric Fortune cookies

How to Make Fabric Fortune Cookies

For Fortune Cookie Day, I thought I'd make fabric ones. I cut circles from fused fabrics, added covered wire and formed into shape before inserting fortunes.
Canopy weights attached

How to Make DIY Canopy Weights for Pop Up Tent

I ordered a pop-up canopy to use at outdoor art shows. Works great – glad we did a trial run set up before the first show! One of the reasons…

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