11 New Ideas from CraftGossip for Tuesday, 12th of May

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How to sew an invisible zipper on a dress

Invisible zippers are considered a challenge by many. Here is how to master them with a step by step tutorial on a dress with no lining and no facings. If you don’t have an invisible zipper foot, you can use the regular zipper foot for the whole project. You can watch this tutorial for sewing invisible zippers here on youtube. …

Super Simple Face Mask Pattern For Adults And Kids

By now, most countries have some sort of shortage of face masks. So what can you do if you can't get your hands on one? With this super simple face mask you can help protect yourself and those you care about. These self-made masks will not filter out the virus from the air. But it will stop you from touching …

10,000 Face Masks Sewing Project

Right now the health services are in desperate need of masks, so Create Room have developed a community project to get us crafters sewing masks. The aim is to get to 10,000 to help our essential staff and workers stay safe during the crisis. There's a 4 step guide included and the masks take about 10-20 minutes to make, I …

12 Ideas with One Abstract Stamp

A good background stamp can be just the thing to complete the design on your card and the more versatile the better. The design team over at Darkroom Door used one of their Abstract Stamps to create twelve different projects like cards, tags and journal pages all using the same stamp. Visit their blog to be inspired. -Heather

Let's Stay Home Die Cuts

While we're all stuck at home take advantage of this time (if you can) to be creative. Design some scrapbook layouts of what you and your family are doing during quarantine. To help you with these pages Close to My Heart is offering two FREE SVG die cut files, "Let's Stay Home" and "We're all in this together". These would …

Letter Stamping Pages Printables

When working on letter recognition with preschoolers, it's great to use a lot of different activities that present letters to them in different ways. These printable letter outlines from Powerful Mothering were designed to be used with alphabet stamps so the child can stamp the letter inside the letter shape (great for fine motor skill development, too). But of course …

Crochet Pattern - Boho Bazaar Blanket and Cushions

This Bazaar Blanket crochet pattern is available for free via Deramores, all you have to do is select the "Digital Pattern" option in the drop-down menu to grab the pattern for free. I am in love with this free crochet design. It is perfect for my mixed boho decor for my home. I love the colors of the yarn and …

Kintsugi with polymer clay - Tutorial

Have you ever tried to intentionally break a piece of polymer clay to look like random broken pieces of clay? Um yeah it's not as easy as you may think. Ana, my new Polymer clay crush has covered it all in this polymer clay tutorial that shows you how to do just that, She shows you how to create faux …

How to Make a Sashiko Japanese Embroidery Cushion

Sashiko is a type of traditional Japanese embroidery. It started out as a way to strengthen cotton and linen fabrics, but these days, we enjoy its repetitive patterns for decoration. Once you get started, sashiko embroidery is a really calming and relaxing activity. I love how my sashiko pillow enhances my other handmade pillows to bring a boho vibe to …

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Pendulum Card

I LOVE Alice in Wonderland so I flipped when I saw this amazing interactive Pendulum Card featuring Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee! Christine designed it with stamps from Miss Ink and created her own pendulum mechanism so the pair can swing on the card, so cute! Learn more over on her blog, Coffee Fueled Creations. -Heather

Favorite Selfie Layout

Lets face it, kids and teens love to take selfies and I'm sure most of us do too :) Victoria Marie created a sweet layout of her daughter and some of her favorite selfies. The black and white photos stand out from the colorful clusters of embellishments and she managed a whopping 9 photos on one page and there's still …

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