15 New Ideas from CraftGossip for Tuesday, 7th of April

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15 Crochet Frontline Hero Nurse Patterns

Last week we featured the Frontline bear and this week we are focusing on individual essential workers. We are starting the week with nurses! We love nurses and they are the glue holding us all together right now. Here is a roundup of Frontline nurse dolls you can crochet. We have both free and paid patterns. You can make these …

Knit (Crochet or Sew) Ear Savers for Health Professionals

There's been a surge in making homemade cloth masks for medical professionals and everyday people to wear to help slow the spread of the virus and protect workers who might not have other equipment to use. But the elastic on these and other masks can be really irritating to the backs of the ears when you need to wear a …

DIY Modern Spring Wall Hanging

Learn how to make a pretty seasonal wall hanging to display fresh flowers. You only need a few simple supplies to create this wall decor: a dowel, some rope, and eggshells. You will use the cleaned eggshells as little vases to put fresh or dry flowers. Have fun giving your Easter decor a boho touch. Find out all the details …

DIY Giant Clothespin Gift Idea

My daughter wanted to make a small gift to give to her friends. After a trip to the craft store, she came up with this giant clothespins gift idea. She was able to make these for just a couple of dollars each and personalize them with her friends’ favorite colors. In just 15 minutes, my daughter finished these five giant …

20 DIY Earrings To Make With Clay

This roundup is all about Earrings and Clay, some of these tutorials. Some of these tutorials use Polymer clay and some use Air Drying clay. No matter what choice of clay you use, the tutorials and designs can be implemented for the clay medium you are using. For more tips and tricks on using clays we suggest heading over to …

Artsy Face Coloring Page

Artsy Face Coloring Page

Thankfully many crafting companies are sharing FREE projects, tutorials and download to help us keep busy while at home. Stampington and Company suggests coloring as a good stay at home activity and I couldn't agree more. They're sharing a cool and funky artsy face coloring page you can download, print and color yourself. Click here to get it. -Heather

Tag Shaped Mini Album

Tag Shaped Mini Album

Autumn used large tag shapes held together with fibers for this fun and funky mini tag shaped album. She kept her designs cohesive by only using pink, purple and black with similar circle and star dies shapes and all black and white photos on the pages throughout. Visit the Sew Paper and Paint blog for a closer look. -Heather

How to Make Seed Bombs with Kids

April is Earth Month and more people are looking to start gardens -- even flower gardens! -- this year, so it's the perfect time to be making seed bombs with the kids. These seed bombs from Little Bins for Little Hands use colored construction paper to help hold the seed bombs together. She used earthy colors but plain paper would …

22 Decorative DIY Tea Towels For Your Kitchen

Every year I am gifted a crochet handing tea towel by a dear family friend. It may seem an odd gift but it is not only practical but I have come to rely on this gift arriving each Christmas. Tea towels are a great inexpensive way to add a splash of color to your kitchen and a fun way to …

Free Redwork Embroidery - Little Chef Patterns

These Redwork embroidery patterns are by Kreativekiwiembroidery and she is offering them to you for free. These Redwork stitching patterns would be lovely on plain linen tea towels or kitchen mitts. You can grab the free pattern here. Perfect for anyone who is into baking.

Be a Social Vegan with this Fun Project

This design is actually a few years old, but it popped up for me recently and it seems appropriate for our times. The Pixel Parade Co. on Etsy designed this "social vegan" cross stitch pattern, and though the product description is wrong on the pattern, it's still pretty cute. It looks like seven colors and would probably fit in an …

Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards

Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards

Jenny used paints and alcohol ink to create rustic backgrounds for her Mixed Media ATCs (artist trading cards). She then stamped and die cut letter from her bases and then adhered die cut shapes that she stamped and inked over top. Wrapped wire and sparkly gems add the finishing touches. She sharing step by step photos for her project over …

Free sewing pattern: Easter egg pillow

Free sewing pattern: Easter egg pillow

This Easter egg pillow is a pretty way to decorate your house for spring! The Easter egg appliques are a great way to use up scrap fabrics or feature a favorite print. Amy of Ameroonie Designs has a free pattern at Therm O Web you can use to make it. Go to Therm O Web for the free sewing pattern.

Photo Flip Card

Photo Flip Card

This anniversary card from Heather Ruwe is an amazing way to combine a card and scrapbooking. This flip card made with dies from Lawn Fawn can hold lots of photos to celebrate an special event that the recipient will treasure for a life time. Visit the Hand Made by Heather blog for more. -Heather

Need the best printing and printer advice?

Need the best printing and printer advice?

We have done a very basic non-scientific poll within our family and friends to bring this post. I don't know about you, but our humble printer has taken a beating since we have entered lockdown 3 weeks ago. I have had to print out a lot of documents for offline reading (how long can you read long documents on the …

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