there is a new craft blog on the scene and this one is dedicated to all the handy and crafty blokes out there.
ManMadeDIY.com is a new crafting website that doesn’t presume its readers are female. It’s a home for men excited about crafts, art, design, home décor, and food. Men for whom “making” means more than soldering, and who proudly store their knitting needles next to their circular saws.
I am sort of loving the recycled paint tin pendant lights and they have a free downloadable poster ‘happiness is a hot glue gun’ + lots of other great stuff including tool tips, grammar help + crafty haiku.
A totally sweet card from Janice (I can’t find her wrapping paper online, but it is AMAZING). Link to download.
Sarah has been busy with various fun valentine garlands. Including cellophane heart perfect to make with kids and this cut out heart pictured below. This project involved stiffening fabric and then using a heart paper-punch to make a negative heart space on the garland.
[Image from Cori Kindred]
sculpting with fabric scraps with this textile leftovers scarf tutorial. Thanks Jo: it’s great for recycling and using up all those scraps and bit and pieces that you don’t have a use for otherwise.
If you collect vintage cards or happen to have a whole heap in a shoe box stashed somewhere – then here is the cutest way to use a few of them – a card bunting.
