DIY Mother’s Day Gift: Personalized Clipboard PLUS Craft Attitude Giveaway

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Do you have your Mother’s Day gift yet?  Here’s an idea you can make yourself in a matter of hours!  My mom is a list-maker – she loves her lists and she loves to organize.  You will often see her walking around with a clipboard and pen and I decided it was about time she [...]

Mother’s Day #CraftyHangouts Coming Up

All next week we will be having fun with Hangout on Air.  Get ready for some Mother’s Day LIVE videos with a great group of creative bloggers and will both inspire and teach you their tricks.  Follow along right here on Crafty Hangouts and visit the lovely ladies on Google+ so you don’t miss a [...]

Happy Mother’s Day

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Mom and me 1965                                Mom I cannot forget my mother.  She is my bridge.  When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.  ~Renita Weems My daughter and my mother Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.  – Unknown Two favourite [...]

TP Roll Mini Album

A while back I made this tp roll mini album.  I started making it as a demo on an online crafting show and my buddy Roberta Birnbaum (Robi Cohen) oohed and ahhed over it.  It was then that I knew I would have to turn it into something special for her 50th birthday! The wonderful [...]

Mother’s Day: Coffee Cup Sleeve

It’s hard to find gift ideas for my mom sometimes.  Well, that’s not entirely true.  My mom has a lot of interests and really it could be very easy to find something for her.  The problem is that she is 78 years old and lives with my sister.  So, really, she already has everything she [...]

Quick & Easy Mother’s Day Crafts

There’s my mom in the middle between my daughter and me! I thought since Mother’s Day is coming up I’d remind you of a few of my favourite projects suitable for Mother’s Day gifts. On the left is a flower pot filled with pens made to look like flowers blooming out of it – makes [...]

Mini Scrapbook from Toilet Paper Rolls

Today on Cool2Craft I demonstrated how to make this cute mini scrapbook.  The main material used for the covers and pages…TOILET PAPER TUBES! You need to start by flattening your tubes.  Each tube makes a page.  I found that 6 tubes was pretty much the maximum I could get in a book without it being [...]

Slip-covered Photo Frames

These frames are quick, easy, and fun to make!  You can adapt them to any colour scheme, occasion, or seasonal theme.  One year I made a dozen of them as a gift so that the recipient could change them out each month.  You only need one frame and the slipcovers are essentially flat, so they [...]

Little Photo Album Brooches

I just love making these photo brooches!  They’re quick, easy, and inexpensive to make and they even make use of some recycled materials.  They make lovely gifts and one advantage of them is that they are small and fairly flat, so it’s easy to tuck one into a greeting card and mail it off to [...]