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Making It Pretty at CHA

kayte terry, contributor | January 30th, 20092 comments

Cute bits of craftiness at CHA.

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Make Your Loved Ones Something Sweet for Valentine's Day

kayte terry, contributor | January 29th, 20094 comments

Make a batch of cookies and wrap them up crafty-style for Valentine's Day!

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How to Make a Valentine from an Onion

Jeffery Rudell, contributor | January 26th, 200936 comments

When I was single, I used to hate Valentine's Day: the cloying emotion of store-bought cards, the exaltation of all things couple-oriented. Then I wised up and created my own tradition. Here is a Valentine for single people everywhere.

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Special Delivery: Share Your Love

Susan Beal, contributor | January 23rd, 20091 comment

Etsy is organizing a lovely handmade Valentines drive—send in your crafty cards and they'll deliver them to seniors in New York City!

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How to Make Dangly Earrings with Magazine Pages

kayte terry, contributor | January 22nd, 200910 comments

A couple pages of a magazine, some glue, and a few jewelry findings are all you need to make these stunning, modern earrings!

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How to "Waste" Paper

Jeffery Rudell, contributor | January 19th, 200910 comments

If necessity is the mother of invention, then poverty must be its father. Here, frugality, utility, simplicity, and creativity join forces to create a handsome trash can from a handful of trash.

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How to Make a Woven Scrap Journal

Diane Gilleland, contributor | January 16th, 200914 comments

Build a simple cardboard weaving loom, and raid your stash for yarn and fabric to weave up a journal cover. Fill it with pages from your recycling bin, and you have a useful blank book that costs nothing to make.

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How to Make Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With Strings

Jeffery Rudell, contributor | January 12th, 20096 comments

A mayfly has a longer life span than most brown bags. Why do so many of these sturdy containers end up being disposed of long before they've lost their usefulness? A little design modification attempts to rescue the humble brown bag.

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Win Some Free Goodies from Amy Butler

Caitlin Channing, contributor | January 9th, 2009

The new Fringe Benefits sweepstakes is all about Amy. Including notecards, journals, and books, this sweepstakes is super sweet!

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How to Recycle Magazines into Jewelry

Diane Gilleland, contributor | January 9th, 200923 comments

If you have a surplus of old magazines, tear out some pages and whip up a pretty coiled pendant. They're so quick to make, you can build a whole wardrobe of them!

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"100% Trash, So You Know It's Good!"

Jeffery Rudell, contributor | January 5th, 200912 comments

Dive into a dumpster, rescue some refuse, and get ready to make gifts out of garbage. This week we look at protecting our natural resources, and the most natural resource we have (in need of the most protecting we can offer) is the one called "creativity."

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How to Make Papier Mache Bowls with Your Holiday Leftovers

kayte terry, contributor | January 1st, 200913 comments

After all the presents have been wrapped, opened, and put away, bags and bags of tissue and wrapping paper end up in the recycling bins or, worse, the garbage. Here's a way to use all that stuff to make artful papier mache bowls!

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DIY: A Manifesto (of Sorts) in Four Parts

Jeffery Rudell, contributor | December 29th, 20089 comments

Because it is convenient to do so, the craft world is often divided into myriad categories: from those who knit and crochet to those who make jewelry or do decoupage or scrapbook or quilt. In truth, though, one of the most compelling divisions between crafters is rarely mentioned at all: the division between those who craft because they can and those who craft because they must.

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How to Transform a Holiday Tin

Diane Gilleland, contributor | December 26th, 20088 comments

At the end of every Christmas season, it seems like I've accumulated a few too many holiday tins. So why not decoupage them into year-round storage containers?

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Living on Scraps: The CraftStylish Interview with Jeffery Rudell

Jeffery Rudell, contributor | December 22nd, 20082 comments

CraftStylish talks with our paper blogger; and he talks...and talks...and talks...right back to us.

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Disc-y Decorations!

Mary Ray, contributor | December 19th, 20081 comment

From high-tech to low-tech, here’s a quick way to trim a tree.

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How to Recycle Old Holiday Cards into Garland

Diane Gilleland, contributor | December 19th, 20085 comments

If you can't bear to toss last year's holiday cards but you don't quite know what to do with them, try making this simple garland. It's a project even little hands can do, and a great way to gather the family for an afternoon of movies, cocoa, and crafting.

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