Marion teaches us how to use a technique involving lace and glitter mist to make the lace look vintage. The lace can be placed in a bucket to spray the glitter mist from Tattered Angels onto the lace. Doing this in the spray bucket allows you to avoid spraying anything else in your work area. Marion uses the Old Lace Glimmer Mist, Suede, Cream de Coco, and Sherbert spray colors for this technique. This combination of the sprays allows you to create an old and vintage look on lace that can be ...
Learning how to make a piece of jewelry can be a daunting task, but this straight forward tutorial gives you all the skills needed to perfect the craft of making friendship bracelet. Starting with just a few simple pieces of string, one can make this very simple DIY project. Although the materials are cheap to procure, the end result is anything but cheap looking. The candy stripe design adds to the charm of this whimsical bracelet. Make one for all your friends today!
The hippie bohemian trend is BACK!! This fun video is a step by step guide to dying your very own tie dye clothing just like they wore in the 70's! Not your style? You can tie dye your bed sheets for a groovy retro feel. Tie dye is very fun, colorful and cheery and perfect for kids to complete as a craft project! You can buy each child a white t-shirt and help them tie dye their shirts. Each one will have its own original design!
Hosting a Halloween party and looking for some inspiration? ThreadBanger's Decor It Yourself is here to help with a few spooky ideas that can be thrown together at home and for cheap! Projects include eerie terrariums, adding red to the eyes in your portrait wall art, and bloody-ing up your shower curtain like a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
This week, Kenley Collins, of the Project Runway fame, shows us how to turn an old vintage skirt into a summer must have with fabric paints. Follow along with the tips in this how-to video, and revamp some of your own old clothes.
Special Guest Threadbanger Ryan Moore shows us how to make a pair of summer shorts from an old pair of jeans and fellow threadbangers share their ideas and projects. This video sewing lesson is a quick and handy renewable fashion tip. Follow along with the steps and beat the heat.
Just in time for Mothers' Day comes this great tutorial on how to make a Upcycled Spring time Capelet from one of our beloved Threadheads. This sewing project is a great renewable fashion statement, and is easy to make; just follow the steps in the video.
This how-to video series shows a simple technique for needle felting foot shapes and toes for a soft sculpted character. While the finished felted product looks professional, the process is much easier than you would think. You will need some wool and a needle. Watch this video crafting tutorial and learn how to shape feet and toes, as well as attach them to a larger needle felting project.
This how-to video series shows a simple technique for needle felting hand shapes and fingers for a soft sculpted character. While the finished felted product looks professional, the process is much easier than you would think. You will need some wool and a needle. Watch this video crafting tutorial and learn how to shape hands and fingers, as well as attach them to a larger needle felting project.
Double-knitting may sound like twice the work, but it's a technique of knitting with two lengths of yarn to create a piece that's double-sided. This is great for crafting-projects that require extra warmth, and because the two sides are actually attached, there will be no middle pocket. Follow along with these video knitting lessons and learn how to double knit.
See how to use a Multi-Mandrel and watch demonstrator Scott make a set of buttons in no time flat in this how-to video. The multi-mandrel hold several pieces of glass as they're shaped into buttons, beads, or the desired craft project. Watch this video glass-work tutorial series and learn how to make glass buttons using a multi-mandrel.
The beauty of home crafting projects is in transforming old junk into something you can use. Host Heather's how-to video shows how to make quick and easy napkin rings to add a little bit of flair to the table. You will need plastic shower curtain rings, clippers, ribbon, rhinestones or any other embellishments, and a hot glue gun. Find out how to make quick and easy napkin rings from old plastic shower curtain rings by watching this video tutorial.
This how-to video from a Piece of Craft shows a way to take some fall seasonal gourds to make a decorative centerpiece for you Thanksgiving tabletop. You will need artificial leaves and berries, candles, and gourds. Watch this video hosting tutorial and learn how to craft a turkey shaped Thanksgiving table-top centerpiece.
Learn how to make decorative seasonal napkin holders for all four seasons in this free video series on entertaining and dinner crafts.
Great unique and interesting glassware gifts. Learn how to etch glasses, jars and and other glass items in this homes crafts series from a glass project expert.
Use the Sew a Button presser foot to sew flat buttons on your garments or craft projects. It's easy, and fun once you've got the method down. The Singer sew a button presser foot comes both as a screw-on foot or a clip-on foot for the slant shank adapter. Great for those of us who always poke ourselves hand sewing buttons. Learn how to sew on a button with a Singer sewing machine by watching this video sewing tutorial.
This video jewelry-making tutorial shows how to make a Swarovski crystal spacer bar bracelet. For this craft project you will need crystals, space bars, silver rounds beads, crimp beads, and a three string clasp. Learn how to make a Swarovski crystal spacer bar bracelet by watching this how-to video.
Learn how to make this fun Christmas craft! Making Christmas ornaments out of craft foam is easy by cutting out tree or wreath shapes and gluing down holly, bows and mini ornaments, all cut out of foam. Use craft foam to make simple Christmas ornaments with instructions from an experienced craftswoman in this free video on Christmas crafts.
There are thousands of uses for tape, and plenty of different types of it, too. Masking tape is perfect for labeling, double-sided tape is great for crafts, and duct tape is good for...well, just about everything.
This adorable "smile frog" greeting card is a wonderful craft because it can be given out to loved ones year round. The cardstock frog has googly eyes and a teeny pink heart inside his stomach.
Rag doll making is a fun and creative project that incorporates basic sewing and other craft techniques. Learn how to create handmade rag dolls with tips from a seamstress and craft expert in this free doll making video series.
This 3 part series will show you how to draw a series of googly eyes to put on your crafts. Small eyes, surprised eyes, wide eyes, they're all appropriate here! Just watch each part to learn all the different types of eyes that you can draw. Your crafts will never look better!
Now that spring is almost upon us, it's time to shed your winter clothes, shovel the snow off the doorstep, and start your spring crafting! There's no better way to celebrate the return of life and color than with a flower origami craft.
These cometa flowers are made from Italian cometa ribbon. Velvety and smooth, they are easy to craft with and can be quickly turned into beautiful blooms that can adorn your wedding favors.
Baby birds, and baby animals in general, are traditional symbols of spring. With their bright, cheery faces and can't-resist fuzziness, they represent new life and rejuvenation during the spring season.
This purple skunk greeting card doubles as a Valentine's Day card and a kid's birthday card. It depicts a smiling purple skunk holding a cute bouquet of flowers, an adorable tableau that will perk up your recipient's day.
If you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, then Valentine's Day is truly a beautiful, memorable occasion filled with lots of dining, wining, and hearts popping out of your heads like those cheesy cartoons.
With football season in full swing and the famed Superbowl coming up, if you have a football fan in your life you've probably been updated as to which nights have been X-ed out on his calender for game night with the boys.
When it comes to Valentine's Day, undoubtedly the Hallmark Holiday extraordinaire of the year, pink and red-hued cards are in plentiful stock at all major retailers. But rather than buy a mass-produced card, why not show a bit more love for your, well, love, by making your own card?
Take your mind off the dreariness of winter by crafting for spring! These sturdy and beautiful candy boxes can be made in any color and design you'd like with simple - and inexpensive - scrapbooking paper.
Valentine's Day is coming up in only a little more than a month (we know, it seems like it was just Christmas a few days ago), so get ready to shower your amor - or amores - with love and candy by crafting this cute candy box.
These wee 3X3 cards may be small, but they sure do make a charming impact when sent to friends as Thank You cards or small "Just Because" notes. Made from craft supplies that can all be found at Michael's for $1 each, these mini blank cards are also wallet-friendly.
We thank and bow down to whoever invented gift cards. A great way to give your recipient what he/she wants without having to slave over whether the turquoise cashmere sweater or the navy blue cashmere sweater looks best, gift cards are the way to go for procrastinators.
Is your dog the apple of your eye? Then integrate some doggy decor into your life by crafting this useful and highly cute binder clip. Embellished with an adorable scalloped stamp featuring a teeny blue bone in the center, this binder clip is possibly the chicest we've seen.
Relax eco-friendly sisters: No real cigarettes were used in the making of these cigarette glasses craft. Check out this crafting video to learn how to make a striking replica of the smoking cigarette glasses Lady Gaga wears in her "Telephone" music video.
Want to look like Lady Gaga without breaking the bank with all those expensive costumes? Then check out this DIY tutorial to learn how to craft the iron "fence" glasses Lady Gaga wears in her "Lovegame" video.
Have your Christmas tree up finally but have very little time to adorn it? Not a problem. Instead of resorting to those cheap shatterproof ornaments you can get at any drugstore, put a more homespun - and beautiful - touch on your tree this year by crafting your own ornaments. Check out this video to learn how to make paper flower ornaments.
If you're running low on time and short on money this holiday season, there is a way to still give your friends and family presents without having to resort to cliche $5 Russell Stover chocolates from the drugstore.
Add instant art school style to your outfit by crafting this propeller Steampunk brass ring. Steampunk style, which fuses Victorian/industrial age style with anachronisms like old watch parts and propellers, is on trend right now with Hollywood as well as the indie craft scene.
This is a fun and festive craft you can use to dress up your home or give away as a gift. All you will need are some of your favorite vintage graphics, your chosen cardboard box, a craft knife and a hot glue gun.
