✂️ Frugal crafting recipes save you money on your favorite hobbies. Make your own rubber stamping supplies, glues, pastes, and other craft basics right at home.
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📎 Scrapbooking, stamping, and DIY crafts get easier and cheaper with these homemade recipes.
Make your own embossing ink with powdered dye, alcohol, and glycerin. This budget-friendly craft tutorial shows how to mix, use, and store it.
Make Your Own Bean Bag Chairs!
For lounging in front of the television or curling up to read a book, use this comfortable beanbag chair. Although the name implies that the bag is filled with beans, it is actually filled with polystyrene pellets, making the chair lightweight and moldable. Beanbag chairs can be made in either a child size or an adult size.
Need an inexpensive gift idea for a teacher, a mom, grandparent, baby shower, etc? Make …
Make your own Indoor Sand Castle! Mix a batch of this fun dough up on a yucky day and let the kids pretend they’re at the beach . . .
MYO Magnet Fun You’ll Need the following: 2 sheets of Inkjet Magnet Sheets Computer Printer …
Making your own glue is as simple as boiling water! Here are several different glue recipes for various craft projects.
Create your own funky treasure stones using a few basic household ingredients, including some old coffee grounds! These fun stones hold a hidden treasure.
Create your own Frosty the snowman candy dish as a lovely winter accent for your home, or as a delightful, inexpensive, yet adorable gift idea.
Ive been searching everywhere for a way to make my own Bendaroos. Ya know, those fun bending little strings? They are so expensive. Anyway, I found a way to make them and it works really well! Here’s how . . .
Take advantage of the abundance of beautiful flowers this spring to make your own gorgeous pressed flower gifts, including beautiful flower frames, bookmarks and more. Here is a step by step video explaining how to press flowers:
Whether you’re decorating for an upcoming Hawaiian Luau party or getting ready for Halloween, making …
Make your own gorgeous decoupage personalized serving tray for mom this Mother’s Day for around …
Convert your favorite Teddy Bear into a Safe to store your valuables undetected. This adorable safe can house your jewelry, money, USB Flash drives or even be filled with treats! This particular teddy safe cost less than $3 to make!
Make your own Plarn! What exactly is plarn? It is plastic yarn made from grocery bags. Crocheting and knitting with plarn is a fun and eco-friendly way to reduce environmental waste and make durable totes and baskets for free. Using plarn as an alternative to yarn in any crochet pattern or knitting pattern will be sure to create a heavy duty masterpiece.
MYO Totally Quick and Easy Bed-Time Pocket! How many times have you been in bed and thought, “I wish I had a pocket somewhere here”! You can easily make a bed-time pocket and actually take it with you anywhere you spent the night.
Dreams of living in a castle and defending it from intruders fill the minds of little princes and princesses everywhere. There are books, tales, and movies that tell of such dreams; there are several theme parks about them, too! All little princes and princesses deserve to wear a crown, so I’m going to show you how to make that part of the dream come true.
Bath towels are one of those items that really irk my wallet. They are very …
If you have a child who has been through preschool or kindergarten, then you probably …
As kids we were always told not to “cut-corners”, but here’s a do it yourself re-purposing tip for junk mail where cutting corners is a Good thing!
Check out these fun printable crafty gift boxes that the kids will love putting together, fill them with cookies or candies and hand them out to the trick or treaters in your neighborhood
Make elegant evergreen hurricane candles with a glass holder, fresh greenery, spray adhesive, and a pillar candle for an easy low-cost holiday display.
Looking for a creative way to present homemade mixes, hard to wrap little gifts, stocking stuffers or gift cards? Check out these simple candy wrapper style gift boxes.
If you find yourself sharing casserole dishes or baked goods, etc frequently and sometimes need to leave your dish behind, here’s a wonderful way to personalize your bakeware to ensure you get it back. Alternatively, this is a very well received gift for housewarming, weddings/anniversaries, birthdays and more.
Winter is finally coming to a close and some of those gloves are looking a little ratty! Give them new life and purpose with this super cute craft that transforms old gloves into sweet fuzzy soft chipmunks!
Terracotta pots and saucers are perfect for crafts and here is one that I found ages ago that I absolutely adored. They’re called Terracotta Turtles and they’re made out of a terracotta saucer and a few wooden balls.
Feeling a bit crafty? Print out this free slice of pie template to create individual gift boxes that can be filled with various goodies such as homemade mixes, gift cards, handmade or store-bought jewelry and much more!
Kids and artwork go hand in hand, but here is a very simple way to …
Preserving flowers using wax is so easy, you’ll wonder why you didn’t try it sooner! …
Repurpose leftover cardboard box into an adorable owl! Recovery Workshop! Here’s a great way to …
Transform a Few Nuts into Adorable Turkey Place Settings for Thanksgiving Transform a few nuts …
Button flowers are quickly becoming a popular craft for all ages. Straightforward to make, these …
You’ve probably seen this adorable scarecrow face wreath show up in your social media feeds. …
In cities and suburbs across America, enthusiasts are finding inspiration and motivation from perfect strangers. …
