New Products: Holographic Paper by Inns Creative and Gold Vinyl by Decorating Your Life

Our Seasonal Department has two new great products in stock now,  Holographic Paper by Inns Creative and Gold Vinyl from Decorating Your Life. Two samples were made using each of these new products and they are truly wonderful!

Take a look at this glass block with the gold vinyl and the holographic paper with lights. The left photo is of the block with lights on and room lights on. The right photo is with the blocks lights on and the room lights are off!

Of course we had to take a video so you get a glimpse of how it looks in action! It looks even better in person! Come see these samples out on the sales floor today!

Here is another store sample -

These blocks are really easy to make. Grab a light set, a vinyl saying or image of your choice, our Holographic paper, a glass block and any additional embellishments or ribbon you would like.

Holographic Paper by Inns Creative

Win It Wednesday 10/22/2014

Welcome to another WIN IT WEDNESDAY! This week our Win It Wednesday is the supplies to make a Candy Corn Banner. 

Just Comment and Like our Facebook post to enter to win. A random winner will be announced Thursday, October 23, 2014. (Facebook has complete release by each entrant or participant. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.) Winner will be announced on our Crafts Direct Facebook page and has 14 days to claim prize (Winner must pick up in-store or provide shipping address) before it is considered void.

Modern "Joy" Tree

Susie in the Seasonal Department created another stunning themed tree!

Win It Wednesday - September 17, 2014

Welcome to another WIN IT WEDNESDAY! This week our Win It Wednesday is a Fall Pumpkin Project.

Just Comment and Like this post on Facebook to enter to win. A random winner will be announced Thursday, September 18, 2014. (Facebook has complete release by each entrant or participant. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.) Winner will be announced on our Crafts Direct Facebook page and has 14 days to claim prize (Winner must pick up in-store or pay shipping) before it is considered void.

Project Ideas: Hair Clips.

We recently added some new products to our Hair Accessory room, and some new project ideas too! We have lots of options for hair products: such as flowers, headbands, binders, barrettes, etc. that are ready to use as they are.

However, if you would also like to add a little bit of fun crafting to create some unique hair pieces we have some great ideas to share with you. 

First, not for hair itself - but a great way to keep all the hair stuff organized - Melissa created this adorable box using one of our SPC stationary pieces. You can find a project sheet for this Hair Stuff Box here.

 

We have a couple hair clip projects that were created using ribbon.
You can find a project sheet for this Fish Hair Clip here.

And a project sheet with instructions on how to create this Owl Hair Clip here.

And finally, a couple ways to create Pinwheel Hair Clips using felt and buttons. You can find a project sheet for these pieces here.

Bakers Twine.

If you love Bakers Twine as much as I do you will want to check out the changes we made to aisle 11 in our Paper Crafts Department!!

You can now find all of the styles, colors, brands, and lengths in one place! We have bakers twine available from Queen & Co., Doodlebug, We R Memory Keepers and Darice. I'm sure you can find bakers twine to match any project you have or you can always find the bakers twine you love and then figure out how to use it!

25 Days of Christmas 2011: Day 11

Day 11: Decorative Dishtowels

Dishtowels are always a useful gift and can easily add a festive touch to your home too. Today I wanted to share a few samples Erica has created that I think would be great gift ideas - and are all really easy and inexpensive to make!

The first towel is this Ribbon Tree Dishtowel. Super simple to make, the only supplies you need are ribbon, a button, some thread and the dishtowel. A project sheet for this dishtowel can be found HERE.

 

The next towel is the Snowman Dishtowel. For this towel we added fabric to a dishtowel using Heat-n-Bond and then stitched around the appliqued pieces. So easy yet so cute! A project sheet for this towel can be found HERE.

 

Finally, how about creating an entire set of Days of the Week Dishtowels. Use your favorite fabric to add a few letters to the corners of seven dishtowels...and you have a great (and useful!) gift. A project sheet for these towels can be found HERE.

Happily Ever After Series!

This is a series of classes we are offering for all brides to be. We are offering 5 different classes in this series that will be offered Sunday afternoons throughout the month of March. You are welcome to sign up for one class or all five. The 5 classes are Ribbon/Bow, Boutonniere & Corsage, Wedding Favor/Invite, Bridal Bouquet, and a Centerpiece Class. These classes will inspire Brides to add their own personal touch to make their wedding day more memorable.

If you haven't yet you should check out this weeks ad. It features wedding invites and favors, a sampling of what the class will offer.

Spring Photo Board

Earlier I showed you a french inspired bulletin board but I said that there were so many other possibilities that I wanted to show you. I decided that this photo board was too cute to pass by! We started with a 16x20 canvas and covered it with batting and fabric using a staple gun on the back side of the canvas. For this board we used Michael Miller fabric. Then we created our grid pattern with a mixture of scrapbooking ribbon from American Crafts and basic craft ribbon. To secure the ribbon we also used a staple gun on the back frame of the canvas. Don't be afraid to layer patterns that coordinate with one another not just coordinating solid ribbon. To give added support to the ribbon as well as decoration we used Making Memories brads which were poked through the fabric, batting and canvas. You may need to use an X-acto knife to poke through all of the fibers together. We will be displaying the photo board shortly but make sure to ask our employees if you have any questions on how to put it together! Just to give you a heads up, some of my fellow employees will be joining us to blog about what is going on in their departments and what they are excited about. That way you don't have to hear from me all the time! I hope that you have a great weekend and I will be back Monday with some exciting news!! Tiff

Tea Towels

If you have been checking our blog from the very beginning you may remember when I talked about giving your flour sack towels an update. (If not check out the January Archives!) Today I have a project for you that was done for the store to give you an idea of what you can do to spice up a traditional craft. We used the everyday white flour sack towel but we cut it down in size to create 4 fancy tea towels. We cut the flour sack towel in 4 even sections and then hemmed our ragged edges. The embroidery was done using one of our Savvy Stitches embroidery kits which we had mentioned before. These kits are great because the patterns are very modern, they can be used several times, and if you aren't an embroidery pro no worries, they come with directions and everything you need to get started. The edges are what gives this tea towel a unique look. We used rick rack, ribbon, and a ruffled trim. Each was sewn on one at a time. Rick rack can get a little tricky so make sure you get it wide enough to fit your stitches down the middle. Hopefully this will just get the ball rolling for you and you can make it your own. The best part that I have found of embroidery is that it is probably the most inexpensive craft out there so you can splurge on the accessories!
Tiff

National Craft Month Projects!

We are celebrating National Craft Month here at Crafts Direct the entire month of March. I just wanted to remind you that the deadline for entries for the first ever Crafting Contest is this Friday and also that our Free Craft Night is this Thursday from 6:30 to close. In honor of National Craft Month we are going to give you a new project idea every day for the rest of this month! Give us feed back and let us know if you like the projects and if you try them at home show us your pictures! Lately I have been a little obsessed with Adorn magazine. It is full of trendy new ideas for craft projects and my personal favorite, home decor projects. They had an entire section on "amping up your lamp". I had never realized how many different things that you could use to dress up a plain lampshade. In the samples that we did for the store we used fabric, trims, buttons, and ribbon. If you want to start fresh with a new lampshade instead on one you already have try out the self-adhesive lampshades that we have, it made putting fabric on my lampshade the easiest part of the process. The label on the shade is even a pattern for you to trace on your fabric. Otherwise you might want to use a hot glue gun, also works great just not as quick. We just got in another shipment of new fabric today from Michael Miller that would be perfect for home decor projects. You definitely don't have to be a seasoned crafter, it is as easy as gluing and tying knots. Have fun, hope to see some sassy shades soon!
Tiff