Projects — cheap crafts

 Inspired by all the crazy Candy Crush talk in my family and at the office, I made this colorful and sparkly bag!

The kids will love these for Easter!  Grab some cute dollar store socks and items out of your craft stash to make these darling Easter Bunny Sock Puppets.

  Are you ready for the weekend?  Then you need this charming bag.  I made the pouch by sewing thrift store blouses into a patchwork piece of fabric.  Then I used Fairfield Purely Cotton™ 100% natural needlepunched cotton batting sandwiched inside the patchwork fabric and cotton fabric in a marsala color.  I sewed a pouch with a flap, and added a necktie for a shoulder strap.   Next, I made a marsala colored tassel and pinned to the flap of the bag. Here's how: Gather your materials.  You'll need the Large PattieWack Tassel Maker.    Wind yarn on tassel maker...

Here's a cute little card for the kids to make on a rainy day.  They will have fun drawing the stick figure, and making a fan that turns into an umbrella! Gather your supplies of paper in raindrop colors.   Cut and fold card in half. Cut paper for umbrella and fold into 1/2" pleats. Apply glue to one edge of the pleats.   Fold in half and glue together to form the fan/umbrella.   Glue umbrella into crease of card.   Draw a stick figure hold an umbrella handle.  Cut out.   Apply glue to back of stick figure cut-out....

I'm crazy for these dangly bracelets with a little tassels, and I'm really crazy about how super easy they were to make!  They are just right to throw on with a t-shirt and jeans.  Plus, you'd never believe they're made with PattieWack™ Shrink Plastic, either.  They positively look like clear glass until you touch them, which is so cool.  And don't forget, you can make a dozen with just one sheet of shrink plastic. Keep in mind, you can personalize them any way you want.... your name or your friends name, a pet's name, doodle art, an inspirational saying, quotes,...