Clay Kindness Flowers Craft

Clay Kindness Flowers Craft

This Clay Kindness Flowers Craft is a lovely way to spread kindness this year.  With the step-by-step tutorial, these are fun to make! February 17th is National Random Acts of Kindness Day.  This calls for a special project. I love to stick darling little picks into plants, candy jars and on cards so decided to get out my Sculpey Bake Shop clay and whip up a batch of Random Acts …

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DIY Plush Animals with Polyfil

DIY Plush Stuffed Animals

Raise your hand if you love stuffed animals or know somebody who is crazy about them.  I have rounded up some of my favorite DIY plush animals to share with you.  All of these were created by my blogger friends and have full sets of directions on their blogs with patterns and photographs.  All of the DIY plush animals are stuffed with Poly-Fil from Fairfield World and a few of …

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Reusable DIY Valentine Boxes

DIY Valentine Bags

These reusable DIY Valentine boxes area actually bags that I made with my Cricut Maker!!  I love them because they can be used year after year.  I also love that they are super cute, fun to make and create a simpler way to haul those cards home from school.  I made them with a plain canvas bag from the craft store and some of my favorite maker supplies.  I can’t …

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Easy Sew BE KIND Pillow

Easy Sew Be Kind Pillow

Easy Sew BE KIND Pillow The world is a crazy place and kindness is the best way I know of to spread peace.  This easy sew kindness pillow comes together in about an hour and creates a practical and adorable addition to one of my favorite pieces of furniture, my bed.  I love the way it looks against the quilt my mom got me in the Appalachian Mountains when I …

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Be Kind Handmade Cards

Be Kind Handmade Card DIY

Kindness matters.  It is free and it makes the biggest difference of anything I’ve known.  These Be Kind handmade cards are super adorable and easy peasy to make.  They are fun to send to friends and also as thank you notes.  I don’t know about you but I LOVE getting cards in the mailbox.  This post is sponsored by Xyron, the makers of the Creative Station, but the ideas and …

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Clay Bug Garden Stakes

Sculpey Bugs on Sticks for the Garden

Clay Bug Garden Stakes Making fun things to add the garden creates a away for kiddos to get involved.  These darling polymer garden stakes are a great way to decorate spring or summer plants whether indoors on pots or outdoors in the garden.  I like to call them kindness bugs because they are so cheerful and happy in appearance. They can be made small or large, depending on where they are …

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Crafty Happy Hour Featuring Valentines

Crafty Happy Hour 2020 Valentines

YAY!  It is time for Crafty Happy Hour featuring Valentines.  I am hosting the event in two places this year so if you are local to either of my home towns, you can join in!  Don’t worry if you live far away, I am shipping kits this year so you can participate too!  You can grab kits in my online store right HERE! When are the Events? The first event …

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Seasons of Love Subway Art

The song Seasons of Love is such a reminder that life is NOW.  The whole show is really a great big giant reminder that life is NOW.  I created this Seasons of Love subway art for my studio and no sooner than I hung it up, my 23 year old son asked if he could have it.  It was inspired by my recent visit to DPAC to see Rent. Let’s …

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Packaging Sweet Treats for Valentine’s Day

Packaging Sweet Treats with Expressionery Custom Stamps by Laura Kelly

I sent some of my favorite stamps that I design for Expressionery to the awesome peeps on my Laura Kelly Design Team at the beginning of the month. Full disclosure, Expressionery provided the stamps for me to give away which was totally awesome. I always love to see how others use the stamps and gosh, these ideas are awesome. Packaging sweet treats for Valentine’s Day and really every single day …

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Conversation Heart Valentine Garland Decor

Conversation Heart Valentine Garland Decor This conversation heart Valentine garland is adorable and easy peasy to create.  Because it is made using Cricut’s Explore Air 2 and Easy Press, it is totally customizable so can be personalized with all of your favorite words of love, affirmation and kindness.  It is awesome because it can be hand stitched OR machine sewn, allowing another level of versatility. ALL of the pieces can …

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