Crafts

Creative Block {a Mother’s Day Gift Idea using ScotchBlue™ Painter’s Tape}

Mother’s Day is this weekend! Have you decided how to show her your appreciation and love?! I did! My mother is a professional artist. She creates amazing paintings that inspire others and brighten their homes. For Mother’s Day I wanted to brighten her studio with these art utensil holders. I call them “Creative Blocks.” (Or maybe they should be Creative Unblocks. LOL.)

They were easy and fun to make and certainly a project that you can customize to meet your needs. And best of all, the kiddies can help with the painting step! [Read more...]

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Filed Under: accessories, art, arts and craft, Build It, Crafts, Mother's Day, Paintbrushes, painting, storage, Trash to Treasure, Tutorial, Uncategorized, Upcycling, wood putty

DIY Beadboard Picture Frames

8 May posted by Jacque Knowlton

Last month Matt showed you all how to build a decorative shelf with crown molding for our half bath. The shelf is perfect for the space and I love it. Unfortunately something felt like it was missing from the shelf. After some thought I decided that our shelf needed picture frames! Beadboard picture frames to be exact.

Today I am going to show you how to DIY your own beadboard picture frames! [Read more...]

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How to Make Thumbprint Design Envelope Pillows {Great Gift Idea}

1 May posted by Cristina Garay

Hello, Pretty Handy Girl readers! It’s Cristina from Remodelando la Casa once again happy to share an easy and fun project where kids are more than welcome to give a helping “thumb”

Thumbprint starfish pillow2 with tag

Envelope pillows are the easiest pillow covers I’ve sewn and let me tell you, my sewing skills are not that good. A fabric rectangle is folded to create an “envelope”, four simple straight lines to sew and your cover is done! No zippers, no Velcro, the envelope holds the pillow really well. [Read more...]

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How to Fix Your Garden Gnome (and Other Garden Decor)

24 Apr posted by Jeff Patterson

Garden gnomes are the cute little guardian angels that watch over our homes. And sometimes they get a bit neglected.

In our case the poor fella was beaten up a bit by string trimming and the sun.

So today I’m going to share how you can fix any small holes or cracks and repaint your gnome so that it looks like new. These tips will also work with other garden decor that you’d like to repair.

Here are the supplies you need

Hydraulic cement
Bucket
Margin trowel
Gloves
Great stuff
Old towel
Rust-Oleum Primer (spray)
Hobby paint brushes
Valspar paint samples
Rust-Oleum Clear Coat (spray)

This is a pretty fun project and the kids can participate, too.

Let’s get to it

Kids Bookend Kit: Build your own bookend

17 Apr posted by Jaime Costiglio

Do your kids want to build and paint just like you? This project a great beginner build for young ones who want to get in there and make something to call their own. And once they’re done building they can paint it too!

Or give the build as a unique personalized gift for that artsy friend who loves to paint:

Attach a cute gift tag (download my tag free from here) and include some fun acrylic paint colors and brushes:

This project is super kid friendly, I tested it at my 6 year old daughter’s birthday party and all the girls absolutely loved building their own project . We used kid sized drills (like these kid sized drills) and they truly enjoyed painting their bookends: [Read more...]