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The team at Emily's Frugal Tips is in love with diy and craft projects. You will find lots of diy home decor craft ideas, diy crafts home decor, canvas painting ideas, dollar tree craft ideas, adult coloring pages free, and tons of recycled crafts kids will love. One of our most popular posts to date is made with perler beads using a silhouette cameo machine to create perler bead earrings. These biggie bead earrings were a huge hit with all of our readers. If you happen to own a vinyl plotter, Cricut or Silhouette you will find good deals here. You will also find deals on silhouette cameo supplies since that's the machine I use the most, and learn how to create unique silhouette cameo projects that cost pennies to make but look fantastic.
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diy perler earrings
I am about to share a best kept secret to making earring blanks Oh my gosh it is so easy, and I am so excited to share with my readers this awesome diy perler earrings project. It did take me a few tries, and a few questions from the experts over at Rockin’ the Silhouette with Beads facebook group to get the temperature just right. Read on for the fine details as they are important to making this work. This post is for approximately 1/2 inch earring blanks once the beads melts down, and are made from perler beads. You can purchase everything you need on Amazon. Here are the…
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Use Leftover Easter Peeps as the Center of Cooking Crafts
Arts and crafts are a great way to spend time with family and be creative. Using this time to make crafty food for family and friends’ enjoyment is a great way to integrate cooking and crafts together. Using different peeps flavors to shake things up and make a truly memorable dish is also a rewarding use of time and energy. I am sure you have peeps leftover from Easter. Here are some creative ways to use up those Easter peeps. When crafting with food one can choose to make very intricate works of food art, or keep things simple. A simple way to use peeps flavors in the different food…
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Homemade Shaving Cream with Shea Butter for Women
I am sure you’ve seen the Pinterest activity about shaving cream lately. It is HOT. I had no idea so many people were wanting to use homemade cream to shave their legs. Even the guys are partaking in this trend. My homemade shaving cream with Shea butter is phenomenal, and this recipe makes an entire 16 oz jar. After using this shaving cream you won’t want to return to store bought. The supplies you are going to need are below. You will also need a stand mixer or handheld electric mixer. As a last resort you can mix this with a whisk but it won’t be easy, and I personally…
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New Cricut Explore Air Released
This new machine has all the incredible features of the Cricut Explore®, but now it has built-in Bluetooth technology – so your projects can go wherever you go! In addition to being able to cut just about anything, including leather, balsa wood, fabric, vinyl, craft foam, and even silk, cartridges are also included in the software. So anytime you want to use a different cartridge, you just do a quick search on your iPad and it brings up all the images on the cart. How efficient is that?! By far this is the most advanced electronic cutting machine on the market with an unbelievable amount of helpful, time-saving features. While…
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Brother CS6000i, Feature Rich Sewing Machine, With Over 60 Stitches on Sale for 68% Off, Just $143.99
There is a great deal on the very popular Brother CS6000i sewing machine. It normally retails for $449 but is on sale this week for 68% off, making it just $143.99 shipped! Brother is a great brand, and if you are looking for an inexpensive sewing machine that will give you plenty of sewing options this one is it. Versatile, value-packed, perfect for a wide range of sewing and quilting projects Select stitches and adjust stitch length and stitch width via settings seen on the LCD display Stop/start button allows use without included foot control. Variable speed control for easily adjusting your sewing speed Jam-resistant Quick-set top drop-in bobbin makes…
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Silhouette Portrait Machine Review
The Silhouette Portrait is an electric cutting machine that can plug into the computer through the USB port and works with both PC and MAC. This machine can cut over 100 materials including paper, vinyl, cardstock, printable sticker material, magnet sheets, fabric and much more. The Portrait is a smaller portable machine making it perfect for projects up to 8” wide and 10” long. You can use any of the fonts you already have on your computer as well as shapes and patterns you draw yourself. There are thousands of designs that you can downloaded from the Silhouette store and other sites online. Paper crafters will love the using the…
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Ten Ways Women Can Upcycle Their Clothes
What do you usually do with clothes that no longer fit? Do you give them to a charity or do you give them to other family members? When it comes to clothes for children, usually it is possible to give to friends and family with children of similar age. What happens if you simply cannot part with a particular piece, but have no logical use for it? You can upcycle it and make a myriad of different things that can also be useful in your home! Below are a few upcycle ideas you can implement to upcycle your clothes. 1. Create a hat for your son or daughter from a…
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DIY Girl’s Cynthia Rowley Sweater Dress
My latest project was supposed to be a Cynthia Rowley sweater dress for a Christmas present to my daughter. I ended up giving it to her early. Anyway, as you can see from my pictures the end product looks nothing like S2586. There is NOT a problem with the pattern, it’s my doing. I made several changes to the dress. So much so, that the dress is no longer anything like the pattern. That said, here’s the story behind the product. My daughter has been asking for a sweater dress. Knowing my child, I knew I had to get something trendy. She is often identified as “fashion diva” by her…
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DIY Jelly Bean Junction Dress
Jelly Bean Junction: Hoppy Spring collection, Self Drafted Vested Dress. Fabric was found on eBay, and you can look here for fabric ideas. The fabric has the pattern printed on the dress. The pieces will look something like this I am combining an old blog into my main one. so this post it a bit older, and my niece is now 10 years old. You can still find these fabrics on eBay. it is a vintage fabric, but cost is minimal. I apologize for the bad photos, I do not have a way to recreate these for you due to how long ago this post was written. My niece has…
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DIY – Above The Fireplace Family Tree #DIY #crafts
Adding a special element to your home is important It makes your home yours and makes guests feel cozy when they are there visiting. A well decorated home can help reduce stress levels and make you feel at ease when you are having a bad day. A fireplace is a great addition to your home for several reasons. One being that in a working fireplace it adds heat which saves you money since you use less of your furnace. Another reason a fireplace is a great thing to have is it adds a sense of style to your home. The above the fireplace area is a great place to feature…
