Recycled snowflakes are one of my very favorite Christmas decorations. They’re easy to make and we have lots of fund making them with the kids.
Butterfly Costume
The last carnivale season was in the name of insect costumes. If you’ve been on this blog before, you probably know that I have been making my children’s costumes myself. Check out also my spider costume that came out together with the two butterfly costumes for our girls.
Origami Mini Book
Our Lily is becoming quite the craftsy kid. She likes to make furniture for her dolls, she makes origami flowers and small gifts for her friends. We made this origami mini book together and actually not just one. We made a pile of them which comes handy now before Christmas. It’s an ideal gift for …
How to Paint a Poppy
I would like to show you how I paint my little flower cards and that you could do the same even if you’re a painting beginner. There are just a few simple steps to follow and you can paint this poppy easily. At the end I’ll show you how I add a little “Thank you” …
Tentacle Journal Cover – polymer clay modelling
In this tutorial I’d like to show you how I made my horror-style tentacle journal cover modelling it from polymer clay. For now, the journal is not available on Etsy, however, you can get it here (the page is in Czech) or contacting me via PM on the facebook page of Creative Mom CZ. This tutorial is …
Recycled mini hats
So you say your dolls have nothing to wear, ey…
Embroidery Llama
Embroider yourself a llama because why not?
Scratch Off Love Card
Are you looking for an original idea for a card for St. Valentine’s Day, anniversary or birthday? Try to make this scratch off card with my tutorial.
Salt dough keychains
My girls decided to make small gifts from salt dough. Do you know this miracle? It’s a great alternative of plasteline or play d’oh. You can dry or bake it and the result is pretty hard and resistant. In this tutorial I will show you how to make a keychain from dried salt dough.
Gift bag
Looking for original gift bags? Just make them yourself!
Christmas cards
This year’s Christmas cards are inspired by the poinsettia plant.
Pillow box
Nice giftbox easy to make. Pick a paper with some nice pattern to bring it to the next level.
Beadweaving – the Flower Ring
Beadweaving What is beadweaving? It is a weaving technique used to create anything from jewelry to animals and boxes using beads, adding them one by one. This technique is very time-demanding and mastering it requires practice, time and patience. The real and fair price of the beadwoven jewelry easily equals that of jewelry made from …
Matchbox suitcase
Lately I’ve made the exploding box for my husband and I decided to stay creative when it came to his birthday. I made him this matchbox suitcase as an alternative to a birthday card.
Pencil stand for kids
Do you also fail horribly when you try to convince your kids to have their room tidy and organized? No worries, most of us do. However, I am never going to stop trying and every now and then I come up with an idea to make things better. This time me and the girls were …
Exploding Box
Me and my husband don’t celebrate our wedding anniversaries big, however, I wanted to give him something personal this year. It took a me a while to get any idea at all but in the end I remembered that a while ago I saw a box that kind of exploded into several layers. My exploding …
Spring cards
Spring is coming and I’m coming with a tip for some handmade spring cards (handmade by me) that you can use as birthday cards or just to make someone smile. Available for purchase here (and hopefully also soon in my eshop in English). And now I’ll let the photos speak:
Squash Card
In the last post I showed you how to make two simple paper decorations that I used in a bigger project (which I’ll show you very soon) and this time I bring you a tutorial on the squash card which is a card that might look simple but only until you open it.
Two folded paper decorations
I would like to dedicate this post to two paper decorations that you can use for your projects – the square envelope and paper box.
Winter decoration
Whether you have snow or not, december is a great time to start with the winter decoration. Therefore, here’s a tutorial on three different paper snowflakes. You’ll need very little, just some paper, pencil, ruler, scissors, glue and something to hang the snowflakes on. And if you add some hot tea or eggnog you can …