If you’ve never heard of Mark Montano, he’s a craft designer (one of the rare dude designers!) who writes awesome books full of aMAZing projects, quite often created on the cheap.  You may also recognize his name from television, where he hosted the shows “Ten Years Younger” and “My Celebrity Home,” as well as frequent appearances as a designer on “While You Were Out.”  On …

Whether you are planning Christmas dinner for your immediate family or you’re entertaining a party of 100,  favor boxes of candy or small gifts are a fun addition to your place settings.  Continuing with our series of post about printables, we bring you a snowflake favor box.  Just print, cut out, fold along the lines, and apply a small amount of adhesive to the tabs.  …

Today I’d like to welcome Paula of JC’s Loft to Dollar Store Crafts. She is our resident faux flower crafting genius, and previously showed us how to make a faux flower monogram. Today she’s back with a seasonal project that will make a cute gift for friends, family, or teachers: a faux flower snowman family. I might just have to make this for my son’s …

It’s been awhile since we had a reader question! Everyone brainstorm now! Have you seen these light kits at the dollar store? Reader Dana wrote in and asked: “I was in dollar tree yesterday and saw that they had light/lamp kits, basically a light bulb with a cord to plug in. Do you have any ideas how to make cheap but safe lamps …

My boys are avid fans of the game Angry Birds.  They love to play it on Daddy’s phone — however, they truly enjoy the whole concept of the game, and love role-playing it!  Well, I too have had Angry Birds on the brain.  But I haven’t been playing it; in fact, in all honesty I am just no good at it.  But I have taken my boys’ love of …

Over at The Stories of A to Z, Beth made a show-stopping faux capiz shell garland for her Christmas Tree, inspired by this chandelier. The garland costs next to nothing in supplies, but will take you a chunk of time to complete. The look is so earthy and ethereal (at the same time!) that you might want to try it, anyway [how to make a …

The best hostess gifts are projects that are cheap and easy to make, and can be made assembly line style.  I found these cute plastic candy jars at the dollar store and transformed them into old timey apothecary-style jars with a colorful twist. Fill the apothecary jar with sweets for an inexpensive hostess gift sure to brighten up anyone’s day. Make one for teachers, your …

We’ve been talking recently about how great free printables are for cheap crafting on the fly.  In this guest post, DSC reader Maria Rainier shows us another example with a tutorial for using a printable to make a quick and easy popup Christmas card.  Thanks much, Maria!  – Rhonda
With the holiday shopping season coming up, it’s easy to just take a deep sigh and simply …

Hey there Dollar Store Crafters! A few weeks ago Heather posted her awesome finds from the dollar section of Target, including some clear photo cubes.  Seeing these cubes gave me a GREAT idea! I’m sure you’ve seen a thousand versions of the wood blocks projects out there — they’re adorable! I’m tempted to buy some unfinished wood blocks every time I’m in the craft store, …

It seems like I never have enough of those little clips they make for holding food packages closed.  That’s why I was delighted when I saw this post from Leanne at Organize and Decorate Everything.  She took plain clothes pins and dressed them up, making custom clips for all kinds of things in her pantry and refrigerator.  Functional meets fabulous!  This is just one of …