Thank you for participating in the Hot Glue Gun Helper giveaway! If you aren’t the lucky winner, I hope you will rush over to the Hot Glue Gun Helper Etsy shop and snatch up a few for yourself and your glue-gunning friends! This is a picture of me with Cathie, one of the inventors of HGGH. She is one of the nicest professional crafters I …

If you’ve never used freezer paper for crafting, you need to run out and get some NOW! It’s so handy for a bunch of different things, and makes custom “screen printing” so very easy! I love this idea from I am Momma Hear Me Roar for a special kid drawing t-shirt just in time for Father’s day. The instructions are simple and the final product …

Summer sneaked up on me this year! I’m not going to let the 4th of July do the same without a little planning. How about these adorable chalk favors by Sarah at the Bowdabra Blog? Such a simple, cute, and unique idea, and who doesn’t love chalk? Kids can use it to draw on the sidewalk, or maybe you can provide them with another chalkboard …

Over at Mich L. in LA, our friend (and intrepid dollar store crafter) Michelle is constantly amazing us with her innovation. Check out her most recent reuse project: dressing ho-hum beads up in a jaunty silicone sleeve. Where did she find such a silicone sleeve, you ask? Well, come closer my children and you shall hear the tale of Mich L. and her plastic cheerios! …

Have you seen the fake eye tattoos that are all the rage right now?  They’re fun, but they don’t go on very easily and seem like they would be kind of a pain.  If you like the look but don’t want to spend the money on the temporary tats, here’s a stroke of brilliance.  Christine from Design by re:Birth credits her 14-year-old daughter for coming …

I love my hot glue gun. BUT. I hate getting burned, and the thought of getting burned while working on stuff sometimes keeps me from getting my hot glue gun out. Some other crafters thought so too, which is why they invented Hot Glue Gun Helpers!
My friend Cathie Filian and her crafty-partner-in-crime Steve Piacenza are well-known crafters and crafty tv hosts (of HGTV’s Creative Juice, …

When Craftster user Burgz came across some reusable ice cubes at the dollar store, she immediately thought of a video tutorial she’d seen for making a necklace using bouncy balls and some hosiery.  She replaced the balls with cubes and tossed it in the freezer.  Now on the next too-hot-to-move day, she can pull it out for some stylish relief.  She even had enough materials …

I have the utmost respect for crafters who make beautiful things out of trash.  I’m one of those people who saves all kinds of random odds and ends (case in point: my collection of hundreds of plastic bread tabs) and while it’s one thing to have what basically amounts to an organized stockpile of garbage, it’s another entirely to actually put that stuff to use!  …

Michelle at A Little Tipsy got clever and made these oversized dominoes out of 2×6 boards, paint, some clever sticker placement, and a coat of Envirotex Lite resin to make everything shiny. She used her anniversary date to choose the numbers on the dominoes, as a clever little secret message. These dominoes are a cool graphic element for your home decor, and would be at …

If you’re a green-minded gardener, this is an idea you will adore!  Carolyn from Carolyn’s Homework used empty plastic Parmesan cheese containers and plastic bakery trays from danishes to assemble tiny recycled greenhouses that are perfect for seedling-sized terra cotta pots.  (I’ll admit, I inherited my mother’s brown thumb so I’m not so brilliant when it comes to plants.  But I’d love to make these …