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Tutorials

Tutorial: A super-simple way to cover a composition book

March 7, 2010

I loves me some of those old-school composition books. Last August, our local Fred Meyer had them on sale for 25 cents apiece for back-to-school, and K and I laid in a stock to get us well into our old age.

I’ve been noodling with ways to make them look prettier. There are tons of tutorials [...]

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Video: How to Evaluate an Opportunity (when you aren’t getting paid)

February 23, 2010

Evaluating an Opportunity (when you aren’t getting paid) from Diane Gilleland on Vimeo.

If you’re a craft blogger (or really, any kind of blogger), chances are good that sooner or later, someone will contact you and ask you to contribute something to their website. Sometimes, it’s a corporate website looking for free content, and sometimes, it’s [...]

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How to Make 3D Paper Hearts

February 10, 2010

Ooh! I just noticed that this project I did for The Oregonian has just posted to their website.

Follow this link to the directions for making these dead-simple hanging paper hearts for V-Day. You can use up scraps of decorative paper, or pull pages from old magazines. (The Christmas issue of Martha Stewart Living served me [...]

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Video! How to Make a V-Day Gift Topper (using, I might add, plastic canvas!)

February 3, 2010

How to Make a Valentine’s Day Gift Topper from Diane Gilleland on Vimeo.

I’ve been hemming and hawing over whether to post this or not. I’ve been hiking the video learning curve lately, and hope to produce a nice number of video how-to’s this year.

But, Man! Video is challenging! (Compelling, but challenging.)

So… I finally decided to [...]

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How to Make a Simple V-Day Sachet

January 26, 2010

I should say: I’m not much for Valentine’s Day itself, but the crafts are always pretty. I was playing around with felt recently and came up with this simple, non-frilly sachet. Easy to whip up if you need little gifties.

You might have everything you need to make these in your stash: two 6″ squares of [...]

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Tutorial on CRAFT: Project Keepers

January 26, 2010

Yay, I was super excited to see that my new project is up on CRAFT this morning!

I designed these Project Keepers as a way to neatly store all my projects-in-progress. They’re a super simple construction – a little like an envelope pillow, so small items can’t fall out. And they come with a hangtag so [...]

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Video! Google Reader Tricks for Craft Bloggers

January 22, 2010

Google Reader Tricks for Craft Bloggers from Diane Gilleland on Vimeo.

So, lately I’ve been talking to a lot of bloggers, and discovering that many of them don’t know about all the cool things Google Reader can do to help you organize all your crafty blog reading.

I freaking love this tool, so I made this little [...]

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My continuing mission to bring plastic canvas to the people…

January 21, 2010

There are many reasons to love CRAFT, but one of my biggest is that they let me do stuff like this. Check out my tutorial over there for this crafty storage box.

…Why yes, it is made of plastic canvas! But I added some fabric inserts to change up the look.

Also, days and days of cold, [...]

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New Tutorial on CRAFT: Dimensional Felt Ornament

December 14, 2009

Let me just interrupt my week of Vintage Christmas Awesome to show you a new tutorial I have up on CRAFT right now.

These ornaments are made from a combination of Friendly Felt and regular felt. They’re easy to construct – a little sewing, a little gluing. Click over here for the how-to!

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