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I'm Sister Diane and I have two grand passions: making crafts and making media. That's what I write about here, and sometimes, I get all thoughtful about internet culture and creative small businesses. Thanks for stopping by! Would you like some tea?
I wanted to share a new tutorial I have up on the CRAFT Blog this week. It’s a simple bound book made of envelopes – a lovely way to present a group of photos as a gift. The envelopes create an opportunity to group the photos in some meaningful way. For my book, for example, …
Hot on the heels of my weaving podcast, here’s a little how-to for weaving on a greeting card. If you’re a DIY Alert user, well, you may have seen this one before. But, what a great opportunity to share it! So, you begin with a blank card – and for this project, it’s best to …
Pssst . . . new tutorial just went up at DIY Alert — Fused Fabric Greeting Cards. This was a topic we covered way back in CraftyPod #38, but if you like your how-to’s visual, there you go!
Church of Craft is tomorrow, and waaaay back in August, I decided we’d be making Paper Mosaic Greetings Cards at this meeting. It took me a while, though, to figure out a good approach to paper mosaic. Church of Craft projects need to be accessible to people of all levels of crafty skill, and …
I was teaching a card-making class over the weekend, and the nicest woman ever said to me, “Have you tried making boxes from your old cards?” Well, I hadn’t, so she showed me the coolest method for converting an old greeting card into a spanking little gift box. And not only that, at the …