DIY Favors + Gifts

Perfect as gifts or favors, make your own paper flower pencils from crepe paper!

Awesome DIY party favor bags with ombre stripes perfect for parties, showers or weddings!

Ever wanted to make your own candles? Let me show you how to make beeswax candles – it’s so fun and surprisingly easy!

Last week when chatting about the DIY clay bead necklace I whipped up, I do believe I warned you more clay projects would be forthcoming. So today, in keeping with my new love affair with all things clay and my love for spring garden crafts, we’re making plant markers! This is a relatively simple project and can be customized to suit your taste in so many ways. So let’s get started, shall we?

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Oven bake clay (I used Fimo Classic in white)
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by Kelly Lanza

After the baskets have been filled and the eggs have been hunted this Easter, why not keep the fun going!? These little bunny treat pouches make a great little takeaway for an Easter brunch or dinner, and can even act as place cards too! Fill them up with sweets (Cadbury Mini Eggs are always my Easter candy of choice!) and set them each place setting, or use them as favors at your Easter party!

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White copy …

Sweet ideas for holiday gift baskets from The Sweetest Occasion

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This week I am working on putting together a few holiday gift baskets for family. I know gift baskets get a bit of a bad rap for being a touch cliché as the old standby when you don’t know what to get someone, but I’m here to challenge that notion! I think lovely gift baskets with a few handmade touches, loaded …

Today we’re going to talk about these pretty little canvas magnets. Very much a project born from wandering the aisles of my local craft store in search of inspiration, I stumbled upon these tiny little canvases and thought they’d make perfect magnets! This is such a sweet and simple project. It’s an easy way to add a little style to the clutter of stuff consuming the front of your fridge or bundled together they’d make a sweet little homemade holiday …

Recently I decided I wanted to play around a bit with glass etching. A few years ago glass etching was a big thing among DIYers and it felt like time to bust out a little Armour Etch and see what I could come up with again. I decided to play around with a couple of glass mugs and a couple of mason jars. The key to working with etching cream is to make sure you’re working in a well-ventilated area …

Chalkboard crafts have been all the rage in recent months and today I’m officially joining the ranks of the chalkboard-obsessed! A while back I fell in love with the idea of making chalkboard coasters. They’d be so cute for impromptu games of Tic Tac Toe or assigning drinks at a cocktail party! Or if you’re serving up a signature cocktail or spiked punch for an upcoming party, you could label your coasters with the name of your drink so people …