It is an annual occurrence in the crafts department to develop a costume with Martha for the cover of our Halloween Special Issue. Martha loves Halloween, so she always brings a great enthusiasm to the project. In this year’s issue, Blake developed a B-movie-themed costume story. Martha opens the story, so we proposed several ideas and …

For my niece’s 8th birthday we decided to customize a pair of Converse sneakers for her. Converse has a great website that allows you to choose almost every detail of the shoes, right down to the color of the stitching and embroidering your name. For Molly, it was all about neon and as much color …

Over the years we have produced a tremendous amount of clip art and templates. You can now find much of it in our in our newly organized clip-art and template craft center. There are several categories, which make it easy to find projects. You can also use the index to get a great overview of …

In our April Make and Give column, we give a great recipe and packaging for Lemon Meringue Flowers. They are packaged in cellophane bags with our grass clip art (printed onto card stock) as a backdrop. We think that the grass would work really well to package so many spring and Easter treats. You can scale …

We mentioned in our April issue that we had an Easter Surprise up our sleeves. Today we are thrilled to announce the release of Egg Dyeing 101 — our very first crafts app for the iPhone! We selected our favorite ideas for egg projects and compiled them into a gallery of 101 egg images, complete …

I have always enjoyed making soap because it feels somewhere between a recipe you make in the kitchen and a science experiment. I love the trial-and-error approach and am always excited to see what it can yield. Our latest soap project can be found in ”Wonder Bars” from our April issue. Instead of using colorants and …

A few weeks ago we had a visit from the folks at Twitter. They brought with them some beautiful letterpress cards made by Elizabeth Bailey Weil of PaperWheel Press. Elizabeth works at Twitter and in her spare time runs a letterpress stationery company. In addition to offering custom letterpress design she also has a line …

One thing that I have learned from baking with my niece and nephew is that after cracking the eggs, the most exciting part for them is decorating. Last weekend we decided to do some early valentine baking and instead of waiting till the end for the decorating, we colored the batter to make the mixing …