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Mothers Day Flower Mug Bouquet

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Make your mother a bouquet of flowers that she can reuse once Mother’s Day has passed.  With this mug bouquet, she’ll be able to use the mug and the artificial flowers all year long.

Although this video shows you how to make a flower mug bouquet, one of the things I like best about it is the technique for wrapping the gift with shrink wrap.  It’s a great tip that can be used for any present you may have, whether’s it’s for Mother’s Day, a birthday, or Christmas.

This tutorial uses a premade mug, but how about if you gave her a personalized mug?  Now that would be an extra special gift that mum will really love.  This gift idea is perfect for any special person in your life, so an Aunt, Grandmother, or teacher would also love this gift.

Flower Bouquet Tutorial

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DIY Mothers Day Gift Felt Craft Tutorial

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Looking for a cute Mother’s Day gift idea?  This tutorial includes the template you need to create the felt cut-outs to make an “I Love My Mom” banner.  Add some magnets to the ends of the banner and you’ve got the perfect way to hang this banner.

Put the banner up so that it greets mum as she goes to open the refrigerator in the morning.  Or, hang it across the mirror in the bathroom so that it’s the first thing she sees when she wakes up on Mother’s Day.  Kids will love getting creative and decorating these felt cutouts to personalize this sign to show mom how much they love her.

Mothers Day Gift Tutorial

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Handmade Ornaments With Book Pages

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Ornaments aren’t just for Christmas.  You can use ornaments year-round to decorate your home for each season, or holiday.  And even if you think that ornaments are only for Christmas, that doesn’t mean that you can’t make ornaments all year.  Make a batch with the kids and put them away until Christmas when you can put them on your tree, or give them away as gifts.

This ornament tutorial shows you how to make Christmas ornaments using pages from an old book.  Add some food coloring to the mod podge and you can create colorful ornaments for any season.  And if you don’t want to use an old book, you could use a magazine, comic book, newspaper or greeting card for this decoupage project.

DIY Christmas Ornaments

Find out how to turn old book pages into beautiful holiday ornaments! Jessie Jane of Lilyshop (http://www.lilyshop.com) shares a great idea for re-purposing …

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Cinco De Mayo DIY Craft: Tissue Flower Garland

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This tissue paper garland tutorial was created for a Cinco de Mayo celebration, but I think it’s perfect for any party or holiday gathering.  Use whatever color tissue paper that goes with your theme, or with the holiday.  So pastels would be perfect for Easter and a red/white combination could be used for Christmas or Valentine’s Day.

Tissue Paper Flower Garland Tutorial

Tissue Paper Flower Garland

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This fun craft would be fun to make with the kids.  I love that it’s so inexpensive and just takes a little tissue paper to create.

To get a pretty detailed edge on the flowers, Yvonne used an edge puncher.  This gives the flowers a level of detailing that you can’t get with scissors, but you certainly could use the same steps in the tutorial to make a flower garland without the use of an edger.

Supplies needed:

  • Tissue Paper
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
  • Edge Puncher
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Easy Gift Idea-Personalized Coffee Mug

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Any gift is more special when you personalize it.  With this tutorial you’ll see how to take a plain coffee cup, or mug, and personalize it to make it the perfect gift.

This DIY gift idea is perfect for Christmas, but it can also be used to help you make a gift for your child’s teacher, or maybe for a Grandmother on Mother’s Day.  You can also take the technique used in this tutorial and apply it to making decorated plates, serving pieces, or accent pieces for your table.

How to Make a Personalized Coffee Mug

This video is super short, but it shows you a great way to make perfect polka dots.

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