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Dec

Wine Corks: What Can I Do With Them?

Recently, I got a request to do this post – yay for requests! Wine corks are pretty awesome things to craft with, so here are some fun tutorials and ideas if you’ve been collecting them! Click on the photo to get the tutorial. Enjoy!

Misc. Tutorials:

Cork Dork: 10 Cool Things to Do with Leftover Wine Corks: Dr. Vino
Wine Cork Craft Project Instructions: WineIntro – this site has multiple craft ideas for corks!
How to Reuse Old Wine Corks: WikiHow – this site has 14 great ideas!

10 Uses for Wine Corks: ThisOldHouse - click on the photo to get all 10 tutorials!

Cute Little Cork Stamps: CraftChi

DIY Create Wine or Bottle Stoppers From Old Crystal Knobs, Billiard Balls, Finials: Many Shades of Shabby

Business Card Holders: AnotherWineBlog

Reuse Wine Corks to Make Fun Place Cards: Instructables

DIY Wine Cork Placecard Holders: CasaSugar

Wine or cider mulling spice bags (and recycling wine corks): Eating Well Anywhere

Recycled Wine Cork Keychain Favors: CraftZine

Make a Wine Cork Man: CraftersLoveCrafts - why NOT!?

Cork Trolls: FamilyFun

Home Decor Tutorials:

Wine Cork Corkboard: WineIntro

How to Recycle Corks Into a Corkboard: WikiHow

How to Make a Wine Cork Bulletin Board: eHow

Wine Cork Corkboard: HowStuffWorks

Corkboard: WineIntro

Wine Cork Trivet (hot plate): WineIntro

DIY Wine Cork Trivet: Care2

Wine Cork Trivets: CraftersLoveCrafts

Cork Trivet and Coaster Set: Design Sponge

Make a Wine Cork Wreath: FrugalLiving.About

Christmas Tutorials:

Cork Ornaments: AllThingsChristmas

Make Christmas Tree Ornaments from All Those Cork Wine Stoppers You’ve Been Collecting: Indie Fixx

Wine Cork Angels: CraftersLoveCrafts

Ideas, Inspiration, and Photos:

Cardinal Birdhouse with a Corky Roof: TheCraftyWino on Etsy

Wine Cork Coasters Set of Two: TheCraftyWino on Etsy

Corky Chalkboard/Message Board: TheCraftyWino on Etsy

Cork Furniture Art: GalleryOfFunctionalArt - lots of chair and other furniture ideas for corks!

I’m looking for more! If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

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Dec

DIY Stencil and Stamp Tutorials

I am hardcore SET on making a stamp to use on my ‘save the date’ cards for my wedding. Of course… I need to learn how to make stamps first, and that’s why this blog post exists!

Stenciling is always fun too – maybe I’ll make presents for my bridesmaids using these tutorials. Heck yeah!

Click on the photo to go to the tutorial. I researched long and hard!

Stencil Tutorials:

Stencil Printing: Honolulu Advertiser

How to Stencil With Freezer Paper: How About Orange

Apple Placemats: bkids

DIY Coffee Stencil: How About Orange

Glammed Up Lamp: Plaid Online

Storage Cube: Plaid Online

Peace and Dream Pillow Sham: Plaid Online

Silkscreened Canvas Wall Art: Plaid Online

Stamp Tutorials:

How to Make Your Own Decorative Rubber Stamps: The Artful Crafter

Make Your Own Stamps From Craft Foam: RubberStamping.About

Creating Fun Foam Stamps: CraftIdeas.Info

How to Make Your Own Polymer Stamps: Instructables

Cute Little Cork Stamps: CraftChi

How to Create Rubber Stamps: CutOutAndKeep

How to Make Your Own Stamp: Wiki.bhgscrapbooketc

How to Make a Stamp: ArtMind

Pennant Rubber Stamp Roller Tutorial: Just Something I Made

How to Make a Rubber Stamp for Letterboxing: WikiHow

How to Make a Stamp: ValleyQuest

How to Make a Rubber Stamp: Mitchklink

How to Make Ceramic Roller Stamps: Calstaging

Stamp Tutorial: MelsOwnPlace

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

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Nov

DIY Advent Calendar Tutorials

Now is the perfect time to construct an advent calendar to start off December right!

I love all of these great ideas for advent calendars – I always walk by the ones at Target and think they are amazing, but they are way overpriced. Here are some advent calendar tutorials that you can make at home that look just as awesome!

Click on the photo to grab the tutorial.

Looking for more Christmas tutorials? Simply check out my blog archive for Christmas!