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Handmade crafts are fun to make and make lovely gifts too. Here you’ll find a wide range of craft projects to try, many of them using everyday, often recycled, materials.

 

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Main image: a vintage fabric collage in pastel greens, blues and light browns, with embroidered flower details in dark pink and green.

Vintage Fabric Collage

Main image: handmade air dry clay decorations, with a textured clay using teabags. Painted with blue designs of a bird and a horse.

Air Dry Clay Decorations - Textured Clay Craft

A beautiful painting by Artist Rachel Ruysch. A large white flower, with an orange flower and dark green leaves surrounding it.

Artist in Focus: Rachel Ruysch

Main Image; Beautiful bas-relief art work by artist and ceramicist, Mary Seton Watts, aka Mary Seton (Fraser) Tytler.

Artist in Focus: Mary Seton Watts

Painting by Swiss-German Artist Paul Klee. A combination of square and circular shapes, in reds, oranges, yellows, browns, greens and blues.

Artist in Focus: Paul Klee

A beautiful abstract art painting by artist Arthur Dove

Artist in Focus: Arthur Dove

Main image: an ancient face medallion made out of air dry clay, a Greek-inspired art style, coloured with metallic pens/markers.

Make an Ancient Face Medallion from Air Dry Clay

Main image: a photo of tulips in pink, orange, yellow, on a white background. For inspiration to paint on a Spring infinity card.

How to Make an Infinity Card

Main image: hanging felt Easter bunnies, easy Easter decorations DIY, in pastel pinks and blues.

Felt Bunny Craft Tutorial

Main image: a dragon eye made out of air dry clay and craft bead eyes.

How to Make Dragon Eyes from Air Dry Clay

Main image: a decorated seed storage box, covered with different papers and details using decoupage techniques.

Make a Decorative Seed Box - Decoupage Tutorial

Main image: a handmade, adjustable silver clay ring, with textured details.

Make Silver Clay Rings at Home

Main image: magazine cut out charms - made into DIY paper earrings. In a variety of images, shapes and sizes.

Magazine Cutout Charms

Main image: a button flower bouquet, using a salt shaker as a vase, and buttons and felt in different colours and sizes - an easy DIY gift for someone special.

How to Make a Button Flower Bouquet

Main image: beaded fringe earrings, in cream, yellow gold, white and black seed beads with gold metal connector frame.

Beaded Fringe Earrings