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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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Make Beautiful Flower Brooches From Fabric Scraps With Kate Nisbet IMAGE

Make Beautiful Flower Brooches from Fabric Scraps

Main image, a DIY wall hanging flower basket, made from a round table placemat! The basket is pale green, with an assortment of pink flowers on a white wooden background.

Make a DIY Wall Hanging Flower Basket

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: a DIY embroidery hoop organiser to store sewing essentials. In pink, green, red and white patterned fabrics. Also doubles as vintage-inspired décor.

DIY Embroidery Hoop Organiser

Easy Foam Stamps With Rosie Johson IMAGE

Easy Foam Stamps Tutorial

Main image: a handmade mobile, with quirky drawn and painted figures on acetate sheets.

Make an Easy Handmade Mobile of Your Art

Main image: a selection of DIY solar lights in upcycled glass vases filled with pebbles for decoration.

DIY Solar Lights to Light Up Your Garden

Main image: a DIY bee bath for the garden, made from a terracotta pot and saucer with marbles for the bees to land on. With cute yellow bees painted on the side.

DIY Bee Bath for the Garden

Main image: handmade copper clay earrings, with large hoops, and a leaf print design.

How to Make Copper Clay Earrings - Metal Clay Tips and Tricks

Main image: a mini scarecrow, with purple felt overalls and straw hands and hair.

Mini scarecrow

Main image: a handmade twiddle muff, a sensory aid/device, made for a person living with dementia or Alzheimer's. Made with scraps of patterned fabric and various tactile items, like buttons, ribbons, zips.

Make a Twiddle Muff for a Loved One Living with Dementia

Main image: two upcycled notebooks made with Japanese stab binding, one with an old postcard.

Japanese Stab Binding - Turn Postcards into Notebooks