Handmade Holidays Blog Hop 2014 - Day 1

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Welcome to the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop! The idea was born a few years ago to offer an online ideas 'library' dedicated to handmade gift suggestions which you can use all year round.

Enter the Handmade Holidays hop! We've gathered over 100 of our creative blogger friends in the craft industry as well as some of our fellow product manufacturers to bring you a plethora of inspiring gift ideas you can make now to give to your friends, family, and colleagues. 

Pin and bookmark these ideas for this holiday season and to use throughout the year! Each day of the hop features approximately 30 gift projects and you can "hop" from one blog to another to check them all out. 

My offering for the Handmade Holiday's blog hop is this altered Bobbin House. I've had this wooden advent calendar waiting to be decorated for a couple of years now. But I didn't have a concept what to do with it.

  
Then I've finally had an idea to turn it into a storage solution for small bits and bobs for one of my friends who loves sewing. I thought the little drawers would be perfect for storing sewing machine bobbins with threads, ready to be used when needed. 

I prepared a video tutorial for this project which you can watch below or on my YouTube channel.

And here are some close up photos of the Bobbin House.

Adhesives used:
3D Foam Pennants, 3D Foam Squares Thin - Mix White, Adhesive Sheets, Ivory Creative Photo Corners, Crafty Power Tape, E-Z Dots® Permanent - Refillable, E-Z Dots® Repositionable.

Other supplies:

Neat and Tangled Everday Labels clear stamps
Clearsnap/Colorbox: Mudslide Ink Spritzer, Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink Mocha & Green Apple, Mix'D Media Inkx Chox Butternut & Sparrow, Art Screen Mandala
Graphic45 Sweet Sentiments papers; 
Sizzix BIGZ On The Edge - Sewing Edge & Sizzlits Sewing & Writing Set dies
Rowlux Illusion Film Clear Moire

I hope you like my offering :). My heartfelt thanks to everyone who'd like to leave a few kind words :).

Are you ready for lots more creative handmade gift ideas and projects? Follow along on our blog hop! Simply click on each of the links below to be taken to that post with additional information and photos on how to create a handmade gift project. Have fun and pin away!

Clearsnap  

Ellison Educational Equipment   

Walnut Hollow  

Graphic 45  

Neat and Tangled  

Therm O Web  

Westcott  

Elizabeth Craft Designs  

Pink and Main  

The Buckle Boutique  

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L  

Rowland Technologies  

ICE Resin  

Hydrangea Hippo  

Clearsnap - Suzanne Austin  

Stencil1 - Ed Roth  

Graphic 45 -Nadya Lifa  

Cookies for Breakfast- Beth Pingry  

Cupcakes and Crinoline - Mary Beth Sharkey  

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Frances Byrne 

Lazy Mom’s - Joanna Grzeszczak    

Homemade Ginger - Megan Kapple  

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L - Asia King  (you're here!)

Ellison Educational Equipment - Anna-Karin Evaldsson  

One Artsy Mama- Amy Latta   

Therm O Web - Alice G0lden  

Lovely Etc - Carrie Spalding 

ICE Resin - Clare Horner  

Pink and Main - Yolie Burke 

The Buckle Boutique - Stephanie Nericcio  

Modern Surrealist - Marisa Pawelko  

A Little Craft In Your Day - Tanner Bell  

Artsy Findings - Cheryl Waters 

Stampin Mindy - Mindy Baxter 

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Follow our Handmade Holidays Gift Ideas Pinterest board for even more inspiration!

Follow Jennifer Priest of RainMaker Media Works + Hydrangea Hippo's board Handmade Holidays on Pinterest.

A huge thank you to our sponsors for this hop - please visit their blogs below and follow them. And be sure to come back tomorrow for another 30+ amazing Handmade Gift Ideas!

 

Clearsnap || Ellison Educational Equipment || Walnut Hollow || Graphic45 || Westcott || ICE Resin || Therm O Web || Rowland Industries || Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L || Pink and Main || Elizabeth Craft Designs || The Buckle Boutique || Neat and Tangled

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Sakura || Fairfield Processing

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