Free Printable Bookmarks

Here are four free and original printable bookmarks for your enjoyment.

Feel free to create multiple copies of the printable bookmarks as quick and frugal stocking stuffers for the holidays or slip into holiday greeting cards as an added little gift. Quilters will love them!

Directions: Right-click on one of the two sets of bookmarks. Copy and paste special to Wordpad. Print out each set of two bookmarks on one page of heavy cardstock. Cut around the edges of each bookmark using a sharp scissors.

bookmarks 1011

bookmarks 1006

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Free Cross-Stitch Alphabet: G-L

Here are letters G-L of the free, charted alphabet I’ve been working on. The alphabet can be used for needlepoint, cross-stitch or plastic canvas, with equal success. Click the link for letters A-F.

free cross stitch alphabet g-i

free cross stitch alphabet i-j

bunting k-l 3

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Free Cross-Stitch Alphabet: A-F

bunting a-b

bunting c-d

cross stitch alphabet e-f

I’ve designed a free, cross-stitch alphabet for readers of Craft Stew. Today I’m posting letters A-F. I hope to have another batch of letters graphed within a few weeks. Stay tuned!

BTW, the patterns can be used just as easily as a plastic canvas alphabet…no adjustments needed.

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Woven Card Tutorial

woven card tutorial

I made this woven card from Autumn colors to celebrate the new season, but virtually any color combination will work well.

Materials:

craft knife
cutting board
12×12 heavy cardstock in green
scraps of orange and yellow cardstock
4×6 heavy cardstock in white
glue

Instructions:

1. Cut the green cardstock to 9×6.5 inches. Fold the cardstock in half to form the basic 4.5×6.5 inch greeting card.

2. Cut the leftover green scraps into thin strips. Cut the orange and yellow cardstock into thin strips.

3. Make 10 lengthwise slits in the white cardstock, leaving a margin of about 1/2 inch all around. Don’t try too hard to make your cuts straight. Slightly uneven slits will add interest to the finished card.

4. Weave the green, yellow and orange strips through the slits, alternating over and under.

6. Glue the ends of each strip onto the white cardstock.

7. Center and glue the white cardstock onto the green greeting card.

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Free Needlepoint Ribbon Pillow

free needlepoint ribbon pillow

(click here for larger image)

I’ve been thinking about charting this pillow design for a couple of weeks. Finally, tonight, I decided to sit down and do it. I hope you enjoy it.

Because the chart lines are hard to see, I’ll tell you the dimensions. The large red squares are 16×16 holes. All of the small squares are 8×8 holes. The yellow and red rectangles are 8×16 holes.

As far as the size of the finished pillow, it depends on the number of holes per inch of the canvas you use. To get the pillow dimensions you want, you may have to double the pattern.

Please leave me a message if you have any questions and I will try to answer them the best I can.

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Free Needlepoint Banner Pattern

(click here for full size pattern)

Lately, everywhere I look, I’ve been seeing wonderful sewing patterns for banners and bunting. Here is my needlepoint version of that great idea.

The finished needlepoint will be about 1 1/2 tall and can be used for gift tags, embellishing clothing, making jewelry, creating greeting cards or just about anything else your imagination can dream up.

Over the next couple of weeks I will be charting an alphabet to be used with the banner pattern.

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Fruit-Themed Wall Posters

I usually only craft to supply a need, and these fruit-themed wall posters are no exception. I decided to make some wall decorations for an upcoming celebration and I wanted posters that were cheap, attractive, and most of all, quick to make. I didn’t want to put a lot of effort into the project.

I let ideas stew around my mind all day, and these multi-colored wall hangings are what I finally came up with. They fit all my criteria. They’re pretty, they cost less than one dollar per poster, and each took less than ten minutes to make.

How To Make Inexpensive Posters

1. Select two sheets of paper. One sheet should be a 12×12 scrapbook paper with a pattern. The other paper should be a standard 8 1/2 x11 sheet, in a color that compliments the scrapbook paper.

2. Choose clipart. I picked black and white line drawings from the site, Clipart, Etc. Line drawings are a lot cheaper to print than color art.

3. Using a free graphics program, size your art so that it prints onto one page. Check print preview to make sure your clipart fits the page correctly.

4. Print out your clip art on the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Be sure to use the highest quality setting your printer offers.

5. Size your 8 1/2 x 11 page so that it will look attractive when glued onto the scrapbook paper. To do this, measure and draw two lines. The first line should be 1-inch from the top of your printed page. The second line should be 1-inch from the bottom of your printed sheet. Remove the two 1-inch sections.

6. Carefully center and glue the printed page onto the scrapbook paper.

That’s it! Once you choose your clipart this project should take only a few minutes to complete. I made seven posters in less than an hour and I wasn’t working overly fast.

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