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Personalized Gifts for Him or Her with Woodburning-Pyrography

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Looking for handmade gifts for men?  With Father’s Day coming up, I thought you might like a suggestion.  Woodburning, also know as pyrography, is a great option for making a personalized gift for him.  Woodburned items also make wonderful personalized gifts for women, too! 

Personalized Gift for Him or Her with a Woodburned Box

Personalized Gift for Him or Her with a Woodburned Box

My simple explanation of woodburning is that you are basically drawing on wood with a hot pen.  You will need to purchase a woodburning tool for this craft project.  My woodburning tool is made by Walnut Hollow, and I am quite satisfied with it.  It came with different writing “points” (or tips, as I call them), as well as three ”points” that can be used to simply stamp the wood with the design of that particular tip.   It is important to note that the woodburning tool get VERY hot – 950 Farenheit/510 Celsius.  So if you were planning on doing this craft with kids, they are going to need to be old enough to handle the tool.  I also suggest you keep a glass of ice water next to your work surface (whether you are a kid or not), in case you accidentally burn yourself.

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Hematite Earrings For Mother’s Day Handmade Gifts

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Hematite Handmade Earrings

Hematite Handmade Earrings

If your mom is like most, then she probably has her ears pierced.  I recently posted instruction on how to make handmade earrings, so I thought I’d continue to post different handmade earring projects that you can easily recreate.

These earrings appeal to lots of people because of the hematite beads used.  Hematite is that beautiful black/grey stone that goes well with lots of different outfits – hence the broad appeal.  Basically, when you are making earrings for someone and you’re not sure what colors they like or wear often, make earrings that go with almost anything.

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Handmade Card – Purple Love Tag

Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Handmade card perfect for Valentine's Day or other occasions.  NOTE: Card is photographed on a black background.

Handmade card perfect for Valentine's Day or other occasions. NOTE: Card is photographed on a black background.

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here is a handmade card you can make for someone you love.  I think you’ll find this is an easy card to make.  What is great about this card design is that you can use my exact design for occasions other than Valentine’s Day, such as a handmade birthday card or thank you card.  You can also modify each of the three these design elements (small rectangle, large rectangle and tag) to make a card for any occasion…new baby card, congratulations card, happy mother’s day card, a Christmas card, and so on.  The possibilities are endless.  In fact, you can simplify this card by skipping little details like the eyelet, the chalk around the edges of the tag, etc., if you don’t have the time or materials and it will still be a really cute card someone is going to love.

Here’s what I did:

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