How-To: Cover a Composition Book with Spoonflower Wallpaper
Make a one-of-a-kind notebook for your schoolwork or crafty musings with this fun tutorial for covering a composition book with custom Spoonflower Wallpaper!
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
How-To: Upcycled Bike Basket
Turn a metal storage bin into a stylish riding accessory with this upcycled bike basket tutorial!
Homemade Bike Frame Bags
Amy Qian is planning a long bike ride, so she made some bike frame bags from ripstop nylon to carry the supplies she will need and documented the process on her blog.
Maker Camp Kicks off DIY Music Week
Week five of Maker Camp is all about making music—with whatever you’ve got. Like a banana. Today we’ll get to learn (and listen) how to do just that with MaKey MaKey co-creator Jay Silver. MaKey MaKey connects to your computer and… to you! Or bananas! Or whatever you can think of! It also connects to Scratch, a fun and free programming language (scratch.mit.edu), and allows you to play games and control animations, all via your own controllers or fruit instruments. Today’s hangout will also include a very special guest: Damian Kulash, lead singer and guitarist of the band OK Go joins to jam with Jay on a fruit instrument of his own design.
How-To: Watermelon Cake Pops
Last week I posted a tutorial about making a watermelon look like a cake, now here’s a tutorial for making cake pops that look like watermelons.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
Tim Hunkin: Illustrator, Engineer, Cartoonist, and Maker
In his presentation at the the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire last month, Tim Hunkin, an illustrator, engineer, and cartoonist, talked about the homemade amusement arcade he has built over the past 15 years and his work at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. It’s a great talk. Have a look.