✂️ Frugal crafting recipes save you money on your favorite hobbies. Make your own rubber stamping supplies, glues, pastes, and other craft basics right at home.
🧵 Skip the craft store markup. Stock your supply box for pennies instead of dollars.
📎 Scrapbooking, stamping, and DIY crafts get easier and cheaper with these homemade recipes.
Make your own Kool-Aid lip gloss with coconut oil, raw honey, and your favorite flavor packets for a quick, budget-friendly lip care project.
Make an elegant beaded charm bracelet in about 15 minutes with simple supplies, easy sizing tips, and budget-friendly customization ideas.
If you’re looking for a creative way to keep plastic bags nearby and handy, look …
Preserve garden blooms for years with this simple homemade flower drying formula using white cornmeal and borax.
Make your own shimmer paint with mica powder, glycerin, and water for sparkly cardstock, rubber stamping, and other inexpensive paper craft projects.
Make your own faux-laminated tissue paper with colored tissue, white paper, and liquid starch for budget-friendly crafts and scrapbook projects.
Make authentic old-fashioned labels for jars, bottles, and gift-in-a-jar projects with this easy antiqued paper technique using tea or coffee.
Turn plain cardstock, plastic wrap, and single-ply tissue or napkins into decorative handmade tissue paper for notecards, collage, and crafts.
Make your own rainbow stamp pad with dye-based re-inkers and a clean stamp pad for bright, blended stamped images on cards, tags, and scrapbook pages.
Make your own non-toxic lick-and-stick envelope glue with vinegar, gelatin, and extract. Great for homemade envelopes, stickers, stamps, and paper crafts.
Make your own lickable envelope paste/glue for creating homemade envelopes for invitations, cards and more.
Make your own embossing fluid with just glycerin and alcohol. This inexpensive DIY dries quickly and helps create a raised stamped effect.
Make your own MYO Stamp Cleaner with Simple Green, water, a sponge, and a small lidded container for quick rubber stamp cleanup.
Make your own Blender Pen Refill with glycerin, distilled water, and alcohol. A simple, inexpensive way to refresh dry dual-tip blender pens.
Turn an old plastic trash pail into a colorful decoupage project with paper cutouts, white glue, and warm water. Cheap, easy, and kid-friendly.
Make your own Rub-n-Buff cream with metallic powder and boiled linseed oil for decorating wood, plaster, pottery, metal, and etched glass.
Make homemade book binding and leather glue with a simple four-ingredient formula for repairing books, leather projects, and fabric crafts.
Learn how to pick up dropped stitches in knitting with a crochet hook so you can fix the mistake fast without ripping out rows.
Make your own waterproof glass glue with gelatin, water, skim milk, and oil of cloves. Handy for labels, marbles, and small glass projects.
Learn how to make your own strong homemade glue with simple pantry ingredients. This budget-friendly craft glue stores well and works great for paper projects.
Make your own ink pads in custom colors with powdered dye, rubbing alcohol, foam, and a plastic soapbox, plus a waterproof version.
Make your own wooden Santa ornament with a painted dowel, acrylic paint, and an eye hook. This easy Christmas craft is inexpensive and kid-friendly.
Curvy boxes are easily adaptable for any holiday or theme just by altering the colors- here’s how to put together your own adorable curvy boxes as well as ideas on inexpensive items to fill them with for a gift anyone will adore!
Make your own decoupage glue with 2 very simple basic ingredients for a mere fraction …
Recreate this super cute finger knit Santa beanie hat for the holidays! These adorable hats …
I came across this lovely craft idea for making a gorgeous wreath using repurposed centers …
These simple stuffed critter jar toppers can turn nearly any stuffed animal into an adorable gift in just a few minutes time! Here’s a simple step by step tutorial for making your own “Beary” Special jar gift!
Make your own fashionable watering can using scrap paper & fill it with goodies to …
These wonderfully fun “exploding critters” are filled with our fizzing bath bomb recipe. Your children will be delighted to wash up after a days play with these critters which erupt into a fun foaming bath, soothing skin softener.
Essence of Fall Nature Luminaries These beautiful natural luminaries will complement any fall decor. Several …
This delightfully fun, fragrant milk bath can be made in several different “flavors”, for multiple occasions. It makes a lovely inexpensive Mother’s Day Gift and is a great way to reuse those plastic water bottles.
Create your own simple inexpensive shimmer spray in less than a minute with this money-saving do it yourself craft recipe.
Make your own simple reusable ink stamp pad using basic, inexpensive, easy to find ingredients.
Learn how to make a pretty fork bow using ribbon and a plain old fork. These easy little bows come together in seconds and cost just pennies each.
Make Almost Elmer’s Glue with skim milk, vinegar, baking soda, and water. Simple step-by-step instructions for a budget-friendly homemade craft glue.
