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Hobbies & Crafts Freebies

Free craft patterns, gardening tips and plans, printables, ebooks, resources, charts, booklets and more to help you in your creative projects.


abbys-good-stuff.com: Here you will find some of the web's best free patterns, project ideas and how-to's. Some free craft & hobby catalogs and magazines too. Everything from candles, scrapbooking, sewing, knitting, woodworking, kids crafts, crochet patterns and more.

Here are some free sewing projects for you to try: sewing.about.com

Free crafts projects at these sites:
www.allfreecrafts.com
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fabulousfoods.com/crafts
www.make-stuff.com: also check out their wonderful page on recycling ideas!

Great sewing info and projects:
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(check #6 “Murphy’s Laws of Sewing” – cute!)

www.craftster.org: Craftster is a forum for people who love to make things but who are not inspired by cross-stitched home sweet home plaques and wooden boxes with ducks in bonnets painted on... If you've been known to run with scissors, you can break the rules of crafting with your fellow rebel DIY'ers here!

www.holidaycrafter.com: Lots of projects, tutorials and recipes!

www.sewing.org: Lots of sewing projects, hints and guidelines.

www.freecraftz.com: Free patterns for wood crafts - Over 60 free tole painting patterns and crafts and many holiday crafts. Christmas crafts, Thanksgiving crafts, Halloween crafts, angel crafts and many other free craft ideas. Just print the free patterns on your printer and begin crafting!

www.craftfreebies.com: THE place on the web for everything free for crafts. Free Stuff for Crafters!! They share with you all the free craft patterns and projects that can be found on the web.

abbys-good-stuff.com: here you have many recipes and cookbooks to choose from, in printed and e-book form, some above-average websites with recipes, as well as a few good free cookbooks on CD.

Free printable recipe cards for you to print out and write in your favorite recipes to give away or to add to your recipe card file. www.bellybytes.com

Here are many, many more sites offering free printables as well as some really unique boxes to package your creations when you want to give them away as gifts

abbys-good-stuff.com/printables.html : Cool Free Stuff You Can Print Print-your-own game score sheets, recipes, how-to instructions, kids coloring pages & craft project patterns, stationery, calendars and schedules, board games, bookmarks, family tree & genealogy charts, sheet music, budgets and organizers, legal and government forms and more!

www.allfreeprintables.com: Free Printable Bookmarks | Chore Coupons | Checklists | Seed Packets | Mother's Day Printables | | Christmas Printables | Valentine's Day Printables | Halloween Printables | Kitchen Prints

www.free-printables.com: On this site you'll find a directory of all the printables that they've found available on the internet. Some are their own original creations and others are available from other websites.

www.thefrugalshopper.com: Here you will find a variety of free printable checklists and worksheets

www.momsbreak.com: Many printable projects & crafts specializing in scrapbooks, baby shower, birthday, holidays, iron-on transfers and more for mom and the whole family!

alenkasprintables.com: Free printables for candy wrappers, recipes cards, scrapbooking and more.

www.kidprintables.com: Are your kids pulling their hair out from boredom? Whether you are looking for something to keep your kids occupied on a rainy day, or looking for something fun and educational - KidPrintables.com is happy to offer you free and fun activities for your children. These are great for teachers and homeschooling moms to use too.

Alenka has the most amazing labels on her adorable website: alenkasprintables.com/free_labels.shtml


“Exclusively from landolakes.com, these delightful gift labels are free for you to download and print to your own choice of labels or paper.”: www.landolakes.com

More free adorable labels thanks to The Gingerbread Nook!

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These cute labels are thanks to Country Heart Designs:

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Loads of nice labels at this website: www.bakingabusiness.com

Especially cute:

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www.razzledazzlerecipes.com
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This site has some incredibly beautiful labels – many, many to use! community.webshots.com

More beautifully “artsy” labels: www.homeindulgences.com

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More fun labels: www.graphicgarden.com

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Printable Gift Boxes and Bags

These printable boxes are designed to be printed on card stock with a PC. If they are not the right size, simply right-click on image, choose "save as..." and open it in a graphics program and resize as desired.

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Shala has the most amazing gift boxes and bags at her website: shala.addr.com

This site offers a large collection of plain templates for you to add your own graphics: www.ruthannzaroff.com. For example, pick fresh flowers and arrange them on your scanner. Scan them and use an art program such as Print Shop to add your new graphic to one of the blank templates above!

Very nicely done gift box to print for Christmas:

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Join the Treasure Trove for free and you’ll be able to download 100 gift box templates: http://treasure.bizmix.biz

These are adorable gift boxes with a Christmas theme: rainbowrowgraphics.com

But, they also have other themed boxes for you to print, some in two sizes to choose from! boxindex

Boxes and gift from from Hewlett Packard: activitycenter

(check out “3 Hearts”!): giftwrap_bxs

Loads of fun gift boxes to make: www.paperzone.com

This is a huge collection of the most amazing gift boxes (there’s even a second page full!). I can’t tell you enough about how beautiful they are, you’ll love them! : www.mardar.us/boxesandbags.htm

iphotocollage.com: Not sure how to go about selecting the "right" pictures for your collage? We have developed a special kit with easy to follow directions on how to select the best photos for the type of collage you want.

forgetmenotsinstitches.com: sign their guestbook and print out their free chart.

www.makingfriends.com: free projects using craftsticks and woodsies – lots of fun patterns such as cute frames, plant pals and door hangers.

www.citiusa.com: free crochet patterns to download.

home.rmci.net: mary’s craft corner offers a huge amount of resources for free craft ideas.

www.diynetwork.com/diy/crafts: Do it yourself crafts projects on scrapbooking, making jewellery, knitting, decoupage and much much more!

www.diynetwork.com/diy/hobbies: Projects for photographing, woodworking, fly-fishing and more.

www.blamepro.com: Lots of links to free crafts patterns on this site such as Make Your Own Paper Car, holiday crafts and more.

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Check out their free patterns: free_projects.

And their huge page of great resources for crafters: free_resources.

ThriftyFun Crafts Newsletter offers a weekly crafts newsletter which is full of craft projects, craft tips and requests sent in by their readers. Here's a sample issue of their newsletter: www.thriftyfun.com






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