Sharing Some Fun Crafts I've Found

My church's Harvest Fair is this weekend and I've been feverishly finishing up some crafts to sell on the De-vine Cards table two friends and I have at it.

I'm always searching blogs and web sites for fun and fairly easy (but cute!) ideas for things to make for the fair. And this little bird house I found on Nicole Heady's blog sure fits the bill! Isn't this just the sweetest little thing. I totally cased this one - making it pretty much exactly the way Nicole did - (I just changed the tag and used red twine as a hanger instead of natural) and she suggests you could make Halloween houses, Easter Houses - you could add trellises, flowers, fences etc - your imagination is the limit!

So of course I made 10 of them (!) These are little - about 2" x 3.5" or so. The roof and platform are made with rectangle and square nestabilities. Nicole posts the pattern for you to download here. The stamps used are all Papertrey Ink
My next craft quest was a single vial holder for the great Martha Stewart vials that they have at Michaels this Halloween season (I even got mine half price!! whoo hoo!!) I have seen several containers that hold 3 or 4 vials but for selling at the church fair (where everything is marked very reasonably - as in cheap!) I wanted something to hold one. I searched in the SCS gallery under 'candy' and lo and behold - I found EXACTLY what I was looking for - she even used the same vials that I had that are 1" in circumference.
So - of course I made 10. (!) This design is by Lisa Somerville and you can see the instructions here.
I used Cosmo Cricket designer papers and the stamps are Spooky Sweets II by Papertrey Ink.

Then I found these fun treat bags designed by Heather Nichols again using the Spooky Sweets II set by Papertrey Ink. I used white craft ink to stamp the snowflakes on the bags instead of acrylic paint and it worked really well. I also put some purple crinkle basket filler paper inside the bags along with the fun chocolate 'eyeballs' I got at CVS.

So of course I made 10 (!) That seems to be my magic number when making crafts to sell at the fair!

And my final project to share with you is my little paper LL Bean-like bags that I posted some time ago here. I got the pattern in a book that I reference in my previous post.

I dressed them up a little for the holidays - again using some Papertrey Ink stamps as well as a Penny Black snowflake. I'll probably put a little bag of candies in these - And yes - I did make 10 (!) but had no strength left to put them all in my photo box to get a picture!

I may not be posting for a few days - tomorrow we are decorating the church hall with giant cardboard fall leaves and putting paper around all the tables - then Thursday we're setting up all the 'stuff' to sell on the tables - and Friday night and Saturday is the fair - I'll be sure to take some pics to share back here with you all!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Let me know where you are finding fun craft ideas!!