Happy Halloween!  In last month’s blog, I mentioned that Happy Crafters had fully embraced “spooky season,” and oh what a fun month it has been!  BUT, with the weather getting cooler and the trees changing color, I can’t help but pivot my focus to – yep, you guessed it – Thanksgiving! Tis’ the season for cozy sweaters, crispy leaves, and my personal favorite: food puns. Hey, I can’t help it – I yam who I yam. 😉 Tomorrow is November 1st, or what I call the “unofficial start of the holiday season”. To honor this, I created a quick and cute Thanksgiving - focu ..read more

Fall is JUST around the corner, and to quote the great Phil Collins: “I can feel it coming in the air tonight.”  Here at Happy Crafters®, that line has turned into our September motto as we have fully embraced “Spooky Season” in all its ghostly glory and switched gears to fall inspired crafts. If you’re looking for a fun, quick, and easy project to get you in the Halloween spirit (see what I did there? 😉) and if spiders, bats, pumpkins, and things that glow in the dark are your thing, grab your pumpkin spice latte and let’s get crafty! Materials Needed: Subs ..read more

Have you heard the news?! Siser has launched a GROUNDBREAKING new HTV that makes creating custom, printed designs accessible to all of us “at home” crafters. The best part? All you need is your photo / artwork, your everyday inkjet printer, scissors and a home iron or heat press. Yes, it really is THAT simple! Crafters – let’s give a round of applause for Siser EasyColor DTV! Before EasyColor DTV, printing full-color designs meant using transfer papers which, let’s be honest, are not the most durable, never-mind the cracking and breaking as well as feeling stiff as a boar ..read more

Summer Sublimation Celebration! With summer in full swing, we have shifted our focus to all things “vacation mode” here at Happy Crafters®. If you caught our latest Facebook® Live, Taylor demonstrated how to use Siser® Sublimation Markers to create quick and easy summertime travel games.  If you missed it, don’t worry!  We have the replay posted on our Facebook page. For this blog, we will be crafting another summer themed project using Sublimation Markers – and our focus this time: the beach!   For me, a beach day means rushing out of the house in the morn ..read more

Four score and seven beers ago... Cheers to the Fourth of July! Here’s one more thing you should know about me: I LOVE the Fourth of July. Not only is it my favorite holiday (shout out to Thomas Jefferson!) but everything about this time of year makes me happy: the weather, fireworks and bonfires, the excuse to eat as many hot dogs as I want in one single day… I could go on and on.    With the Fourth a little less than three weeks away, it is safe to say all these things have been in the forefront of my mind recently.  While sifting through project ideas to help get me ..read more

Happy May! For me, many things come to mind when I think about this month - longer days, brighter skies, warmer weather! I think of birds chirping, flowers blooming and the unofficial “kick off” to summer that’s headed our way Memorial Day weekend. While Memorial Day weekend has become synonymous with the start of beach days and family vacations, it’s important to remember that it’s also a time meant for reflection and remembrance. That being said, something else comes to mind, a poem ingrained into my memory by schoolteachers growing up: “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae ..read more

¡Hello amigos!  19 years ago, I moved to the United States, and I must say it has been quite an adventure. When I lived in Mexico, we acknowledged the date but never really celebrated Cinco de Mayo as it is only celebrated in Puebla, a state in the southern part of central Mexico. To share a little history, Cinco de Mayo is not the Mexican Independence Day (for the curious it is September 15th). It instead marks the date of the battle against the French who had invaded Mexico. Although the French outnumbered us and had more powerful military equipment, it was not enough to defeat t ..read more

Happy International Women’s Day!  In honor of this holiday and to celebrate Women’s History Month, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to share a project with you that I felt inspired to create. I knew I wanted to pay tribute to a woman in history whose mission was to make a positive change. While scrolling online, I stumbled upon this quote: “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall This got me thinking…  What do I do each day that is impactful?  What changes can I make in my da ..read more

Siser® Easyweed is everyone’s favorite choice for a never-fail, go-to HTV. Easyweed is now available in 12 new awesome colors to add to the huge color selection that is already offered to ensure a perfect color for any project you might dream up.   Easyweed Hazelnut Hazelnut is a soft, warm shade of brown that works wonderfully for many projects.     Easyweed Flamingo Flamingo is fun, flirty shade of pink. Easyweed Retro Mint Retro Mint is a bright, vintage blue-tone mint color. It looks great with the new Flamingo color Easyweed Pale Peach Pale Peach has a pink ..read more

I love baby showers and I love making cute little handmade gifts for the new little tyke. Here's a quick handmade baby shower gift idea for a boy that has been one of my favorites lately. A quick and easy DIY Mustache Onesie paired with a couple burp clothes. {you can find my favorite burp cloth tutorial here.} I used my Silhouette CAMEO and black heat transfer for the mustache onesie. Its so quick and easy! Quick Mustache Onesie Tutorial Just buy a plain white onesie {I use 0-3 month size}, find a mustache shape in the Silhouette shape library {I used shape #15443}, size i ..read more