Category | Craft

 Welcome to the craft corner of The Listed Home — my stash of easy DIY crafts and papercraft ideas, from home makes and pom poms to Cricut projects and free SVG files to download. Grab your glue gun (or your cutting machine) and let’s make something! After all, who doesn’t like indulging in a spot of crafting?

Craft is proven to lower stress — and promote positive mental well-being too — so as well as being fun, it’s also good for your health! In this section of The Listed Home, you’ll find my favourite fancy dress costume ideas, plus Cricut crafts and free printables and SVG files to download and use in your own craft projects.

Crafty Home Makes

From seasonal decor and wreaths, to creating an upholstered bed-frame and and chair cushions, this little collection of posts shares all my makes for the home.

The Best Salt Dough Recipe (Just Three Ingredients!)

Ever wondered how to make salt dough? This is the best recipe I’ve ever made! Plus, it’s no bake and has just three ingredients!

How to Make A Spring Door Wreath With Faux Tulips

With spring on the horizon, I wanted to share this simple tutorial and show how to make a spring wreath with faux tulips.
rush seat replacement

DIY Upholstery Tutorial For Rush Chair Seat Replacement

This DIY rush chair seat replacement tutorial shows how I replaced our tired rush chair seats with simple, no-sew upholstery.
Free Botanical floral drawings — flowers of the spring season.

9 Free Botanical Floral Drawings: Flowers of the Spring Season Printables

Have you been looking for some free botanical flower drawings? These flowers of the spring season are free to download.
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Fancy Dress Ideas

My whole family loves dressing up! Whether it’s parties, Halloween or festivals, we all love an excuse to get dressed up in a costume. Here are some of my favourite fancy dress costume ideas.

How to make a jetpack/rocketpack space costume

How to Make a Jetpack: An Easy DIY Rocket Costume

Turn a shoebox and two bottles into a homemade jetpack — an easy DIY rocket costume that’s perfect for World Book Day, Halloween or any space-themed fancy dress.
DIY fairy wings tutorial

How To Make No Sew Easy DIY Fairy Wings

Want to make some easy DIY fairy wings? These are no sew and so simple to make.
Tutorial to make this bee costume for Halloween

Make a No Sew DIY Bee Costume for Halloween

Bees are a popular choice for Halloween costumes, especially for children. Best of all, this DIY Bee Costume is easy to make and can be customized to fit any age.
No sew easy DIY bee wings

How To Make No Sew Easy DIY Bee Wings

I was chatting to a friend the other day about fancy dress costumes for festivals. She was saying that she’d got to buy four lots of fairy costumes for one festival they were going to, for her little girls. I mentioned that I’d once made a bumble bee costume and the easy DIY bee wings …

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Paper Crafts

Want to see some cool things to do with paper? My papercraft section could give you some inspiration. You’ll find everything from papercut art to Cricut projects in these blog posts. From paper banners and decorative paper circle fans. There are so many fun things to do with paper; lots of easy, perfect craft ideas for the home.

And  best of all, a lot of them don’t need papercut machines — like Silhouette or Cricut; you can print and cut them by hand! I started creating papercuts back in 2013 — by hand initially. Since that very first attempt, I’ve made lots of personalised wedding papercuts for brides and grooms. If you don’t want to try your hand at making one, you can buy one from my shop.

As well as cool things to do with paper that you can make, you’ll also find ideas for bought paper decorations. My paper pom pom decorated staircase is a real hit and has been replicated many times.If you like crafting with paper and have some more ideas that you’d like to share, please get in touch! I’d love to hear from you!

Free printable labels template for jam labels.

Want Some Pretty Jam Labels? Use Our Free Printable Labels Template!

This free printable labels template is perfect for creating pretty jam labels to personalise your homemade jams and chutneys.
Free Mother's day card printable

A Free Mother’s Day Printable Card for You To Download

Looking for a sweet Mother’s Day printable? This free Mother’s Day printable card is so easy to use. Just download the files and print out onto your favourite cardstock at home.

A Simple DIY Easter Bunny Garland (Free Bunny PNG File)

Make a simple Easter bunny garland using my free downloadable bunny png file.
Make a DIY gingerbread house Christmas bag

Make an Easy DIY Gingerbread House Christmas Gift Bag

Want to make an easy DIY gingerbread house Christmas gift bag? It’s such a simple & effective make, to level up your Christmas wrapping.
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Pom Pom Crafts

Pom poms have certainly come a long way since I used to make them, as a child; with the help of a trusty cereal packet! These days you can get really cool pom pom makers to help making them a doddle.

A Simple DIY Easter Bunny Garland (Free Bunny PNG File)

Make a simple Easter bunny garland using my free downloadable bunny png file.
How to make an Anthropologie inspired pom pom wreath.

How to Make a Pom Pom Wreath (Like Anthropologie)

Have you ever wanted to learn how to make a pom pom wreath? Last Christmas I saw an amazing pom pom wreath in Anthropologie. I loved it — but it was so expensive. I decided to try and see if I could make one myself! Ever since the twins and I learnt to make pom …

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Simple Tutorial: How To Make Pom Poms with a Pom Pom Maker

Ever wanted to know how to make pom poms the easy way? I once wrote about our Camp Bestival adventure where we all spent a brilliant afternoon in a pom-pom making workshop. It was such a different method to the one I used when I was a child. I remember spending ages cutting out my templates (usually from …

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UK Lifestyle Blog — The Davies Family

How to make a DIY pom pom blanket

Remember when I learned how to make pom poms at Camp Bestival? The boys and I went a bit pom pom crazy and made TONS of them in the weeks that followed! I trimmed our laundry basket with some of the larger pom poms. But with all the tiny, colourful ones we made, I created …

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