Crafty Blogs to Explore - 17th Edition

There is a nice variety of craft projects and inspiration shared in these crafty blogs this week. Which one do you like the best?

• Aileen's Musings - Looking for a new paper technique, Aileen has a colorful one using glossy photo paper and Color Mists. This technique works great as backgrounds for cards, collages and even scrapbook pages.

• Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world - This week Craftside brings you a modern denim and plaid upcycled quilt block, 2 yummy recipes using sherry, Art Nouveau jewelry, off register screen printing designs and a call for entries for a new book- 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse.

• Layers Upon Layers - Cyndi has gathered together her most popular tutorials on creating great background papers for your artwork.

• The Crochet Dude - Drew has the perfect recipes for a Halloween party: Bloody Eyeballs and Maggots!

• The Impatient Crafter - Madge shares part one of her two part final project for Terrorific Tuesdays. It's a Gothically delicious tale of friendship.

• Cathie Filian - Check out the Halloween Videos from the Emmy Nominated television show, Witch Crafts, where Cathie and Steve, make some awesome Halloween Projects & party ideas.

• Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery - Check out a ring project inspired by Sherri Haab's book Felt, Fabric, and Fiber Jewelry done Sweater Surgery style.

• Cross Stitch at About.com - This week, Connie has been spending a lot of time in the kitchen - no, not cooking. Dyeing fabric instead. Find out more about all the ways you can change the color of your fabrics.

• Crafty Princess Diaries - No more babies in your life to crochet or knit snuggly blankets for? No worries, the Crafty Princess has the low-down on a baby blanket contest as well as a non-profit group that makes blankets for babies in need.

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