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I S B N 978-0-307-58690-2
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MARTHA STEWARTS
Let Martha Stewart inspire your creativity with the most beautiful holiday
crafts. The 225 handmade projects include cards and greetings, decorations, gifts
and gift wrapping, tabletop accents, party favors, and kids crafts, as well as more
holiday-specific activities, such as egg dyeing, pumpkin carving, and tree trimming.
Each idea is sure to make the holidays more festiveand memorable.
MA
handmade
holiday crafts
225 Inspired Projects
for Year-Round
Celebrations
introduction
There is something magical, endearing, charming, and so
heartfelt about the handmade, the homemade. Since the very
first issue of Martha Stewart Living, it has been a priority to
develop, design, and create, with our very own hands, evocative,
personal, and beautiful objects that illustrate our love of, and
dedication to, the celebration of the holidays.
bunting and flags and swags over fences and railing and porches,
all to proudly display our patriotism every Independence Day.
We have made turkeyslots of themin honor of our national
celebration of thanks: pom-pom turkeys, gilded resin turkeys,
and so many more. And you cant imagine how many things weve
glittered for the holidays!
Over the years, our crafts editors have been involved in the
planning and making of thousands of amazing things that speak
to our celebration of Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years,
and many other significant days throughout the calendar year.
We have made untold numbers of Valentines, not only those
meant for that special someone but also for children and
colleagues and caregivers, and even for cats! We have dyed and
decorated so many different eggs for Easter that we long ago lost
count, but we havent stopped thinking of beautiful new ways to
embellish them. We have draped miles of stars-and-stripe-covered
In this book, you will find the best of that assortment with fine
illustrations and glorious photographs and clear instructions
showing you step by step how to fashion those wonderful objects.
This is a special book for people whose fingers itch to make and
do, and I think that by completing these projects, our appreciation
of the holidays and their real meaning, both religious and secular,
is enhanced and invigorated. Enjoy!
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introduction
There is something magical, endearing, charming, and so
heartfelt about the handmade, the homemade. Since the very
first issue of Martha Stewart Living, it has been a priority to
develop, design, and create, with our very own hands, evocative,
personal, and beautiful objects that illustrate our love of, and
dedication to, the celebration of the holidays.
bunting and flags and swags over fences and railing and porches,
all to proudly display our patriotism every Independence Day.
We have made turkeyslots of themin honor of our national
celebration of thanks: pom-pom turkeys, gilded resin turkeys,
and so many more. And you cant imagine how many things weve
glittered for the holidays!
Over the years, our crafts editors have been involved in the
planning and making of thousands of amazing things that speak
to our celebration of Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years,
and many other significant days throughout the calendar year.
We have made untold numbers of Valentines, not only those
meant for that special someone but also for children and
colleagues and caregivers, and even for cats! We have dyed and
decorated so many different eggs for Easter that we long ago lost
count, but we havent stopped thinking of beautiful new ways to
embellish them. We have draped miles of stars-and-stripe-covered
In this book, you will find the best of that assortment with fine
illustrations and glorious photographs and clear instructions
showing you step by step how to fashion those wonderful objects.
This is a special book for people whose fingers itch to make and
do, and I think that by completing these projects, our appreciation
of the holidays and their real meaning, both religious and secular,
is enhanced and invigorated. Enjoy!
Stew_9780307586902_2p_fm_r1_V02.indd 8-9
6/24/11 2:46 PM
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MARTHA STEWART
papier-mch pumpkins
The stairway in an entry hall serves as the perfect landing spot for a set of
handmade paper jack-o-lanterns in graduated sizes. For safety, these beaming
faces are lit from within by battery-powered lights. A single sheet of tissue pasted
inside diffuses the light and hides the working parts; floral wire and tape make
optional stem and tendrils.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED Balloons, glass jars, wheat paste, tissue paper (in orange and yellow),
paintbrush, clothespins and clothesline, small scissors, craft knife, floral wire, cotton balls,
floral tape, pencil
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197
MARTHA STEWART
papier-mch pumpkins
The stairway in an entry hall serves as the perfect landing spot for a set of
handmade paper jack-o-lanterns in graduated sizes. For safety, these beaming
faces are lit from within by battery-powered lights. A single sheet of tissue pasted
inside diffuses the light and hides the working parts; floral wire and tape make
optional stem and tendrils.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED Balloons, glass jars, wheat paste, tissue paper (in orange and yellow),
paintbrush, clothespins and clothesline, small scissors, craft knife, floral wire, cotton balls,
floral tape, pencil