Manyi Au from MAUstudio put together these adorable snowman & penguin card and gift tag templates just for Tutorial Tuesday on Indie Fixx. Click here to download the template. If you end up using it, please share your results over at the Indie Fixx Tutorial Tuesday flickr group!

Graphic designer Manyi Au started MAUstudio in 2005 to showcase her graphic design talents, as well as the work of other independent artists & designers.  A participate in the Indie Fixx Holiday Galleria, MAUstudio is the place to shop if you are looking for goods with an emphasis on cute!  You will find adorable stickers, notecards, stationery sets designed by Manyi and others. Plus, all kinds of fun jewelry, plush, bags, wallets and more.  Here’s a few of my favorites…holiday button trio, pug holiday stickers, grumpy cat stationery & unicorn earrings.

Emmy Gabriel of the Natural Beauty Workshop blog came up with this seasonally appropriate Cranberry Pumpkin Salt Scrub and offered to share it with Indie Fixx readers.

The Natural Beauty Workshop is the shop blog for From Nature With Love, a supplier of skin care, aromatherapy, spa and craft ingredients, so if you don’t have a local resource for the ingredients, you will be able to find everything you need for this salt scrub there. Plus, if you’re not ready to branch out on your own, they sell kits as well. 

Made with skinfully decadent autumn ingredients, make this scrub for yourself or make it to gift to family & friends this season.

Let me know if you make this and how it turns outs! Enjoy — Jen.

Cranberry Pumpkin Salt Scrub by Emmy Gabriel of the Natural Beauty Workshop

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Bolivian Pink Salt, Fine
• 1/2 ounce Pumpkin Seed Oil
• 1/2 ounce Cranberry Seed Oil
• 1/2 teaspoon Cranberry Fruit Fiber
• 1/2 teaspoon Cranberry Fruit Seeds
• 1 ounce Polysorbate 20
• 1/2 teaspoon Cranberry Fragrance Oil

Pumpkin Seed Oil contains high levels of zinc, and vitamins A, C, E, and K.  Cranberry Seed Oil is rich in antioxidants, and essential fatty acids. All of this natural goodness can help to improve your skin’s condition while mineral rich Bolivian Pink Salt provides exfoliation and stimulates circulation.  We’ve added Polysorbate 20 to this recipe to make it easier to rinse, and Cranberry Fragrance Oil to enhance the scrub’s aroma. For an all natural scrub, simply leave out these two ingredients and double the amount of Cranberry Seed Oil and Pumpkin Seed Oil.

Directions:

In a small mixing bowl, combine the Pumpkin Seed Oil, Cranberry Seed Oil, Polysorbate 20, and Cranberry Fragrance Oil.  Stir the liquids well to make sure they are fully combined.  Next, add the Bolivian Pink Salt and stir again, making sure to break up any clumps in the salt.  Add the Cranberry Fruit Fiber and Cranberry Fruit Seeds and mix well.  A natural or synthetic preservative may be added to this recipe at your own discretion.  For information on preservatives, please visit our informational library.

Packaging:

Spoon the mixture into a PET plastic Jar.  Make sure that the top of the jar and the lid are totally free from oil before you cap the jar.  Any oil on the lid or the top of the jar can cause the scrub to leak.  In a sealed container, this scrub should last several months, but after it is opened it can easily become contaminated during use.  Keeping the jar away from water, and using clean utensils to scoop out the scrub will help to keep it from becoming contaminated.  You can also package the scrub in single serving containers so that they will be used up completely after they opened.

There’s so many fun Halloween themed craft ideas and tutorials going around the Web, I though I’d share a few of my favorites with you.

From one of my all-time favorite plush artists, Soto Softies — Bats in Your Belfry Finger Puppet.

From Resurrection Fern, which has been featured on Tutorial Tuesday before — Felted Pumpkin Treat Bowls.

From The Long Thread, whose Ribbon Wreath was just featured last week — Scrappy Owl Treat Bag.

Oh, how I love The Black Apple (who doesn’t right?) — Free Downloadable Halloween Card (via Craftzine).

From Maquette, artist Samantha Hanh’s Blog, who has also been featured before on Indie Fixx — Another Free Halloween Card.

Discovered via someone, but I’ve forgotten now who exactly (sorry), I really like the Gothic simplicity of this Halloween Ribbon Wreath from The Long Thread.  You could even change the color of the ribbon and this could work all year round.

Learn how to make your own HALLOWEEN RIBBON WREATH HERE. If you end of making one, be sure to share it!

I love these spooctacular trees  from Pretty Ditty and based on A Little Hut’s tutorial. What a wonderful way to add a little Halloween to your table. You know, I love me some kiragami, so I’ll definitely be giving this one a try!

In keeping with the the Vintage Week theme and since I’m going to the apple orchard every week now, I thought I’d share this tutorial with you for making a produce bag from re-purposed doilies and fabric from scrumdillydilly. Of course, you should use vintage doilies and fabric!

READ HOW HERE!