Creating with Joy

Start your New Year off right with this cheerful and motivating wallhanging. Materials: 10" x 10" canvas Acrylic paint Joy letters - lime green, hot pink, black, turquoise  Die-cut paper or felt flowers Buttons Embroidery Floss, needle Tacky glue Paintbrush, toothpick 1. Paint canvas in your choice of colors. 2. Carefully remove letters from backing and arrange […]

After all the holiday decorations come down, I like to redecorate the house with a winter theme. Even though I may not like the cold winter months, I still find beauty in a blanket of newly fallen snow. So...let it snow! (just not too much) Supplies used: 12 x 12 denim (or denim covered) canvas […]

We hope your New Year is filled with sparkle and shine! Click here to learn how Julie McGuffee made this tinsel wreath.

I love the extra texture that Joy embroidered letters bring to art journaling and mixed media. These art tags are 4" x 8" - I had lots of fun inking, spritzing, stenciling, painting and stamping! For the bird tag, I rubbed my white letters across ink pads to color them. For the snow tag, I […]

We hope your holidays are filled with joy! And egg nog...lots of egg nog!

Do you like to give your family gifts? I sure do! I recycled this fall basket I had made last month and passed on the love by using Joy embroidered letters to personalize it for a Christmas gift. Materials used: White Joy letters:  1" block and 3/4" script Green chipwood basket Red berries from a spray Key […]

It is so easy to dress up a inexpensive dollar store candle with iron-on embroidered letters from Joy! I keep a little container of left over bits from other Christmas projects - so I grabbed some odds and ends, along with some ribbons and went to work. NOTE: I ended up using the red letters, […]

Joy iron-on letters are a quick and easy way to personalize almost anything around the house, especially during the holidays. We always hang stockings along the fireplace mantel, and these sheets of embroidered letters made it really easy to personalize each one. There are different fonts available in different colors. To make the letters stand […]

With the holidays around the corner, this is a good time to start thinking of quick and easy last-minute gift ideas! Joy embroidered letters really come in handy to add a personal touch - but don't limit yourself to ironing them on fabrics! I used a Xyron sticker maker to add these letters to a […]

Enjoy Gift Bag Dress up a plain gift bag with JOY embroidered letters! Materials: - Gift bag - JOY letters to spell "Enjoy" - Tacky glue - Toothpick Arrange and glue letters to spell "Enjoy" or the word of your choice.  Apply glue to the back of the letters with a toothpick and adhere to […]

Make your Christmas gift bags a little more special with iron-on embroidered letters from Joy. Start with a plain canvas gift bag (mine was from Canvas Corp). Replace the drawstring cording on the bag with red and white gingham ribbon, then iron-on your letters to spell out your holiday cheer. Glue white lace, rick rack, […]

Joy to the world - and especially to all you crafters! We love seeing how you're using Joy embroidered letters for your holiday craft and décor projects. Frames, blocks, cards and tags - this is what Terry Ricioli created. Share whatever you're lettering up on our Creating with Joy page on Facebook!  Look for Joy […]