Tutorials
December 15th, 2009 at 12:12pm
Under Tutorials
Many people are selling their art and crafts these days as full time occupations or to bring in a little extra cash. The most important thing to remember when selling your art and crafts is that your hobby has turned into a business and you must treat it as a business. All businesses need to [...]
Continue Reading How to Make Business Cards For Artists and Crafters
Tags: business cards, crafting, crochet flower, embellishment
By Maria
December 8th, 2009 at 12:01pm
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Rubberstampers have several options when it comes to stamping and one option clearly above the rest is clear stamps. Clear stamps are usually purchased as a set with a few images combined with a few word images. There are many features that make clear stamps an asset to your stamp collection including easy to use, [...]
Continue Reading A Beginner’s Guide to Clear Stamps
Tags: paper crafts, stamping
By Maria
November 5th, 2009 at 01:49pm
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How to create your own craft selling event you ask? Maria Nerius has put together a nice guide on how to host an open house. She gives some tips about checking with your local government on any regulations you may have, timelines, dates and ideas on how to succussfully host an open house selling your [...]
Continue Reading How To Create Your Own Craft Selling Event!
Tags: Craft Fair, crafting
By Christine
November 1st, 2009 at 01:36pm
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Maria Nerius wrote this beautiful article on how to photograph and sell your arts and crafts. Be sure you take note as this is a great guide. You don’t need to invest in the most expensive camera, but if you are serious about selling your work online consider investing in a tripod. This is just [...]
Continue Reading How to Photograph Craft Projects: Photography Guide for Selling Your Arts
Tags: frames, Photography
By Christine
July 6th, 2009 at 10:52am
Under Kids+ Quilting+ Sites We Love+ Tutorials
I found this great tutorial for Rag Quilt Letters on Happy Together, a great blog from a woman named Jessica. She made these letters for her young daughter who is learning the alphabet, but I think they are so cute and could be used in a number of other ways. This tutorial is simple, all [...]
Continue Reading Rag Quilt Letters
Tags: Happy Together, quilt
By Mindy
May 27th, 2009 at 01:33pm
Under Crochet+ DIY+ Jewelry Making+ Tutorials+ Wearable Craft
I do enjoy crafting everything from scrapbooks to home-made cards, but crochet and knitting are usually way over my head. I never used to understand why they were so popular, and I figured that crochet especially was much too complicated for me. After I found this Ribbon and Pearl Necklace Tutorial from Happy Together my [...]
Continue Reading The Cutest Crochet for Summer
Tags: Crochet, cute crochet for summer, DIY, jewelry, summer crochet
By Marly
May 13th, 2009 at 02:14am
Under Jewelry Making+ Tutorials
We have a great new tutorial at FaveCrafts from Helen Bradley of http-design, showing us how to make shrink plastic jewelry. The bracelet is fantastic and easy to make with the help of a circle hole punch. Check out the shrink plastic jewelry tutorial here. Remember, you can recycle number 6 plastic, often the kind [...]
Continue Reading Shrink Plastic Jewelry
Tags: jewelry, plastic, shrink plastic
By Caley
May 6th, 2009 at 01:41pm
Under DIY+ Guest Post+ Mother's Day+ Sewing+ Tutorials
This beautiful spring garden tote project comes to us from Dorinda at Flower Girl Designs Collection. This bag is designed as a way to tote around your garden tools, but makes a great every day bag or gift for mom! Check out the complete two-part tutorial here.
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Continue Reading Guest Project: Spring Garden Tote
Tags: Flower Girl Designs Collection, guest project, Mother's Day, Sewing, tutorial
By Mindy
February 26th, 2009 at 11:15am
Under Green Crafting+ Tutorials
This project is great for reusing liquid soap dispensers – it’s simple, inexpensive and coordinates with your own look and tastes!
Supplies:
clear soap pump bottle
clear liquid soap
glass stones, marbles or coarse gravel*
silk flowers
Steps:
Recycle clear liquid soap bottles. Begin with an empty soap bottle and remove labels from the outside
Add stones of choice to the bottom of [...]
Continue Reading How to make Floral Liquid Soap Dispensers
Tags: recycle, Soap dispensers
By Kelly
February 26th, 2009 at 05:45am
Under Crochet+ Tutorials
I’m still chugging away at the ballet wrap sweater in double crochet. I’ve now finished one more sleeve. I keep getting distracted by embroidery and paper-bead aspirations, new recipes, and the first video game to which I have ever been addicted (I blame the boyfriend). I always return to the crochet eventually. This wrap sweater [...]
Continue Reading How to Crochet a Rope
Tags: Crochet, crochet cord, crochet rope, free crochet pattern
By Caley