How You Can Preserve Leaves And How You Can Make Novelties From Leaves
Tips for preserving and making novelties out of leaves. To Preserve Leaves: Place the leaves in a pan and cover them with dry, hot sand. Allow this to cool. Remove the leaves and smooth them with a hot iron. Dip them in colorless varnish and let them dry. To Make Novelties from Leaves: Paint large [...]
How You Can Dry Flowers / How You Can Wax Fresh Flowers
You can enjoy the freshness of a flower garden throughout the year by cutting and drying your favorite flowers. The two easiest and least expensive methods are sand-drying and air-drying. Sand-drying can be used to dry a wide variety of flowers, such as roses, tulips, dahlias, marigolds and snapdragons. Flowers which last only one day, [...]
Candle Tips
Scenting Your Candles
By far, one of the most complex and costly areas of candle making is the selection and use of fragrance. Fragrance is usually the most expensive ingredient in your candles, and will most often be the determining factor in whether or not your candles are a hit or a miss. The number one reason people [...]
How To Make Gel Candles – 11 Easy Steps
Do you love burning beautiful, scented candles? And do you know that you can easily make them yourself? It is exciting and not at all difficult. Here are 12 easy steps to creating unique candles that you can burn at home, give as gifts, or even sell. Materials for gel candle making You will need: [...]
Five Tips For Profitable Candle Making
Do you enjoy making candles, and always seem to receive positive comments from friends and family? If you think you have a flair for making eye-catching candles, you may want to consider a candle business. But before you begin to market your candles, make sure you follow these five tips for profitable candle making. 1) [...]
Make Your Own Soy Candles
Before I started my own business, I thought that making candles was a very long, tedious process. Then I discovered Soy candles, which are so easy, anyone with the time and energy can do it! Soybean based wax candles are a very soft wax, therefore, it is easy to work with and easy to clean [...]
Scrapbook Tips
Easy Scrapbooking Layout Tips
Many scrapbook starters would find it difficult to create a scrapbook layout. If you are one of them, then you may have to read the following to get some easy ideas on what are the different types of scrapbook layouts you can use. · Patterned paper layout When using patterned paper as a scrapbook page [...]
Five Places To Market Your Scrap Booking Crafts
Scrap booking is one of the most popular crafts among hobbyists, and the scrap booking craze is catching on with more people every day. The New Jersey-based Hobby Industry Association finds that at least 20% of all hobbyists consider themselves to be scrap booking enthusiasts, and new scrap booking kits are making the hobby accessible [...]
Combining Scrapbook Text and Photos In Creative Ways
Almost every scrapbook will contain a combination of text and drawings or photos. After all, the whole purpose of a scrapbook is to capture your experiences and memories for all time. One of the most common ways we do that is to record words and images. There is an infinite number of ways to do [...]
Digital Scrapbooking
For generations, scrapbooks were made of paper and plastic. And those still make for great media to record your memories. But since the invention of the personal computer and, even more so, the Internet, scrapbooking has reached new heights. Scrapbooking has gone digital. Not so much a replacement for offline scrapbooking, digital scrapbooks expand the [...]
Craft Books
Apple Pro Training Series: The Craft of Editing with Final Cut Pro
Product Description
Superbly fitted to a semester-length course, this is the ideal curriculum for a hands-on exploration of advanced editing with Final Cut Pro 6. In this Apple-authorized training book, director and filmmaker Michael Wohl delivers comprehensive training in the real-world skills editing pros use every day in the field. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in some aspect of video editing or finishing in Final Cut Pro 6, with hands-on projects for readers to complete as they go. He shares must-know professional techniques for cutting dialogue scenes, action scenes, fight and chase scenes, documentaries, comedy, music videos, multi-camera projects, and more. Two DVDs of excellent, professional footage and project files give you the chance to work with every genre as you learn.
Apple Pro Training Series: The Craft of Editing with Final Cut Pro
Day of the Dead Crafts: More than 24 Projects that Celebrate Dia de los Muertos
- ISBN13: 9780470258293
- Condition: USED – GOOD
- Notes:
Product Description
Celebrated on November 1 and 2, Day of the Dead honors the memory of departed souls, welcoming them back to celebrate the best of life. Families decorate grave sites with marigolds and set up stunning altars. Streets flutter with paper banners. Store windows glisten with sugar skulls. Skeleton figures grin rakishly from every corner. Day of the Dead Crafts is filled with dozens of terrific projects that allow you to participate in the excitement of the holiday while expressing your own creativity. You’ll enjoy showcasing these unique, fun, and meaningful projects throughout the year.
Inside you’ll find step-by-step instructions, ideas, and inspiration for a wide range of projects, including:
- Calaveras, those comical and clever skeleton figures caught in the act of enjoying life’s favorite activities
- Masks and skulls made from paper mache, gourds, and even sugar
- A meaningful and artistic ofrenda, or altar, to honor those who have passed
- Necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and more to wear day or night
- Pieces guaranteed to liven up any decor
Colorful, whimsical, and often dramatic, Day of the Dead art is steeped in rich history and symbolism. The projects in Day of the Dead Crafts honor the traditional, while taking advantage of today’s materials for a fresh and exciting twist.
Day of the Dead Crafts: More than 24 Projects that Celebrate Dia de los Muertos
Craft Supplies
Aquastone Group Stone By Stone 4-In-1 Mosaic Kit, Dark Colors
- AG502
Product Description
STONE BY STONE-Mosaic Kit. These kits allow you to put together your own mosaic just like a craftsman from ancient times. The stones are formulated to be cut with only scissors so no heavy tools are needed! Everything you need is included: mosaic stones, 1 wooden board, four templates, glue, grout, sponge, and mixing stick. This kit makes (1) 8×8″ mosaic. Available in either Dark or Light Series, each sold separately. Conforms to ASTM D 4236. Recommended for children ages 10 and up. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.
Aquastone Group Stone By Stone 4-In-1 Mosaic Kit, Dark Colors
Regular Tearaway 8×8 200 Precut Sheets for Embroidery Machines
- An all purpose medium-weight tearaway
- Works well with high stitch counts and many different fabrics
- 200 8″x8″ pre cut sheets
- Perfect for both home and commercial embroidery machines
- Nonwoven 50% polyester/50% rayon
Product Description
An all purpose medium-weight tearaway works well with high stitch counts and many different fabrics. 45 gms. Perfect for both home and commercial embroidery machines. Several sizes to choose from. Nonwoven 50% polyester/50% rayon.
Regular Tearaway 8×8 200 Precut Sheets for Embroidery Machines








