Arts and Crafts Articles
26: Who Else Wants to Cross Stitch on Plastic Canvas?
If you haven't tried cross stitching on plastic canvas, you should. With plastic canvas, you can create unique cross stitch projects that you can't create with fabric. For instance, because the plastic is firm, you can even create stunning three-dimensional projects...
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27: How To Clean Your Cross Stitch Pictures
After you spend many hours creating a beautiful cross stitch picture, the last thing you want to do is damage it during cleaning. Many experts suggest you always clean your projects when you finish to remove the oils left behind when you touched the cloth. These oils can attract a suprisingly large amount of dirt over time...
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28: Brush Sanding of Mouldings Made Easy
Moulding sanding machine description on how to sand moulding with an automatic sanding machine.
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29: Handmade Soap And Candle Business Advice - Boost Sales With These Easy Products
Here is a strategy for adding profit onto existing soap and candle businesses without a lot of extra money, time, or work. Even part-time or hobby sellers can benefit.
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30: Ready, Set, Sew: How to Stitch and Embroider on Your Scrapbook Pages
Sewing and embroidery adds dimension without a lot of bulk and has the added benefit of attaching elements to the page in the process. You can sew by hand or with your machine. Both techniques are easier than you might think. Here is a simple how to.
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31: Get Well Card Making Ideas
Receiving a hand made get well card really shows someone you are thinking of them when they are not feeling well and it will be received with love and thanks.
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32: Long Live Card Making
There are many occasions where a card is the best way to convey your thoughts and feelings and probably the most common is a birthday card. Whilst is it perfectly acceptable to buy a card from a shop and there are some very nice cards to buy it is so much better to make a card.
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33: Basket Making Is Fun and Easy
Have you ever wondered how such beautiful basket creations are crafted through the practice of basket-making? Basketry is an art form. Each basket, being handcrafted, is unique and no two baskets will be exactly alike.
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34: Dancing Relaxes You And Makes You Feel Great
Being able to dance, especially Salsa is sexy. Salsa is one of the most popular forms of ballroom dance.
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35: Embroidery Sewing Machine - Which One is Best for You?
The variety of embroidery sewing machines is amazing. There is no stitch or pattern that sophisticated modern machines can't perform. But how do you find a sewing machine that is best for you? Let's look at what is currently available on the market and compare best embroidery sewing machines.
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36: Why Not Cross Stitch a Fantasy Dragon?
Looking through some stitching catalogues recently, I came across a wealth of fantasy dragon designs. There was a great deal of choice of creatures and designs, and they all looked attractive and impressive...
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37: Tips When Planning To Buy Rubber Stamp Materials
One of the many reasons rubber stamping has grown in popularity is the flexibility and variety involved in choosing and using rubber stamp materials. Anyone can become intimidated when purchasing rubber stamp materials, here are a few helpful suggestions that can make it easier.
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38: How To Use Alcohol Inks
Alcohol inks are dye based multi surface inks that can be used on a variety of surfaces including glossy paper, dominos, plastic, metal, shrink plastic metal foil, glass and many other materials.
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39: Aperture Cards - Send Something A Little Different
Although every hand made card has its own style and unique qualities sometimes it is nice to try something new and a little different.
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40: Make A Quilt In Only A Couple Of Days
When you decide to make a quilt, you have many options to consider. There are several materials to choose from in many different colors and patterns.
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41: How To Start Creating Your Own Cross Stitch Designs (Part I)
Have you ever searched for ages and not found that particular pattern you've been dreaming about doing? Instead of getting frustrated and giving up, why not try creating your own cross stitch designs?
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42: My Worst Cross Stitch Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale!
I can read. I can count. I can thread a needle... so why did everything suddenly go wrong with a counted cross stitch project I started last year? I began enthusiastically enough. I had planned to stitch...
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43: Creating Stained Glass Panels
Used in cathedrals to show glorious scenes of saints, and for animals and plants in other venues stained glass panels are beautiful works of art. Though complex looking, these stained glass windows are actually fairly simple, and with a little effort anyone can recreate the art.
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44: Cross Stitch and Men - Crossing the Gender Barrier
Surprisingly, many men love to pull out those needles and threads to cross-stitch projects that they enjoy. It possibly starts out as a means of simply relieving stress. Since Cross Stitch is not considered "manly", it causes many people to wonder about the men who love to cross-stitch and leads to a number of interesting questions...
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45: Learn To Quilt Online - You Can Do It In A Weekend
There are many intricacies when it comes to learning how to quilt online. It is wise to start with a very basic idea and expand those ideas as you improve in your quilting skills.
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46: Antiques. One Man's Junk is Another Man's Treasure!
In the end, an antique is as valuable as someone is willing to pay for it! Although an antique may indeed be 100 years old, that does not necessarily make it valuable. If it was not a desirable piece to begin with or it was of inferior quality, it would not be of interest to anyone today. Junk today is junk tomorrow!
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47: Introduction to Crochet
Article discusses the origin and history of crochet
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48: Positive Aspects Of Quilting Classes
Discover the main reasons why to join quilting classes and how it can help in your learning curve of how to quilt
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49: A Good Scrapbook Foundation - How to Take Better Pictures
Scrapbooking Useful Tips and Techniques
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50: 22 Easy Crochet Tips and Tricks
Here are some helpful and handy tips and tricks that will make crocheting easier and keep you more organized.
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