Arts and Crafts Articles
76: How To Use Embossing Powders
Using embossing powders for your card making ideas is just one of the versatile techniques commonly used by crafters. Embossing powders are a wonderful addition to and card makers or scrap bookers craft box.
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77: Card Making Ideas - Rubber Stamps
If you are new to card making and looking for card making ideas, rubber stamps are a perfect addition to your craft box. Rubber stamps can be used in a variety of ways so they are well worth investing in.
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78: Tips For Card Making Ideas
Sending someone a personal card that is different from any other is sending something that will be treasured and remembered. Knowing someone has spent time and effort to produce something that is personal to the receiver is better than a gift.
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79: Stuck For Ideas For A Hobby?
Bored with the television? Disheartened by repeats? Fed-up of computer games? Stuck in the doldrums of your everyday existence?
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80: A Brief Look at the Successful Ventriloquist
After taking a few lessons the student may find that he has a hitherto unsuspected talent for the art of ventriloquism, which only needs proper cultivation to be made a source of amusement and profit.
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81: Flying a Kite Well
First to be considered is the place from which the kite is flown. There are certain do's and don'ts which operate here. For example, avoid a spot where the kite might become entangled with trees or overhead wires, or where it might sail over a busy road.
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82: Choosing the Right Materials When Beginning Quilting
To begin with, I want to say something as trite as it is important and that is, "Use the very best materials that you can afford for any and all handwork." Extravagance is never smart, but good quilt materials are not expensive. It's the sleazy ones, unreliable dyes and starched cloth that prove expensive in the end.
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83: A Brief Look at the Historical Development of Picture Frames
The picture frame, as it exists today, is derived from the doorway or entrance to temples, palaces and cathedrals. The earliest examples of frame-like decorations or borders bear a great resemblance to door frames.
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84: All the Tools You Will Need to Do Upholstering
Perhaps the most important one is the upholsterer's hammer. Upholstery hammers are specially made for this specific craft. There are three types, the favorite one being that with the round ringed shaft.
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85: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part III
In typical Old World needlework, each detail is a particle of the whole; no part of the design can stand alone, whole and complete in itself. The background is solid, the pattern is formal, and a border encloses all. American women smashed that rigid order to bits...
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86: Top 10 Must-See Broadway Plays and Musicals
The following is a list of the top 10 Broadway plays and musicals you ought to consider experiencing and why.
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87: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part IV
Poverty came across the ocean with the immigrants. Here on the farthest rim of the known world, it became direst need. In a wilderness thousands of miles from home, depending only upon themselves for their very lives, these poor immigrants learned the inescapable fact that a person is the only source of the only energy that preserves human life on this planet.
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88: How To Make A Cheap And Easy Gourmet Gift Basket For Mom
Gift baskets are always popular and a great idea to give as a gift whether for Mother's Day or any other time of the year. Moms love to receive gift baskets.
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89: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part II
Three hundred years ago the then colonies in America were inhabited largely by a European hierarchy who'd brought their lower classes with them to do the hard work. There was much mingling and intermarrying with each other and with the Indians - the farmers, the peddlers, the sailors, the little merchants, the
wilderness fighters -- the first Americans...
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90: Dancing And Having Rhythm
Learning to dance is fun - and it is easy. In a sense it is like learning a new language - a language in which moods and emotions are expressed in movement; a language of rhythm, grace and harmony. It is new - but in a very real sense it is the oldest language in the world, for dancing is the oldest form of art.
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91: A Brief Look At The Beginning Of Kite History
Kite flying is one of the oldest pastimes in the world. No one can say with certainty precisely how old it is, but we do know that it goes back for many centuries, and that the beginnings of the story have an eastern setting.
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92: A Brief Look At Present Day Picture Frames
Picture framing follows all general changes in sound decorative style, so no one can expect to produce a frame which need never be changed. By keeping the principles of good taste always in mind, we will not turn out something faddish or freakish.
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93: Ensuring The Quilt You Make Is Warm And Well Lined
On to practicalities, the warmth of the quilt will depend upon the thickness and kind of interlining you use. If warmth is desired, have a thick interlining which means that the quilting lines must be farther apart. If the quilting is to be close and elaborate the interlining must be thin.
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94: A Brief History of Upholstering
It is widely thought that the craft of upholstery evolved from that of the tent-maker. And it does seem a likely development. Although tent-making is now quite a separate and a very prosperous trade, it is not so many years ago that many branches of that trade were carried out by the upholsterer.
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95: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part I
Three hundred years ago the colonies in America were European. Gentlemen and their ladies brought to North America the absolute monarchies of the Continent, the feudal system of England, and the arts and cultures of the Old World. They also brought the lower classes to do the hard work...
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96: Learn About The History Of Belly Dancing In Japan
To talk about belly dancing in Japan, we have to first meet the history of belly dancing.
Japan is not the first country in the word to have belly dancers in. In fact, when you combine the words 'belly dancing Japan' people look at you as if you were totally mad.
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97: How To Get Ideas For Scrapbooking Pages
Scrapbooking layouts can make or break the look of your pages but it's often difficult to come up with something unique and creative, so here's how to get ideas for scrapbooking pages...
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98: The History and Tradition of Amish Quilt Making
As we follow the evolution of their quilt making we find that the Amish always used conservative styles compared to what was popular in quilting at any given time.
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99: 6 Top Tips For Framing Your Cross Stitch Project
For many stitchers, the most exciting step of creating a cross stitch project is the final one - that of framing. To get the very best results, framing your project requires a little planning. Here's my set of top tips for making this look as good as it can possibly be...
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100: Creative Scrapbooking Ideas
Scrapbooking has taken the planet by storm. It seems everyone is working towards that same goal of taking those miles and miles of photos and turning them into interesting presentations that are much more meaningful. That's why some good creative scrapbooking ideas can be very helpful...
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