Tutorial Polymer Clay Bracelet & Earring Set
A fun and easy polymer clay jewelry set make a great Valentine’s Gift for a girl friend.
Tip: You can use this tutorial as the basis, from which to make more complex designer jewelry. Even changing the colors to chocolate, powder blue and off-white will shift the style of the piece to be more grown-up.
Bead [...]
Anthropologie for Less: 5 Decorating Craft Ideas
Apartment Therapy is starting to be ‘like me’ once and a while. Today, I looked at the Anthropologie January 2010 Catalog through their eyes, and this is what I found: 5 contemporary craft projects to make your home Parisian & splendid!
For those of you who are not fortunate to live near an Anthropologie store, [...]
Craft Calendars 2010
It’s January 1. Time for a new calendar.
While I’m all for recycling old calendars and creating your own calendar (In fact, I have an article on how to make your own desk calendar, and will soon post some new scrapbooking page layouts for this calendar), I could not help it but just needed to whiz [...]
How to Photograph Pumpkins
When it comes to photographing pumpkins there certainly are some tricks of the Pro.
I thought to share some with you here so you too can create lovely, original photos of both your own pumpkin creations as well as of some of the lavish displays by others.
1. Tell a Story. Creating a series of photos from [...]
Most Popular Digital Camera
I was just over at Darren Rowse’s digital photography site (digital-photography-school.com) to see what is going on technically in the world of digital photography, that would be of interest for my craft crowd here.
Turns out he did a review of the most popular digital cameras in the first quarter of 2009, listing [...]
Zippy Father’s Day Card
Have a Cool, City Slicker Father? You might like to wish him Happy Father’s Day with this unique card of zippers, leaves and a butterfly.
Click here for your free fathers day card
Card reads “Dad, I love you.”
If you wish, you can add ‘Happy Fathers Day’ on the inside of the card.
Complementary Craft [...]
Father’s Day Card for Natural Dads
For Nature-loving Outdoors Dads & kids, I’ve made an easy solution: click this greeting card thumbnail to download, print and sign your card, and go play back outside.
Your Father’s Day Card reads:
‘When it comes to being a Dad, you’re a Natural!’.
Possible Card Embellishments:
Glue some twigs and leaves onto a white, [...]
Father’s Day Card for a New Dad
This Father’s Day card for new fathers features a lovely baby coming fresh out of the cabbage. It is an absolutely adorable image, and yes, mom, you get to give it to the new dad.
Click on the thumbnail to download your free greeting.
Suggested Embellishment
Give this greeting in a nice-looking frame.
Suggested Complementary Father’s Day Gifts
New [...]
Craft & Art Instruction :: Books I’m Currently Reading
Today I thought to share with you the books that I like reading / am getting inspiration from / am currently plowing through.
Most are related to projects I am either doing right now, articles I am planning to write, projects that are coming down the pipeline, and then of course, good old [...]
Easy to Make Valentine’s Card in Photoshop
Today I want to take you through the easy steps to make a professional Valentine’s card with text in Photoshop.
The Valentine’s Card I created here as an illustration ~ … and to email my hubby on Valentine’s day ~ took me all of 15 minutes to make, start to finish.
How [...]
Nature Photo Contest :: Enter Today
The deadline for the International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition is upcoming: January 31, 2009.
I love photo competitions and whenever I spot one, I’m considering and I’ll share the interesting ones here (even though I know that creates more competition ~ oh well.).
Let’s consider this nature photo contest.
Who can enter?
This competition is open to [...]
Three Easy Steps For Marketing Your Photography Online
These are ways to both promote and sell your photo stock on the Internet. In the process of doing so, you will also have opportunities to ‘meet’ many people interested in your work and in photography along the way. As a result, you will gain in manifold by implementing the ideas suggested here. Live [...]
