Pinterest is taking the world by storm. Pinterest is an online moodboard site that allows you to collect and group images for projects or “just because” You can share your images, or use them for inspiration. Pinterest is Free, easy to use and and anyone can sign up. The first thing you need is an [...]
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As Well as Beads by Design and Ra Ra Bazaar, I have another string to my bow and that is Crystal Velvet. Crystal Velvet is a range of Tiaras, Wedding jewellery, cake decorations and toppers. The Tiaras are made with quality gem stones, Swarovski crystal, Bali beads, delica beads and fresh water pearls. All the [...]
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Pyrography design by Burning Desires. If you want to talk about wood, then the UK Crafts Forum is the place for you. Whether you want help removing stains from wooden furniture, or you want to burn images into the wood, or you simply want to see what our talented wood workers have made, then pop over and [...]
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It is craft juice Tuesday today so here are some of the latest craft items to hit the Craft Juice pages. A felt brooch from Buttercup Boutique Rose quartz earrings from BlueForest Jewellery A Meercat ACEO from Clare Sherwen This is a hand felted skirt from Milana You can find out how to use Craft [...]
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Cushions are very in vogue at the moment and our crafts forum members have been creating their own beautiful cushions. The styles and techniques are all different. Carol has made a panel using hooking wool. Mrs Duke of Burl has created a fantasy fairy cushion. and Quirky houses has created this Home sweet home series. [...]
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The crafts forum is alive with the soothing sound of click, click, clicking knitting needles. Many of our UK Crafts Forum members have been bitten by the bug and it’s amazing to see their work. Some of them are new to knitting and some of them old hands (not a direct comment on their age. [...]
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Another Promoting Your Crafts post today and this one focuses on the ever growing Twitter. As I said in my recent post about Craft Juice, simply putting your craft item onto your online selling outlet is not enough. Using promotion tools is important to get your product noticed. Twitter is a very simple, very [...]
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On the Uk Crafts Forum, we love to celebrate our members success and achievements and this is a post doing just that. Two of our members have had their work featured on tv. Last year, Claire was contacted by the company producing the andrex adverts and asked for a doggy soap dish. The soap dish then featured [...]
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If you have put a lot of time and effort into making something to sell, it’s no good just listing it and hoping that the internet gods find it and show it off for you. You need to put in that extra bit of effort and show it off yourself. Craft Juice is an excellent [...]
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When I started formally crafting on a regular basis, I persuaded my other half that a trip over to Ikea might be in order and we bought some floor to ceiling utility shelving. It’s strong and it’s deep and holds an awful awful lot of clutter. Soon the family dining room resembled a store room. [...]
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