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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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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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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I have been having a week where all I have made is sock Monkeys. These are some of the completed ones. Each Monkey is created from a pair of socks, with one sock forming the body and legs and the other sock being cut up to make the arms, ears, muzzle and tail. I choose [...]
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Papier mache is a versatile and cheap crafting material. You can use it to create solid items or bowls or to decorate surfaces, eg. around mirror frames. You will need: news paper adhesive: can be pva or wall paper paste. Simple Method 1. tear the paper into strips. 2. paste them onto your form example [...]
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It’s lovely to be able to share our UK Crafts Forum members creations on this blog. Today it is the turn of Indri (one of the forum moderators) who has been attending an Historical Crafts night school class. Above you can see the lovely colourful decoupage heart from her latest class and below are creations from [...]
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Do Crafters need an excuse to be crafty? It seems to me that the crafter’s year is made up of goals or dates of significance. No sooner is Christmas out the door, than the next important date is being talked about and designs drawn up. Valentines day is only just around the corner and crafters [...]
Read more →These earrings, illusion necklace and tiara were created for a bride who is getting married in Gretna Green on the 14th Febuary 2009. Created using Swarovski crystals and fine beading wire. Can be made to order in other colours etc. Tweet
Read more →Well I have been busy again. With the nice weather we have been having lately seems my creativity has been given a bit of a boost. For the more echo minded I have created more in my Soy Candle Line. Not only do you get two Soy Wax candles in lovely hexagonal jars but these [...]
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