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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UK Crafts Forum member Jo Lovejoy has made these stunning paper beads using craft papers, but magazine pages can work just as well. You can find Jo’s tutorial and have a go at making some beads yourself, HERE Tweet
Read more →With so many different shapes and sizes of bare chipboard available to crafters at the moment it can sometimes be difficult to know how to approach using them in your crafting and get the result that you want. Bare chipboard can be decorated in lots of different ways, painting and embossing with embossing powders are [...]
Read more →Lisa (Candles by Lisa) asked me to make another special Birthday Card for her sister in law to send from her kids. I’ve never used pre printed background papers before so this card is a first! Edged with black ric-rac ribbon with the front of the card cut slightly shorter than its corresponding edge to [...]
Read more →A friend of mine has made these dinky bags. I don’t get the chance to visit her very often but when I do we always have a good catch up on what she has been creating. On my last visit, she showed me a handful of these little bags, made from thick paper and using [...]
Read more →I’ve been asked to make an Anniversary Card and I wanted to do something a little bit different. I’d bought some gold rose printed vellum a short time ago (really only to justify postage and packing on something I REALLY needed!) and had not had any ideas on how to use it. Anyway, copied the [...]
Read more →I’ve been wondering for a while what I would do if my card creaser broke. I’ve not had it a particularly long time – my Mum bought it for my birthday after I’d nearly worn out her Lakeland Craft catalogue, and to be honest, I don’t know what I’d do without it! After measuring (to [...]
Read more →And so this tale of creativity starts Contact one of us if your looking for parts We have Jellybelly Jellybrain For all hand sewn bunting with added name Butterbeandesigns for colourful letters The likes of which Id say nobody betters Tip tops unique cards are very distinctive For all happy occasions she’ll have a card [...]
Read more →Making little people is what I’m good at. Or so I have been told. Hang on. Let me stop you right there, before your mind wanders down the wrong path – this is not the kind of blog for things like that! I create personalised cards for special occasions – friends becoming engaged, their subsequent weddings, [...]
Read more →As somebody who is currently making, what seems like, a neverending supply of wedding and evening invites for friends, I thought Id look to my fellow crafters sites for encouragement. My case study is of a person that goes by the name of Swirlyarts. Not only is she a busy wife and mum but she [...]
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