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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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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1, When did you start in the world of crafts? I suppose I have always dabbled in crafts – some of my earliest memories are making things from Play-Doh and Plasticine & I had an obsession with paper, paints and colouring stuff. In 1997, I started crafting again as a hobby and dabbled in many [...]
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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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