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For some people, going into a local craft store is a treat that is equal to enjoying a picnic, a sporting event, or a much needed get-away from the stresses and strains of a hectic lifestyle. Such places are bright with colors, ideas and designs that never fail to bring a smile to even the most busy people.
Major businesses such as Michael’s, Jo-Ann’s, Hobby Lobby or A.C. Moore stores provide a wealth of possibilities and supplies for any sort of project ideas that will keep your hands and thoughts busy for the entire year. Whether you like to design floral arrangements, paint, knit or scrapbook, a craft store will have the supplies you need.
Many smaller communities also have their own version of the larger stores, and will carry items that the big ones don’t, while other carry only selective items that are the most popular at any given moment. Whether you shop at a huge national store or a small, local one in your town, a craft store is the first place to shop when you have a particular project in mind. Whether you’re making a quilt or knitting a sweater for junior, visit your local stores first for ideas and products that will make your job easier.
Some stores cater to specific needs, such as painting, yarns or beads and stones. Larger cities often have more than one store, which makes completing any project a snap for locals, while smaller communities are more limited in their offerings.
However, the Internet makes shopping at any craft store as easy as clicking your mouse. In fact, more people today are ordering their supplies from stores on the Internet to take advantage of more competitive pricing, product offerings, as well as the ability to shop globally.
When looking for a local store that will suit your needs, it’s a good idea to visit them to see what kinds and amounts of items they carry and to determine whether their employees are knowledgeable, friendly and willing to answer questions or provide suggestions when it comes to help or ideas. Check and compare pricing as well, as they will vary.
Sometimes, people will choose a particular craft store to support and utilize and refuse to visit any others. Such loyalty is nice, but may prevent a customer from benefiting from additional ideas, supplies and opportunities. Try to find at least two or three store offerings in your area that will cater to several craft supply needs, the most common of which are yarns, scrapbooking and fabrics.
Even if you don’t need any particular types of supplies, it’s fun to venture into a craft store once in a while just to get an idea of what people are doing and creating. Especially around the holidays, visiting a craft store can provide a myriad of ideas and projects that will help to create lasting memories that are designed and created with love and provide plenty of enjoyment for years to come.
For more information on crafts, try visiting http://www.craftguidance.com – a website that specializes in providing craft related tips, advice and resources to include information on craft store.
Author: Candice Sabrina
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Spending your time doing what you love and getting paid for it seems like the ultimate dream job, but as you start crafting for profit, the pleasure can so easily wither away. Once you’re a professional crafter, your focus is on your business and making money, and your creativity and enjoyment usually suffers first.
When you first start selling your crafts you get such a buzz from it! But what happens when you are making that same item again and again (and again!) You started crafting because you enjoy the creative process, but now you feel like a factory worker, just churning stuff out.
And then there are those customers who want something different. ‘Great!’ you think, ‘a chance to create something unique again.’ But it’s the customer who ends up ‘designing’, while you just follow orders and assemble it. Again, you’re back in the factory!
Finally, you hit a quiet period and have a chance to create some new designs and ‘do your own thing’ again. And what happens? Your muse deserts you and you go completely blank. You can’t for the life of you think of anything new to do, and don’t even know where to start.
Does any of this sound familiar? I’ve been through each of these stages and they’re no fun – you end up wondering why you ever wanted to sell your crafts in the first place! But it doesn’t have to be this way. Over the years I’ve developed some tricks to pull me out of these slumps and back into creative heaven.
Firstly, to avoid the boredom that often comes with crafting for profit, see whether any of these ideas will work for you:
- Reward yourself with creative sessions. For every day spent doing the more repetitive jobs, give yourself a few hours of fun crafting. This way you’ll be motivated to finish the boring stuff quickly.
- Also alternate custom orders with time spent letting your creativity go wild. As custom orders aren’t particularly time efficient anyway, you don’t necessarily need to do all of them together in one session. Perhaps reward yourself for every custom order finished with a block of time to do your own thing.
- Make sure you account for the extra time custom orders take in your pricing (including time spent sourcing materials) in order to make it worth the hassle. You’re much less likely to become dissatisfied if you’re being richly rewarded!
- You could consider limiting yourself to doing one-offs or limited editions. That way the customer gets extra value for their purchase and you don’t get fed up doing the same thing over and over. Or if this isn’t practical for you in terms of earning a good income, consider doing this for just a selection of your crafts.
- When you have to make lots of the same item, get a production line going. Once you know an item sells well, rather than having to replace it every other day, put in one really good session and make loads. OK, so it will be even more tedious while you’re doing it, but you’ll get them finished much quicker this way, and then won’t have to make any more for ages!
- Outsource the production of popular items. That way you can pay someone to replicate your popular designs while you concentrate on creating new ones.
And if you’ve run out of inspiration, here are some ideas for getting it back:
- As a preventative measure, set aside a block of time (daily or weekly) that is purely creative time. Don’t worry about whether what you’re making will sell or not, and don’t think about the other things you need to do, just throw yourself into doing whatever feels good. I find that once I start I get carried away with all sorts of new ideas!
- Read books and magazines about your crafts. This feels wonderfully indulgent, and you may think time spent reading is wasted, but it’s so important in order to generate new ideas and to keep abreast of new techniques and trends. So when you’re feeling a bit jaded, grab a cup of coffee and settle down with your favourite (craft related) glossy.
- Invest in some new and different materials or supplies. I always get excited when a parcel full of new beads arrives, and can’t wait to try them out!
- Have a clear out. You’ll find things you’d forgotten you had, and seeing your materials arranged differently can often inspire you to try new combinations or techniques that you haven’t thought of before.
- Take a course. Learning a new technique, or brushing up on old ones can help you rediscover your inspiration. And you’ll find it refreshing to mix with others who are excited about the same craft as you.
When you’re crafting for profit, you do need to resign yourself to some of the less exciting tasks, but do everything you can to keep yourself at your creative best. If you don’t love what you’re doing, it will show in your work.
Don’t feel guilty about treating yourself to a craft magazine subscription, a day off, or whatever else you need to keep those creative juices flowing, because as a professional crafter you are the number one asset in your business!
Louise Longworth http://www.craft-selling-parties.com Louise Longworth is a work at home mother who sells her handmade jewelry at home parties and has published a website to help others sell their crafts the same way.
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Creating African arts and crafts for kids is a fun way to get them engaged in cultural history at a young age. Through simple and creative activities, your child will learn about different types of African animals, games, cultural symbols, and holidays. Here are a few examples of different inexpensive and educational crafts that you can make with your child:
Mancala is a traditional African game that promotes critical thinking and improves mathematical skills. The game board and playing pieces can be easily created with these tools:
Egg carton
Scissors
Paint
Small beads – all the same size
Simply cut off the lid of the egg carton, flip it upside down and glue it to the other half. This creates a base and a playing board. Next have your child decorate the carton with brightly colored (think red, orange and yellow) paints. For added decoration, have ready-made shapes cut out of construction paper for your child to glue onto the sides. Finally, have your child choose their beads, place four in each cup and you are ready for an enjoyable game of Mancala!
One of the exciting aspects of Africa that especially interests children is the idea of a safari. Cater to your child’s seemingly infinite imagination and help them create Safari Puppets. You will need:
African animal stickers
Blank note cards
Hot glue gun
Scissors
Popsicle or craft stick
Have your child place the stickers on the blank note cards. Then, have them use the scissors to cut around the perimeter. Take the cut out animal shapes and use the glue gun to fix it to the craft stick.
Music is an integral aspect to traditional African life. Drums represent the heart beat of life and are used in many African dances and festivals. Create African arts and crafts for kids that will not only be fun to create, but can be enjoyed for years to come. To help your child create an African-style drum, you will need:
Red, black and yellow construction paper
Glue
African animal stickers
Coffee can
First cut the red and black construction paper into strips that will fit vertically onto the coffee can. Have your child glue the strips to the can. Cut a thicker strip our of the yellow construction paper that will fit around the width of the can. Glue it to the can. Your child can now decorate the can with the African animal stickers to their liking. Finally place the lid on the can and start tapping away!
There are many more African arts and crafts for kids that are low in cost and fun to make. Get creative! Make masks out of paper-mache or design your own coloring books filled with African scenery and animals. Whatever you choose, you should feel good that you are helping your kid expand their world view and keeping their imaginations alive and active.
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Author: Wendy Pan
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It has been said that Bead embroidery is by far one of the most expressive forms of the beadwork field. It is like you are creating; much like painting, a scene and you can express virtually any idea, thought, or scene in your artwork. The cloth of choice is usually Linen. Linen works well and allows you to express yourself on a material that is not overly expensive.
Bead Embroidery can be done in any of several sizes and colors. You are free to express your own sense of individuality a bit more with bead embroidery than with some of the other types of embroidery.
When it comes to the actual beadwork, it is advised to use a size 12 needle specifically designed for beads. This is the general rule of thumb however if your beads are extremely small you will need to use a smaller needle.
There is really no limit on the type of beads you can use for Bead Embroidery. Acceptable beads include but are not limited to: beads, large beads, Delicacy, Japanese seed and any other types, the list goes on and on and on.
The use of an embroidery frame over that of an embroidery hoop is highly suggested. Using a hoop can cause the fabric to be pulled a little too tightly. The use of water-soluble pens makes the patterns easier to mark taking the factor of permanent marks that could ruin beadwork completely out of the equation.
Bead embroidery has become a sophisticated much loved form of beadwork. It takes a high factor of creativity to be good at this craft. Although it can take time to master the techniques, Bead Embroidery can be very rewarding and worth your investment of time. There is too the factor of cost associated with bead embroidery. Although it is more expensive than some of the different embroidery types available, once you are a pro, you can sell your creations and make a decent amount of money doing so.
You can also find more info on types of embroidery. embroiderymile.com is a comprehensive resource which provide information about Embroidery.
Author: Michael J. Simmons
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It’s not so easy coming up with a fun way to congratulate a friend or co-worker, but you’ll find that a congratulations party craft item goes a long way. These nifty congrats gloves are a great party item to make up before the party or to get kids involved in making during the party event. Then you’ll be able to really ‘hand it to them’ when letting that guest of honor know how well they’ve done.
Nifty Congrats Glove
For this Congratulations party craft you’ll need the following items; work glove, paper, scissors, felt, glue, plastic beads, wooden dowel, polyester fiber fill or newspaper and ribbon.
Once you get your items you can create your craft glove. Set the work glove on a piece of paper and trace around the four fingers and palm of the work glove, but not the thumb. Next, you’ll use the scissors to cut out the thumbless hand shapes. Then you’ll trace around the thumb on a piece of paper and cut out the shape.
Use these paper templates to cut shapes out of felt. Attach the felt to the Congratulations glove with fabric glue.
While the glue is drying you can accent the top of the glove by gluing on felt fingernails and plastic beads in different fun patterns or around the base of the glove.
When the glue is dry, slide the end of the wooden dowel into the Congratulations craft glove until it reaches the tip of the index finger. Stuff the glove with the polyester fiberfill or newspaper.
Secure the glove to the dowel by tightly tying the ribbon around the wrist, and voila you’ve created a congratulations glove.
This is an excellent Congratulations party craft item to give to your guest of honor. You’ve got to hand it to them, they did a great job. So be sure to remind him or her to give themselves a pat on the back!
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Beading wire is made of nylon coated woven stainless steel wire of an ultra fine thickness. The thickness of the wire actually ranges from 0.015 inches to 0.021 inches. The thinner wire is most often used for making jewelry like bracelets or anklets, where the thicker beading wire would be used for jewelry like necklaces. Making jewelry with this type of wire is a good idea for beginners, since it is one of the easiest techniques for making jewelry.
One problem you might run into with using this technique is kinking of the wire, which may cause unsightly hanging of the bead strands. The finished jewelry might not follow the body contours when worn, and wire can easily break when it does get kinked. These days, though, there are new beading wire products that eliminate this problem, where the wire is actually made softer and more versatile.
Large accent pieces and mineral or stone beads are best to use for making wire jewelry. Also, light weight hollow gold or silver beads used to make bracelets are good to use with wire, since with bracelets you are trying to maintain a circular shape. For any type of jewelry or other craft projects in which your purpose is to maintain a shape, then beading wire is a good product to use.
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Author: Renee Flowers
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If you have discovered bead making like so many others recently, you know how addictive it can become. There are so many shape and color possibilities that it never gets boring. Time easily gets away from you when you are in full bead making mode. Since you are already addicted to this great hobby, I don’t think there is any harm in me telling you about making polymer clay beads. If you have not worked with polymer clay for your bead making before, you are in for a treat. Although polymer clay is not clay in the scientific sense, it does not contain any clay minerals, its texture and working properties are very similar to mineral clays. Polymer clay can easily be colored and worked with everyday household items such as a pasta machine. That makes it perfect for the bead making hobbyist.
If you are an experienced bead maker or a novice, it is a good idea to get some basic knowledge on how to use polymer clay before you begin making your beads. But don’t worry, this is a very user friendly material to work with. One of your best resources for learning the basics of polymer clay is of course the Internet. But your local library, book stores and craft stores should be stocked with a good number of how-to guides to get you started. While there you may be tempted to load up on all the specialized bead making tools. There are many handy devices available, but don’t feel as though they are a requirement for this hobby. One of the great things about polymer clay is that it is so easy to work with and works well with a number of regular household items. Just remember to keep a separate set of these items for clay making so you are not using them for food preparation as well.
So now that you have read up on the basics of polymer clay I am sure you are excited to learn how to make polymer clay beads. First, decide what colors you want to make. It helps if you know your end project as well. A necklace or bracelet? Or do you just want a big bowl full of colorful handmade beads? Take your translucent clay and blend it with your colored clays through a hand crank pasta machine to make custom colors. Color recipes are plentiful on the Internet. Now you are ready to start forming your beads. You can roll tubes with a toothpick in the middle to form the stringing hole or make free formed shapes by hand. The possibilities are limitless and totally up to you. Final step is the baking. The great thing about polymer clay is that no kiln is required. You can bake it right in your oven or toaster oven. Voila, your beads are ready for stringing or just admiring.
If you haven’t found out already you are sure to discover the addictiveness of bead making. Using a material like polymer clay only makes it easier and more fun. Before you know it you will have created one of a kind personal masterpieces with ease.
When researching how to make polymer clay beads and how to use polymer clay be sure to visit AMACO, the website of the American Art Clay Company. This is a fantastic resource for the expert bead maker or anyone just starting out with making polymer clay beads.
Author: Alice Lane
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Jewelry beads, what can you do with them? Well, there’s the obvious answer of creating homemade jewelry. But let’s think outside the box. I’m feeling ambitious, hopefully you are too. Instead of making you look amazing (which I’m sure you already do), we can spruce up your home with an artistic flare.
I have a few ideas we can use jewelry beads for instead of jewelry. You’ll need a few supplies, fishing line, I suggest a 10lb line for the assurance of extra strength, a wooden curtain rod, eye hooks and patience. Our goal, besides making beautiful home accessories, is further developing our eye for design.
First up is a bead curtain. Yes, you can buy them in the store, but they’re not personalized. You have to measure two things: the width and length of the doorway. The curtain has to fit and be long enough to act as a door. Lay your curtain rod on the ground. You have to screw the eye hooks into the rod, spacing each one evenly, yet close enough to create the illusion the curtain is one solid piece. Next, acknowledging the length of the door frame, cut your fishing line and attach it to the eye hooks. Now comes the patience, threading each line with beads takes time, but once done it is a beautiful curtain. After you’ve finished beading each line, tie the ends off and hang the curtain in your doorframe. Ta-da, you’re finished and have a personally decorated beaded curtain. The more you do this, the more intricate your styles will become.
Make a mat. Create a mat for your bathroom, kitchen or front door. Imagine having guests come to your door and seeing your art welcome them. This is easily accomplished with fishing line and beads. Make a square frame. Then, making several rows of beads threaded with fishing wire, fasten them within the frame. You finished your mat. Depending on the beads you’ve used, the comfort level of standing on the mat will vary. If edged or plastic, the mat is going to be uncomfortable and would be better suited as a welcome mat. Use clay and smoothed beads for a kitchen or bathroom mat.
Closely related to mats in design and symmetry are coasters and hot pads. Yes, they are square like the mats I mentioned above. They’re even made the same way, only smaller. Still, their function, whether it be keeping your table dry or preventing your counter from cracking, is important. With your added zest for design, mixing colors, bead styles and differing patterns, the aesthetics of your home will forever change (in a good way). The look of homemade coasters or hot pads is a kitschy, light-hearted way to liven up a room.
Yes, they’re called jewelry beads, but as I’ve just shown you, they aren’t limited to bodily adornment. Cast inhibition to the wind and start crafting whatever your heart desires with the help of beads, patience and ingenuity.
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Author: Daniel Cruse
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It seems that crafters in the US are turning to bead jewelry making in ever increasing numbers. Beading is a fun hobby, and you can make jewelry from the simplest designs right through to incredibly complex pieces that are works of art in their own right. There are so many patterns and designs to choose from that it can almost become overwhelming, but don’t worry, you’ll soon find your feet.
One of the best things about bead jewelry making is that there is so much freedom to do what you want. Even better, something that may appear to be a disadvantage can actually be turned into a new design element. An example I read about recently involved jasper and copper. Jasper drills rings aren’t very popular, mainly because they tend to look unattractive and are not particularly functional. Most beading enthusiasts don’t bother using them.
This particular beader chose jasper drill rings with attractive colors, finding interesting combinations of browns, reds and touches of green. Once the beads were all strung together, however, they looked terrible. So instead of giving up and doing something else, she looked around for a new idea and came up with copper. The copper blended well to compliment the jasper colors.
Adding the copper element to the piece made a huge difference. She used copper wire to add extra features to the bracelet, and as a result ended up with a stunning design using two main elements that previously she’d never managed to use successfully. As long as the colors blend well, it’s possible to use almost any elements in bead jewelry designs.
One of my favorite things about beading is that you can take almost anything and turn it into something interesting. Even if first time around you’re not happy with the result, you can pull it apart and try doing it differently. Making beaded jewelry isn’t as hard as you might think; mostly you need a lot of patience and a healthy dollop of imagination. With those ingredients, you can create amazingly beautiful jewelry pieces such as bracelets, earrings and necklaces, which will be the envy of your friends.
Beading is a craft that is constantly evolving, and one of the most recent trends is cell phone charms. These are quite simple to make, and help to give your cell phone some character all of its own. If you know a teenage girl and want to give her something unique and special, try making her a cell phone charm. Or perhaps give her the bits and pieces so that she can make one of her own design.
If your bead making supplies are getting a bit cluttered, then instead of throwing beads out, reorganize them and perhaps swap the beads you don’t like with a fellow beader. Sometimes the beads that leave us most uninspired will be the ones that someone else turns into a masterpiece!
The author is addicted to beading, and you can find more great beading information at http://beading-is-fun.info She has also released a beading guide, at http://ultimatebeadloversguide.com
Author: Felicity Walker
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