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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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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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Is beading your hobby? Do you enjoy making jewelry with friends? Find a free beading pattern to share with your friends. One of the places you might find a free beading pattern is online. The internet offers many open doors to the world of beading. Just walk through the right one. Patterns are offered free as a way of luring one to the right site or area to shop.
If you are a beginner and don’t want to invest in a book on beading right away, a free beading pattern is a good place to start. Look right on the shelf in the beading section of your local craft store. Many companies have leaflets that they leave for store customer use. These are attached to the shelf with a plastic clip. Just tear one off as they are free for your use.
Many companies offer a free beading pattern but you must write them and ask for it. They may advertise this on their packaging or in beading magazines. Just follow the directions for receiving the pattern in the mail. Most patterns are targeted for beginners, because once you are hooked on beading, you buy more beads!
Beading has become a very popular hobby. Some have turned it into a lucrative job with many customers. Offering a free beading pattern may attract some to use certain supplies or buy from certain beading stores. Marketing the free beading pattern is a good idea. People love to receive something free. Many will send off for it and others will sign up online for the free patterns being offered. It is a good way to get started with beading and to build your patterns without spending much money. Find out if beading is for you, start with a free pattern. Use the color beads you like. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to begin. If you like beading, if you get hooked like so many others, then you can collect the colors and shapes to make your designs stand out. Beading is such a fun hobby, no wonder it is so addictive!
You can read this article and more like it at [http://www.beadingcentral.info]
Author: Ed Whitlock
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The kids are out of school, the heat is on, soon the novelty of no more school wears off and the kids are bored. They can’t stay in the community pool eight hours a day, so what else can they do?
Summer Arts and Crafts – Makeover the Mailbox
The most important item for this craft is the craft foam because craft foam is water resistant. This means you’ll certainly have to bring it in before it downpours, but a sprinkle or two won’t hurt it.
You’ll need scissors, scrap paper, tape, colored tape, ribbon, rope, double sided tape, craft foam and of course, the mailbox!
Use the scrap paper as a sort of template for the craft foam. The ideas that work best for mailboxes are animals and sea creatures. Draw the eyes, fins, ears, nose, any of the “pieces” that will be stuck on the mailbox on the scrap paper (brown paper bags work well for this) then trace them onto the craft foam and cut them out. If making a dog, create a tongue for the inside part of the mailbox for a little extra treat for the mailman when he makes his deliveries! For the mane of a horse, gather polyester rope and hang off the back!
Summer Arts and Crafts – Kitchen Wind Chime
This craft is not only musical but attractive as well. Use a smaller colander to feed fishing wire through and hang various metal items found around the kitchen. What can you use?
-spoons
-spatula
-whisk
-apple slicer
-anything you can find that isn’t dangerous (like a knife)
Add some crystal beads or beautiful clear plastic beads to the monofilament and you have a fun, interesting craft the kids can enjoy making themselves!
The most important thing to keep in mind when coming up with these crafts is the age of children (their motor skills), their likes and dislikes, the level of “messiness” the craft will create (should it be done outdoors or in), and if the craft will actually be useful around the house (both items above can be used and enjoyed).
Summer Arts and Crafts – Gemstone Rocks
All kids love rocks. Especially the ones they find in the creeks and lakes, the large flat ones that are shaped like diamonds, triangles, hearts or ovals. What you’ll need for this craft are the rocks, aluminum foil, newspaper, crayons (the old, broken variety), and an oven mitt.
Once the rocks have been chosen, they need to be baked on a cookie sheet (lined with foil) in a 225 degree oven for about 15 minutes. Remove the rocks from the oven with the oven mitt (they will be extremely hot!) and put them on the papers. Unwrap the old crayons then draw on the rocks. The crayons will melt like liquid magic. Move the crayon around for a swirl effect and you’ve got your gemstone rocks!
Summer arts and crafts are an enjoyable and constructive way to spend a day with the children while creating beautiful projects they can be proud of all year long.
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Although we are all feeling the pinch a bit at the moment, there is still a need for home-made, hand-crafted items and unusual greetings cards, scrapbooks, brag books and so on.
In tough times, as they say necessity is the mother of invention.
I myself began crafting a few years ago as a therapeutic way of staving off stress. It helped me enormously and I would recommend crafting to anyone needing a creative outlet, who enjoys experimenting and playing about with different materials ending in a satisfying unique, personal hand-crafted item.
When I first started crafting, unlike a friend of mine who had all the latest tools, materials, the latest rubber stamps, glitters and embossing powders, I could not afford all these flashy things. Looking back, I now realise that this was actually a very good thing, as it made me a lot more creative, relying instead on what I could achieve with limited resources and my own ideas. I began experimenting with all sorts of things from foils, the insides of sweet wrappers, inexpensive peel-offs and so on.
As time went on, I began to search around on the internet for inexpensive materials, then one day hit upon the idea of postage stamps.
I did a little hunting and discovered by chance there was strangely, a stamp shop near me! We took a trip there and enquired about bulk buying used stamps. I told the man there I didn’t mind what they were, but would prefer pictures, and he produced a cigar box. It was beautiful, and as a bonus, it was full to the brim of used stamps from all over the world! He only charged us £15 for the whole lot, cigar box and all!
Can I tell you that I bought that box of stamps in 2004, and I am STILL using it today and STILL discovering stamps I didn’t know I had! Well worth the money!
I strongly recommend finding a local stamp dealer, or check out some bulk buys of used international stamps online, it will provide you with inexpensive, unique and unusual materials for a long time.
Please spend some time looking through your stamps when you get them as you will be amazed at the designs and work that has gone into them. I see each and every stamp as a work of art in its own right. Take the time to carefully look at them, really look at them and you cannot fail but to be inspired, soon you will be creating your own unique designs with them. Each and every stamp as well as being a work of art is also a snapshot of time, a little glimpse of history. Each stamp reflects trends, changes, crazes and phases in a country at a particular time, and I know that people who have received cards from me with stamps on, are always intrigued and impressed with them not to mention being absolutely fascinated by them.
Ideas
Firstly, there is the obvious, Greetings cards. Why not pick out a handful of stamps according to a colour scheme? For example, if making a card for a man, why not pick out some stamps that are all browns and blacks in colour? Pick out stamps with images of aeroplanes, boats, trains, cars or industrial scenes on.
Anything with an industrial theme looks great on a male card. The colours are always fantastic. Simply find your card blank, pick out an inexpensive backing paper*, (or why not try making your own?), and apply your backing paper to the card blank, then simply on a flat surface, place the stamps down first as you want them to look on your card, then apply a little glue stick to the back of the stamp, making sure you cover the edges and corners of the stamps, and apply to your card. The card will be personal, unique and much more interesting.
Secondly, why waste your money on buying gift tags for birthdays or Christmas? Simply cut out a tag shape from a piece of blank card and punch a hole in at the top. Decorate your tag and personalise it, by adding stamps in the gift recipient’s favourite colours. E.g., if the person the gift is for likes green, pick out all green coloured stamps, or stamps with green flowers/plants on them. You have made a gift tag which is personal to them and unique, not to mention inexpensive. To finish it off, why not add some thick twine through the hole, or ribbon or raffia or anything else you have lying around. If you don’t have any of these, why not get some inexpensive threads in different colours and bunch a few of them together and tie through the hole to make a decorative finish.
Also, if you want to try selling your crafts, why not try making themed cards with your stamps, for example, all green coloured stamps, or all purple coloured stamps, all floral stamps, all cars stamps etc., and make matching gift tags. You could then sell them as a pack at local fairs or jumble sales.
Your stamps can also be used as part of your own range of wrapping papers. Instead of buying expensive wrapping paper, why not buy some cheap brown packaging paper, and decorate your gift with stamps all over when it is wrapped. Again you will have a unique, individual, inexpensive way of getting a fab look to your gifts.
Thirdly, if you know someone who likes to read, why not use your stamps to make a gorgeous, unusual bookmark for them as a gift? I am surrounded by people who love books and find myself constantly making bookmarks for them! They love them.
Take some ordinary cardstock, cut a long strip of card, punch a hole in the top or leave it whole, and decorate your bookmark. Why not practise at some fancy writing or ways to make your letters more decorative, by adding swirls, loops etc., and add their name as an extra personal touch? Decorate your bookmark with stamps and either add some threads through the top hole, maybe with a bead threaded onto them and knotted, or leave the bookmark whole for a more solid look. Twine or string looks great threaded through the top hole of a bookmark and pulled gently apart after being knotted. Adding a bead or two to the twine can also give the bookmark a more interesting dimension.
There are plenty of ways to make your own hand-crafted, unique, personal gifts and still do it on a budget.
For inexpensive backing papers, why not buy a few rolls of wrapping paper, various designs and patterns and simply cut off and use as much or as little as you need? This is a great way to ensure you have a good selection of designs and patterns for different occasions without feeling you have to skimp on the amount you use. You can be generous with your backing paper and let your creativity run wild.
So go on, grab some card and wrapping paper, find yourself a joblot of used international stamps and get crafting!
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Author: Fiona Teasdale
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I will provide you a few ways to capitalize on the stones and other hardened material like stones (glass, beads), and then can take it and run with it from there. The beauty of this type of craft is that you can find the stones you want inexpensively – and you can hike up the profit margin. When you are buying the stones in bulk for your craft show items, it makes it easy to keep the costs down and the profit margin up!
Here are 3 ways you can incorporate stones into your craft show items:
1.) Mosaics – Mosaics are a craft that allows you to create a picture or design out of a variety of materials. You piece the stones and other material and it looks like a patchwork of pieces that eventually comes together to form a great picture. This art form is enjoying a renaissance in the craft show world, and it might be time for you to get involved.
2.) Jewelry – Everything from bracelets to necklaces and even smaller, basic rings can be made. Depending upon your experience making crafts and working with metals – you might be able to create elaborate jewelry for craft shows. Once people show a desire for your work, the popularity can spread like wildfire. Take some time to find out what other people are making for jewelry – and then come up with something completely original and you might just have a craft show winner on your hands.
3.) Decorative pieces – You can make stand alone decorative pieces from larger stones, or you can use nice, polished and colored stones to trim your other craft show creations. Stones make great highlights for some pieces – for example, it could be trim on a birdfeeder or nice stones can be inset into pottery. You can come up with a variety of ways to use the stones as a part of another craft show item.
With the multitude of stones available (and those that come in bead and colored glass), you can surely make it a part of your craft show item. They are inexpensive and they are versatile in their use. Why not add a little pizzazz to your craft show booth and maybe even a few dollars to the bottom line by working with stones.
Rob Goyette shows you how to make your craft show business profitable in his best selling ebook: Craft Show Success Secrets. Visit his site: craft shows.
Author: Robert E. Goyette
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