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How to Make a Custom Paper Punch

You can create numerous custom paper punches from household materials without having to invest in a costly store-bought model. This design for a paper punch requires cookie cutters of your choice. With just a little preparation, you can create a two-piece paper punch that will allow you to cut throu

How to Make a Collage With Feathered Edges

Photoshop gives you the option to create feathered -- or blurred -- edges. A feathered edge can enhance the appearance of your collage, display, report or photograph. You can put a feathered edge around singular images or blend two or more images together. The technique uses the photo-editing softwa

How to Make Your Own Stickers in Bulk

Getting "stuck" on stickers can be an easy task, since stickers come in just about every design possible, but customizing your own stickers is a way to express your creativity. Take advantage of the sticker design capability with Windows Paint, a graphics program included with your operating system.

How to Make Quilts From T-Shirts

Making quilts from T-shirts is an environmentally conscious way to recycle old clothes and, at the same time, produce a record of your children's interests as they were growing up. Sports T-shirts or T-shirts of favorite singing groups seem to miraculously breed in children's closets. Just as miracu

Making Flowers from Fabric

Choose your FloralsMaking fabric flowers to decorate your handbags, clothing or hats is not only cheap and easy, it's a fun way to express your creativity and impress your friends. With a little ingenuity, you can turn plain attire into unique, wearable works of art in less than an hour...

Kangaroo Paper Crafts

Bounce into craft making activities with projects inspired by kangaroos. Cute and distinctive, kangaroo crafts work well for animal themed craft activities and projects about Australia. Younger children may have difficulty drawing a kangaroo shape, but this is easily got around by giving them a kang

How to Make Simple Flowers

Add a splash of color to your home or party decor with some whimsical paper flowers. You can make simple paper flowers with tissue paper and pipe cleaners. Even children can participate in this uncomplicated and safe process. Choose your colors and fluff and shape your flower. Make a single flower,

Creative Gift Ideas: Grab Bags

Grab bags -- gift bags for a party or event which are picked or handed out to people with their contents unseen -- are such a nice idea, yet so easy to get wrong. But thankfully, also so easy to get right if you follow a few basic rules: gifts should be useful, simple and, most of all, make people s

How to Cut Out A Skirt Pattern

Cutting out a pattern, especially a skirt pattern, is not difficult, but when one first encounters the many lines, dashes, numbers, and notches inherent in a pattern, it can prove intimidating. Here's how to successfully and easily cut out a skirt pattern.

Types of Fabric Dye

Using dye to color fabrics goes back thousands of yearsDye image by vertellis from Fotolia.comThroughout recorded history, people have used dyes to color fabrics. Paintings and writings from ancient times describe how fabrics were colored and used to make clothing. Most early dyes were...

Lazy Daisy Crafts

The lazy daisy stitch is simple to make and often used in creating flower motifs and patterns. It is often made in circles to form flower motifs. The stitch has various other names, including "tied loop," "tall chain stitch" and "knotted knot stitch"; its simplicity and application gained it the tit

What To Do When You Want To Sell Your House Quickly?

The latest financial climate is not the best scenario for someone eager to sell their home quickly. Although the government is constantly claiming that more homes are needed, the people in the housing market cannot seek somebody eager to shop for their house without months of negotiation and walking

Kids Drinking Straw Project Ideas

Drinking straws lend themselves to a variety of projects for kids. Straws are available in a variety of colors and are cheap, flexible and perfect for craft projects. With a box of drinking straws, some project ideas and a creative imagination, children can turn straws into their own masterpiece. Th

Rubber Stamping Cards Ideas

Rubber stamping is easier than ever thanks to clear stamps and acrylic blocks. These tools make it possible to see where you're stamping on the card and so prevent misaligned images and wobbly lettering. A good idea, a piece of folded cardstock, a quality ink pad and couple of rubber stamps are all

How to Make Easy Slime Without Glue or Borax

Making slime with kids can be messy, but a variety of slime recipes can be made in a matter of minutes with little to no mess. Homemade slime without glue or Borax is not messy, and it requires just a few common household products. Best of all, this slime recipe can be altered so that your child can

How to Make Art With Clay

Working with clay involves using your hands, eyes and knowledge to make a work of art. Clay is an appealing art form due to the fact that the clay is easily manipulated by hand. It is an easy medium to modify when changes are desired during the creative process.