Arts & Crafts: Page 132

Corinne Bradd shows Kristy Clark how to use the bead roller, a nifty gadget that can create perfect beads of equal size from polymer clay, quickly and effectively. Once they have been shaped and baked, these little beauties can be used for all sorts of projects, from jewelery to decorating picture frames and much more.

Learn how to create an eye-catching Christmas card with a difference, as Corinne Bradd shows the easiest way to add dimension. The quirky three tiered tree design is sure to delight, and you can adapt the technique to make other seasonal favorites, such as an angel or snowman.

Create a card with a difference, using sparkly seed beads and silver plated wire. Corinne Bradd demonstrates how to form a stunning star pendant that can be displayed inside an aperture, or worn on a strand of organza ribbon as a piece of fashion jewellery.

Learn how to transform your greetings with funky needle-felted motifs. Corinne Bradd shows Kristy Clark how to put a contemporary spin on this traditional craft, with charming shapes and clever techniques.

Corinne Bradd demonstrates the technique of marbling, using specialist inks dropped onto the surface of water.

Meghan Carter of AsktheDecoraor.com demonstrates how to beautifully personalize your home. You will easily produce professional results when using stencils in you home if you follow these directions.

Mari demonstrates how to fold the leaves and stand for the Kawasaki Rose. These make really nice table decorations.

This video shows you step by step how to cast the yarn on with two needles.

Create a pretty waterlily on fabric using stencils & textile ink with shaving cream as a medium. Simple method, beautiful results!

Use textile inks in a variety of ways to create your own background fabric or paper for quilting, scrapbooking, home decor or wall art.

Learn how to weave a Greek paper ball. The holes look like the pentagons on a football.

Jennifer Fresco shows you how to make a paper spring is ridiculously easy, and you can make a cute greeting card with it!

A stop motion movie on how to make an awesome paper airplane.

This video shows you how to make an origami Lilly.

This video shows how to make an origami swan using 471 paper triangles. Your loved one will appreciate this gift because you put in a tremendous amount of effort, dedication and patience required for origami, but its easy to assemble and the only money you will spend is cost of 15 paper sheets. Good luck!

This video will show you how to make a cool origami boat. This boat will float in water.

Just take a piece of square paper, and fold along with this video to get a paper bat! Memorize it (it's really easy!) and show off your skills at your next Halloween party - or use it as decoration, whether for your costume, or the house. Using paper that's black on one side and white on the other is most effective! The video explains how to fold the model "hungry bat" that was designed by Anita Barbour.

This video show you how to make a suit using three one dollar bills.

With just a few simple folds you can turn a $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, or even $100 bill into a nice bowie...Try it for your next state dinner and see if you get any looks from the crowd.

This is a paper tulip, extremely easy to make. it's done in 1-2-3. a whole bouquet of these tulips will be perfect for decoration and look beautiful.

This video shows Joost Langeveld demonstrating how to fold an origami panda.

Joost Langveld folds an origami turtle in this video.

Jennifer Fesco teach you how to fold a beautiful Japanese cube from six pieces of paper. The cube can be used as a Christmas ornament or a gift box. You will need 6 pieces of origami paper, a pencil, a ruler, a paper knife, a protective surface to cut on. A glue stick is optional.

Embroidering fabric adds appealing texture and color to quilts. Learn sewing machine methods for free motion embroidery.

Sample different types of threads and sewing machine settings to learn the best combinations for varying sewing projects and effects.

Embellish sewing projects using various bar-tack stitching techniques on your sewing machine.

Sew identical, quick and easy half-square triangles using a plastic guide on the bottom of your presser foot.

This ReadyMade video shows you how to make your own creative stitched stationary by sewing paper together for a variety of uses. All you need is a sewing machine (or needle and thread) and paper.

Andrew Hanson from ThreadBanger teaches you how to make a wristband watch using a leather, band, spikes, and an old watch face.

Got a t-shirt that doesn't quite fit? Darting could be a great way to fix it. The guys at ThreadBanger teach you how to dart your clothing for a better fit.

Learn more creative quilting methods by burning silk edges and adding color to fabric with colored pencils.

Here we show you how to create a heart out of the plastic film which seals a pack of cigarettes. A nice thing to do if you're hanging around bored in a pub.

Ready Made and Becky show us how to make stitched stationery. Put together two pieces of paper and sew it up with a sewing machine. Sew a few paper scraps into custom cards, envelopes, or notepaper and catch up on your correspondence.

How specific and awesome! Our favorite thread heads teach us how to make cool jewelry, like hemp bracelets, while on a long car ride. Sweet! Macrame rules!

Martha shows how to make bamboo candles. Bamboo candles, which have built-in shelves, are a pretty way to decorate the table the next time you're entertaining, both indoors and out.

Make an origami snail. This video is in Spanish.

This is something creative and useful to do with the mountains of paper constantly delivered. Try these different origami projects to recycle paper.

Make an origami pinwheel with the ancient art of paper folding.

Crafter Dawn Huntington shows how to make felted baby booties. You will need felt, fusible webbing tape, iron, needle and threadsewing machine, binder clips, snaps and a templete which you can get from the article part of the video.

Viewer-crafter Jenn Docherty shares her technique for making adorable needle-felted chicks. Materials needed are foam mat, wool roving, felting needle, wood skewer, needleblack upholstery thread, sheet of felt (to use for beak), 34-gauge wire, 20-gauge black-coated craft wire, needle-nose pliers, awl,fabric glue, cosmetic blush (optional), mini fabric flowers or mini hats (for embellishing) and an egg cup.