News and Updates about Arts & Crafts

It's 2017—new year, same us. We vow to keep scouring the net for the best how-tos and feature the makers and doers who create mind-blowing projects.

When most people say, "Damn, look at that rock," regarding an engagement ring, they're usually not referencing an actual rock—let alone a space rock.

It's almost impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times under normal circumstances. Sure, the guys on MythBusters managed to fold a piece of paper eleven times, but they used a sheet of paper the size of a football field and needed the help of a forklift and steamroller to get the job done.

In this project I make a full 12x12inch scrapbooking page with my Bridal photo. I explain the layers and show you how I arrange the details and the flowers to create a glorious page fit for any album.

In this cardmaking tutorial I make a glorious card from the DCWV Hello Darling cardstock stack.

In this cardmaking tutorial, I make a gorgeous peacock green butterfly card with an embossed background using lots of Anna griffin products, old and new. If you do not have the old products you could substitute them with products you do have already in your stash.

This demonstration show how to make this card that looks like it could be quite time consuming and complicated but after watching this you will see how easy it is.

This card demonstrations shows how I have used the Creative Expressions Die from the Sue Wilson Gemini range, this one is called Corvus. This is Part2 of a mini series.

Instead of a tutorial this is really a card idea for what to do with large stamps/images/rub ons/stickers etc.. and a really quick & easy option.

In this video compilation, you can see the most interesting bracelets of 2015. We are celebrating 300 macrame videos & tutorials! Our Macrame bracelet tutorials are for Free!

Macrame Transformer Necklace - Wrap Bracelet (idea). This transformer necklace is made by a lot of patterns.

This is one more cool illusion by maricv84, one where you slide a transparent sheet with black bars overtop a cryptic image to create an animated effect.

How to Make a Two color Macrame Bracelet with Beads, Step by step Tutorial. It's not hard to make and looks good, useful for beginners. This is our creation, we thought of it, its a new design, I think no one else has it.

You can use this beautiful macrame pattern for different types of goals, for example: Handbags, cosmetic bags, clothing accessories, purses, cases, wallets, bracelets, etc..

Easy Macrame pattern with beads. You only need to know Square knot and you can use this pattern for different types of goals, for example: clothing accessories, Handbags, purses, cases, wallets etc..

How to make Macrame flower - Useful Design Elements for your macrame projects.

This patterns can be used for clothing or other needs,looks like a fishing net, easy to make.. I hope that it will be useful for you

This pattern with flower motifs looks very good! Maybe this tutorial is not for beginners, but you can use it for different types of goals, for example: Bags and Handbags, purses, tablecloths, coasters, clothing, wallets, phone bags and phone cases etc..

Simple and colorful pattern sample. You can use this sample to make a handbag or something else that you like.Macrame design elements for various useful macrame projects.

Simple and interesting pattern sample for your macrame projects. From this pattern you can make stylish handmade coasters, tablecloth or something other that you like. In this Macrame sample we used Square knot. Macrame design elements for various useful macrame projects.

Cavandoli Macrame (also called Tapestry Knotting) is an intricate form of knotting used to create geometric patterns. The Cavandoli style is done mainly in a single knot, the double half-hitch knot. Reverse half hitches are sometimes used to maintain balance when working left and right halves of a balanced piece.

This is no paper gun like you've ever seen before. Seriously.

One of the greatest things about the internet? Free papercraft downloads.

One amazing Japanese papercraft enthusiast has built a walking 'robot' that's made of nothing more than paper, rubber bands, and a few wooden shafts for stability. It's been dubbed the 'Paper Robot III,' and even the cogs and gears are made of paper.

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A man walks into a bicycle shop, hears about a canoe made of cardboard and is inspired to make an awesome, fully-functional cardboard bicycle.

The ancient craft of origami gets an update in Oritsunagumono, where environmentalism meets photoelectricity for the first time. Its name translates into "things folded and connected," and its agenda aims to bring awareness of the environmental impact of pollution to native marine wildlife in Japan's coastal waterways.

Jiiang Chen and Yang Junlin, of the Wing Wah metalcraft factory in Huizhou, China, forged together a 10,000-pound replica of the Megatron tank as seen in the movie Transformers 2. The tank is from a series of other massive works from the company's "Legend of Iron" project (see last year's insane Megatron below). The tank was assembled and welded together with mostly scrap metal by the two expert craftsmen. In a word... insane.

That'd be Valentine's Day, fool. Instructables member Carleyy fuses together licorice laces to create long strands for knitting a pair of edible undies. If you want to get more squirrely, try knitting Carleyy's pattern with ramen noodles. Ouch, these have gotta hurt:

What's the difference between a paper plane and a paper space plane? Altitude! About 125,000 feet to be precise:

Amazing paper art books by Isaac Salazar. As a bibliophile... I can't help it, I really hate to see pages cut. I can't tell. Are the pages only creased or were small cuts necessary to achieve some of the finer dimensions?

Artist Sarah Yakawonis uses a technique called quilling to craft complex anatomy art with paper.

Brian Chan is an engineer who creates beautifully folded origami. Some of the pieces are incredibly complex; view a selection of his work below, click through for more.

It won't be much trouble getting a decent police sketch if Andrew Salomone decides to knock off a liquor store.

Showcased at Mediamatic, the "Untitled Sock Project" is a knitting machine hack by Luís Brandaõ, Fábio Costa, Sean Follmer, and Pol Pla:

Everybody has some kind of calling in life and it looks like artist Frank Bölter's is the construction of life-sized origami boats. He's done it before, and he's at it again. His latest creation recently set sail on the Thames as a part of London's Drift10 art exhibition.

Artist Frank Bölter created a life-sized origami boat to sail up the Elbe. The boat cost £110 to construct back in '97 (today's conversion rate would put that at $175). The boat is 30 feet long, and weighs 55 pounds. It took 2 hours to construct, using a 170 square meter sheet of paper.