News and Updates about Arts & Crafts

LEGO yesterday unveiled 31221 Gustav Klimt The Kiss as the largest set in its Art Masterpiece line, a 4,000-piece, 18+ build developed in direct partnership with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. LEGO Insiders get early access from August 1, with general availability opening August 4, priced at £269.99 / $299.99 / €299.99, Brick Fanatics reported.

The xTool WonderPress, announced this week, is a modular heat press machine that starts where every other heat press stops. The base unit handles standard custom shirt and phone case transfers, flat sublimation, and DTF pressing. Swap in the 3D Form Module and it uses vacuum suction to wrap sublimation designs around curved objects; add the Craft Oven Module and it cures DTF powder in a HEPA-filtered internal oven and heat-bends acrylic into 3D shapes. A launch-period hands-on review from...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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..

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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