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  • How to Make Designs With Craft Lace

    You don't have to buy expensive rubber stamps and craft supplies to create intricate, textured looks for your handmade greeting cards, scrapbook layouts and home decorating projects. Use snippets...

  • How to Make Handmade Paper Mache Pulp Boxes

    Paper mache is a great sculpting medium which became popular in the 1800s to make dolls. It is making a comeback now, partly because it is so durable, light, and easy to make. Pulp paper mache has...

  • How to Layout a Cone Shape

    A cone is a popular shape for party hats, Christmas trees, and other useful or decorative objects. Therefore, it can be helpful to be able to draw a pattern or template for a cone of a height and...

  • Techniques for a Tissue Paper Collage

    Eric Carle, a well-known collage artist, uses tissue paper in his collages. Carle paints the paper using various methods before creating a collage. His technique produces beautiful results and...

  • How to Make Light Shade Paper

    Making recycled paper light shades is a fun pastime that results in beautiful soft lighting for your home. Take your hobby a step further by making your own paper from recycled household materials...

  • How to Make Cardboard Dinosaur Models

    Roaar! Bring Jurassic Park to life with a dramatic dinosaur diorama. Cut your favorite reptiles out of stiff card, color them with bright colors (who says dinosaurs aren't orange or purple?) and...

  • Homemade Cards, Tags & Other Paper Crafts

    Create one-of-a-kind greeting cards, gift tags and other paper crafts using a variety of inexpensive materials. Whether for birthdays, anniversaries or holidays, a little resourcefulness and...

  • How to Fluff Mulberry Paper

    Mulberry paper is a soft, thin paper featuring threadlike fibers, bits of flower petals or metallic flakes as inclusions running throughout each sheet. Sold at scrapbooking, rubber-stamping and...

  • How to Print on Static Cling Vinyl

    Windows can be creatively decorated using static cling designs for holidays and special occasions. Static cling vinyl is available as a specialty inkjet paper for personalized projects and...

  • How to Make EID Cards

    Eid ul-Fitr is the three-day Festival of Fast-Breaking that marks the end of Ramadan. After gathering in mosques to share the Eid prayer, Muslims typically celebrate the holiday by giving gifts to...

  • How to Make Paper Snowflakes to Decorate a Room

    Everybody loves snowflakes but they don’t last forever. Fortunately there is a wonderful way to preserve the natural beauty of snowflakes with a very simple arts and craft project. Making paper...

  • How to Help Children Make Their Own Christmas Cards

    Children can use their imagination and create their own Christmas cards. Give a child some crayons and their minds will take off in all different directions. Some of your favorite cards will be...

  • How to Find The End of a Roll of Tape

    Find the end of that pesky roll of tape, next time.

  • How to Make a Funny Paper Hat for Your Boss

    Do you enjoy joking around at your workplace, maybe even terrorizing your boss? Even in a professional environment, a silly hat will always lighten the mood.

  • How to Make a Pastel Star

    Pastel stars are tiny stars made out of paper. The paper is folded a special way to make a three-dimensional "puffy" star. These stars aren't necessarily pastel colors. They can be made out of...

  • How to Make Sherikans Out of Paper

    You can make your own paper sherikan. These are also called shurikens or ninja stars. The spelling can vary because of differences when people translate the original Japanese syllables into a...

  • How to Cut a Felt or Paper Butterfly

    Cut a felt or paper butterfly from a sheet of printer paper first, then make the same cuts onto felt if you like. Paper cutting or Scherenschnitte has been both an adult and a kids crafts project...

  • How to Make Crepe Paper Rosette

    Crepe paper rosettes have a very nostalgic feel. You can use them to make place cards for weddings, holiday craft projects, or prize ribbons. Your imagination is your only limit when it comes to...

  • Paper Origami Elephant Instructions

    Paper origami elephants are one of the most popular animals to make because there are so many different versions. You can begin with a simple model and, with practice, graduate to a complex model....

  • How to Make a Gift Envelope

    Different kinds of cards--such as store gift cards, money-holder greeting cards or sentimental homemade cards--can make a perfect gift. You can make that gift even more personal by enclosing it in...

  • How to Make Wine Labels With Microsoft Programs

    If you make your own wine, or simply want to spruce up a wine bottle for a party, you can make wine labels with two Microsoft programs: Microsoft Office and Microsoft Publisher. These programs...

  • How to make a 3D pop up card

    A 3 D and a pop-up!Sounds complicated.But it isn't.In fact,it is so simple you will want to make it on every occasion.Christmas,Mother's day,Baby shower or Birthday.It will bring a smile on the...

  • How to Transfer a Drawing Onto Pastel Sand Paper

    Pastel sandpaper offers a highly textured surface for soft pastel drawings. You may wish to duplicate an image onto pastel sandpaper to create an outline for your design or an overlay for a...

  • How to Build a Little House Out of Card Stock

    Paper crafts are entertaining for young and old alike. Use card stock to make interesting models and then create landscapes with these models. By measuring and drawing some simple shapes onto card...

  • Homemade Heart Flowers

    Flowers have the power to communicate many emotions, one of which is love. Consequently, it is fitting to arrange flowers in the shape of a heart. Heart-shaped wreaths of flowers have many uses:...

  • How to Make Crafts Using Cricut

    The Cricut personal cutting machine will help you create designs, patterns, letters and die-cut shapes using many types of paper. As of November 2009, the Cricut, manufactured by Provo Craft,...

  • How to Make a Flower Lei Necklace Out of Tissue Paper

    Flower leis are used in Hawaiian culture to welcome guests to an event or party. Leis are often worn for Hawaiian parties or used as colorful decorations. Leis made from real flowers can be on the...

  • How to Make a Paper Towel Glider

    Paper towel glider contests can be an enjoyable rainy day project. The trouble with making paper towel gliders, however, is that the material can be too thin to create lift. Most of the lift on a...

  • How to Make a Simple Cardboard Harp

    You may need a cardboard harp for a church play or a Halloween costume; whatever the reason, it is quite simple to make a cardboard harp using only cardboard and fishing wire. This is an excellent...

  • How to Make Teresita Flowers

    Teresita flowers are brightly colored crepe paper flowers that are a tradition in Mexico. The multicolored stems are an ideal decoration for your Cinco de Mayo or el Día de los Muertos...

  • How to Fold Paper Into a Tech Deck

    Even though they are designed to be portable, there are times when you won't have access to your Tech Decks. In these instances the only solution is to create your own homemade fingerboard using...

  • How to Make Honeycomb Designs With Tissue Paper

    Many decorations, such as those for wedding showers and Halloween parties, use honeycomb paper. Although you can buy premade honeycomb paper decorations and even honeycomb paper to make...

  • How to Make Your Own Recycled Paper! It's Easy

    Recycling is the thing to do these days, and paper is something that can really pile up. It can also be kind of expensive. So why not make your own recycled paper? There are many things you can...

  • How to Make a Bridge Out of Paper

    The paper bridge activity is a classic classroom activity that encourages problem solving and collaboration. The idea is to give students a piece of standard letter-size paper and pennies, and see...

  • How to Make Newspaper Vases

    Many of us remember making various things out of paper mache in school or at summer camp. For those of us who have maintained our enthusiasm for arts and crafts (as well as our newspaper...

  • How to Make Your Own Rolling Paper

    Rolling a cigarette is a great way to enjoy quality natural tobacco. Rolling a cigarette, though, requires two ingredients: tobacco and rolling paper. Making your own rolling paper only adds to...

  • How to Print on Translucent Vellum

    Add elegance and style to your craft projects, invitations or handmade cards with printed vellum. Printing on vellum is easy and done quickly using your standard inkjet printer. The key is to use...

  • How to Make a Good Paper Airplane

    A lot of children enjoy making paper airplanes. A lot of adults do, too. Whether you are a kid, or just a kid at heart, you too can learn to make good paper airplanes.

  • How to Decoupage Christmas Gifts

    The word decoupage comes from the French meaning "to cut out". This art form is an excellent and inexpensive way to preserve interesting paper or photos. What more perfect use of this...

  • How to Create Photo Iron-On Patches

    Iron-on patches can be a great craft activity for rainy days or bored summer vacation days with kids. Use your own photos to create iron-on patches as gifts for family and friends. There is no...

  • How to Make Paper Tubes

    Paper tubes are a staple item for multiple kids crafts or homemade instrument projects. Though paper tubes are available in the form of toilet paper rolls, paper towels and gift wraps, sometimes...

  • How to Make Paper Photo Holders

    Photo holders don't have to be expensive or time-consuming; this inexpensive and fun project can be completed in just under an hour. Use colored paper and trim it with beads or bows to make a...

  • How to Make Unique Envelopes

    Whether you've just created your own card and need a matching envelope, have lost your card's envelope or just want to put your own touch on the card's envelope, making unique envelopes is simple...

  • How to Make Oragami Bags

    The objects you can make using the ancient art of origami range from entertaining to useful. It can be fascinating to start with a piece of plain paper, perform some careful folds and creases and...

  • How to Make a Cardboard Jumping Frog

    Jumping frogs are a creative and fun way to learn about wildlife and aerodynamics. Like paper planes, these jumping frogs can be folded in a variety of ways to make bigger leaps. Experiment with...

  • How to Customize Paper Napkin Logos

    Nothing speaks of more creativity then making customized items for a business. For restaurant owners, a clever marketing strategy could entail designing and ordering customized paper napkins with...

  • Pattern to Make Ribbons

    Ribbon making can be a fun craft to add extra color to gifts, holiday decorations or translate into a fabric ribbon to re-purpose a blouse or sweater. Ribbons have evolved in recent years with...

  • How to Sand Vellum

    Vellum is a beautiful translucent paper that adds extra dimensions to scrapbooks and announcements. It also is popular for wedding invitations. Vellum is delicate and tears easily, which can be...

  • How to Make an Apple Blossom Picture

    If you are looking for a fun craft project for children, consider making an apple blossom picture. Apple blossoms begin to sprout in early spring and are often confused with cherry blossoms...

  • How to Fold a Tri-Fold Printable Greeting Card

    Finding and printing online printable greeting cards saves time and money. But folding them properly can be a challenge. How can you make sure you size, print and fold a tri-fold greeting card...

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