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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Crafts' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Your Crafts Guide is Michael Russell. Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Crafts 1. Crafts: Glass Etching For The Holidays - By: Michael Russell Etching glass is a simple and beautiful craft to learn. It creates timeless art that will always be enjoyable to view. You can create etched glass pieces to adorn your home or to give as gifts. Christmas time is the perfect opportunity to develop your talent of glass etching. ... Featured ArticleCraft Ideas Using Children's Hand Prints Plaster of Paris Hand Print - For this craft project, you will need Plaster of Paris, water, a mixing bowl and spoon, a pie plate, a straw, paint and a marker. Following the instructions on the box, mix the Plaster of Paris with water until it is of a creamy consistency. Pour the plaster into the pie plate and have your child make a hand print in the plaster. Before the plaster gets completely hard, make a hole in the top with a straw. This will give you a way to hang you ...
Read full story 2. Crafts: Pros And Cons Of Wholesaling - By: Michael Russell There are many people who make crafts and sell the items themselves. You may be one of those people! This is retail selling, which means that there is no middle company between you and the end customer. To expand your business, you may want to consider wholesaling your crafts to sh... 3. Crafts - How To Price For Profit - By: Michael Russell If you are thinking of selling the crafts that you make, one of the most important decisions you can make will be how much to charge for your items. If you do not price your items correctly, you will either have no sales if an item is priced too high, or you will go out of business if items ar... 4. Selling Your Crafts - By: Michael Russell Crafting can be an enjoyable hobby for many people. Sometimes, you can even earn some extra money by crafting, or even turn it into a small business. If you are thinking about selling your crafts, you need to explore the different avenues of where you can actually sell them. Craft ... 5. Children's Turkey Crafts For Thanksgiving - By: Michael Russell Craft Stick Turkey - Materials needed for this product are 10 extra large craft sticks, 2 googly eyes, different colored felt (white, black, orange and red), craft paint (brown, orange, yellow and red), a small piece of paper, scissors and glue. Paint the craft sticks: 4 brown; 2 yellow; 2 red... 6. Thanksgiving Crafts For Kids - By: Michael Russell Thanksgiving can be a great time for you and your children to work on crafts together to decorate the holiday table or the home! Using easy to find items in any craft store, or in your home, you can create fun and enjoyable crafts for kids to do while dinner is cooking. Turkey Napkin Hol... 7. Arts And Crafts - Mini Aquarium With Kids - By: Michael Russell How to create a mini aquarium in less than an hour! The idea here is to involve the kids and once the project is finished you will have a very decorative thing that you can display anywhere, the office, your house, outside your front door!. Sound exciting? great, let's get started.... 8. Crafts: Creating Perfect Packaging - By: Michael Russell Being the crafty person that you are, all of your holiday gifts are handmade this year, but why stop with just the gift? You can create wonderful packaging to go with your present, or if you have store bought items, make them more personal by designing your own gift box or wrapping paper. ... 9. Halloween Crafts For Kids - By: Michael Russell Balloon Ghost: To make this fun Halloween decoration you will need a white balloon, scissors, white plastic grocery or garbage bags, tape, string and a black marker. Cut the plastic bags into strips leaving an uncut edge to hold the strips together. Blow up the balloon. Tape the cu... 10. Fall Crafts For Kids - By: Michael Russell Paper Scarecrow: For this craft project you will need paper, a pencil, glue, scissors, googly eyes, raffia or straw and markers, crayons, colored pencils, or craft paint. Draw and cut out an outline of a scarecrow. Draw and cut out clothes for the scarecrow, such as a straw hat, overalls... 11. Craft Ideas Using Children's Hand Prints - By: Michael Russell Plaster of Paris Hand Print - For this craft project, you will need Plaster of Paris, water, a mixing bowl and spoon, a pie plate, a straw, paint and a marker. Following the instructions on the box, mix the Plaster of Paris with water until it is of a creamy consistency. Pour the plaster... 12. Crafts For Kids From The Garbage! - By: Michael Russell Did you know that you could have a lot of fun making crafts with your kids out of the things you throw away every day? That’s right! With common garbage, you can create fun and interesting crafts. Not only will you have the chance to bond with your kids, but you will also be able to save some items ... 13. Making Your Own Potpourri - By: Michael Russell Making your own potpourri is easy and fun. It can be as simple as a bowl of lavender buds, or a mass of different dried botanicals with fragrance oils. Any craft store will carry a selection of dried botanicals that you can use, along with fragrance oils. You can use potpourri oil,... 14. Crafts - Drying Flowers - By: Michael Russell Drying flowers is a way to keep memories of an event or place for a long time. Whether they are flowers from a bridal bouquet, or from your garden, drying flowers is easy to do. When harvesting your flowers for drying, the best time is in the morning before the sun has had a chance to ma... 15. Rainy Day Crafts For Kids - By: Michael Russell Bad weather days can keep your kids indoors, but television isn't the only answer to inactivity. Simple and fun craft projects that can be done with items you probably have around the house can easily become a fun family activity! Edible Jewelry. This is a very creative and f... 16. Soap Crafting With Kids! - By: Michael Russell Soap making is an easy and fun craft to do with your kids. You can be as creative or as basic as you would like to be. Let your children use their imagination to create fun soaps. Here are two ideas to try on the next rainy day at your house! The first thing you need to purch... 17. Basics Of Plastic Canvas Crafts - By: Michael Russell For anyone interested in crafts – whether it is following a pattern or designing and creating one’s own design – plastic canvas has the versatility to be a wonderful medium for creative expression. There are several sizes of plastic canvas and many types and colors of yarn. Patterns are available in... 18. The Basic Art Of Handmade Paper - By: Michael Russell Papyrus was the first substance like paper made by the Ancient Egyptians. Slices of the inner part of a Papyrus stem were flattened and then pounded into a hard, thin sheet and made into scrolls. Invented by Ts'ai Lun in A.D. 105 is the paper we know today. The mixture believed to ... 19. Crafts - How To Save Money On Rubber Stamping? - By: Michael Russell Having a hobby is great but it is even better if your hobby makes other people, your loved ones happy. Stamping crafters are the kind of people who like to make other people happy, they do not like to give people ordinary gifts but something from their hearts. When somebody who receives ... 20. Paper Crafts - 5 Tips To Save Money - By: Michael Russell Do you have artistic hands that can create amazing things from a piece of paper? From such a simple and basic material, you can do anything from beautiful 3D flowers to scrapbooks which will preserve the life story of your family for generations to come. But there is something more amazi... 21. Choosing The Right Flying School For You - By: Mpam Id 1973253 Learning to fly is a rewarding experience. The freedom of moving in three dimensions is fun and can lead to interesting career and travel opportunities.One of the most important steps in that process is finding the right flying school. Without any aviation experience on which to base yo... 22. Where The Profits Are – Sell What Sells - By: Michael Russell Many who are involved in a home business of any sort know that trends and popularity changes quickly, which causes the profits to strive or to fail. The focus of your marketing plan and your crafts does not necessarily have to be with a certain item or items. What makes something profitable is not... 23. What A Tangled Web We Weave – How-to On Marketing Yourself Online - By: Michael Russell The internet, just like every other aspect of the business, you need to market yourself, your business and your products. Marketing on the internet is not hard to do and is cost effective as well. Here we will have a look at what you can do to get your internet marketing up and running so you too ca... 24. ‘tis The Season – Ten Ways To Market Your Hand Made Christmas Crafted Items - By: Michael Russell With the Christmas season approaching, many customers are looking for unique gifts that will be just right for their family and friends. Following are the top ten ways to make a profit off of your hand made Christmas crafted items. 1. Find Christmas shows in your area. One of the easies... 25. The Friends And Family Network – The First Step To Marketing Your Crafts - By: Michael Russell You’ve always had a knack for creating charming homespun crafts, and now you’ve created something highly original that always gets a good reaction when you show it off to friends, family, and co-workers. In fact, your friends and family gush about your work, and even encourage you to sell your craf... Please feel free to submit your quality, informative article for our readers. |
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