October 2008 Continued.....

Creating with Cold Porcelain

Make delicate creations using this easy to make homemade air dry clay. Cold porcelain dries to a beautiful and durable finish perfect for making tiny flowers and other miniatures.

Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Tutorials

Polymer clay is a wonderful medium for sculpture. You can create one of a kind sculptures without the need for an expensive kiln or messy mold materials. You can create everything from very simple animals made from basic shapes to detailed, complex,...

Cephalopod Craft Patterns

Make your own stuffed octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. Free crochet, knit, and sewing patterns for cephalopods (and a few other sea creatures thrown in).

October 2008

Pumpkins - Crochet Pattern, Pumpkin Pie Recipe, Pumpkin Gifts

An online crochet pattern - with instructions on how to crochet a pumpkin and links to more how to crochet pumpkin crochet patterns. Gift ideas. These pumpkins are 5" - add several in plant arrangements or in table decorations for the fall season. Em...

Crochet Christmas Angel

Online crochet pattern - how to crochet a Christmas angel ornament. A beginner's crochet angel pattern. More free online crochet patterns. We've added videos to teach single crochet and double crochet stitches

How to Crochet Pop Can Holders

Crochet pattern online for crocheting pop can/beverage holders. Link to pop can/beverage holders for your favorite team - great gift item. Links to more how to crochet pop can/beverage holder crochet patterns. Video for crochet tips.

Hearts - Not Just for Valentines Day

COUNTRY DECOR HEARTS and HEART JEWELRY, along with VALENTINES are some popular uses for hearts. The free online heart crochet pattern is fun to do and we have found other heart crochet patterns you can order. Homes decorated in Country, use the heart d...

Colored Pencil Demo - Feathers

Every wonder how artists get the look of feathers. It seems like they just take a picture and paste them on. Well I'm going to show you how to do it. It's not hard, but it is time consuming. So get yourself nice and comfy and lets get started.

September 2008

Variety Beading: Christmas Projects

When the holidays are approaching, images of snowmen and decorated trees are everywhere. If you enjoy creating your own custom holiday decorations, jewelry or accessories, then Christmas Beading is for you. Using beads in a few classic Holiday color...

Free Online Painting Lessons

Painting Tips for beginning artists - free painting lessons online. An approach to painting skies and distance in landscapes and painting lessons on trees and other tips. Perspective information for landscape artists. These free online lessons are do...

2008 Free Image of the Day for Collage, Altered Art, Mixed Media, Crafts

Free Images to Download for your Art Projects Help yourself to my free image downloads. Use these images freely in your artwork for resale, all I ask is that you don't resell the images in digital art form. And....I would greatly appreciate if you...

Digital Collage for Fun and Profit

A lens devoted to Digital Collage sheets and the wonderful things you can make with them!

Framing & Displaying your ACEO's and ATC's -Miniature Artwork

Do you enjoy Collecting those adorable miniature pieces of artwork called ACEO (Art Cards Editions and Originals) that are the hottest collectables on Ebay now? Are you an artist that creates ACEO's and ATC (Artist Trading Cards) and just wants to f...

September 2008 cont.....

I Heart Etsy!

Unlike Ebay and other online sales venues Etsy.com is designed specifically for artists and crafters. Its free to set up shop, inexpensive to list items, and absolutely the best way to start making money from your hobbies.

Bible Craft Ideas

Bible crafts, online lace angel ornament instructions, a bread dough angel video, and a collection of Inspirational Bible Verses and Friendship Quotes for your craft projects are among the ideas on this lens - Bible Crafts. Bible Verses used in crafts...

Variety Beading: Spiral Rope

Spiral rope, or spiral rope chain is a popular beading technique that is great for beginners and experts alike. The basic stitch is simple to do, and incredibly easy to adapt, allowing for endless design possiblities. Starting with a basic spiral ro...

Traffic From Image Searches

Google Images | Traffic and hits to your lens or web-page. Yahoo, MSN, and Google image searches are the best kept secret among experienced webmasters and SEO consultants for acquiring readers to internet locations around the web. Read on to find out...

crochet mini basket

Free online crochet pattern for a mini basket. Art prints of baskets for your home - browse a large selection. Our pattern is for a crochet basket which is only three inches wide - a nice shelf decoration for a small floral arrangement. The smaller v...

New Featured Lenses August 2008

Tablet Weaving

Tablet weaving is a truly ancient technique for weaving bands. It is simple yet brilliant. It is also easy to learn: getting started takes just several hours. Exploring the technique, however, takes many years. Here is a how-to introduction with link...

Tea Bag Folding

Tea bag folding is a paper folding craft developed in Europe. You start with eight squares or tiles and fold each the same than interlock them together into a pie or medallion using a bit of glue. It is similiar to origami in that you use all the bas...

Bible Verse Christmas Cards

Instructions for making a quick and easy Bible Verse Christmas card and Christmas Bible verses to use for your seasonal projects. Or, make a "photo album Christmas card" for children to give to grandparents at Christmastime. There is also Christmas c...

Origami without the Paper

This is the question I often have asked myself as I explored the possibilities of origami without paper. My personal specialty is origami with polymer clay. But there are many other materials that can be successfully folded into origami forms. Why, h...

Halloween Greeting Cards and more For Fun!

I enjoy making my own greeting cards and did it before the age of computers. Now I have lots of fun learning new ways to make them. One of my favorite things to do is to swap heads using clip art and a picture of the person I am making the card for....

July 2008

How to create STEAMPUNK jewelry and art

Wikipedia defines Steampunk as "a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century, and o...

Needle felting by Grumble Toy

Hi everyone, This is Ainsley from Grumble Toy. I just recently started needle felting and I have been having a blast making little creatures out of wool. Needle felting is a technique where you poke raw wool until it forms a firm and dense shape. It...

June 2008

Jewelry pendant, creating a STAMPED DOMINO PENDANT

As you can see from my scrabble tile pendant lens, I love to create altered art jewelry from game tiles/pieces! In this tutorial I will show you step by step how to create a lovely stamped domino pendant. The dominoes provide a little larger surfac...

Fabric Trinket Boxes from recycled materials

I love to recycle everything and anything, sometimes it becomes a challange as to what I can do with items that would normally be disgarded. These little boxes were no exception, made from an empty tapegun core, a cd, some card board, scrap fabric...

Art Projects for Toddlers

My daughter goes to nursery school. I love the art projects they make in class so I decided to share them to inspire others. If you are looking for toddler artwork ideas or just ideas to keep your child entertained, take a look at these easy, fun to...

Embellished Altered Keys Tutorial

These altered keys are fabulous to use for your altered books, collages and mixed media projects. Lovely embellishments to add on book and journal covers, even as new jewelery pieces!

May 2008

How to alter and stain with WALNUT INK Crystals

Walnut ink is very easy to use and can be used in several different ways. It is used to make your piece look aged and worn. To prepare the ink, mix 1 tablespoon of walnut ink crystals with 1 cup of hot water (they dissolve faster/better). If you wan...

CRACKLE techniques with white glue and Fragile Crackle

In this DIY crackle tutorial I will show you two different techniques of crackling with two very different products; Anita's Fragile Crackle and household white glue for a more vintage shabby chic look...both results look great! With these technique...

Tutorial Heart Ties for gift bags, gifts, ornaments and decorating

Creating these pretty little heart ties was so easy, they can be used to tie gift bags closed, add to gift packages as a pretty bow ornament or drape and display as ornaments year round. I started out by downloading this Ephemera Hearts collage sh...

How to make SCRABBLE TILE PENDANTS

One of the hottest little craft crazes over the internet right now is "The Scrabble Tile Pendant"!...these are cute, crafty and real little conversation pieces! This free step by step tutorial will show you how to make scrabble tile pendants, where...

Make a paper bag album

Paper bag albums are very popular in scrapbooking and are super easy to make. All you need to get started are 3 paper bag sacks of any size (but usually around 6"x12" to create a book around 6"x6") They are exceptionally easy to ma...

April 2008

RubikCubism - Rubik's Cube Art

Rubikcubism, or Rubikubism, is art made from Rubik's cubes. More specifically, it refers to a mosaic style where each small colored square on the face of a Rubik's cube represents one pixel. This style is generally believed to be originated by a Fren...

Tutorial Altered Art Harvest Canning Jar Lids

The summer of 2006 brought us an incredible garden and fall harvest. I spent a good portion of August and September canning and preserving the yields of our bumper crop gardens. Salsa, tomatoe stew, pickles, beets, peppers and more! Though I am n...

BOTTLECAPS - How to flatten bottle caps into scrapbooking embellishments

This tutorial will show you step by step, two different and simple ways to flatten bulky bottle caps into nice, creative, thin embellishments for your scrapbooks, mixed media, altered art or even into jewelry, such as personalized photo pendants! Ho...

Scrapbook mini albums

Do you love to scrapbook but can never find the time to finish your 12x12 mini album? Why don't you make a scrapbook mini album instead. 

How to Build a Pyramid Kite

Alexander Graham Bell is well-known as the inventor of the telephone, but few people realize he also invented an early form of airplane! Well, not quite. It wasn't a plane -- a flat wing -- but a tetrahedron, a pyramid-like* structure with four sides...

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Rawvolta I paint and love to make marks everywhere. Also with raw cacao on my face! Posted September 26, 2008

Mortira I'm pleased to be a part of this great group! Thanks for featuring Variety Beading: Christmas Projects in September! Posted September 22, 2008

imagesbykim Hey Sherry! Welcome to our little group. It is still a bit quiet here but it's more exposure for your lenses. Nice to have you, I love your art items! Be sure to add any other lenses you create that art tutorials and art related. Kat and I have a challenge of 1 per month. I think she is winning cuz I didn't do one for July yet but August isn't over either! kim ((((hugs)))) kim Posted August 15, 2008

paperfacets Hi Kim,Kat and all members, My name is Sherry and I go by paperfacets, the name of my Etsy and ebay stores. I have the stores to sell to interested parties my many paper creations. Teabag folding is not as well known here as in Aust. and Eng. Thank you Kim for asking me to add my lens to this group. Posted August 15, 2008

alteredkat Hi Kim! I'm Kat..."alteredkat" ;o) I look forward to the exchange of information and links. Hugs back, Kat :o) Posted January 26, 2008

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