About Me

I'm an artist, writer, and owner of
CreativeTextureTools

Precious Metal Clay, Getting Started and Beyond

Use this lens to prevent information overload as you get started with Precious Metal Clay. This is your expert guide on where to learn, what to buy and more, so much more!  Read on to find out how to get a copy of my FREE eBook, The Jewelry Make...

Top 5 Ways to Make Your Own Rubber Stamps

Reasons abound. You may want to make cards with your own designs. You may wish to create texture plates to use with Precious Metal Clay or polymer clay. Here's how to do it - we'll explore the top 5 ways to have rubber stamps, or photopolymer stamps...

Kids Birthday Parties that are Fabulous, you can do it too!

What are the elements? How do you do it? Where do you buy the stuff? What books can help me? All this plus carnival theme, Mexican Fiesta theme, Horse and Pirate theme and more are yours in this lens.

How to Get Started in Jewelry Making & Metalsmithing

Want to make jewelry? I'll let you know where to learn, what to read, how to take pictures of it once you've made it, how to sell it. What is casting? PMC? these answers and more will be yours...

Top Ten Tools for Metal Clay

See the inside of a professional metal clay artist's workbench in this list of my personal top ten tools for all folks who work with metal clay: Precious Metal Clay or Art Clay Silver. Plus, my top 5 books, where to shop and more!

The Business of Crafts

How do I get started in crafts fairs? What do I need to know to start a business? Which tent should I get? Which magazines should I read? All this and more will be answered in this lens.

Best Squidoo Tips plus Squiddy!

Squidoo's easy, but some things can be maddenly hard to find. Save time, it's all here for you. How to install Squidoo buttons on your blog, links to all the best how-to on Squidoo that there is. And show your Squidoo-love! I've sought out the best...

Photographing jewelry and other small things

How to create an easy to use table top photography set up for shooting small items, such as jewelry, for jury slides, ebay selling and the web.

Living Wheat Free

Find inspriation, recipes and resources. You can do it, and feel better! No matter why you're living wheat free, find help, books and more here.

Promoting Yourself, Your Art on Squidoo

Why not?  It's free, it's easy, it will help people find you who might not otherwise.  Creating a Squidoo Lens about yourself can also be a great place holder while you keep working on that website of yours...  If you can manage your em...

I hate packing peanuts!

In this lens, I'll let you know what to do with them, how to avoid them, a bunch of ways to re-use or recycle them plus links to some packing peanut related pranks! Join me, won't you? As we explore this peanut shaped styrofoam nightmare.

Promote Yourself Online without a Website

Not quite able to pull off creating your website? Having you been meaning to get to it for years? I've come up with a solution for you that's cheaper and easier, and gives you a web presence now! Read on!

Elaine Luther, artist, writer

This is a lens about artist and writer Elaine Luther. Bio, training, recent gallery shows and where you can read even more about me.

T-shirts and more for beaders, metalsmiths, metal clayers and rock hounds

Here's the place to find the best T-shirts, aprons, journals and hats (and more) for beaders, metal clayers, metalsmiths, round hounds and generally anyone who loves making jewelry! They're all on Cafe Press, but super hard to find since Cafe Press d...