Fiber Pots
Guest Sandi Reinke, from Loose Ends, travels all over the world looking for new products and techniques for craft projects. Today, she joined Carol with some exotic, attractive, and strange finds to create an unusual ... [... more]
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Party Palettes
Carol's guest, Debbie Giampapa, talks about her clever and utilitarian "Party Palettes," which were inspired while attending a party and trying to juggle her plate and glass as she went through the buffet line. These ... [... more]
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Crafts For The Non-Artist
Guest Deborah Harmon joins Carol to explore products suitable for the "non-artistic crafter," as Carol puts it. Carol displays a lovely box painted with ordinary items found around the house, then examines a number ... [... more]
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Craft Papers
Carol introduces her crafting comrade, Linda Watson, as the show's procurer of interesting craft supplies, such as the attractive tissue paper that Linda found at a store in the wee hours of the morning. The dynamic, ... [... more]
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Gift Bags From Free Bags
This project started in two places at once and has no doubt been tried in many crafters' homes across the country. It's one of those ideas that creative people think of. In this case, it was both at my birthday ... [... more]
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Cool Clocks
8. Clip the overlapping paper edges into one-inch tabs. Turn the clock over and glue the overlapping pieces onto the backside of the clock. Cutting the paper into tabs will help it better fit around the curved edge ... [... more]
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Decorative Gift Bags
Marilyn Petrovic demonstrates how to make a decorative gift bag from a brown bag, using molds and Faultless microwave stiffener. Toilet paper is used in making the bags. ... [... more]
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Homemade Wrapping Paper
Create wrapping paper for a baby shower by making tiny little footprints. Ball your hand into a fist, and dip the outside edge of your hand into some paint. Press your hand onto the paper to create the foot (see ... [... more]
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Gift Bags
Paint and decorate the paper before it is assembled into a box-shaped bag. For this bag, we first painted the paper brown and gold, then applied Rub 'N' Buff over the paint for an attractive antique effect, but other ... [... more]
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Envelope Gift Bag
These bags can be decorated with stickers, rubber stamping, stencils, etc. before shaping the bag. Stuff with colored tissue and fill with little bags of candy or small gifts (figure F). Use as table favors or a ... [... more]
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Sticker Art
Use stickers to color bags, gift boxes, cards, frames, wall hangers, etc. If you have a pop-up card where part of the back of the sticker will show, shake some baby powder on the exposed sticker so it won't be sticky ... [... more]
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Accordion Books
This "book" is yet another version of the folded paper starbursts that we have featured in numerous ways and reincarnations. This time the "pages" are larger and the ends are not joined but left unattached for the ... [... more]
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