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If you have been thinking of creating a sketchbook, or if you've already started one, you'll find valuable and inspiring new ideas here. Packed with creative examples and encouraging words, Ideas & Inspirations for Art Journals & Sketchbooks will get you going with examples of sketchbook pages to inspire you, information to help you and techniques that will make your sketchbook meaningful. Artist and author Suzanne McNeill reveals everything you need to know to become an accomplished sketch-journalist. She shares insightful tips on choosing a subject, sketching from life, layouts, lettering, covers and much, much more. You'll soon be creating your own one-of-a-kind personal books to record personal memories, as you sketch travel adventures, friends, designs, ideas and events. Your sketch-journal will be wonderfully revealing and uniquely yours, the perfect place to capture a moment, track the changes in your life, interpret your experiences and just have fun!

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Breathe new life to the timeless craft of friendship bracelets with 101 customizable designs! Learn how to make personalized gifts for your friends by adding names, inspiring words, special messages, pictures, shapes, symbols, and other meaningful images and sentiments that will give your bracelet making as one-of-a-kind style! From the author of the best-selling Friendship Bracelets 101 and Friendship Bracelets 102, this complete guide will show you how to take your knotted, personalized crafts to the next level! Also included is an inspiring tutorial on how to make your own original pattern. Featuring all the basics you need to know, step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, and an inspirational gallery of fun designs, this book lets you celebrate your friendships and give them a bracelet they’ll love! Author Suzanne McNeill has written more than 230 craft and hobby books that share her passion for creating. Designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, and winner of the Craft and Hobby Association’s Industry Achievement Award, Suzanne has been called “the Trendsetter” of the arts and crafts industry.

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FloraBunda Style is a handy workbook that will enable you to practise the relaxing FloraBunda drawing method. With over 200 beautiful FloraBunda illustrations to choose from including flowers, vines, leaves, plants and other organic figures, you can begin drawing right away!Whether you are a budding artist or a drawing novice, you'll enjoy expressing yourself with classic FloraBunda line art. The designs are printed on high-quality artist paper, encouraging you to add your own personal touch using felt-tips, colouring pencils, crayons or other media.Based entirely on simple, nature-inspired doodles, FloraBunda Style is the perfect book to help you relax, unwind and de-stress. Let your creativity flow as you magically transform your inky doodles into exotic, vibrant art.

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These stunning bracelets combine the beauty of beads with the richness of natural stones. These jeweled treasures are so simple to make that even the novice jeweler will have a wonderful time making these unique pieces of art.

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Zentangle and Quilting go together like needle and thread - rotary cutter and mat. Quilters around the world are discovering stitching with Zentangle inspired patterns. It is easy to apply patterns to their craft, creating beautiful quilts using repeated symbols called tangles. "Zen-sational Stitches" offers a variety of projects so the busy sewer can explore this exciting trend. With tangles designed to be specifically suited to the sewing machine, even novice quilters will enjoy experimenting with the Zentangle technique. Many projects - potholders, pillows and totes, for example, can be accomplished in about an hour, so they are perfect for sharing with groups.

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Projects are easy to make using just pompoms, chenille stems and glue. PomPoms are a great inexpensive craft that will keep your kids busy at home, in a scout troop, at a play day or at day camp.

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You can create a glittering necklace, bracelet or earrings to suit your every mood without breaking the budget! Beads, wire & crystals and a few tools are all it takes.

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Braid beauty into necklaces using a "Kumihimo" foam braiding wheel that makes braiding fast and easy!

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Experiment with silver and gold, glass, crystals and natural materials such as turquoise, howlite, red coral and pearls.

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Attention, beaders! Unusual pendants, bracelets, tassels, dolls, earrings, and more await you here in Garden of Beading. With these instructions, you'll be able to create your own miniature bags, dolls, necklaces, pendants, and so much more! Here are tips for starting and ending thread, how to zigzag through beads, and suggestions on needles, beads, and thread to use to ensure your project is of the utmost quality. The fabulous projects here, all illustrated, include: *Spring Floral Necklace *Earrings and Bracelet *Circle of Friends Pendant *Egyptian Bracelet *Earth Angel *Ancient Mother *Love Angel's Bag *Goddess *Angel of Love *Tribal Doll *Pixie Doll *Tiny Goddess *Tassels *Floral Doll *And more! The designs here were all developed with cylinder beads in mind. Author and beading enthusiast Lisa Ann Claver suggests using Miyuki Delicas or Toho Aikos brand beads, but says you can substitute a standard 11-inch seed bead in her designsthe only thing to keep in mind is that the final

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Make creativity a daily activity with adventurous doodling! If you think you can't draw, this book will convince you that you can. Doodling is a relaxing and fun form of expression that is easy to learn. Whether you are decorating your journal, scrapbooking a sentiment, or personalizing a birthday card, you’ll find just the right motifs and techniques here to fire up your imagination. Add movement, style and attitude to your drawing with original designs for borders, frames, banners, alphabets, arrows, hearts, flowers, and personal goals. Use a template to build your confidence in your freehand skills, or enhance your doodles by adding dimensional accents and flights of fancy. Oodles of Doodles, 2nd Edition offers inspiring advice for doodling with pencils, pens, gel pens, paint pens, markers, and more.

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Experience the Zen of creativity with today s most popular therapeutic art techniques. Inside you ll find step-by-step instructions for Zentangle(r), mandalas, Doodly Grids, coloring, FloraBunda, and much more. Whether you have only a few minutes to spare or want to relax for hours, this big book will have you coloring and drawing your way to peace, calm, and mindfulness through art. Clear how-to explanations and gorgeous color illustrations make it easy to find your Zen with colored pencils, markers, pens, crayons, or watercolor pencils. Sample projects will guide and inspire you, with plenty of space right inside the book to experiment with color, pattern, and form. These simple art techniques will help you to relax, feel more positive, and enjoy the moment. So get in your creative zone with therapy that s fun!"

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Zentangle(R) 11 is a colouring activity book for adults that contains 30original tangles, complete with inspirational quotes, sentiments and uplifting words to help you unwind and de-stress. You don't need to be a calligrapher to create your own extraordinary art using coloured pencils, felt-tips, crayons, gel pens, water colours, marker pens and more.Allow your drawings to express themselves by combining letters with inspirational Zentangle art. Text-inspired tangling can be anything you desire it to be, from classic tiles to expressive words and shapes. You can make your letters fun and casual, or formal and flowery, with messages that are personal, social, reverential or whimsical.This inspirational colouring activity book is printed on high-quality, extra-thick paper that won't bleed through, and all of the pages are perforated for easy removal and display. Let your creativity flow as you produce wonderfully motivating note cards, bookmarks, gifts, fine art and more!

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Create beautiful cards using stencils and the relaxing art of Zentangle! Brass stencils are the perfect medium for Zentangle—their small designs are just the right size for embellishing with fun tangle patterns in black & white or glorious color. This book offers fascinating ideas for using Dreamweaver Stencils© to make memorable personalized greeting cards.Zentangle adds a fun new dimension to stencils. Inside you’ll find dozens of fabulous ideas for using stencils and templates with tangle art. Learn to create 40 new original tangles with step-by-step illustrations. Use the bonus workbook section to play, experiment, and create, as you master tangling and shading for your Zentangle-inspired masterpieces.

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Learn to make beautiful quilts in only 5 minutes with this clever one-seam technique. Get 12 great projects for making quilts, wall hangings, and table runners, with color photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions.

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The design possibilities of Zentangle extend in many dimensions! Combine the art forms of paper crafts and tangling to create memorable 3D keepsakes and one-of-a-kind gifts for every season. Inside you'll discover wonderful paper projects for booklets, greeting cards, angels, ornaments, beads, boxes, accordion folds and more. Dimensional paper crafts with tangles add range and depth to your Zentangle art. Try a Zentangle twist on traditional origami. You can enjoy being creative with 30 all-new tangles. You can use the bonus workbook section to play, experiment, and create. You'll love these inspirational ideas and simple techniques.

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This nostalgic treasure chest of vintage art embroidery patterns offers hundreds of authentic designs from the classic magazines and needlework catalogs of yesteryear. From birds and bunnies to flowers and fruit, these retro-cool motifs are accompanied by gorgeous color photographs and stitching advice. Four step-by-step projects show how to make quilts, potholders, and a laundry bag. You’re sure to find the perfect inspiration here for creating either a thoughtful gift or a new family heirloom.

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Take tangling beyond paper to create fashionable accessories and wearable art. You can embellish paper, shrink plastic, polymer clay, dominoes, bottle caps, wood and resin to create fabulous jewellery. With 40 original tangles, use the expanded workbook section to put all the knowledge you've gained about the Zentangle method into practice with draw-it-yourself tangles, shading practice and jewellery design exercises.

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Zendalas are actually Zen mandalas! A Zendala is an inspired form of mandala that is drawn using tangles to fill each section of a circle. Create your own beautiful Zendalas and other fascinating circular designs with this step-by-step guidebook. For centuries, mandala circles have been used to connect the spirit with the divine. Drawing a mandala helps one discover true inner self and balance. These special circles provide a unique opportunity to explore ancient teachings. In Zentangle 7, Expanded Workbook Edition, talented CZT artists share their secrets for creating sacred circle designs, and show how to add colour, resist, layers and more. This book includes 40 original tangle patterns, plus a bonus 16-page interactive workbook section where you can get started with warm-up exercises and practice Zendala tangling.

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You can create beautiful drawings and discover your hidden potential. Mandalas are used to connect the spirit, offering symbols found in nature, helping discover the inner self, acquiring a sense of wonder and providing inspiration. The circle of a mandala represents wholeness and unity. Zentangle is a relaxing process which brings the mind and spirit into focus through the repetition of simple shapes. Zentangle is very personal and requires no artistic training. The underlying philosophy of the mandala expands the message in your drawings as you investigate your feelings and discover your hidden potential. Gently appreciate the uniqueness of your experience in the world as you create beautiful drawings and discover the infinite possibilities that spring from inner peace.

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Cut appliques and quilt blocks accurately and easily on the "GO! Baby" fabric cutter, making tumblers and hexagons easier than ever before! Cutting just got easier, lighter, and more affordable. "The GO! Baby" fabric cutter features the same presicion as its big sister, the AccuQuilt GO! And it is compatible with more than 60 per cent of the GO! Dies. The "GO! Baby" is ideal for beginner quilters for everyone who travels to class, and for anyone who just wants to store their cutter in the closet and pull it out for special projects.

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Spruce up any room or event with a festive Banner, Swag or Pennant! Give your banner its own unique touch.

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Learn to bend 20-gauge silver wire into swirls and curls, then add a few beads to create exciting jewelry.

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Tie-dye is an adventure every time, giving you all kinds of effects making this craft extra versatile.

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This big lettering workbook provides a valuable resource for anyone who wants to embellish crafts with beautiful letters and borders. With 50 traceable alphabets, expert lettering tips and interactive practice exercises, readers will learn to create their own unique lettering for everything from art journals and scrapbooks to greeting cards, gift tags, invitations and more.

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