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This book leverages the hottest tween/teen crafting trend in years. It features advanced techniques for children looking for new challenges, including how to make rubber band bracelets without a loom. It is suitable for ages 8+. Go beyond the loom with Hooked on Rubber Band Jewelry. Crafting prodigy Elizabeth Kollmar takes the rubber band jewellery craze to a whole new level with her innovative techniques and totally cool designs. Her new book shows how you can create dazzling rubber band bracelets and necklaces, without ever using a loom! All you need is a double-ended crochet hook to start making fabulous jewellery.

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This book offers 30 fun and easy art activities to express your hipster aesthetic. Each ready-to-color line drawing has plenty of space to add your own doodles, designs, and patterns. The book also provides sage advice on coloring and patterning techniques, plus some fully colored examples to get you started. Printed on high quality extra-thick paper, this inspiring coloring book for millennials is perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolors. Designed to eliminate bleed-through, each page is pre-perforated for easy removal and display.

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This title features original, fashionable rubber band jewellery projects, harnessing one of the hottest craft trends in years. It opens up the rubber band jewellery craze to parents and adults, with sophisticated, grown-up designs. It comes from Colleen Dorsey, bestselling author of Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewlery. Rubber Band Jewelry All Grown Up provides innovative designs, expert instructions and elegant inspiration for every jewellery maker who is young at heart. All rubber band jewellery-making methods are explored, from conventional looms with rows of plastic pins to free hand crochet with a double-ended hook. Clear step-by-step instructions, numbered diagrams and gorgeous colour photographs make it easy. You'll discover how to create surprisingly chic bracelets, necklaces, earrings and more, embellished with baubles, beads, buttons and jewellery enhancements.

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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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This book helps you master professional artists' methods and achieve enhanced decorating results. It includes applications for papercrafts, scrapbooking, journaling, stamping, sketching and Zentangle[registered]. These colouring books for adults are a hot craft trend. Professional artists have magical secrets that you need to know! They use simple but sophisticated techniques like impressed lines, stippling and subtractive drawing to produce fabulous art. With Pencil Magic, you can master these same methods to create a richer experience whenever you are making a card, embellishing a scrapbook page or just doodling for fun. Crafting guru Marie Browning shows you how to use both graphite and coloured pencils to create impressive designs for paper arts, journals, mixed media, Zentangle[registered]-inspired pieces and more. Her simple methods are gratifying to use, require minimum supplies and produce stunning results that will have everyone asking "How did you do that?" Discover how to turn simple line designs into something fabulous with the impressed technique. Master classic drawing strokes like hatching, cross-hatching and scrumbling. Use shading to add depth and dimension to your drawings and give your projects a professional finish. The design possibilities are endless!

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This book helps you transform fabric into an attractive coin purse, an elegant wallet, a journal cover, cosmetic cases and more. It includes step-by-step instructions and stunning colour photographs. Sewing Pretty Little Things shows how to use small pieces of fabric to make big impressions. This book is packed with creative ideas for using fabric scraps and remnants in classic, beautiful designs. The authors show how to give new purpose to a special piece of fabric, by transforming it into an attractive coin purse, an elegant wallet, or a handy clutch. With original projects like journal covers, travel slippers, key fobs, cosmetic cases and even backpacks, readers are sure to find a use for all kinds of fabrics and patterns. Stunning colour photographs illustrate the potential of the craft. Step-by-step instructions make each project easy to create with whatever material is at hand.

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Simple, colourful wire jewellery is so easy! And making it is so much fun when you create coiled, spiralled and twisted links from colourful wire and use them to craft a wide array of necklaces, earrings, bracelets, creatures and more. Wire Art For Kids shows you how to twist and twirl soft wire to make colourful jewellery and fun critters. They can learn wonderful ways to combine wire with polymer clay, with over 60 projects and easy, step-by-step instructions. It is fun for kids, tweens, teens and grownups too!

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Learning to make your own jewelry is easy with the step-by-step instructions in Simple Beginnings: Beading. Author Suzann Sladcik Wilson teaches you everything you need to know to bring out your inner jewelry designer. By learning about the different varieties of beads and becoming familiar with stringing materials, findings, and clasps, you'll soon discover there is no wrong way to design earrings, necklaces, and bracelets- only your way.

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This title includes step-by-step instructions, how-to photographs and approachable patterns that show you how to add sweetness to the nursery with darling baby clothes, stuffed animal plushies and practical accessories. Eighteen easy-to-sew projects cover all of the basics that babies need for their first few years of growing. They feature charming applique faces inspired by the kawaii fashion sense - in Japanese, kawaii means cute, adorable or loveable. Projects range from very easy to intermediate, so they're simple to understand and come together quickly. All you need is a sewing machine, some inexpensive fabric and a few basic sewing tools. So go ahead and create some beautiful toys and cute little clothes to make some lasting memories with your one-of-a-kind baby!

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Bags can be functional, stylish, colourful, or whimsical. This book shows you how to sew your own one-of-a-kind bags to satisfy all your needs and tastes. You can create personalised bags that range from sophisticated to indispensable. You can learn the basics of bag sewing techniques, and get tips for going green with upcycled found fabrics. This book demystifies the bells and whistles that go into designer bags so that you can craft your own with the same flair...but not the same price! Whether you want your bag plain and simple or detailed and complex, you'll find plenty of fun options, motifs and ideas to get you started.

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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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Two hole, tile shaped Tila beads invite asymmetrical design lines for new possibilities in beadwork. Use these exciting new beads from Miyuki to discover new possibilities. Fabulous bracelets, necklaces and keychains using "Tila Beads".

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This title features 18 beautiful patterns to crochet for girls. It is suitable for both beginner and experienced crocheters. It is the perfect gift book for mothers and grandmothers. Packed with fresh and modern crochet projects for babies, toddlers, and young girls to wear, this book is a fantastic way to learn to crochet. You'll love to stitch and share these 18 original easy-to-crochet patterns for making hats, headbands, cowls, and collars. You'll also learn how to create adorable accents and flower embellishments to enhance your creations with a special touch. Irresistible boutique designs are included for infants through to preteens, so you can keep crocheting as the little girls in your life grow. Author Cony Larsen's sage advice, step-by-step instructions, and clear illustrations assure that even beginners will have success, and advanced crocheters will appreciate the wide range of inspiring patterns provided inside.

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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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Discover an amazing world filled with dragons, tigers, snow leopards, phoenixes, and more! An imaginative escape, this coloring book for adults makes for a unique and intricate coloring experience. From talented Japanese artist, Kayomi Harai, comes this one-of-a-kind coloring book filled with over 30 realistic designs of mythical and majestic creatures to color into life. Each Japanese art design is printed on a single side of high-quality paper with perforated edges for easy removal and display.

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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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Celebrate in style with this incredible selection of invitations, place cards, buffet tags, menus, napkin rings, coasters, wine charms, and more—all in one place! Life of the Party Papercrafting contains all of the ready-to-use paper goods you need to throw a successful bash. Just punch out along the perforations to use each item as-is, or add your own personal touch by embellishing with scrapbook paper designs. Select from three coordinated party themes—brunch, elegant, and indulgent—or mix and match to inspire your own memorable event. This treasure trove of fun & festive paper crafts includes: • 22 pretty cards & 25 handy tags • 24 classy place cards & 27 cute mini cards • 16 coasters, 16 napkin rings & 16 wine charms • 4 stylish menus & 9 sophisticated belly bands • 2 versatile envelope templates & 6 postcards • 16 pages of gorgeous two-sided scrapbook paper

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