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Wire and beads! What a wonderful way to add color and pizazz to any home décor accessory. There are ideas here for decorating everything from a fork to a fountain. Add wire to baskets and gourds for a look that gleams. You can even make a Christmas tree from copper tubing, wire, and beads, or use the same materials to make a jewelry tree for your earring collection. Add some fun to your wardrobe with wire-beaded shapes and funky clay critter pins. Make boring wallets and handbags exciting and fresh. Everything you need is here. All you need is beads, colored wire, pliers, and a few simple tools. You'll be making wire spirals and coils in no time. It's all so fun and easy. Don't wait. Get started today.

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Beading Basics and Beyond features TOHO's 3-cut beads and Charlotte beads with projects that range from surprisingly simple to exquisitely elegant. The beginning beader will appreciate the Autumn Lei, the Crystal Spheres earrings, and the Nautilus Necklace while advanced beaders will love the Egyptian collar, Charlotte's Anchor Chain bracelet and the Ruby Flowers necklace. The projects are designed to encourage you to experiment with your own color combinations and the techniques are simpler than they look.

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Create dozens of beautiful, professional card projects using items you have around the house. Do you want to expand your skills and experience as a crafter? Then here is a collection of ideas designed to ignite your imagination and get your creative juices flowing. Think outside the box. What small, personal items do you have that would make a special gift card? A key? A little foliage? A small chain? An earring? A name plate? Take them and create something truly memorable for yourself, a family member, or a dear friend. Make a unique Thank You card. Design a special True Friends card. Make a Fly Heart card. You can do more! Move from cards to a scrapbook page. There is so much you can do with the inspiration and detailed instructions here. The aim is to inspire the readers to be creative with the materials available. Have fun with an exploration of different materials. Create something truly unique and original.

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These miniature cards and journals will shake up your imagination, rattle your creativity and roll out the fun!

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Color, tangle, craft, and doodle with this fun new bookazine from Design Originals, the original Zentangle(r) publisher! The Winter 2015 issue offers coloring pages, feature articles, craft projects, meditative drawing exercises, and artistic advice from best-selling artists and authors like Joanne Fink, Valentina Harper, Ben Kwok, Thaneeya McArdle, Debra Valencia, Jess Volinski, and more. It includes a user s guide to coloring supplies, ready-to-color gift tags, a gift box pattern, a Zen-inspired holiday wreath project, and 24 tear-out coloring book pages printed on extra thick paper. Other special features include a profile of popular coloring book artist Millie Marotta, a user s guide to coloring supplies, and a look at the therapeutic benefits of the coloring trend."

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This title includes stunning works from both breakthrough artists and professionals. Zentangle[registered] is fast becoming a worldwide phenomenon, attracting individuals from all walks of life. Created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, the Zentangle method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. The Beauty of Zentangle celebrates this simple but elegant new craft with hundreds of sensational one-of-a-kind designs from around the world. Selected by the editors of Design Originals, the No. 1 publisher of Zentangle art, this amazing collection of Zentangle-inspired masterpieces encompasses a wide range of styles. Stunning works are included from breakthrough artists and CZTs like Suzanne McNeill, Cindy Shepard, Marie Browning, Sandy Steen Bartholomew and many more. Their inventive tangles are at the forefront of a new wave of creative expression and personal freedom.

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Go on an adventure through the Amazon rainforest and get a close-up look at jaguars, poisonous frogs, gorillas, giant river otters, and other creatures in this educational and exciting coloring book for kids! Featuring 40 line art designs of animals that live in the Amazon, from sloths and anacondas to toucans, piranhas, and more. This book is the perfect outlet for kids to express their creativity while they learn all about this amazing ecosystem and its crucial role on planet earth! Interesting facts complement each illustration for children to learn about each animal and how they live – from high up in the tree canopies to deep in the river waters – and the rainforest itself and all its wonders for an element of fascinating fun! Also included are extra pages filled with tons of bonus stickers!

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This title features 16 projects for enhancing your accessories with the Japanese art of decoden. It is an emerging trend, sweeping the internet. It includes insightful tips on techniques and materials, such as mod melts and polymer clay. Make your accessories super kawaii with the Japanese art of decoden! Inside Bling It Up! You'll find 16 outrageously whimsical projects for embellishing your phone case, acrylic nails, sunglasses, toiletries kit, and even your trainers with impractical indulgence! Decoden is a highly stylized, colourful, and over-the-top Japanese decorative craft that literally means phone decoration, but which has grown to encompass all sorts of fun applications. It involves decorating objects with tons of charms and bling. This book shows you how to make your own fabulous decoden compositions with cabochons, charms, trinkets, baubles, and findings. Author Choly Knight provides step-by-step instructions for making a host of blingly fashion accessories. She offers insightful tips on materials and techniques, and explains how to make your own charms with mod melts and polymer clay.

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Create, colour, pattern and play with Zenspirations! This inspiring colouring book offers 32 pages of enchanting nature designs that are just waiting for your creative touch. Zenspirations combines practical art techniques with uplifting spiritual philosophy. Discover new ways to express what's in your heart by adding colour, patterns, text and illustrations to these extraordinary visions.Zenspirations artist Joanne Fink provides step-by-step instructions for drawing some of her favourite patterns with 16 colourful pages of easy- to-follow artistic advice. Joanne's illustrations are designed to be a springboard for your creativity-that's why there is a credit line for you, as co-creator, at the bottom of each page.An array of beautifully coloured samples are provided to show you how colouring enthusiasts around the globe have interpreted the designs. Printed on high quality extra-thick paper, Zenspirations(R) Coloring Book Expressions of Nature is perfect for decorating with felt-tips, coloured pencils, marker pens, crayons or gel pens. Each one-sided page is perforated so you can easily remove your art to display wherever you want.

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Go far beyond ordinary colouring with creative brush markers. No longer just for children- this is a hot craft trend. Step-by-step instructions ensure success even if you've had little or no artistic training. Creative brush marker techniques go far beyond ordinary colouring! Use brilliantly coloured markers to add dazzling accents to handmade cards, envelopes, gift tags, scrapbook pages or any other paper-craft project. This essential guide teaches you fantastic brush marker techniques for sketching, stamping, art-journaling and more. Crafting guru Marie Browning presents simple ways to awaken your inner artist with dual brush markers. Her step-by-step instructions ensure success even if you've had little or no artistic training. You can discover the secrets of blending colours, creating backgrounds and achieving interesting fine art effects. In no time at all you'll be drawing enchanting "DoodleDab" accents in more than 30 easy-to-learn motifs, or shading your own Zentangle[registered] - inspired art with markers.

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This title features 19 stylish, quick-to-make projects for sewn accessories. Scrap fabrics are rejuvenated and reinvented, appealing to the economical sewer. Step-by-step instructions make projects suitable for beginners. Sewing Pretty Little Accessories shows how to use small pieces of fabric to make big impressions. Cherie Lee, author of Sewing Pretty Little Things, reveals new ways to give new purpose to a special piece of fabric, by transforming it into a stylish mobile phone cover, an attractive sun hat, or a cute water bottle cozy. With 19 original projects for bags, pouches, purses, cases, and covers, 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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This friendly book will teach you everything you need to know to start on a memorable quilting adventure, with small, simple-to-sew projects that come together quickly. Supporting layout diagrams and cutting templates are provided at actual size and can be used directly from the book. No photocopying or resizing necessary!

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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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Rediscover old world papercrafting! Scherenschnitte, which literally means "scissors cutting," is a lovely old Swiss-German folk art tradition. Pronounced share-en-schnit-ta, this venerable technique was introduced to colonial America by the "Pennsylvania Dutch," who applied it in intricate and symmetrical designs on marriage and birth certificates, silhouettes, valentines and love letters. Now Paper Cutting Old & New makes this ancient craft come alive, with easy step-by-step instructions and complete full-sized patterns for snipping your own framed treasures, holiday ornaments, unique cards, scrapbook pages and much more. Add a touch of old-fashioned elegance to your art, with easy-to-follow instructions for false-grain painting that will transform even the plainest frame.

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This title features distinctively geometric, richly textured paper patterns that appeal to both the eye and sense of touch. The projects and categories, include stationery, gifts, tabletop, fine art and special occasions. In a warm, encouraging, former teacher's voice, Anna takes you on her unique journey of developing her paper cutting technique and shows eager crafters how to use a knife as a drawing instrument to create any manner of gift or home decor. The projects and categories, including stationery, gifts, tabletop, fine art and special occasions, will be familiar to the DIYer and crafter and can be made with easily purchased, relatively inexpensive materials. Though she provides stencils for each project, Anna also encourages readers to strike out on their own, suggesting alternative sizes or applications. She also explains her "recycling by design" technique in which cut out pieces left behind can be reused and recycled beautifully to enhance gifts. She also provides basic pattern making terminology, demonstrating that a single motif can be arranged in multiple ways to suit any aesthetic or project.

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