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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Handpainted Items

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Handpainted Items

    Supplies are all around you, all you have to do is look around! Masks can be made from paper plates using scissors and markers, a large wall collage can be made from a cut up pizza box or a decoration can be created from dry...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Dolls & Toys

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Dolls & Toys

    Look Around! There are supplies all around you! You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box, opened up, into a collage for...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Home Décor & Accents

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Home Décor & Accents

    There are a lot of ways you can eventually use that big pile of magazines that has been gathering beneath your bed. Something I love to do is to use scissors to snip out various sized and colored letters and put them together to form...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Holiday

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Holiday

    Now that big stash of periodicals that has been accumulating under your bed-frame can be put to quite a number of uses. Cutting out letters of varying sizes and colors, and then using them to make phrases or quotes, is something I enjoy doing. When...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Paper Crafts

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Paper Crafts

    The cost of purchasing art supplies from retail outlets can be prohibitive for avid scrapbookers and crafters. You can save money on supplies, create unique projects by using the same methods which I have collected together. • There are a lot of ways you can eventually...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Cards

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Cards

    If you take a few minutes to observe what it around you, you may find some supplies you can use. With scissors and markers, a pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta can be painted and glued on...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Beaded Items

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Beaded Items

    Supplies are all around you, all you have to do is look around! Masks can be made from paper plates using scissors and markers, a large wall collage can be made from a cut up pizza box or a decoration can be created from dry...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Needle Arts & Crafts

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Needle Arts & Crafts

    Should you decide to blow the dust bunnies off your old magazine collection, you have several options for finally getting some use of it. Something I love to do is to use scissors to snip out various sized and colored letters and put them together...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces

    Look Around! There are supplies all around you! You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box, opened up, into a collage for...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Quilts

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Quilts

    Be observant with your surroundings and you will find a vast assortment of materials. Paper Plates can be masks with some scissors and markers, A pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta can be painted many colors and...

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