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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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  • Decorative & Tole Painting: Ready to Paint Items

    Decorative & Tole Painting: Ready to Paint Items

    Look Around! There are supplies all around you! Everything has a use, and you can make masks with scissors and crayons or markers or use a large pizza box for a collage, decorating it with dried, painted pieces of pasta you glue on. When you’re crafting,...

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  • Home Décor & Accents: Wood Items

    Home Décor & Accents: Wood Items

    You probably have a pile of magazines accumulating somewhere in the house, and now there are lots of ways you can make some use of them. I like to make my own sayings and quotes by snipping various sized letters of the alphabet in different...

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  • Handpainted Items: Gourds

    Handpainted Items: Gourds

    There are so many ways you can finally get some use out of that huge magazine stack that’s been collecting under your bed. I favor cutting out letters in various colors and sizes and putting them together to spell out aphorisms and quotations. To get...

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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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  • Handpainted Items: Tiles

    Handpainted Items: Tiles

    The cost of purchasing art supplies from retail outlets can be prohibitive for avid scrapbookers and crafters. To save on supplies and still be super unique and creative I’ve compiled all of the ways I’ve found. Now that big stash of periodicals that has been accumulating...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Wool & Needlefelted Items

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Wool & Needlefelted Items

    I am really into scrap-booking and have the spend a lot of my time making handmade craft items, so I am quite aware of the high prices that the retail art supply stores can charge for supplies. Therefore, I’ll give here a list of my...

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  • Handpainted Items: Signs

    Handpainted Items: Signs

    As someone whose hobby is handmade crafts, particularly scrapbooks, I’ve learned firsthand how expensive art supply stores can be. To save on supplies and still be super unique and creative, here I have compiled all of the ways I’ve found. If you have a huge magazine...

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