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  • Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Books & Magazines

    Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Books & Magazines

    If you take a few minutes to observe what it around you, you may find some supplies you can use. 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...

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  • Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Tools, Boards & Trays

    Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Tools, Boards & Trays

    There are so many ways you can finally get some use out of that huge magazine stack that’s been collecting under your bed. Cutting out different sized and colored letters and making sayings or quotes is a technique I love. A cool, retro effect can...

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  • Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Cord, Thread & Wire

    Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Cord, Thread & Wire

    As someone whose hobby is handmade crafts, particularly scrapbooks, I’ve learned firsthand how expensive art supply stores can be. Being original and artistic shouldn’t stop you from taking advantage of the ways I’ve found to save on your supplies. 1. Should you decide to blow the...

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  • Beads & Jewelry Making: Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies

    Beads & Jewelry Making: Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies

    If you take a few minutes to observe what it around you, you may find some supplies you can use. 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...

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  • Beads & Jewelry Making

    Beads & Jewelry Making

    Not only am I an avid scrap-booker, but I also love creating homemade crafts. I know first-hand that purchasing supplies from art supply retail stores can get very expensive. Therefore, I’ll give here a list of my tricks for saving money on supplies while...

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  • Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Kits & Instructions

    Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Kits & Instructions

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! 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 your wall,...

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  • Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Jewelry Findings

    Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Jewelry Findings

    Supplies are all around you, all you have to do is look around! 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...

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  • Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Storage & Display

    Bead Art & Jewelry Supplies: Storage & Display

    You have a lot of different options for making use of the growing pile of periodicals that you have been routinely stashing below your mattress. I like to make my own sayings and quotes by snipping various sized letters of the alphabet in different shades...

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  • Beads & Jewelry Making: Beads, Pearls & Charms

    Beads & Jewelry Making: Beads, Pearls & Charms

    Be observant with your surroundings and you will find a vast assortment of materials. 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...

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