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  • Crocheting & Knitting: Notions and Tools

    Crocheting & Knitting: Notions and Tools

    Finally the huge stack of magazines that’s been accumulating under your bed can now be put to use in a lot of different ways. One of my favorite pastimes is making sayings or quotations by cutting out letters of many different sizes and hues. A...

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  • Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Scrapbooking Tools

    Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Scrapbooking Tools

    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. And so, the list I am presenting here details means that in my experience help...

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  • Sewing: Sewing Notions & Tools

    Sewing: Sewing Notions & Tools

    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. To save on supplies and still be super...

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  • Framing & Matting: Mat Cutting Tools & Supplies

    Framing & Matting: Mat Cutting Tools & Supplies

    Look Around! There are supplies all around you! 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 glued on as a decoration. You will...

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  • Scrapbooking Tools: Blades, Cutters & Trimmers

    Scrapbooking Tools: Blades, Cutters & Trimmers

    If you have a huge magazine stack collecting under the bed, there are many ways to finally get some use out of it. Try creating your favorite quotations from assorted sizes and colors of letters you have cut out: one of my favorite tricks!...

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  • Leathercraft: Leather Tools & Treatments

    Leathercraft: Leather Tools & Treatments

    If you take a few minutes to observe what it around you, you may find some supplies you can use. You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you...

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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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  • Scrapbooking Tools: Embellishment Setters

    Scrapbooking Tools: Embellishment Setters

    Finally the huge stack of magazines that’s been accumulating under your bed can now be put to use in a lot of different ways. Try making quotations or maxims out of letters that you’ve cut from magazines in different sizes, colors and fonts. Letters can...

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  • Quilting: Quilting Tools & Equipment

    Quilting: Quilting Tools & Equipment

    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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  • Scrapbooking Tools: Paper Punches

    Scrapbooking Tools: Paper Punches

    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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