I want to make something because i am feeling crafty, i have a glue gun, felt, paper, ribbon, beads..etc. But i dont know what to make..something handy- like a picture frame or a garbage can~ but those are kind of ordinary, do you have any cool ideas? Suggested Reading: Seed Bead StitchingSeed Bead Stitching explores [...]
I’m thinking about making handbags with my first sewing machine but I’m clueless when it comes to how much fabric costs. Where can I find cheap, cool, funky fabrics like those at: [link] I would buy them there, but the fabrics are $8-14 per yard. Is that the price I will find everywhere for fabrics [...]
There is a local arts and crafts festival in my town every year called Sum-Nelly. My mother and I want to make a few things to sell at a booth. We were thinking of making aprons, hair bows for little girls and other things like that. I was just wondering what a fair price would [...]
I make jewelry a little and I know different people enjoy crystals but I want the rigid kind. The ones that look more natural like pulled right out of the ground instead if the ones that have been cut and turned into beads (which is basically the kind I find in the craft store). I [...]
There’s several I’ve already made, but now I can’t decide which ones to add. I need 2 or 3 more sets. Tarzan Jungle Book Sword in the Stone Emperors new clothes/King Midas (the stories are so similar, if I made them it would be a two story set) Aladdin Jack and the Bean stock The [...]
i wanna plan ahead so yeah what should i give my mom for a christmas present but it has to be hand-made!!!!!!!!!!! i am 12 so give me something appropriate for my age that i can make my mom for a christmas present reasons i want it to be hand-made 1st i’ve heard that mom’s [...]
I’m participating in my 1st craft fair & would like to sell silkscreened Ts. How many shirts should i make for the fair? Should I have a variety of sizes or is large a fairly good/common/popular size? Thanks! Suggested Reading: Card Making & Crafter’s Companion: Hints & Tips for Selling Hand-Made Cards & CraftsA collection [...]
I recently started making diaper cakes, diaper wreaths, rose socks, rose was cloths, towel cakes, and tutus. I love making them but im not sure what to charge for them. If anybody out there makes any of these things could you please help me out trying to figure out how much to charge for them. [...]
I tried clear nail varnish but it dissolved the sharpie ink. Varnish in craft shops are marked as either being for oil based paints or acrylics based paints. Will either of these definitely work? I’d rather know what type of varnish to use than what brand….most brands people give me are American but I live [...]
