This is a five part series on how to build a bicycle wheel. It will cover lacing and truing a wheel. There is nothing like crafting something with your bare hands, especially if that something is a bike wheel. There is something inherently rewarding and zen like about wheel building hub using a 36 hole rim.
This video is in the Arts and Crafts category and you will learn how to make a Victorian-inspired necklace using an old ribbon. This is a very simple and easy way of making a necklace. Take a ribbon of about an arm’s length, tie it around the neck and check that the length should be OK. Then you can take a bunch of beads or a flower or some such suitable item which is fixed on a wire to put on the ribbon. Tie a knot around the wire and then turn the wire around the ribbon and your necklace is...
Garden of Imagination demonstrates how to make miniature polymer clay pot pies. Find miniature bottle caps in the scrap booking section of the craft store. You can use a regular sized bottle cap to make a big pie. Roll a piece of ecru clay into a ball and mold it into the bottle cap. Round the top to give it a pot pie shape. Use a small blade to create seared lines into the pie top. Brush mustard yellow pastel to tint the top of the pie. Brush a brown pastel accent on the top of the pie. Bake...
American Girl Doll earrings are easy to make and here's how we can do it. First, find some sticky-sided jewels (they usually come on a sheet) at any regular craft store. Then you are going to need a roll of what is called zots-they are little blue dots found at any scrapbooking store. Place the sticky side of the jewel down onto the blue dot, lift, and now the zot is connected to the jewel. You can then stick these directly onto the doll's ears and you have American Doll earrings! You can mak...
Terri Sproul shows how to use a really cool technique to make an embellishment for a card. You first need to find a roll of aluminum that is self adhesive. Work on the back of the aluminum, the side with the adhesive. Use a stamp to lay out your design on the back, by stamping the image on the back. Then you must trace the outside of the image. Use alcohol inks to add color to the aluminum. Then she cuts the image out with her scissors. Then she uses a glue dot to place the piece on a card sh...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create a faux suede technique on cardstock. Users will need a plastic stamp pad. This stamp pad will be used for rubbing, so it should be an extra or an old stamp pad. Users will need to re-ink the pad once in a while. This will give the cardstock a textured look. It will give an old age, distress look. Simply take the stamp pad and rub it over the cardstock. This will pick up the texture of the cardstock. This video will benefit those viewers who ...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make aluminum paper rings. This video provides all the materials required to make the rings. The materials required include: aluminum paper, glue, plastic gems, beads and the bottom of any decorative element for the top of the ring. Begin by folding the foil into a thin line and twist it. Now bend the foil around your finger to shape it into a ring. Then tie and wrap up the top. Put some glue on and add the bead or gem to the center. This video wil...
In this video a Peruvian Inka necklace is begun by selecting and washing precious stones. The stones begin as varied sizes and irregular shapes. These stones are then coarsely ground down to the desired size and shape. Finer grinders are used to get the exact shape and make the stones smooth. The polishing of the stones comes next. After much polishing these stones are ready to be placed in handcrafted Peruvian Inka necklaces. Each of these tedious steps are shown in abbreviated video clips o...
Simple Kids Crafts demonstrates how to make a decorative painted tin case for a mom's jewelry. To make the decorative case, you will need one recycled tin case with a lid, paint, and thick and thin paintbrushes. First, use the thin paintbrush to paint green stems of grass on the tin. Then, use the blue paint and a thick brush to paint grass blades on the tin. Use the red paint to paint a large red flower on the tin case. Let the paint dry. Use a thin paintbrush to accent and outline your flow...
She's doing it again; turning the ordinary into the extraordinary! Carolyn Braden is taking sea shells collected from a recent vacation and incorporating them into a decorative wreath. Using a hot glue gun and thick satin ribbon wrapped on a Styrofoam ring, a simple inexpensive wreath can be created with anything you can find attached. Don't be afraid to be creative. Using thick ribbon will help create a lovely pattern behind whatever you choose to glue on the wreath. The other idea Carolyn h...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a garden rainbow butterfly puppet. This video describes all the materials that are required to make the butterfly puppet. The materials required include: beads (blue, red and transparent), 5 pipe cleaners (2 yellow and 3 purple), 2 googly eyes, a stick and one glue stick. This video provides a visual demonstration for viewers to easily follow along. The video is at a step-by-step pace and allows viewers to pause or rewind the video. This video...
This video teaches the viewer how to make a bow for your hair. You need a few materials to do this including 12 1/2 inches of ribbon that is approximately 1 inch wide, Two to three inches of contrasting ribbon for your center piece, a glue gun, 5 inches of craft wire and a hair clip. You can chose the colors or create several different ones to coordinate them with your wardrobe. They take only about 5 minutes to complete as long as you have all the materials on hand. Make sure to have a pair ...
In this video tutorial, viewers will learn how to make a simple pencil holder. This is a child's art and crafts activity. The video provides all the materials that are required in order to make the pencil holder. The materials required include: a toilet paper tube, paint, paint brush, glue, scissors and a sheet of white paper. Users simply decorate the paper with paint and wrap it around the toilet roll. Next, cut another piece of paper for the bottom of the roll and secure it with some tissu...
This is a silent video by artist Dan P. Carr. It is filmed in fast action, the video is approximately 3 minutes long but in real time the painting took 50 minutes to complete. It is done on a small canvas with oil paints. It shows the development of the avocado from a simple outline drawing to the final product that is 3 dimensional and uses light and shadow to give a sense of depth to the painting. According to the artist he paints a simple object like the avocado daily as a practice exercis...
This video teaches you how to make small polymer clay pocket mirrors. You can put these in your purse or even wallet. It is a good gift, as you can customize them for the person you indent to give. Get small mirrors from a craft store. One technique is to make a separate cover for the mirror using clay. Another technique is to cover the whole mirror with clay. You can also create two separate covers. One on the back of the mirror and the other for the front. Stick the clay on the back of it a...
Take a colored foam and cut it to a bookmark shape. Mostly the bookmarks are tall rectangles. Decorate the foam bookmark using markers. Now design it for looking more beautiful. Use stickers to add additional decoration. Collect stickers from a craft store that offers a large variety of scrapbooking stickers. Cut the foam sheet and be sure to get along with the theme of the bookmark. For example, if a child drew horses on his bookmark, cut out horseshoe. Decorate the cut-out if necessary. Add...
You probably already know that duct tape is handy in a bind and is very versatile but did you ever think to make duct tape fabric? Find some fun colors or stick with the traditional silver, make your fabric and then the sky is the limit to fashion possibilities.
In this video tutorial, viewers will learn how to make a memory wire bracelet. This video provides all the materials required to make the bracelet. The required materials include a memory wire (bracelet size), heavy duty wire cutters (memory wire shears), round-nose pliers and several beads. First, determine how thick you want your bracelet to be and cut the wire according to that size. Now, layout the design of your beads; make a loop on one side of the wire and add the beads on. Once finish...
Nighthawkinlight teaches you how to make firework hemispheres. You start with a softball that will be the basis for the strips of paper you construct the hemispheres from. You take craft paper about an inch wide and soak them in a thin wheat paste. You start applying them on the softball in a pattern that doesn't create a lot of layers on top of each other. You need to spin and squeeze the shell to let all the air out. After you've added two layers of paper, clean off the excess wheat paste w...
Crimp can be made easily and covered to the jewelry by using the following instructions. First purchase the proper supplies of crimping tool. This tool acts like pliers and is used by placing the bead in the appropriate slot at the tip and then squeeze the handle together. The multiple slotted tips are the key to the tool, and are needed to create a proper crimp. Then, select the proper crimp bead. The thin metal crimp beads come in a variety of materials and sizes. This will be used to secur...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a paper flower. This video provides all the materials that are required in order to make the paper flower. The materials required include: colored tissue paper, scissors, and 10 cm of colored string. Begin by cutting the tissue paper to preferred size. Fold 1cm on the tissue paper, flip it over and do the same on the other side. Continue this until you've reached the end. Tie one end of the string onto the middle of the tissue paper and fold t...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to use the traditional Japanese stab stitch binding to make books. Stab Stitching is used mainly for office documents and in essence is two or more very strong, long staples that bind together loose sheets up to 25mm thick. The video provides all the materials required to make a book. The materials include: filler paper, two sheets of card stock(must be same size as paper), string, pencil, ruler, ice pick, X-acto knife, needle(must be same thickness a...
Gamer Dude 5000 Arts and Crafts Demonstrator offers a short tutorial with a single sheet of 8 1/2" X 11" paper and pair of scissors. First you fold the corner of your paper out till the top half of your paper and the side of your paper is flush. You cut off excess paper with a pair of scissors. When you open the paper back up, you will have a square sheet of paper that you can fold. You fold all the corners of your square in to the center. Then you flip it over to the back and repeat. Once do...
Mary, from Cardstv, shows you how to make a Christmas Card, using the fantastic Cricut machine by Provo Craft. She shows you how to use the "Very Merry Tags" Cricut cartridge to create a cute Christmas card with a Gingerbread man on the front of the card. Mary also shows you short cuts for your card embellishments. Giving you a variety of ways to create different cards makes this video a must to see. Enjoy make Christmas cards with Mary, just has she has enjoyed showing you this video.
Crafter Dawn takes us through another arts and crafts card lesson. She outlines the steps to making custom pocket cards featuring a pull tab pop-up component on which you can store your message. While she has suggestions on how to make a snowman-themed card, you can use your imagination and creativity to decorate your cards for any season or occasion. Give someone something with a personal touch by following the steps in this video.
Joann from Emerald City Elegance teaches is how to make a creative business card holder in this short paper craft video.
JoAnn, an amazing scrapbooker from Emerald City Elegance, teaches you how to make an amazing mini scrapbook album of your own out of note cards. Describes the necessary materials and tools and gives an easy to follow explanation of how to put together this excellent gift. Includes great scrap booking tips and ideas about cutting and punching holes into card stock, presentation advice, and working with different types of paper. Video includes beautiful pictures of paper crafts to get your crea...
This video shows you how to make a friendship bracelet with a heart pattern in simple, easy to follow steps. All you need is two different colors of thread and you will be well on your way to making this friendship bracelet. The video takes you from the beginning to the end of the process. The finished product is a unique design which can then be given as gifts to family and friends, or you can immediately enjoy your craft by wearing it yourself.
Joann of "Paper Crafting" shows you how to create a CD mini album. What it is, is actually a pop up photo album that you create using a CD case. The materials needed are 1) a CD case. 2) various decorations to put on the outside/inside depending on your taste. 3) cardstock type paper that can be folded around 8 times: on each "fold" you will put a photo- preferably the album will have a theme. Then you fold it up and put it in the Cd Case and embellish the front however you like.
In this video, Dawn, an arts and crafts expert shows you how to work with stamping and stenciling. She goes through two different styles that can be created with stamps/stencils. The first is a "scallop trim border" on card-stock paper. She takes you through various steps to complete this. She then goes on to show you how to make a "scallop trim corner punch" with stamps. The process is quick and easy, you need card-stock paper, various stamps, and stencils.
Looking to make some affordable winter decoration? Need a winter's day craft for the kiddies? Learn how to make a paper snowflake. In this video our hosts Lauryn and Cameron show you step be step how to make the perfect paper snowflake. With just a piece of paper and a pair of scissors they will instruct you on how to correctly fold and cut to make original and creative paper flakes. They will give you tips on how to make different shapes and more complicated types of flakes.
The video creator teaches us how to make a three dimensional snowflake. He plays some rather Christmas-y music in the background and goes right into explaining the process. He briefly explains what he will do but as the video continues, he focuses on showing rather than explaining. This is difficult to follow for those not used to arts and crafts. He fluently and rapidly makes the snowflake and lets the music do all the talking. There is again, no explanation as to how to make the snowflake, ...
Tank tops are relatively cheap, and cutesy bags can be expensive from designer shops and street vendors, so your only solution for saving money is… using your tanks for homemade bags. See how to transform a tank top into a magazine bag in this video from GiannyL.
Blogger Chantal McCulligh offers advice on cutting your own side-swept bangs in this video. She shows you how to cut your own bangs in the mirror to achieve the side-swept layered look without having to buy fancy scissors for the task. This video shows the technique several times to fully demonstrate the trick with plain old craft scissors. Chantal makes it look easy and the results look great. Following her directions closely would result in anyone being able to duplicate her stylish look.
Do you like paper crafts? Like making things with your hands? Then you will love this excellent video of now to make a Origami bag. In this video you are taken through the process in a slow and clear manner so that you can easily follow along. By following the video in just about a minute you will go from a plain, flat sheet of paper to having a intricately folded bag perfect for holding a small gift. What a clever way present your gift!
Looking to make a homemade keepsake box for someone special? In this two-part scrapbooking tutorial, learn how to make an adorable expandable keepsake box with help from A Piece of Craft. Marion shares a super girly version of this box she made for her young daughter and goes through how to build one yourself.
This easy tutorial will show you how to create fun birthday invitations in a variety of designs. With a few simple steps, you'll be able to invite guests using crafted cards themed after lady bugs, robots, monkeys, dinosaurs, sweet sixteen celebrations, or even a pretty pink tea party. This instructional video also offers tips on material costs and helpful printing hints.
While we have nothing against real flowers, we do find it depressing how after a week or two they begin wilting and looking like death itself. So keep your flowers fresh and everlasting by making faux ones!
Clocks are an essential part of your home, but you don't just have to settle for whatever clocks you can find at the store. Is this tutorial from Decor it Yourself, you'll learn how to make a funky timepiece that suits your style. Almost anything can be a clock, as long as you put a drill through it and stick it the wall!
Framing and matting your favorite posters or art can get expensive! In this Curbly video tutorial, you'll learn how to make a quick and inexpensive frame. All you need are some basic supplies available at almost any arts and crafts supply store including: A sheet of plywood, a plexiglass cut to the size of the plywood, archival paper cut to the size of the plywood, frameless corner clips, and a bracket.
