How To: Make a decorative holiday bakery box
Homemade cookies are a terrific gift. With a simple bakery box and some ribbon, the package will be as pretty as the contents.
Homemade cookies are a terrific gift. With a simple bakery box and some ribbon, the package will be as pretty as the contents.
Watch this video to learn how to make a "Thinking of you" card using the chalkboard technique.
As you'll quickly learn in cake decorating, the outcome and success of your designs stems entirely from the type of tip on your icing bag. Tips range from star shaped to round to square and everything else imaginable, all to give you a limitless variety of ways to decorate your cake or cupcake.
In this tutorial, Bonnie shows you how to make a super fun new craft project for use in your home or dorm room. For this video, Bonnie makes a super cute little bulletin board with a twist. This board is magnetic! No need for push pins, now you can simply display messages and important papers with magnets and avoid all the holes.
This is a tutorial on creating graffiti letters from duct tape to decorate and stick anywhere you like. Not your everyday graffiti, but if you have a lot of duct tape lying around the house, this project's an interesting way to spend an afternoon and stay out of trouble. Starting with graffiti letters from GraffitiGen and GraffitiCreator, this tutorial takes you through the steps to make your own graffiti duct tape letters to decorate just about anything.
The beauty of home crafting projects is in transforming old junk into something you can use. Host Heather's how-to video shows how to make quick and easy napkin rings to add a little bit of flair to the table. You will need plastic shower curtain rings, clippers, ribbon, rhinestones or any other embellishments, and a hot glue gun. Find out how to make quick and easy napkin rings from old plastic shower curtain rings by watching this video tutorial.
See a demonstration of decorative stitching with a variety of threads. Create your own sampler on your machine as a design source for future projects. Variegated machine quilting, polyester machine embroidery and metallic threads.
Learn how you can spice up your boring office manicure by applying some decorative scratches with this tutorial. You will need a base coat, finishing coat, a main color of nail polish, a couple of toothpicks and sparkles of any form. With this how to video you will be able apply these pretty decorative scratches in your fingernail polish.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make coasters or decorative tiles with photographs. To make this fun art project, you will need: glue, glue stick, paint brush, tile, picture, and scissors. After you have gathered these, cut your picture out if you printed it out. Then, apply the glue from the glue stick to the back of it and place it on the coaster. From here, apply the glue to the area around the coaster and brush it around with a paint brush. Once you have covered the entire area of the c...
Gary Clark shows you what it takes to hang a beautiful new chandelier in your home, and believe it or not, the installation is simple! No matter what kind of hanging light fixture you're installing in your ceiling, the process is generally the same, where you first need to cut a hole in the drywall and run some wire to the panel. Then make sure you have a junction box that can support the weight of the fixture.
Learn how to tie the Turk's Head Woggle Knot. This animated knot tying tutorial is the best you'll find. With this knot tying how to, you can tie the Turk's Head Woggle Knot fast or slow, or pause it at every step along the way. Learn to tie knots for your next outdoor trip. Tie a Turk's Head (Woggle) decorative knot.
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In this series of arts & crafts videos you'll learn how to make your own decorative candles. Our expert Rachel Dayan offers tips on candle making at home. You'll learn what materials and supplies you'll need and tips on types of waxes, wicks and scents for your candles.
In this series you'll see how to make a decortive pillow with a geometric boarder and multiple pieces of material. You will need a sewing machine.
In this video series, let Denise Robinson show you how to make a decorative pillow. Part 1 of 8 - How to Make a decorative pillow.
In this video series, our expert will demonstrate how to make decorative picture frames. You will get easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to sand a picture frame, add distress marks and paint a picture frame to use as a home decoration.
Decorative concrete can turn an ordinary room into extraordinary. Watch this how to video to learn all about decorative concrete toppings and proper selection. Learn all about overlays, toppings, and resurfacing.
This tutorial teaches you how to make a decorative wooden bucket. This project is suitable for a use as a planter or inside a wishing well. You will need a piece of plywood, a couple of strips of wood, a piece of rod for the handle, two copper straps, nails, and staples. Watch this step by step how to video and make a decorative wooden bucket for your garden.
Learn decorative edging to enhance the look of crocheted projects. Watch this how to video to learn how to crochet picot edging. This video demonstrates the technique on a short chain but you can use picot edging all around a small or large crocheted piece.
Maybe you are looking for a fun, festive, decoration for your next party or gathering, or maybe you've got a room full of balloons and you don't know what to do with them. Well, this video has answers. This video will show you how to make a balloon arch.
It's not too late to start crafting some great Thanksgiving decorations with the kids. Make this year's celebration one to remember with these decorative craft ideas from Mahalo's Jaala Pickering. Your children are sure to have fun making these, and so will you!
Well fret not, frantic dinner party hosts! In this video series, learn how to fold napkins in a variety of fancy, fun, elegant and eclectic ways. Our expert will show you step-by-step napkin folding techniques that’ll you can learn in a few minutes. No guests have arrived yet, so with 20 minutes to spare, watch a few video clips and get some good housekeeping tips on how to liven up your place settings. Remember: it’s the details that count. A specially-folded napkin is sure to add that je ne...
This clip walks through the process of making an end grain cutting board (or butcher block) from maple and purple heart. This basic project is suitable for most skill levels and the techniques described in this video can be applied to any end grain assembly, whether it's a cutting board of a different design or another butcher block project. Make a decorative butcher block.
This beautiful flower can be used as decoration on a hat, scarf, headband or purse. You name it. There are many uses. On the photo above, I added it to a hat. I have also used it as a decoration on a napkin ring. The flower is knit in three parts. Check out the instructions below. And see the closeup photo of the finished flower at the bottom of the page.
A table is so much better with origami napkins! Check out this short video tutorial and see how to fold an origami decorative glass fan napkin design. Decorative origami napkins are perfect for any table and any occasion. Folding napkins into 3D objects is not only beautiful on the table, but fascinating. Origami napkin folding should be a trick up every table decorator's sleeve. Celina Table Linens shows you the simple steps involved in the napkin origami decorative glass fan.
Step by step instructions on how to make unique wedding invitations with decorative brad paper fasteners.
Want your photos to stand out from the rest in photo sharing sites like Flikr.com? In this video tutorial you will learn to add a decorative border to photos using Photoshop. Learn to personalize your photos by experimenting with the tools in Photoshop! Add decorative borders to images using Photoshop.
In this video series, Carolyn Saylors is going to show you a quick and easy way to make a simple pillow. In the first video she's going to show you some of the things that you need: fabric, thread, ruler, scissors and also an old newspaper, marker, pen, crayon and the stuffing, and of course a sewing machine.
This video shows you how to make a decorative bow out of ribbons. Arona Khan shows us how to make an elegant bow to decorate a gift. Make a decorative bow out of ribbons.
In this "Baking With Julia" episode, Julia Child demonstrates how to make decorative loaves of bread. This section of the video shows you how to make the dough. Make decorative loaves of bread.
Looking for a fun project to do with your kids? Try making decorative paper at home with flower petals and bits of recyclable paper. Supplies needed to make paper are 2 identical wooden frames, the cheapest you can find, a piece of screening, duct tape
In this video series, our expert will demonstrate how to make gourd art. She will give instructions on how to create several gourd crafts. She offer tips on how to cut into a gourd, how to clean out the inside of the gourd, and shows you how to decorate gourds through several methods. You'll learn how to draw, paint, and scorch your own unique designs into gourds. Gourds add to the harvest time theme in the Fall.
Kathy Carroll of the Chicago Institute of Fine Finishes and Faux by Kathy demonstrates how to give a decorative distressed look to antique furniture pieces. Distressing is a great way to revive outdated or worn pieces, as well as achieve character and age newer pieces. Antiquing furniture techniques are easy to do and can be done by everyone from veteran decorative artisans to the beginning crafter.
Love roses and complicated craft projects? Make a beautiful decorative paper rose using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This 26-minute free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own roses from folded paper. For more information, and to get started making paper flowers yourself, take a look!
Ladder stitch in hand embroidery can be one of two stitches. There's the surface embroidery technique that creates a decorative band that looks a lot like a ladder, with edges that look like a chain stitch. There's also a drawn thread technique called ladder stitch that produces a ladder-like strip of remaining threads in the design area. The ladder stitch in this video tutorial is the former - the decorative band used in surface embroidery. Watch this video from Needle 'n Thread to see how i...
Tying knots can be fun and a great way to help pass the time. They can be used to decorate a variety of different things. For this video tutorial, you'll be finding out how to tie a dragonfly knot easily. It's a decorative Chinese knot and is one of the more popular ones searched for online. So check out the video above, pay attention, and enjoy!
Cat Morley and her adorable Scottish accent show you how to make a decorative square geisha flower that can be made into a pin or sewn onto clothes or accessories for extra embellishment. For this crafting project, you will need some felt, a square template of paper, a pencil, embroidery thread, normal thread, a needle, a yarn needle, sharp scissors, beads, and a button. Watch this video sewing tutorial and learn how to stitch a pretty felt geisha flower.
Couching is another easy embroidery stitch in hand embroidery, and a great way to create decorative line stitches that scroll and twirl about. It's also widely used for filling areas, and historically was used to great effect during the Middle Ages and Renaissance in a technique called Or Nue. Here's a video from Needle 'n Thread that demonstrates couching a single thread for an outline.
Now that most computers have internal webcams in them, what are you going to do with that external webcam eating up precious desktop space? Kipkay shows you the perfect hack— the "Super SpyScope".
In this tutorial, we learn how to use the rubber stamp technique wet paper watercoloring. This is easy and fast and it will create a water colored background on your cards! First, dip your stamps into the watercolor and then stamp them onto your paper. Either wait for these to dry or dry them with a blow dryer. Once it's dry, go over the image again with the stamps and the watercolor. From here, it will appear more bold and decorative. Then, let this dry and start to decorate with ribbon, gli...