Fondant imprint mats are like the rubber stamps of the cake decorating world. Stenciled with various shapes and motifs, fondant imprint mats are used to transfer designs onto a cake, taking the guesswork out of creating symmetrical hearts and other doodles.
In order to create a black, white, and purple nail design, you will need the following: black acrylic paint, a paint brush, purple glitter nail polish, white nail polish, and a shaping tool.
Don't worry, this cobra won't lurch up and, well, kill you. Composed of three different string colors but only revealing two shades, this pattern is a nice way to create a multifaceted friendship bracelet.
Want to design a playing card logo? With Adobe Photoshop, the process is simple. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from the folks at IT Stuff TV. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to generate your own digital playing cards in Photoshop, watch this graphic designer's guide.
ITStaff teaches you how to design casino chips in Adobe Photoshop. You start off with a white or grey circle which will be the chip itself. You need to start decorating this so you create five trapezoids and space them equally from one another. Give them a dark red color. Next you create a red circle in the middle, touching the bases of those trapezoids. Add a crown or a symbol created or from the Custom Shapes menu. You also need to create a value so type in a number and add the dollar sign ...
TheFlowergod teaches you how to design an exotic bride's bouquet for a wedding. You will first need a stand for the flower bouquet, which you can make out of plastic or wood. Place the longer stem flowers inside so you have a working station. For this bouquet you will be working with a few ferns as the base and then flowers with similar colors, like red, yellow, purple. The whole bouquet should say warmth and pleasant weather. Once you are done with the designing, you simply extract the bouqu...
Henry Li from Blue Heron Arts shows how to carve a tiger design stamp onto a pottery seal for use with Chinese seal engraving. This technique shows how a pottery seal can be made without having to use a kiln. You will need a pen, pencil, marker, charcoal, knives, and soapstone. The first thing that needs to be done is to create a design. In this tutorial, Li uses a Hahn Dynasty tiger design, which must be flipped by using the computer. The charcoal is then used to duplicate the image onto the...
Stampin' Up Dawn shows how to use Stampin Up to create original gift card holders and sleeves in this craft tutorial. The tutorial shows how to create the Bashful Blue gift card holder. However, it should be noted that the Certainly Celery card does not utilize the scalloped edge design. The third style, Elegant Eggplant, uses ink #10510 and card stock #105126. You will need a strip of bashful blue card stock cut 4.5" by 7 3/4" scored at 3/4 and 4 1/4. Fold the score lines to create the sleev...
Slap tags, or sticker tags, are faster, and less risky, than freestyle graffiti or stencil tags. You can design your slap tag, and put them up inconspicuously wherever you go. This how-to video shows an easy method for designing your slap tag, and even offers a tip on getting stickers on the cheap.
Check out this video tutorial to learn how to design a photorealistic tree with Blender. To make this tree with Blender, you will be using textures and mesh transparency. To start off, you'll first need to find a picture of a tree and save it as a transparent PGN file.
Take a lesson in architecture from renowned architect Doug Patt by watching this video tutorial. If you want to learn about drawing and designing, without going to school, Doug's just the teacher. Watch to see how to design and draw an architectural cliff house.
What is better than wearing makeup? Cool colors on your nails with funky designs. Watch this Beauty & Style how to video to learn how to apply white flowers with yellow vines on acrylic nails. Everyone is sure to love this unique flower nail design. The nail enamels you will need for the fancy nail look are: hot pink, yellow, white, green, dark purple and glittery nail polish.
Learn how you can apply this funky black and white fingernail art with this manicure tutorial. You will need a base coat, finishing coat, a matte black nail polish, a matte white nail polish and a couple of toothpick. This is a beautiful, unique look for long or short natural nails as well as acrylic nails. Watch this how to video and you will be able to apply this black and white nail design.
Learn how you can apply this beautiful pinkish orange nail polish with gold lines in this two part manicure tutorial. This is a great look for long or short natural nails or acrylic nails. With this how to video you can create this pinkish orange nail art with gold lines.
This is a nail painting video tutorial on how to create a rose design. This black rose design is sure to look fierce at your next nail painting party.
This tutorial video will teach you how to paint nails with a skull and crossbones design that is extremely bad ass. This nail painting design is sure to turn heads.
This tutorial nail painting video will teach you to paint butterflies on fingernails. These nail designs are super cute.
This tutorial video will give you tips on painting your nails with a super cute lavender flower nail design. This nail paint job is adorable.
This funky nail painting tutorial will give you tips on how to paint your nails with a super cute flick design.
This video crafting tutorial shows how to make a scrapbook layout with a simple but attractive design. Great for beginners and those wanting to know more about scrapbooking. Learn how to design a scrapbook layout by watching this instructional video.
Turn your child into a puppy! Well, not really, but try these face painting techniques to create a puppy design.
This is an advanced modular origami design and an amazing looking paper design! The video demonstrates how to fold the six intersecting squares of origami made of modules.
The snare drum comping exercises in this lesson are designed to improve your left-hand control within jazz drumming. All of the patterns are based around the basic jazz pattern, but include unique snare drum patterns designed to challenge your limb-independence.
Perfect for your web 2.0 designs or site, or even another type of interface, this shiny button will add some depth and style to your design. See how to make one in Photoshop in this tutorial.
The Button Flower Quilt pattern was designed in the spirit of the American Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900's. In this episode of Designing by Thread, Terry shows simple techniques for machine applique and strip piecing
Tea Benduhn shows you how to iron on a transfer design to fabric. Great for making t-shirts.
Apple works hard to make things as easy for you as possible and Keynote '08 is not exception. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create presentations with Apple-designed themes.
Designing a sundial for the top of the earth, the North Pole, is easy. Move to another latitude and it becomes more difficult. This video looks at the issues around sundials and latitudes.
Following its dominance as a provider of silicon for smartphones, Qualcomm is eager to replicate that ubiquity with not only processors for augmented reality headsets but also reference designs to give device makers a head start.
In the current state of the augmented reality space, Leap Motion is the only well known name in DIY AR headset kits with its Project North Star design, which gives makers the blueprints to build their own headsets.
If waveguide display maker DigiLens has its way, enterprise businesses and consumers will soon be able to purchase smartglasses for less than $500 — as long as they can supply their own computing and battery power.
After a little more than a year at motion tracking technology maker Leap Motion, Keiichi Matsuda has resigned his position as vice president of design and global creative director, the company announced on Wednesday.
Departing from the long string of entertainment-focused partnerships released in recent weeks and months, a new, enterprise-focused Magic Leap app has finally emerged in the form of Onshape.
Digital imaging company OmniVision Technologies and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) entered the CES fray this week with a new reference design for an augmented reality headset capable of 60 degrees field of view (FoV).
On Tuesday, original design manufacturer (ODM) Flex used the CES spotlight to help introduce a smartglasses reference design aimed at companies interested in bringing their own enterprise AR headsets to market.
Hutch Interiors, Inc., makers of an eponymous augmented reality home design app for iOS and Android, has closed a series A round of funding, led by online real estate company Zillow Group, totaling $10 million.
Snapchat announced today that you can now design geofilters in-app, making it easier than ever to customize your snaps. This new feature incorporates a mobile creative studio, so you no longer have to use your computer to create your custom masterpiece.
Pottery Barn has teamed up with Google to create 3D Room View, a new mobile app to allow all wannabe interior designers (like me) to pick out the perfect couch, table, or whatever, and then overlay it onto a spot in his or her house.
Creating a dress, or any other clothes for that matter, takes quite a bit of design, planning, and manufacturing to get it just right. Fashion designer Jim Reichert put on a HoloLens and saved himself a bunch of time designing a dress through the use of a life-sized holographic woman.
This card looks fabulous and it is so easy to put together, the longest part is cutting the paper, but if you enjoy papercutting then this is just for you, however you could adapt the design and use the full Rope design paper from Anna Griffin to create this beauty. I have used embellishments and paper cut shapes to add to the card front and create something really cool. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial
