Tracy Hepler and Jaclyn Mullen of YDT TV demonstrate how to gift-wrap your presents in an environmentally conscious way. You will need: newspapers, scissors, tape, and lace or ribbon. Use a daily newspaper page instead of wrapping paper. A lot of paper is usually wasted around the holidays, and recycling newspapers is a great way to minimize this waste. Cut the newspaper to fit the size of your gift and place your gift in the middle of the sheet, as you normally would with ordinary wrapping p...
Try out this old school street hustler card trick. See if you can find where the queen is hiding, then see if you can perform the trick. It's a truly amazing card trick that will impress anyone, or enrage anyone (if money is involved). This hustling trick is known as the "three-card monte".
What else can you do with a deck of cards besides play games? Magic! There's nothing better for a magician's repertoire than a few great card tricks, so make sure you watch this video tutorial on how to perform the "year game" magic card trick. This is a lengthy trick, but it's sure to amaze and baffle anyone. To do this year game card trick, a little mathematics goes a long way, so don't fall asleep in math class.
Learn how to perform the Scissor Cat Display with cute, female magician Baby Cat. First, Baby Cat demonstrates the methods & then goes into the display. Watch carefully, and with practice you will be able to perform the Scissor Cat Display card flourish trick as well as your instructor. Card flourish is a term magicians use for the skill & technique of card handling. No magic is performed, card flourishes just amaze and display the dexterity of a magician's hands.
We know that Father's Day seems ions away, but spring is approaching swiftly (we see the snow melting outside already) and the occasion will be here sooner than you think! Get ready for Father's Day by folding this simple origami shirt complete with a tie.
This is a fun and festive craft you can use to dress up your home or give away as a gift. All you will need are some of your favorite vintage graphics, your chosen cardboard box, a craft knife and a hot glue gun.
Before you know it, old Saint Nick's reindeer will be tapping on top of your roof and a Salvation Army bell ringer, festooned with a Santa Hat, will be around every corner. That's right, guys and gals, Christmastime is almost at our front door, which means you should get prepared for all the holiday gifting.
One of the great things about paying social networking games like FrontierVille is that you and your friends can help eachother win. This video will you show you how to give and accept gifts with your friends and neighbors in FrontierVille, allowing both of you to achieve much more than you could have alone.
Using strings to tie little brown packages is SO Julie Andrews circa "The Sound of Music" era. Get in touch with the fun experimental quality of modern gift wrapping by watching this beginner origami tutorial.
A memorable and well thought out Father's Day present doesn't have to be expensive or outrageous. In fact, some of the most cherished gifts are handmade, espeically when it comes to gifts that feature warm family photographs.
The music store lets you give the gift of music. Just go to an album you'd like to give someone, click "Gift this music," and complete the next forms.
With over 10000 cards available, the number of Magic: The Gatherings card combos you could devise is practically infinite. If you're looking for a few really devastating ones though, watch this video for a guide to 13 card combos across all colors that will make you deck the envy of you friends.
Enhance your visual skills and demonstrate your manual dexterity as a magician by incorporating the "RockIt" card fluorish by Ayres into your repertoire. Playing card fluorishes are typically performed as part of larger magic performances and can also be shown on their own as individual exhibitions of skill.
This is a fun trick to perform on your friends, anywhere. First, explain to your buddies that your deck of cards is special and acts just like an ATM. They'll naturally be confused and ask you to prove it. That is when you take a low number card from your deck, swipe it, and turn it into a card worth twice as much!
Aspiring card shark? Sink your pearly whites into this easy, impressive illusion. In this free video magic lesson from YouTube user experthowto, you'll learn how to perform the "slap it" card trick using simple sleight of hand. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the trick, watch this prestidigitator's guide.
Card lovers, street performers, magicians: Put a new trick in your bag of tricks with help from this tutorial. In this video, learn how to perform a color blind card trick sure to please any audience!
In this video from FusionNW, Paige Walker from The Container Store gives us some gift wrapping tips. A lot of people have trouble wrapping presents with wrapping paper. Here we learn how to make it simple, with your gift-wrapped presents looking like they were professionally wrapped. Remember: A gift that's wrapped in a very special way is just as special as the gift itself! One thing that's important is that you measure the wrapping paper right, and this is demonstrated for us. You'll want t...
Here is a quick tutorial for a basic Elmsley count sleight. It's used in a lot of card tricks and effects. This is a great tutorial for new card magicians. It's an easy sleight to perform and it can be very convincing. Enjoy!
The multiple award-winning card game Sixteen is packed with head-to-head action. If you can you count to 16 and take calculated risks, then you can force your opponent to bust. But play your cards defensively at the right time or the tables will turn! Win the most sets and you'll win the game. It sounds simple (and it is), but Sixteen's unique strategy and cribbage-like counting will hold the attention of even the most seasoned game players.
This is a cool optical illusion that makes your business card appear to be blank on both sides but then you print color onto it with your hand. A magical way to hand out your business card.
A great card trick knows as the ESP trick. Called by some "the greatest not rigged card trick."
Perform a card change trick in which you change one card into another. This trick does not use any double lifts.
Learn how to pick the right card in this magic card street trick.
Wayne Phelps gives a brief yet descriptive tutorial on how to master the pulse control card trick. Perfect for both the experienced magician and those who just want to know a simple card trick.
I had my wallet stolen a few months ago, and I knew I would never see it again. My biggest gripe was not the credit cards in there, since they're easily cancelled, but the gift cards. I had some pretty good gift cards in there, and there's no way to get those back.
Homopolar motors tend to be typecast as simplistic in nature, and that's true for the most part. The bare minimum requirements are a battery, conductor, and magnetic field, but when it comes to Valentine's Day, they're nothing short of complex.
This bloke has very strong opinions about the different types of Elemental Hero (e-hero) decks in Yu-Gi-Oh! the card game. In this video he breaks down why his e-hero deck and e-hero philosophy in general are superior to others and why Elemental Recharge is a crappy card.
If you're bored of plain old Magic: The Gathering and want to play a new, easy-to-learn, and awesome variation of the game? This video will teach you how to build a deck for playing Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH), a 100-card version of Magic where no card can be repeated except lands and some other rules have been awesomely changed. Check out this video for a guide to actually playing the game.
Elder Dragon Highlander is one of the more imaginative and fun Magic: The Gathering variations, played with 100-card decks in which no card can be repeated and free Legend creatures for all players. This video will teach you how to play it, but not how to build a deck. You need to check out it's companion video for that.
Aspiring card shark? Sink your pearly whites into this easy, impressive illusion. In this free video magic lesson, you'll learn how to perform the "Flip the Winning Hand" using sleight of hand. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of this no-gimmick trick, watch this prestidigitator's guide.
Debel1800 shows viewers how to throw a fabulous baby shower! You definitely want to do fun decor, such as standard plates and great decor for the tables such as floral and jars. You can also use these decor for after wards as a gift! You can also use pinatas for decor and fun. Make sure you keep everything cohesive. The best punch to use is punch made with lime green sherbet and add ginger ale or sprite and it's fizzy and yummy. Games to play can also be neutral that everyone there can play. ...
A tutorial how to manipulate a normal playing card! This type of manipulation is called back palming.
In this video, we learn how to count cards in Blackjack. In blackjack, the cards 2-6 are counted as plus one. Seven through nine are counted as plus 0 and the rest are counted as plus zero. What this means, is if you have two cards, they can cancel each other out depending on what "plus" they are. The counts that are minus one will give the edge to the casino, not to you. You want the edge to be a plus, because this means there are higher cards that are in the deck. Simply look at the counts ...
This is a video tutorial in the Magic & Parlor Tricks category where you are going to learn how to do card trick: "Emerge Triumphant". Have the deck of cards completely in the standard form in which it comes. The sequence is spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. The trick is keeping the deck in the order it comes, do straight cuts, swivel cuts, one handed cuts and false riffle shuffle. It shows riffling, shuffling and cutting the deck. But, when you expose the deck, it is still in the same orde...
This is a card trick that you can make some money on. First you start with 2 decks of cards. The decks are organized hearts, spades, diamonds, then, clubs. Ace through king on each suit. To set up this trick you reverse one of the decks. So one deck is hearts, spades diamonds, and clubs and the other deck is club, diamonds, spades and hearts with king to ace.To start the trick you have a friend shuffle the two decks together. You then make a bet that the top 52 cards will make a full deck. Ac...
Want a card trick to amaze and wow your friends? With just a normal deck of cards, you can fool and fascinate your friends by just following this video. First of all, go through your deck and grab 12 diamonds, 6 clubs, 3 hearts and 2 spades. Now hand these cards to your friend and have them shuffle and mix them up. With probability, the chance of a diamond showing up is over 50 percent. So all you have to do is predict that the card on the top of the deck is a diamond. More than half the time...
This is a short video that should appeal to any magic trick enthusiast. The video is done by Tim Clark of Tim Clarks Magic Tricks and show cases a simple card trick he calls the "Beginner Math Prediction Card Trick." The trick is focused on counting out the deck in front of the spectator(s) and remembering the 34th card, without letting your audience know that you are memorizing it. As the title suggests, you end up predicting the card that you memorized earlier, and your audience is left thi...
If you've ever seen David Blaine or Criss Angel, there's a good chance you've seen this card trick performed at least once. It's a very common trick, and yet the effect still blows people away.
Learn how to do the sandwiched aces card trick, where the spectator's card appears in between two red aces when thought to be in between black ones.
A tutorial for the Sandwich Card magic trick.
