Art & Craft

Turn your Craft into a Business

I’ve talked to you before about Yaro Starak (of Blog Mastermind fame). Well, now Yaro is teaching how to set up a membership site just like the Blog Mastermind teaching program so you can turn your own passion into a business. This is something that many people in the craft world dream of. Being able [...]

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Craft Survey

After writing my article last week about Doreen’s web site Rivendell Studios, and painting my face green with envy over her multitude of talents, I became curious about how many Scraps of Mind readers are ‘Multi-Crafters’. In the past I have played with several crafts like embroidery, needlepoint and cross-stitch before discovering my love for [...]

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Rivendell Studios – fantasy in craft

I love fantasy art. And I love the many forms it can take. I have talked to you previously about my friend Doreen and her incredible talent and I’ve shown you some examples of it. Well now she’s set up her own fantastic web site called Rivendell Studios to showcase all the amazing things she [...]

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Free Halloween Tips and Ideas

Well Halloween is almost upon us. And although it’s not really a big deal here in Australia, I know it’s a major Holiday Event in many other parts of the World. And I figure that many of you are in planning and preparation mode for it right now. So I had the notion to gather [...]

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The Fascination of Altered Books

I have been fascinated by Altered Books ever since I first read a series of articles by Tracey Kazimir in Scrapbooking.com over two years ago. I printed out each article in the series, so I would have all the information, skills and techniques at my fingertips ready to start my own creation. I bought a [...]

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500 Years of Women in Art

I came across the fantastic video on You-Tube that I just had to share with you. Apart from the fantastic morphing of the images, it’s a beautiful fluid piece of art in itself. Grab yourself a cuppa, sit back and turn your speakers on and enjoy a three minute journey through women in Western art [...]

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How to Make a Secret Compartment in a Book

Here’s a cool way to make a gift box. Turn an old (not valuable) book into a box! And it’s not a bad place to hide secret stuff too. Sit it on your book shelf amongst your other books and the burglars will never know Great Aunty Beryl’s pearls are stashed inside. Check out the [...]

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Meme: Passion Quilt

I don’t really do meme’s much these days but this one’s a bit different and a bit special. Long time Scraps of Mind Reader, Family Matriarch extraordinnaire, insightful and intelligent woman and creative digital scrapbooker Tink, has tagged me for this meme: A PASSION QUILT THE RULES: 1. Post a picture or make/take/create your own [...]

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Unbelievable Paper Art!

OK here’s the deal. You’re given a single sheet of A4 paper and a scalpel. Now go make a piece of three dimensional art!

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Packing Tape Art

We’ve all seen those pictures made out of type. You know, the ones composed of symbols and letters typed on a keyboard and when you step back a bit they form a picture. And we’ve seen the more sophisticated pictures composed of other smaller images mosaiced (is that a word?) together. Well take a look [...]

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