Craft Test Dummies

Quick and Easy Gift- Altered Notepad

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Jenny.

Jenny shares an altered notebook craft from Craft Cafe, perfect for Mothers Day.

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Festive Halloween Juice Box Sleeves,

Posted on 17. Oct, 2008 by Jenny.

I came with this project all by my little old self. I signed up for the class parties at my second-graders school, and to keep life simple, I’m bringing the juice boxes for all of the class parties. Only later did I realize what a BORING thing that was, and had to come up with [...]

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More Paper Bead Craftiness

Posted on 16. Jan, 2008 by Jenny.

I’m teaching the paper-bead making class at both Grand River Beads and Stamplistic, so I thought I should work up some more paper bead jewelry ideas. Got simmering in my Somerset juices, and came up with this:

Paper Bead Angel Pin
 
I wired up some sheet music beads (you can even see lyrics on some of [...]

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Show-and-Tell: My paper beads!

Posted on 07. Jan, 2008 by Jenny.

I’d rolled a few paper beads a week or so ago, using up some 2-sided scrapbook paper. I jazzed them up a bit by adding a glitter glaze to them. Well, after checking out the links from yesterday, I spend the better part of baby girl’s naptime a-gluing and a-rolling. I even used some sheet [...]

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Craft Projects: Paper Beads…

Posted on 07. Jan, 2008 by Jenny.

Since I got all fired up over the paper beads bangle I saw in Crafts: Transforming Traditional Crafts, I thought I’d give y’all some fun links for paper beads and paper bead jewelry. Yup, this is the craft we all did at camp as kids- but really, aren’t we just kids at heart? So if [...]

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