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Author :: Hilery Hixon  |
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| Article Title :: What is a Brayer? |
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A brayer is a roller with a handle. Traditionally speaking,
brayers are used in print making for inking printing blocks. So
how does that translate to scrapbooking? Lots of ways!
If you are using a rubber stamp larger than your ink pad, you
can use the brayer to evenly distribute the ink by rolling the
brayer on the ink pad and then roll the brayer over your stamp.
This is especially useful when your rubber stamp contains fine
details, and as you probably already know, pressing a finely
detailed rubber stamp onto an ink pad usually results in "muddy"
stamped images. Since the inked brayer is rolled gently on the
stamp, the ink does not settle into the grooves, giving you a
more "crisp" sta (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Hilery Hixon |
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| Article Title :: Why Buy Scrapbook Supplies Online? |
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It's Saturday morning and you decide that you want to go to the
craft store to buy some scrapbook supplies for an idea you had
earlier in the week. You get the kids ready and everyone gets in
the car and off you go. You arrive after battling the traffic,
and hearing the kids fight and scream in the backseat the whole
way down, and now you have to find a parking space. Finally you
park the car what seems like 2 miles away from the store,
because everyone else decided to go buy something today too. You
have been in this store a million times yet, this new idea,
involves new supplies that you don't know where to find them.
You have a kid in each hand and you are trying to find someone
to help (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Jennifer Thoden |
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| Article Title :: Five Fantastic Holiday Decorating Ideas |
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It's that time of the year. My favorite time of the year... when
we pull out our greenery, lights, ribbons and wrapping paper!
It's a family time, hopefully a happy time and a nostalgic time.
And I love all of it!
Every year, I celebrate the meer act of decorating my home. And
I wanted to share some of things I plan on doing this year...
and hopefully spark some ideas for yourself.
1. Wreaths aren't just for doors. I hang wreaths
everywhere. On all my windows (facing in)... on any blank wall I
can find... my front door... my porch posts... and small ones on
my staircase. I've even been known to hang a few on my kitchen
cabinets.
I'm talking about plain, simple green wreaths of you (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Catherine Pulsifer |
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| Article Title :: Anti-Stress Bags |
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Know someone who is stressed out? Make them an anti-stress bag.
It will bring a smile to their face and be a reminder that
things are not as bad as they may seem!
They are easy to make! Use small baggies to put the following
items in:
- clothespin
- marble
- penny
- paperclip
- eraser
- elastic
- heart (can be cut out from paper)
- quote card (can be handwritten.) We use the following quote
on our cards: "When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one
question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do
something about the situation. If no, then let it go."
Once you have all the items in the bag seal the bag and attach
a card with the following no (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Lisa Fleming |
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| Article Title :: Scrapbooking Your Christmas Memories |
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Christmas memories are some of our fondest, most heartwarming
ones. So of course we want to preserve them in our scrapbook
albums. However, when the hustle and bustle of the holiday
season is upon us, we may forget to take particular photos or
save certain memorabilia. To help you remember, below is a list
of Christmas memories and keepsakes you'll want to capture in
your scrapbook album.
Cutting Down the Tree For those who get their trees from a tree
farm, cutting down the tree is a favorite Christmas activity.
Take pictures of the tree before, during and after the cutting.
Journal about who picked out the tree, where you got the tree
and what the weather was like that day.
Trimming the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Natalie goyette |
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| Article Title :: Craft show items priced ot sell |
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Pricing your craft show items correctly, and so that you make a
decent profit is paramount if you are going to be successful in
this industry. So how do you make the most money from your craft
show items, and still have them fly off the shelves because they
are a great price. Read on to find out!
In order to at least decide on your initial price structure you
may want to follow a mathematical formula for arriving at the
most favorable retail price:
production costs + overhead costs + selling costs + profit =
best price
Production costs include cost of materials and labor; overhead
costs are rent, utilities, insurance, professional fees; selling
costs may be show fees, traveling costs and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Jake Berlin |
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| Article Title :: Leather Book Binding |
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Not only can you decorate your leather item, leather itself can
be the decoration. Book binding is a great example, which has
recently enjoyed renewed popularity. The way you look at this
project depends on the condition of the book.
You may need to repair the spine and actual page bindings in
order to install a new cover. In any case, this first step would
be to remove the old cover. http://www.philobiblon.com is a site
that has very detailed instructions to walk you through this.
Half of the fun of leather book binding is learning about it.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt0412.html has
information about book binding past, present, and future.
Their information is accurate and in (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Sara Swansson |
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| Article Title :: The Inventor of Oil Paintings |
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In comparison to many other art forms, oil painting is still
considered relatively new. Oil painting is the use of oil in
pigments in order to paint. Oil paintings date back to the
1400's. Before oil painting, paint was mixed with plaster found
in frescoes or egg in tempera paints. The invention of oil
paintings occurred because of a new desire for realism in art.
Jan Van Eyck is the man credited with the invention of oil
painting.
The desire for a more realistic look in art started in early
fifteenth century Europe. Previously, art was very mythological
and decorative, but with the onset of the Renaissance, artists
began to understand concepts and laws behind the ideas of
perspective and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Debbie Luker |
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| Article Title :: Save on Scrapbooking Supplies |
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Ways to save money scrapbooking
Scrapbooking can be
an expensive hobby. From patterned paper, accents,
embellishments, and cardstock, it all adds up. I've been
scrapbooking for about 7 years and at first, I went to all the
fancy specialty scrapbook stores, where things are more
expensive. Over the past several years though, I have found some
great ways to save cash.
The most obvious way to save money is to find a place to shop
that sells discount
scrapbooking supplies. I have found that website stores
actually have lower prices then stores. One example is they
carry the Hermafix
Dotto Glue Refill for $3.99, this is $2.00 less then the two
local scrapbooking
stores. The only down side (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Charles Cruz |
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| Article Title :: Dvd quality movie downloads - Is this for real? |
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By now people are discovering that downloading movies from the
internet is great. It makes the movies you want accessible at
the tip of your fingers.
Having this technology is great, it makes watching movies so
much easier, but the question is, are these movies DVD quality?
Are they living up vrs a DVD?
These are the questions anyone can ask, and it depends on what
quality of the movie your downloading and the file type. For
starters what you want to download is always a Divx Movie. Divx
files are the newest type of files. What they do is they
compress the audio and video and turn a normaly huge file into a
new file that is about one third the size.
When you download a divx movie, it ha (read full article) |
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