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[keri80.livejournal.com]

This is the photo I am submitting to the contest. Thank you to everyone that helped me decide.



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Bead and Pendant Suppliers?

[isisabove.livejournal.com]

Wholesale or not what are your favorite online bead suppliers? Besides http://www.firemountaingems.com. I use a lot of size E/6 seed beads and am looking for a wide selection of colors. Im also looking for good deals and wide variety of gemstone beads.

What about pendants? Im looking for more than packages of 2, or bulk discounts. Probably pewter ones, since they are cheaper than silver. I like pagan, occult, celtic designs, crosses but am interested in about any. I am having a hard time getting them in semi-bulk.

And has anyone bought from http://www.rings-things.com/index.html, I know that are wholesale and have a minimum order, but just wondering about their customer service and quality?

Thanks!

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button sizes

[zannah.livejournal.com]

I'm going to buy/order a Tecre button maker later this week. My mom used to have a 3" badge-a-minit automatic button maker when I was a kid and I loved using it. When doing the research to buy my own, I noticed that most people buy the 1" size. I sort of prefer the 1.25" size because it uses the regular pinback and isn't quite as tiny. Is there a reason most people buy the 1"? Or is it just personal preference? Do people look down on the 1.25 inch size?

Thanks in advance!

kittens!

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just a shirt i printed on. some sort of iron on transfer thing, i forget which.

"This is a Happy Little Interrogation Droid"

[bonniegrrl.livejournal.com]

Check out the Bob Ross-style tutorial on how to paint a beautiful Star Wars painting. Artist Matt Busch's shows us in his latest webisode (Ep 6) to promote the You Can Draw Star Wars book how to paint in the opaque style as he channels the late, great '70s artist Bob Ross.

He also shows off his drumming skills. And there's a cameo from R2-D2!
Watch it here: Episode VI

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And if you have no idea who Bob Ross is, check out this video here.

Lamb

[roxy-craft.livejournal.com]

made with mohair and wool handspun yarn from misshawklet

Painting smoothly

[kandikorn.livejournal.com]

I've been using acrylic paints and they just don't want to paint smoothly. They're making lines when they dry. Could it be the brush that I'm using?

It's definitely not the surface, because I've been using them to paint Barbies and I've also been using them to paint shotglasses.

I'm wanting to repaint furniture for Barbies, so on those, I definitely want a smooth result so they look natural. Please let me know any tips you can give me for the surface paint I'm looking for.

Thank you!

Affalog?

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I am wondering of any of you have heard of a digital (possibly paper, too) craft magazine based in China, called AFFALOG? i recieved an e-mail this morning inviting me to participate in the next magazine (and maybe a book?), asking if I would submit a tutorial for some of my coasters and offering me an interview in the magazine.

I've never heard of Affalog so I'm a bit skeptical, but of course there are a billion and one other things in China that I've never heard of. For all I know, its readers could number in the millions.

So I'm just asking if any of you have ever heard of it, and what you would make of a similar opportunity. Should I jump on it? Should I not? I would especially like feedback from those who have contributed to craft books or magazines already (but any and all feedback is greatly appreciated). Is there usually some sort of monetary compensation for your time/effort/contribution? Or is it simply based on goodwill and the promise of increased visibility and "buzz"?

http://www.affalog.com/
http://www.affalog.com/category/magazine/
http://www.affalog.com/category/interview/

coasters in question: these or these.

EDITED: multiple sources agree; it's not so much a hoax as it is a ploy to get my technique so the coasters can be mass-produced in China. which sucks, but i guess it's also sort of flattering. ^_^


obligatory crafty pic:

i made pushpins!

box o' seatbelts

[love-dump-.livejournal.com]

My dad works at Ford's and when he changed plants he brought home a huge ass box of red and black seatbelts. Any ideas on what to do with them? I have SO many and I'm stumbed! Thanks!

Graduation Announcement Decoration

[heatherlayne-n.livejournal.com]

Rather than spend a ridiculous amount of money on a pack of 25 or 50 graduation announcements through my college, I decided to make my own. I only needed twelve, and I already had nice cardstock and envelopes, so I printed them off on my computer.

Now I need to make them more "Heather," but I'm not sure how. Since I only have 12 to do, I could get somewhat involved with each. I'm graduating with a BA in English Writing (that's a 4-year degree for anyone non-American reading this), and I like knitting, sewing, embroidery, and various other crafty-type things like DIY house stuff, collages, etc. as well as reading historical fiction and writing random stories and things. I want the announcements to encompass something more "Heather" than just black text on cream-coloured 5x8 cardstock.

Any thoughts? On hand I have a sad collection of rubber stamps, plenty of coloured pencils, acrylic and watercolour paints, a sewing machine, fabric scraps, felt, buttons and beads (though that'd be difficult to mail), ribbon, decorative-edge-making scissors, a hole punch, embroidery floss, markers, and random other stuff. I want these in the mailbox tomorrow or the next day, so I don't want to do anything that will take forever to dry or something. And I don't want to do any lame clipart in the corners. Does anyone have any ideas of what they've done for their graduation/wedding/shower invitations? Any and all suggestions will be much appreciated, thank you.

T-shirt help!

[to-my-wife.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on transferring this design onto a dark-coloured t-shirt for a friend's birthday:



I thought of using fabric paint first of all, but there are two problems: it'd be a pain to get those fine lines done with a brush and 'normal' fabric paint; whereas the only 'straight from the tube' finer application fabric paints I can find are 3D effect, which would look weird on the solid areas.

I don't want to stencil or screen-print it.

I then thought of resist dying, but I'm vegan so don't want to use beeswax and I don't want to have to buy a lot of equipment just for this one project. I used to use gutta when I did silk painting at school, but I'm not sure if it'd penetrate t-shirt fabric considering it's designed for silk?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I can't seem to think of a good way to do this!

spring butterfly pendants

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I have new face pendants for spring and I love them. It is so fun painting butterflies I love painting with such bright colors!

These measure 2 3/8 inches tall without the bail 3 1/4 inches tall with the bail and wire.

Each face is a hand molded from clay and then painted with a mix of acrylic and metallic paints (the face and hair are in a matte finish and the rest is in a high gloss sealer)

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Eighties Bobble Clutch

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Inspired by this  (Thank you!)

I decided to make my own eighties version

Bobbles and PomPoms!



The black yarn is also glittery!


Lion Brand Micro-spun and Paton's Brilliant held together on an H hook.
I carried it out to dinner tonight and my friend like totally loved it, she decided not to carry her quilted turquoise bag so we wouldn't be twins.

Shot Glasses

[burn-redrum-85.livejournal.com]

I want to decorate shot glasses for my friend's birthday in May, She'll be 21!. Any ideas of paints that would work well or maybe even some designs? Because my mind is... hahah shot. She's really into theater if that helps at all.  Thanks in advance! And I promise I well post pictures of things eventually! I haven't posted since before Christmas!

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