At Magic Lady Crafts we have been having a tidy up and trying to make room for more new stock. Due to this we are having a Craft Magazine sale on Facebook follow the link below to take you straight to the album on facebook.
Craft Magazine "SALE" being held now on Magic Lady Crafts Facebook page.
Magazines: Cross Stitcher, Celebrations in Cross Stitch, Needlework, Cross Stitch Gold, Jill Oxton's Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch Gallery,
Showing posts with label Craft Tutorials and Projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Craft Tutorials and Projects. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 20
Wednesday, July 11
How To Paint on fabric
Painting in fabric is becoming a very popular craft and is used to create many different crafts. For example projects could range from making a greeting card, brightening up that old Tshirt to painting soft furnishing.
You can use fabric paints straight from the bottle and come in a variety of colours and shades. Non transparent colours are great for painting on dark or light fabrics where as transparent colours should only really be used on light fabrics. You can mix colours with ranges. Try the Pearl
When painting fabric it is advisable to lay a sheet of card between the fabric layers to prevent the ink seeping through the fabric and ruining your project. After applying the ink from the pen leave your project to dry for 12 hours before ironing and then iron on the reverse of the fabric for 5minutes
Fabric are washable once fabric paints have been applies but shouldn’t be any hotter that 40C
Thursday, June 14
Online Craft Projects & Tutorials
Here is a list of great tutorials and craft links would take far to long to type them all out so have put a small description under each link to give you some idea of what they are. Please feel free to add any you might have.
A - Z of Craft Tutorials and Projects
Beading, Card Making, Craft Tips, Crochet, Cross Stitch, Embellishments, Embroidery, Floral Crafts, Holiday Crafts, Kids Crafts, Knitting, Needlepoint, Painting, Projects, Quilting, Rubber, Stamping, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Soap Making.
About Dot Com Family Crafts.
How to Decoupage Basic Techniques, Craft Tutorials and projects
Peel Offs
1001 ideas and techniques and projects for using peel offs
A - Z of Craft Tutorials and Projects
Beading, Card Making, Craft Tips, Crochet, Cross Stitch, Embellishments, Embroidery, Floral Crafts, Holiday Crafts, Kids Crafts, Knitting, Needlepoint, Painting, Projects, Quilting, Rubber, Stamping, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Soap Making.
About Dot Com Family Crafts.
How to Decoupage Basic Techniques, Craft Tutorials and projects
Peel Offs
1001 ideas and techniques and projects for using peel offs
Tuesday, May 22
Quilling Tutorial
Found this tutorial on the craftbits website thought I would share If you follow the link you can make your own card and find other quilling projects
Tight Coil :
Slip the end of the quilling paper strip into the slotted tool just enough to catch the paper and roll the paper around the tool, being sure to keep the paper in alignment as you roll. Using a toothpick, place a small dab of glue at the end of the strip, glue to the roll, and hold until set. Remove the tool.
Teardrop:
Roll a strip into a tight coil; remove the tool and allow the roll to uncoil to the desired size. Glue the loose end to the coil. Place the coil between your index finger and thumb with the glued end pointing toward your hand. Pinch the glued end into a point, allowing the opposite side to remain round.Slip the end of the quilling paper strip into the slotted tool just enough to catch the paper and roll the paper around the tool, being sure to keep the paper in alignment as you roll. Using a toothpick, place a small dab of glue at the end of the strip, glue to the roll, and hold until set. Remove the tool.
Marquise : Make teardrop, then flip the coil and pinch the opposite end into a point leaving the paper round and loose in the center.
V-Scroll : Fold your strip of paper in half. Loosely roll each end outward to form a “V” shape. Do not glue.Thursday, May 10
Beading Projects and Tutorials
This section has Bead projects and tutorials please add any you may have to this section.
This is a great project also on this page are some great links to other bead projects and tutorials.
Beading Project: Embellished Jeans Jacket Pocket by Amy Clarke Moore and Robin Atkins, From Their Book Beaded Embellishment, Published by Interweave Press
This is a great project also on this page are some great links to other bead projects and tutorials.
Beading Project: Embellished Jeans Jacket Pocket by Amy Clarke Moore and Robin Atkins, From Their Book Beaded Embellishment, Published by Interweave Press
Monday May 26, 2008
For all your craft supplies visit Magic Lady Supplies
For all your craft supplies visit Magic Lady Supplies
Tuesday, April 17
Links: Free Patterns, Craft Projects, Wedding Ideas
Here are some great links to free pattern sites and craft projects. I add to this often if you have any to add please email me sandie@magicladycrafts.co.uk the link and I will add it for you.
Free Embroidery Designs
Follow this link and find some great craft projects with step by step videos to watch
Click here for all your craft supplies
Free Plastic Canvas Patterns
Free Plastic Canvas Canvas Projects & Tutorials
Crafts, cake baking, weddings, home decorating and lots more
Wedding Themes, favours, gifts
Free Embroidery Designs
Follow this link and find some great craft projects with step by step videos to watch
Click here for all your craft supplies
Free Plastic Canvas Patterns
Free Plastic Canvas Canvas Projects & Tutorials
Crafts, cake baking, weddings, home decorating and lots more
Wedding Themes, favours, gifts
Tutorials and Projects
Follow the link below and find some great craft projects & tutorials with step by step videos to watch
Online Craft Tutorials and Projects
Online Craft Tutorials and Projects
When you have found a project to do follow the link below to find your one stop shop for craft supplies. You will find all craft needs for all ages just follow the link
Click here for all your craft supplies
Click here for all your craft supplies
Tuesday, April 10
Ideas for using Peel Offs
Peel offs are readily available and are great for enhancing your cards and scrapbooks.. Peel offs have improved over the years and now come in many colours, holographic effect, transparent effect, velvet effect, double embossed, matt finish, gloss finish, glitter effect, 3d Medallion style and so on. Peel off stickers cover every occasion, sentiment, design, season, event and greeting imaginable.
Here are just a few ways of using peel offs
The most obvious way to use the stickers is to just peel the design of your choice and to apply it straight onto the paper or card of your choice. But this does produce a rather flat designs.
You can make great embellishments with peel offs. Just apply your choice of peel of onto a piece of card then cut out the design leaving a small border round the edge. You can now use this as an embellishment by using a foam pad to create a 3D effect. You could try this using vellum making butterflies, flowers and dragonflies. Using gel pens or maker pens can creates a great effect,
Using chalks is great for creating backgrounds, try practicing with a simple design first. Place the peel off on a piece of white card. Using a cotton wool ball pick up some crafters chalk and apply over the peel of in a dabbing motion allowing the chalk to go over the edges of the design, keep repeating this process over the card to create your background design. When finished to stop the chalk rubbing of spray with hairspray or a fixative.
Using peel offs acetate can give a great stained glass effect. Place the peel off onto the acetate and colour with the glass paints. The colored acetate can be trimmed and used in lots of ways. This idea works will with aperture cards, using the aperture as a frame for the stained glass design.
Put you peel off in place then using PVA glue you can colour with glitter, fine coloured sand or accent beads. Just add the glue then sprinkle any of above over the peel off.
For all your craft supplies visit Magic Lady Crafts
Here are just a few ways of using peel offs
The most obvious way to use the stickers is to just peel the design of your choice and to apply it straight onto the paper or card of your choice. But this does produce a rather flat designs.
You can make great embellishments with peel offs. Just apply your choice of peel of onto a piece of card then cut out the design leaving a small border round the edge. You can now use this as an embellishment by using a foam pad to create a 3D effect. You could try this using vellum making butterflies, flowers and dragonflies. Using gel pens or maker pens can creates a great effect,
Using chalks is great for creating backgrounds, try practicing with a simple design first. Place the peel off on a piece of white card. Using a cotton wool ball pick up some crafters chalk and apply over the peel of in a dabbing motion allowing the chalk to go over the edges of the design, keep repeating this process over the card to create your background design. When finished to stop the chalk rubbing of spray with hairspray or a fixative.
Using peel offs acetate can give a great stained glass effect. Place the peel off onto the acetate and colour with the glass paints. The colored acetate can be trimmed and used in lots of ways. This idea works will with aperture cards, using the aperture as a frame for the stained glass design.
Put you peel off in place then using PVA glue you can colour with glitter, fine coloured sand or accent beads. Just add the glue then sprinkle any of above over the peel off.
For all your craft supplies visit Magic Lady Crafts
Friday, April 6
Making your own cards
Found these brilliant tutorials for making your own cards using plain and apeture cards inks and marker pens stickers stamps and lots more have a look on Magic Lady Crafts for all your craft supplies
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Friday, March 23
Online Craft Projects & Tutorials
Here is a list of great tutorials and craft links would take far to long to type them all out so have put a small description under each link to give you some idea of what they are.If you have any tutorials or projects that you would like to showcase please feel free to Email Me! and I will add them to the list
A - Z of Craft Tutorials and Projects
Beading, Card Making, Craft Tips, Crochet, Cross Stitch, Embellishments, Embroidery, Floral Crafts, Holiday Crafts, Kids Crafts, Knitting, Needlepoint, Painting, Projects, Quilting, Rubber, Stamping, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Soap Making.
About Dot Com Family Crafts.
How to Decoupage Basic Techniques, Craft Tutorials and projects
Peel Offs
1001 ideas and techniques and projects for using peel offs
A - Z of Craft Tutorials and Projects
Beading, Card Making, Craft Tips, Crochet, Cross Stitch, Embellishments, Embroidery, Floral Crafts, Holiday Crafts, Kids Crafts, Knitting, Needlepoint, Painting, Projects, Quilting, Rubber, Stamping, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Soap Making.
About Dot Com Family Crafts.
How to Decoupage Basic Techniques, Craft Tutorials and projects
Peel Offs
1001 ideas and techniques and projects for using peel offs
Tuesday, March 13
How to use Plastic Canvas
What is Plastic canvas?
Plastic Canvas is a fantastic idea. By stitching yarn into patterns on the plastic canvas sheets, and then whipstitching the sheets together, you can make warm, colourful, and practical objects: from plantpots to jewellery boxes, drinks coasters to mobile phone holders.
Plastic canvas has rapidly grown into a well-known and much-loved form of needlecrafting. It's a simple technique that lends itself perfectly for introducing pre-teens and beginners to the joy of creating something with their hands and imagination. This often leads to the desire to learn other crafts, such as embroidery, crochet, and so forth.
A lifetime of stitching tantalizing home decor and personalized accessories are yours for the making, not only for yourself, but for friends and family. Once you pick up a needle and a piece of plastic canvas, it will soon become a constant companion.
Tip: Always bring needle up through the canvas at odd numbers and take it back down through the canvas at the even numbers.
Basic Stitches
How to count or identify stitches:
Each stitch is made over the plastic where the lines of plastic cross each other (over the +). When you are counting the stitches in our patterns, count each line of plastic as one stitch except for the first outside plastic line.
How to Stitch:
To make a stitch, bring your needle up through the hole to the left and bottom of the +.
Then send your needle back down through the hole to the right and top of the +.
How to Stitch Cont.
Continue stitches in this manner, working from left to right until you reach the end of your row.
Next, move down to the next row and make your stitches in the same direction, only this time, stitch your row from right to left.
To Start Working a Color:
To start, bring your needle and thread up through the first hole until there is only about 1/2" of thread left under the plastic canvas. Hold that "tail" of thread under the canvas in the direction that you will be stitching. As you stitch the first few stitches, make sure to catch the "tail" of thread in the underside stitches.
To End Working a Color:
To finish with a color or piece of thread simply flip your canvas over to see the wrong side of the project and send your needle under several underside stitches. Cut yarn off.
Working with the Patterns:
To follow the patterns, stitch the object first, then stitch the background color last.
Count the stitches on the pattern to find out where your start location should be. Then count on the plastic canvas to find you start location.
Our patterns show the stitches in the actual colors for all objects. Fill in all background with the color shown on the outline stitches of the pattern.
Click Here for some great plastic canvas projects
For all your craft supplies visit Magic Lady Crafts
Plastic Canvas is a fantastic idea. By stitching yarn into patterns on the plastic canvas sheets, and then whipstitching the sheets together, you can make warm, colourful, and practical objects: from plantpots to jewellery boxes, drinks coasters to mobile phone holders.
Plastic canvas has rapidly grown into a well-known and much-loved form of needlecrafting. It's a simple technique that lends itself perfectly for introducing pre-teens and beginners to the joy of creating something with their hands and imagination. This often leads to the desire to learn other crafts, such as embroidery, crochet, and so forth.
A lifetime of stitching tantalizing home decor and personalized accessories are yours for the making, not only for yourself, but for friends and family. Once you pick up a needle and a piece of plastic canvas, it will soon become a constant companion.
Tip: Always bring needle up through the canvas at odd numbers and take it back down through the canvas at the even numbers.
Basic Stitches
How to count or identify stitches:
Each stitch is made over the plastic where the lines of plastic cross each other (over the +). When you are counting the stitches in our patterns, count each line of plastic as one stitch except for the first outside plastic line.
How to Stitch:
To make a stitch, bring your needle up through the hole to the left and bottom of the +.
Then send your needle back down through the hole to the right and top of the +.
How to Stitch Cont.
Continue stitches in this manner, working from left to right until you reach the end of your row.
Next, move down to the next row and make your stitches in the same direction, only this time, stitch your row from right to left.
To Start Working a Color:
To start, bring your needle and thread up through the first hole until there is only about 1/2" of thread left under the plastic canvas. Hold that "tail" of thread under the canvas in the direction that you will be stitching. As you stitch the first few stitches, make sure to catch the "tail" of thread in the underside stitches.
To End Working a Color:
To finish with a color or piece of thread simply flip your canvas over to see the wrong side of the project and send your needle under several underside stitches. Cut yarn off.
Working with the Patterns:
To follow the patterns, stitch the object first, then stitch the background color last.
Count the stitches on the pattern to find out where your start location should be. Then count on the plastic canvas to find you start location.
Our patterns show the stitches in the actual colors for all objects. Fill in all background with the color shown on the outline stitches of the pattern.
Click Here for some great plastic canvas projects
For all your craft supplies visit Magic Lady Crafts
Wednesday, March 7
How To Latch Hook
Found this great videos on You Tube thought they are great tutorial for those who havn't latch hooked before.
Wednesday, January 18
Card Making Tutorial
Use good quality glue or double sided sticky tape
Use sticky pads to add layers
To fray handmade papers cut to size first. Wet edges of the paper with water and leave for a min. Hold paper near to the edge and with your thumb and index finger very carefully tease the edge fibres avey using the thumb and index finger of the other hand. Lay flat to dry. When dry the paper will look slightly crinkled but when stuck on card will lay flat.
To create a great and fantastic card use different types of decorative scissors
When starting out it can be a minefield of what do I buy first so I have stated a few basics that are needed in any card makers craft box.
You can never have to many scissors. A good place to start is a pair of kitchen scissors for general cutting. A small fine precision pair of scissors is best for more detailed work.
A guilotine is a must if for cutting those straight lines. These are widely available and are really light weight.
Ideal for creating your own card blanks and acheiving clean sharp folded creases is a score boards and bone foleder. You can also create envelopes with these boards.
A tacky or pva glue , foam pads or tape and double sided tape are a must for any card crafter. Tweezers are perfect for using peel offs, stickers and small embellishments.
A pencil and a ruler for measuring and drawing templates.
A cutting mat is ideal for protectin your work surface a self healing mat is best as it will last for ages. There are many differnt types of craft knives available but which ever one you choose make sure you can change the blades and it will last you a long time.
For al your craft supplies please visit Magic Lady Crafts
Use sticky pads to add layers
To fray handmade papers cut to size first. Wet edges of the paper with water and leave for a min. Hold paper near to the edge and with your thumb and index finger very carefully tease the edge fibres avey using the thumb and index finger of the other hand. Lay flat to dry. When dry the paper will look slightly crinkled but when stuck on card will lay flat.
To create a great and fantastic card use different types of decorative scissors
When starting out it can be a minefield of what do I buy first so I have stated a few basics that are needed in any card makers craft box.
You can never have to many scissors. A good place to start is a pair of kitchen scissors for general cutting. A small fine precision pair of scissors is best for more detailed work.
A guilotine is a must if for cutting those straight lines. These are widely available and are really light weight.
Ideal for creating your own card blanks and acheiving clean sharp folded creases is a score boards and bone foleder. You can also create envelopes with these boards.
A tacky or pva glue , foam pads or tape and double sided tape are a must for any card crafter. Tweezers are perfect for using peel offs, stickers and small embellishments.
A pencil and a ruler for measuring and drawing templates.
A cutting mat is ideal for protectin your work surface a self healing mat is best as it will last for ages. There are many differnt types of craft knives available but which ever one you choose make sure you can change the blades and it will last you a long time.
For al your craft supplies please visit Magic Lady Crafts
Sunday, August 28
Making a wire embellishment for your cards
Adding a wire embellishment to your cards can give it that bit of sparkle just follow the easy instructions below to find out how to do:
You will need the following items:
Thin wire
Wire cutter/old scissors
Card in the making
Adhesive
Scrap paper
Pencil
First you need to decide what you want to make, you can create flowers, shapes, words or just lines to create a dimension across your card.
If you want to create words or shapes you will need to draw a description on a scrap of paper, try to keep your corners rounded as this makes it easier to shape the wire. Now bend the wire around your picture leaving wire on the reel until you have got the shape you require. When you have achieved the shape you require cut the wire from the reel leaving a little left over at the ends to use for securing to the card.
To apply the wire to the card you can wrap the left over ends with a piece of paper and use this section to stick to the card. Or you could also use a small dot of glue. You could also secure with a bow using glue again to secure it to the card.
You will need the following items:
Thin wire
Wire cutter/old scissors
Card in the making
Adhesive
Scrap paper
Pencil
First you need to decide what you want to make, you can create flowers, shapes, words or just lines to create a dimension across your card.
If you want to create words or shapes you will need to draw a description on a scrap of paper, try to keep your corners rounded as this makes it easier to shape the wire. Now bend the wire around your picture leaving wire on the reel until you have got the shape you require. When you have achieved the shape you require cut the wire from the reel leaving a little left over at the ends to use for securing to the card.
To apply the wire to the card you can wrap the left over ends with a piece of paper and use this section to stick to the card. Or you could also use a small dot of glue. You could also secure with a bow using glue again to secure it to the card.
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