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Homemade Gift-Wrapping Paper
DIYnet — Make your own gift-wrapping paper from kraft paper painted with dye. Vicki Payne, host of DIY Crafts, makes wrapping paper quickly and easily by painting dye onto kraft paper. Use a paintbrush to paint designs onto kraft paper. Let the dye dry ...More…
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Handmade Stationery
DIYnet — Papermaking expert and author Arnold Grummer explains the basics of papermaking, using a screen mold and paper pulp. He adds a flower-petal border to the top to create customized stationery. Arnold Grummer's Papermill Complete Papermaking Kit® ...More…
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Scrap-Paper Collage
DIYnet — Use your imagination and scraps of paper to design collage pictures. Vicki Payne, host of DIY Crafts, combines a variety of handmade papers, cutouts from magazines and poems from an old book to create decorative collages. Variety of images from ...More…
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Marbleizing Paper
DIYnet — Linda Hebert--artist, author and teacher with Decart Inc.--demonstrates the art of marbleizing paper, which originated in 17th-century Japan, then spread to Europe. Linda explains how to marbleize paper and gives examples of other uses of the ...More…
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Paste Paper
DIYnet — Place 1 cup room-temperature water and 1 cup cornstarch in a small saucepan. Let the cornstarch dissolve in the water. Heat slowly. Gradually add 3 more cups of water, and continue heating. Boil for 2 to 3 minutes while stirring constantly. Let ...More…
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Making a Paper Screen
DIYnet — Mary Lyon, host of DIY Crafts, explains how to make a screen frame to be used for paper making. Then she tries her hand at making a sheet of paper. If using a wood picture frame, measure a piece of window screen a little larger than the opening ...More…
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Pressed-Cotton Cards and Gift Tags
DIYnet — Make unique gift tags from pressed cotton shaped in terra-cotta cookie molds. Debbie Stapley, host of Crafts & Company, adds gift tags with just the right message to complete the look of a package. She explains how to mold unique gift tags using ...More…
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Papermaking
DIYnet — This elegant handmade paper was created from recycled catalogs. Cookie molds and stamps are used to create decorative paper castings. Lazich uses watercolor markers, rubber stamps, liquid applique and embossing powder to embellish her paper ...More…
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Cast Paper
DIYnet — Pine needles were used to create this interesting look.< < < Craft expert Jean Kievlan shows how easy it is to make paper at home and explains two basic methods: cast paper and flat paper. Because you can add almost anything to the basic mix, the ...More…
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Paper-Sculpture Masks
DIYnet — Every Halloween brings with it that eternal search for a look that won't break your pocketbook. Paper sculptor Kathleen Ziegler, the author of More Paper Sculpture: A Step-by-Step Guide (Northern Lights Books, 1997), makes a Venetian-inspired ...More…
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Paper Fish Sculpture
DIYnet — Sketch a design indicating where the raised paper pieces will be. Begin with a snapshot (which can be enlarged at a copy center if it's too small), and make a sketch of the photo by tracing over the person's features. Make several photocopies of . ...More…
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Wire Place Card Holders
DIYnet — With the wire cutters snip off one section of the circled wire that makes up the bottom of the wire top ( Fashion a chair back with the wire. There is much room to get creative here, but make sure to leave an ample length of wire on the bottom ...More…