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Dingy for Dingbats

February 5, 2008

As pattern makers, we like to collect unique fonts to use in our designs. But often overlooked is the use of dingbats. Dingbats are fonts that have small pictures instead of letters. Sarajane of polyclay.com has a great article about how she uses dingbats in her crafts. She lists some of her favorite dingbats as [...]

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Scroll Saw Art and Art in Wood

February 4, 2008

by Pete Jansen Creating scroll saw art in wood, and scroll saw portraits takes a lot of time and patience on the artist’s part. Each portrait starts out as an idea, and goes through many stages before he, or she can show off the finished product. These stages include, but are not limited to, selection [...]

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Selling Your Intarsia

January 17, 2008

By Jerry Mifflin Our challenge as Crafter’s and intarsia artists is to discover our markets. You need to know your market, who is your customer? Are you selling a product to local or global customers. If you’re selling to local customers say out of a storefront, you must know if you are in the right [...]

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The Business Side of Craft Shows

January 3, 2008

by: Natalie Goyette Starting a craft show business when you’re really an artist at heart may be a rude awakening for you. Nevertheless, if you decide to turn your hobby into a business, you need to switch hats from time to time. You wear your artist hat when creating and producing your crafts, and you [...]

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Intarsia Teddy Bear

December 17, 2007

Now that you made your first teddy bear intarsia, your neighbor’s cousin now wants one. What to do? Well, Wood Magazine can help you out on your next intarsia project. They have provided a great article by Judy Gale Roberts, about getting started in intarsia. The article is free to download and presented in a [...]

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The Different Varieties of Scroll Saw Blades Used for Intricate Cuts

December 13, 2007

by Muna wa Wanjiru A scroll saw is used to generally cut intricate cuts. To help the scroll saw perform these types of cuts you will find the need to have a variety of scroll saw blades. These blades which are available from hardware stores are designed for many different purposes. For this reason you [...]

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