Marbling is a great technique for creating colourful paper for use as decorative wrapping paper or cardmaking, and following this step by step it’s simple and fun too!

What you’ll need:

Sheets of A4 white paper
Shaving Foam
Food Colouring
A Cat-Litter tray (unused) or Baking Tray (at least 20mm deep)
Small piece of poster board card
Fork or paintbrush

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This beaded star makes a beautiful embellishment to stick onto Christmas cards or gift tags. It could also be sewn onto bags or purses, hung on the christmas tree, or just scattered on the dining table for a beautiful sparkly decoration.

If you’ve not worked with small beads much, it can be a little fiddly […]

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Christmas Pomander’s are a really simple way to make you home look and smell that little bit more seasonal. decoration, not only that but they smell fantastic too!

Making a Christmas Pomander is very easy but can be quite time-consuming! Saying that it’s quite a relaxing way to while away a few hours by the […]

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Safety Pin Bracelet’s are eyecatching, unusual pieces of jewellery that make great gifts or to wear yourself!
 What you’ll need:

Around 50 - 80 Safety Pins
Colourful Seed Beeds
Length of Elastic (around 3/4″ wide)
Pliers
Needle and thread

1:  Take a safety pin, open it and pick up around 5-6 beads onto it, then close it.  Crimp the end with […]

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A Crisp Keyring makes an unusual gift for the friend who has everything!

 
What you’ll need:

An empty crisp packet
Scissors or hole punch
Baking Tray
Oven
Keyring loop

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Hello and welcome to Crafty Inspiration, a great new blog full of ideas, step-by-step guides, useful resources and suggestions for all those who love arts and crafts.
We plan to develop the site into a vast free resource of inspiration for crafters all over the UK and abroad. With projects ranging from beaded jewellery, card […]

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