Tag Archive: crafting

Dec 21

Tiling Techniques for Background Creation in the GIMP

Making a background paper with GIMP

(remember most images in the tutorial can be clicked on to make them larger) For most of the functions that you can access from the menu in Gimp there are usually Hot-key short-cuts to the same function which are shown in the menu and which, when you get used to remembering them, can save you …

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Dec 12

Craft Shopping

Craft CDs

Shopping on the Internet can be quite fun and often quite financially rewarding. You can look around many more sites quicker (and warmer) than you could shops and therefore compare a lot more prices. Internet companies (or companies with an internet site) also seem to have more special offers, often Internet only. This is probably …

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Dec 03

Starting a Blog

blogger

Blogger isn’t the only free blog site out there but it is by far the most popular. Take a look on it and you will find 1,000 of crafters displaying their creations, showing different techniques and discussing all aspects of crafting. Blogging has become popular because it is a fairly simple way of creating your …

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Nov 28

Craft Forums

Craft Forums

Many crafters find help in different ways by using one or more of the multitude of Craft Forums which are on the Net. Help can be advice with sourcing materials, learning a new technique, sharing ideas, finding a craft fair and much much more.  In fact there are so many forums available your problem may …

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Nov 19

Choosing a Graphics Programme

Choosing the correct graphics programme can be very important especially if you intend to do a lot of work on it. A good programme with help you create designs, alter photos (for publicity) and even do mock-ups of possible projects. I like to use a graphics programme which can use layers. As I do quite …

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