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Thu, August 09, 2007 08:33:26 PMFrom:
CRAFT Newsletter
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Do More with Your Digital Photos
Do More with Your Digital PhotosAugust 9, 2007
In this issue: CRAFT: 04 Crazy for Costumes - On Newsstands Now!, Wine Glass Photo Frames, Make Your Own Coloring Pages from Photos, MOO Sticker Books, Photo Silhouette Tutorial, Make a Photo Journal, Postcard Pillows, and Bleach Digital Photo
Hi Crafters,
It's summer and I know lots of you are having fun snapping up pictures while on vacation or just around town. But once you get the photos downloaded on your computer, what else can you do with them?
In this newsletter, I've compiled some of the best photo projects we've featured to help you create a variety of digital crafts projects, such as making a photo journal to creating your own coloring pages. You'll even learn how to turn your travels into a fun postcard pillow!
Cheers,
Natalie Zee Drieu
Associate Editor, CRAFT Magazine
www.craftzine.com
nat@craftzine.com
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Halloween Fans Beware! MAKE: Halloween Special Issue! MAKE: Halloween, from the editors of MAKE and CRAFT, brings you 40-plus DIY projects for the holiday that’s made for makers. From the craftiest costumes to amazing animated props and the latest in computer-controlled haunted house effects, this special issue will include: headless Marie Antoinette costume, mechanical ghosts and ghouls, LED jack-o'-lanterns, creature makeup and blood-spurting wounds, DIY tombstones, kid-tested haunted house tricks, and a special "Ghoulbox" section with Halloween kits, tools, and gadgets. Plus demonic decorations, hideous party snacks, and profiles of extraordinary makers and their creepy crafts. |
From the CRAFT Blog
CRAFT: 04 Crazy for Costumes - On Newsstands Now!
CRAFT: 04 is our Crazy for Costumes issue, where you'll learn about hula hoop couture, anime dress-up, and how to make a pirate costume for your pooch or a burlesque headdress for yourself. Beyond costumes, we'll show you how to knit a hay twine rug, work with natural dyes, carve your own crochet hooks, build a mod vinyl bench, macrame a suede curtain, create your own fabric designs, start your own craft business, and much more. A total of 29 projects! On newsstands now! Link. To subscribe to CRAFT Magazine and to get access to the Digital Edition, visit our subscription page. - Link.
Wine Glass Photo Frames
Here's a fun idea for your next cocktail party or knitting group meet up, add fun photos to the bottom of a wine glass. No one will ever mix up their glass. If the idea of a fun face starting back at you is too creepy to imagine, you could even use landscape or close up photos of past craft projects! Link.
HOW TO - Make Your Own Coloring Pages from Photos
Here's a great project on how to take your digital photos and turn them into fun coloring pages for your kids. [ via ] Link.
MOO Sticker Books
You love those small little MOO cards, now look at what the folks at MOO are bringing you --- sticker books! Yes that's right you can have cute little stickers of your lovely craft creations or any of your own photos! For just $9.99, they come in a pack of 90, with 6 stickers on each page, and all 90 stickers can have different images. The possibilities are endless! [ via ] Link.
Photo Silhouette Tutorial
Under Construction has a tutorial on how to easy it is to make pretty keepsake photo silhouettes. Link.
HOW TO - Make a Photo Journal
Judy of Five and a Half has a step-by-step tutorial for how to make a journal using your own prints or photographs. this tutorial was recently published in issue 10 of JPG magazine. Link.
Postcard Pillows
Oooh! Look at what the Crafty Chica is making! These cool postcard pillows were made by printing out postcards on inkjet fabric sheets. Link.
Related:
- More Stitched Stories: Embroidered Pillow - Link.
- Inspiration: Tell a Story with Stitched Pillows - Link.
HOW TO - Bleach Digital Photos
Here's a great digital craft project by Amy at Craft Chi where she shows you how you print out your digital photos in B&W and run them over with a bleach pen where you can color it in more to create this illustrated look. Link.
