Glass Jar Frames
Turn bottles or jars into nifty glass jar frames in this tutorial by Photojojo.
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Flashback: Crafty Fabric Masterpiece
CRAFT Volume 02 hit newsstands back in January of 2007, and one of the featured major projects was the above-pictured lovely “Crafty Masterpiece” by Tricia Mills Gray. And oh-so-crafty it is! Ironically, Trish never fancied herself a “crafter,” per se, but rather was just coming up with a solution to a problem. You see, Trish […]
Nature Crafts
Though CRAFT Volume 10 has just hit the stands, we’re already working hard on the next issue, which will focus on crafting with nature. I’ve been combing through magazines and blogs looking for inspiration and found the works of this self-taught German photographer Maditi, who contributed to Lines and Shapes. The photos inspire me to […]
Laser-cut paper doll’s furniture
Matt Cottam wrote in with this cool project he made for Papercamp. He started with patterns from The American Girl’s Home Book of Work And Play by Helen Campbell (1890) and cut them on a laser cutter on 300gsm paper. Matt brought the images into Illustrator, and traced their outlines with the pen tool. To […]
The PCB as a heatsink
While developing the Roboduino, Scott had to calculate how many amps his project could deliver to attached motors. He wrote up his findings (and how he arrived at them) as a helpful article – As a review, the total heat generated by the regulator is just the energy in minus the energy out. This is […]
Knitted Font
Swiss Miss tips us off to these amazing knitted fonts on HandmadeFonts.com. There’s a wonderful variety of fonts available that look like cardboard, fur, stitched leather, masking tape and more!
HOW TO – Mutoscope
The very first moving picture machine was barely more than a hand-cranked circular flipbook, called a mutoscope. Jesse Breytenbach made her own and documented the elaborate creation of the wooden apparatus that holds the “movie” cylinder.