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"Now thread the slider through the webbing, matching right and wrong sides."
"I didn't want to cut an image out of paper, so the DIY distress princess prints an image onto tissue paper, and I was like, that is genius."
"Earlier I mentioned when I was using the alcohol inks how I actually create a bunch of mercury glass with alcohol ink."
"Start from an edge, peel it up, that way whatever your habits are with weeding, try it on the mat. It's gonna change your life."
"Now, making craters this way is really good on a fixed table because you get all the strength of having a wood base but then you still get the positives of being able to drill through it."
"See how much it grew by putting single crochets on it, you 11, almost 11 inches."
"The distressing is not overdone but it's just enough to give it that weathered look."
"Once you learn decreases and increases, you're pretty much set to make pretty much any garment."
"So just slop that last stitch over the end again and now you're ready to start knitting."
"I love using UV resin. If you guys would like a video on how I put UV resin on my pieces, just leave a comment below."
"Just like that I can crimp barely barely crimp the edges of that."
"I'm always looking to create a unit of four beads, so as I'm standing right there exiting of that bead, I'm gonna pick up a crystal, a size 8, a crystal, and I'm gonna come through on the exact same size 8 bead from the other side."
"I can simply trim it to size Stitch It Down and that will give me that raised textural difference to my paper because sometimes when you're just layering pieces of paper on top of each other you're not adding any new textures unless you add texture paste embossing."
"Once those are cut piecing becomes key."
"I find a lot of joy in fuzzy cutting."
"...so I'm just going to take that to the iron and give it a press."
"That's a great way to take images or greetings and mask off part of them to use them separately."
"The way I box in these corners here gives you a cute little triangle on each end."
"The beauty of this one-sheet wonder project that I'm going to show you allows you to use both sides of the beautiful paper."
"Really, especially with felts, just let the felt do its job."
"With this technique, we end up with a two for one deal where you do one technique and get two cards."
"Clay has a memory, and if you bend it dramatically, it may warp in that direction when your piece dries."
"Dry embossing is where we're going to be using embossing folders and a die cutting/embossing machine to create some beautiful raised images on your greeting cards."
"This was such a fun project and it's a great way that you can layer your glitter vinyl or at least make it look layered without actually having to layer it."
"Once I get the material glued onto the body, I like to go around the bottom and put little snips about a finger wide."
"A new technique I've learned that I really like is to push the tip of the hot glue gun on the sides here perpendicular, so it almost makes like a hot glue tape."
"We're using the starburst technique for this wreath, which is my favorite."
"You can take a dry cloth and buff off the excess ink and that white will pop out and you'll have a beautiful result."
"Heat embossing is a really fun and quick way to get a wow on your projects."
"You make all of your squares however big you want to make them, and then after the fact, you can join them all together with just one continuous strand. Love it, absolutely love it."
"Now that you know how to use what we're going to call the pencil trick, I'm going to show you now how to do the pencil trick and another trick."
"I love our Stampin' right markers for this technique; I love being able to get two or more different colors on my stamps."
"So you should be able to create lace swatches so that you can work out garments in the same way that we create a standard swatch."
"Collage quilting is taking parts of the fabric that you cut out and then you apply them to the fabric, and that's what creates the pattern."
"The technique is called cold casting, where you use real metal with resin."
"To create the pattern on the front of our slipper, we're going to do four treble crochets together with a gap in between each treble crochet."
"Those little zigzag folds on the side will actually act like a spring that will cause the card to pop up when you take it out of the envelope."
"This is a great technique for using your strips or scraps, whatever you have laying around."
"That's how we take care of that, and now we get to get into the fun part."
"Get the bottom lined up and then just pivot it in to make it perfect, or better than horrible."
"One of my favorite things to do with a rolling mill is to pattern my metal."
"Distress Oxides, it's a fusion blend of dye and pigment and some other stuff in there."
"With Distress Oxides, you get very solid stamping."
"I'm going to torch it really quick, pop any little micro bubbles that may be trying to hang out."
"If you rip it, it gives you that nice like flared look or fray look, and I love it."
"If you could just put the layers together first before you stamp, you'd be able to nail it every time."
"This is the part that's going to show, so you want to take your time and be nice and straight and consistent."
"Well, there you have it. You can actually achieve green with weld and iron."
"This method of creating the gingham checks does create a lot of ends... but I think it's worth it because the crispness of the squares really does give such a neat gingham checked finish."
"That's the magic of needle felting."
"I like to stuff the pumpkin about three-fourths of the way full."
"The more important thing rather than the fade is that you're actually getting and understanding the herringbone stitch."
"This is just going to make the ear a little bit rounder, looking so it's just going to fix up that shape a little bit."
"I much prefer the Kitchener stitch because it makes it look seamless."
"Whenever you're coiling something up, in order to get a really nice shape, it's all about how you start it."
"This paper is super stretchy and satisfying, so once you have the finished petal, you can pull on the edges and it creates a little cup shape which is perfect for a tulip."
"That is really, really pretty and a really neat technique that you can do."
"It's such a fun technique that works especially well with the embossing glaze."
"This is one of the best techniques you can do with embossing glaze."
"I joined as I crocheted, so I'm going to show you guys how to do that."
"You can work a row of slip stitches around the outside of the handles, and that will stop them from stretching too much."
"That technique is so beautiful, you just do not see where your color changes."
"These colors are just gorgeous, and this is super simple to do."
"I really like this window technique where you have that floating element so you can see through it."
"You could do each one differently but you'll get a better effect if you do the same thing over and over for every single fringe."
"This tutorial will be perfectly straight granny squares that don't distort or twist."
"I have a surefire way to get all of the layers to line up just right so you get the perfect layer alignment every time."
"I let them cure overnight, this little cure box works really well."
"It jazzes up your solid stamps, makes them more interesting, and it's also really fun and easy to do."
"The best result you get is when you ink up the side that says Stampin Up."
"I really like window dies; they're great for simple card designs."
"You can see this is a fun technique to use with any large die cut."
"Lila convinced me we needed to add some sparkle embossing powder, which is her favorite technique."
"I'm gonna run a frame right around this oval, so I'm just gonna make it look like it has a silver frame."
"It looks so fabulous with the chain method we make this nice window design."
"I've used a technique here which is reverse appliqué."
"Once they keep the shape and they are becoming flat, let it air dry and it will look like this."
"It's called cubic right angle weave, otherwise known as CRAW."
"I used to hate the magic circle, and then I found a really easy way of making it, and now I love it and I use it all the time."
"This week I've got kind of a neat technique to show you for sewing down your appliqués which will make them pop up off your square and really define their edges."
"To finish the placemat, we're going to use a method I call the flip method."
"I made a longer than usual base chain so that they could be vertical like the crayons."
"Most amigurumi starts with a magic circle, so it's really worth learning."