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The ABC of CraftsWhat this is about: There is seemingly a million crafts, and little by little we are building up a sort of encyclopedia of crafts. However, it's impossible for a couple of people to know them all... here's where you come in. We want to make this a community effort, please help us with your knowledge to make this happen! This is also the chance to bring the spotlight to unrecognized and unknown crafts, so if you know of any craft that isn't included yet, please leave a message!! Every contribution will be credited

What we're looking for: Crafts, techniques, materials, themes. Crafts and techniques are what we're most interested in and will be given preference on this list.
What to do: Leave a comment with your contribution! It would be best if you leave it on the page that would correspond to the first letter of your suggestion. If you can leave a small description and a few thu

Awesome Artisan Crafts XIHello!

Hello and welcome to Awesome Artisan Crafts!
I will be regularly featuring the awesome creations I find in the Artisan Crafts Gallery!
New Categories
We were lucky enough to get the awesome new Miniatures category added recently, and it is filling up nicely I must say - and now we are blessed with another new category! This time it is Anthro! This is the place for costumes, masks, props and accessories and clothing! So get submitting to there and get some DD suggestions sent!

Bits and Pieces

This months Artisan Craft Themed Challenge is hearts so have a go at that, 2000 are up for

Awesome Artisan Crafts XIXHello!

Hello and welcome to Awesome Artisan Crafts!
I will be regularly featuring the awesome creations I find in the Artisan Crafts Gallery.
Things of awesome

Your current CV's are the lovely ^Talty and ^maytel
Send all suggestions for the Artisan Crafts Gallery to them as well as DD Suggestions.

Art History: Artisan Crafts

It will soon be the turn of Artisan Crafts over at #projecteducate so be sure to let the CV's know what you want to see.

Pimps and Whoas latest installment is out.
A rainbow of Artisan Crafts

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An easy wire-wrapping tutorialWhen it comes to making jewerly, especially silver, wire-wrapping technique is one of the nicest consider the availability and costs of the materials (it definitely beats Art Clay Silver at these points). But before you get silver wire and start making such fabulous pieces like the ones I've featured in the end, it's good to take your first steps using something cheaper - and here comes the copper wire - and making something simpler, to get used to this lovely technique.
This tutorial I originally posted on my blog a couple of months ago and I thought about sharing it also here.

This is what we're planning to get.
First of all, we need stones - the more regular they are, the better. No need to think about any super duper expensive ones now (: I collected most of them in my garden, there are also parts of my old broken earrings and a small glass ball. We also need sharp pincers, round pincers and a wire, 0.6mm or thicker, 40cm at least. Copper wire i

Artisan Craft Features #16Welcome to a new artisan crafts newsletter, sorry they've been sporadic lately I will make my best to make them weekly from now on. If there's anything that you want me to advertise please don't hesitate to contact me!

News
It is Artisan Crafts Month at #ArtHistoryProject! If you would like to submit an article there's still time to sign up, go ahead it's so much fun! Here's the articles so far:
Welcome to Artisan Crafts!
Meet the Artisan Crafts GalleryAn Easy Wire-Wrapping TutorialFriday Interviews: *cakecrumbsPapercuttingsArt Clay JewelryFood as ArtFriday Interviews: ~FoldedWildernessHow to Make a Viking Dress

Troubleshooting:How to Photograph Christmas Lights

I recently read an article on Reddit that explored the best way to photography Christmas lights and it raised some interesting points. Rather than re-hash what has already been said, I've delved into a few tutorials around the web to give an overview of some hints and tips - and will link them all at the end of this article so that you can investigate for yourself.

When you take a Photograph, the camera will often over-compensate with the colours that it's trying to capture and objects that look fairly white to the naked eye don't appear so in the photo that you've taken. White Balance aims to override that. But just setting your camera to Auto White Balance and hoping for the best is not good enough...

The above shots show the same location taken firstly with auto white balance - and then secondly with the white balance set to shade. Setting Shade me

A Look at EmbroideryWhat is embroidery?
Embroidery is a sub-genre of Needlecraft. It is broadly defined as the art of decorating fabric or similar materials with a needle and thread (or yarn).
The applications of embroidery are as wide as imagination allows. It has been and still is widely used to decorate all manner of clothing, from wedding gowns to hats. Embroidery is used to make rugs, adorn quilts or even to make pictures out of.

Embroidery first found its roots in ancient China, around 500-300BCE. The need for stitches to mend, tailor and reinforce cloth led to the development of many new sewing techniques. The decorative potential of these stitches was quickly realised, and soon the art form of embroidery was born. Each culture has its own history, tradition and style of embroidery, each as beautiful and captivating as the next.
Today, machine embroidery has lessened the prevalence of hand embroidery, but there are still many individuals who practise it, both as hobbyists and pr

Art History Project- Welcome to Artisan Crafts!December is all about Artisan Crafts, baby! We are very excited to bring you a month full of articles, interviews and features about this wonderful world. But before we begin, what is exactly an artisan craft?
An artisan craft is a physical object made by an artisan completely by hand and usually in small quantities. Being an artisan, or a crafter, is being an artist that excels in the techniques of producing anything from a delicious meal to a deadly sword, from a cozy scarf to an adorable embroidery, from an elegant dress to a complete living room, from a cute plushie to a perfectly accurate doll, and so on.

Artisan Craft Features #21Don't forget to let me know if you want me to advertise anything for you!
News
It will soon be Artisan Crafts Week over at #projecteducate, so please send me and ^maytel your suggestions for what you want to see! Tell us who would you like to see interviewed, what kind of articles you would like to read, anything that you think would be good!
This month in #ArtHistoryProject: Photography Month.
#ArtisanCraft published the new installment of their weekly newsletter.#LovelyJewelry is doing monthly shutouts!
Here's the latest So Cute, it Rots your Teeth featu

Awesome Artisan Crafts IXHello!

Hello and welcome to Awesome Artisan Crafts!
I will be regularly featuring the awesome creations I find in the Artisan Crafts Gallery.
#CraftyDeviants
#CraftyDeviants is the new chatroom for Artisan Craft related chat! If you are a Crafter come and share your tips/knowledge or just chat! Likewise if you're a Deviant and want to chat or get into Crafting come see us! If I am online I will be there!
Submissions

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Winter Days Challenge
Is still going so head over to

Awesome Artisan Crafts VIIIHello!

Hello and welcome to Awesome Artisan Crafts!
I will be regularly featuring the awesome creations I find in the <a href="http://browse.deviantart.com/artisan/">

Artisan Crafts Features #19Don't forget to let me know if you want me to advertise anything for you!
News
It will soon be Artisan Crafts Week over at #projecteducate, so please send me and ^maytel your suggestions for what you want to see! Tell us who would you like to see interviewed, what kind of articles you would like to read, anything that you think would be good!
We had a fantastic time at #ArtHistoryProject for Artisan Crafts month! You can see the articles that were posted here.This week in #projecteducate: Community Week.This month in #ArtHistoryProject: Photography Month.
#ArtisanCraft published the new installment of their weekly newsletter, an interview with ~nimuae and a beautiful feature with the best of 2012.Here's the latest

Artisan Craft Features #15News
If there's anything that you want me to advertise, please send me a note!Have you sent a card for the Holiday Card Project 2012 yet? It's a great chance for crafters to join a good cause.It's community week over at #projecteducate! You can see all the great things they have planned here.#ArtisanCraft published their latest Artisan Crafts newsletter.December is the Artisan Crafts Month over at #ArtHistoryProject! The guys over there at looking for people to write articles, journals, features, etc everyone is welcome to join

For more information go here: http://fav.me/d5ggnmb let's make this month a success!The results of the Capture Your Pumpkin Contest have been announced.~claremanson made a lovely feature about food.
I'm looking to feature the most under-recognized cr

Toy Challenge Winner!Mother has chosen the winner! The Nev was going to but he was too tired/lazy to get up from the sofa!

Winner!

by =RainbowCrumbs
Mmmmm delicious rainbow crumbs.
Runner Up!
I will make this at some point. I am forgetful.

by ^PirateLotus-Stock
Congratulations to you!

I will be noting you for addresses and such soon!
Thank you all for entering this contest!

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I hope everyone had a great Holidays season, and I wish you an even better 2013! Next year I would like to make artisan craft challenges every month, hopefully that will keep people inspired and crafty! I need some interesting themes to start, what would you like to see? I would like to pick general things so that they apply to every craft, like "winter, celebrations, fairies, cats, etc". Leave your suggestions below!

Don't forget to let me know if you want me to advertise anything for you!

News

It is Artisan Crafts Month at #ArtHistoryProject! If you would like to submit an article there's still time to sign up, go ahead it's so much fun!
Here's the summary of artisan craft news and events for November and December.
#ArtisanCraft is looking to feature the best of 2012, suggest what you think are the best crafts of the year!
#ArtisanCraft published the new installment of their weekly newsletter.

Contests

#Still-Life-Stills announced the winners of their November challenge and decided that the theme for December is "Festive". The deadline is December 31st! [All crafts, photography]
#ArtisanCraft invites you to try their challenge, "The Challenge you Missed". You have until December 31st to enter. [Many crafts to choose from]
#semi-sweeties also organized a challenge, their theme is Christmas and Holidays. The deadline is December 31st. [Clay]
#Holiday-Crafts made a Santa contest! The deadline is January 5th. [All crafts]
The MAMA Scared Stiff Contest allows artisan crafts, the prizes are amazing! The deadline is January 9th. [All crafts]
`lintu47 organized her Let it Snow contest. The deadline is March 1st. [All crafts]

Features

Here's some of the things I've found in the Artisan Crafts Gallery lately that caught my attention or that were suggested to me. Please

anything you like and let this artists know how awesome they are! Don't forget that I love DD suggestions, this week I'm looking for knitting, carving, dolls, toys and plushies! Suggestions have been a bit scarce lately, I'm guessing that a lot of people are on vacations