Introduction! This is a short introduction from The Magic Garden for beginers on plaster history and crafting with plaster and rubber latex moulds/molds. Plaster of paris derives its name from a large gypsum...
This is a short guide for making a cement recipe for your Magic Garden Moulds and oxide staining and colouring your casts when dry. Cement recipe Use 2 parts medium fine river sand to 1 part grey or white...
With the correct tools and a little bit of creativity anyone can make a pair of stunning earrings in only minutes! Practically everything you need to get started can be purchased on ebay at great prices....
Setting your own gems in ready-made blank settings is a very easy and affordable way of setting your gems in ready-to-wear jewellery pieces. If you are a hobby gem cutter or just like buying gemstones, this is...
Poppy Planting 101 The Poppy is God's Gift to Mankind! You too, can have these gorgeous flowers in your garden without a green thumb! This is poppy planting 101. Just the simple growing instructions for...
Candle making is fun and very easy to master. It is a great hobby which can bring hours of enjoyment or can be turned into a money making side line. With so much interest in candles today, why not give it a...
This Guide is not only meant to offer help and advice for those people wanting to purchase Craft items, but also as a general rule of thumb guide of tips that I have found to be useful in my relatively short...
The word 'findings' is used to collectively describe a variety of metal components used to make jewellery. These come in silver, gold, nickel. The quality of findings can vary greatly it is best to purchase...
An Introduction to Pastels: Pastels have been around a very long time, even used by cavemen with a mixture set in bone. The word pastel is Italian in origin meaning a paste, made up of coloured pigments,...
This is a brief guide on how to use plain ink to make beautiful paper prints for your scrapbooking or cardmaking crafts. Introduction These easy ink techniques will help you create some interesting pages to be...