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Gathering photos based on an event, person, or theme is the first step in creating a scrapbook. One way to make photos more interesting is to cut them to show only the most important parts. Telling the story of photos with words and dates lends more meaning to a scrapbook.

The article offers instructions for creating an art journal on the culture and art of India using watercolor paper, gum arabic and canvas panels, and discusses the techniques of creating accordion pages, making cover of the journal and assembling it.

We chose pink word stickers, giant rhinestones, and sparkling micro beads, but you can make your bracelets any color that your heart desires! Bottle caps are so inexpensive and quick [...]

There are dozens of techniques to make creative pages. Try folding, ripping, or masking text and making collages of pictures you have collected. Ripping: Ripping adds texture and to pages. [...]

Lettering is an important ingredient in a scrapbook page. It can express a feeling, send a message, support a theme, or be purely decorative. With the large variety of pens [...]

Punch designs can instantly create a theme for a scrapbook page. Make everything from animals and trees to food and flowers using simple shapes like circles, hearts, and stars. Punching [...]

Ask Glenn Draper about the 100's of handmade craft projects and materials he has donated to help others and he'll just shrug it off. The unassuming 84-year-old has gone quietly [...]

Rubber stamps are a welcome complement to leather. If you have been looking for new places to use rubber stamps, then genuine leather stamping is for you. Here's your chance [...]

Imagine the charm of an 8-foot Christmas tree overflowing with more than 400 ornaments. The loving hands of crafters made them in every conceivable technique, including crochet, ceramics, needlepoint, wood, [...]

Donna Shoop encouraged fellow members of the Society of Decorative Painters to auction of some of their works to raise money for children's charities. The auction in 1995 brought in $27,000 for the Pediatric AIDS foundation. The 1996 auction raised $71,000 for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital., Hope gleams brightly in the hearts of critically ill children thanks to one decorative painter's strokes of inspiration. Driven by the desire to share the Society of Decorative Painter's (SDP) [...]

Lois Nerem and the Good Neighbors organization of Norfolk, NE, restore donated dolls and distribute them to poor children at Christmas. The project has provided dolls to more than 1,000 children., It's Christmas craft time in the heartland and Lois Nerem is busier than ever. Freshly scrubbed doll faces peer from within the boxes scattered about her converted-bedroom doll room. Over [...]

Frelin uses her crafting skills to help children at the Prince William County Juvenile Detention Center, Virginia. As a supervisor, she uses craft projects to get children to talk to her about their problems. The crafts created by the children are donated to other people in need., T-shirts, fabric, iron-one, clay, paper, paints, magazines -- sounds like the inventory of a crafter's closet. For Jayne Frelin, these simple supplies become powerful forms of communication and therapy when [...]

Eric Hultgren is a 74-year-old Swedish toymaker who specializes in toy cars and trucks made entirely from wood. He donates all of his toys to children in hospitals, a project he and his wife undertook in 1990. Hultgren is a master toolmaker by trade, a skill that has served him well in toymaking., At 74, Eric Hultgren is keeping young by bringing his brand of Swedish Sunshine to children who know him only as 'The Toy Man.' When Eric lost his wife after [...]

The Elderly Elves use their crafting skills to raise money for their church, The Salvation Army, The Women's Resource Center and other local charities in Watertown, SD. They have fun at their twice monthly meetings, working together and inspiring each other., ... because crafting enriches people's lives. The Elderly Elves, as they prefer to call themselves, is a group of six life-long friends who have been getting together for twelve years. [...]

Leba Green, who lives in a retirement complex in Mesa, AZ, makes stuffed animals and dolls for disadvantaged children in Maricopa County, AZ. The toys go to children who have been abused, children of migrant workers, children with a parent in prison or children with various problems., There may not be any children living on Leba Green's street at Leisure World in Mesa, Arizona, but they are never far from her thoughts. Leba works year-round making handmade [...]

Once there was a not-so-average housewife who lived in Walnut Creek, California, with her loving husband and happy children. She took care of her family and did all the things [...]

Diane Dieterich teaches craft projects to senior citizens in day care centers, retirement homes and convalescent hospitals. The classes are therapeutic for the senior citizens., Between Diane Dieterich and her students, it's hard to say who feels the greatest reward from being together. 'I teach them crafts ... but they teach me about life,' explains [...]

Craft projects can help brighten up communities and help people develop friendships. The Fort Worth Tole Decorative Painters Chapter is one non-profit organization that participates in community service projects.

The article reviews the film "And When Did You Last See your Father," starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent.