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If you love to crochet and are looking to make some great projects for a youngster or a young-at-heart animal lover, you’ll want to check out Ira Rott’s new book, Crochet Animal Rugs: Over 20 Crochet Patterns for Fun Floor Mats and Matching Accessories. Honestly, …
Cut Paper Pictures allows you to create personalized art with amazing depth and texture that’s fun and easy to make no matter what your skill level. * Complimentary Book Received for Review. Offering step-by-step instructions, visual inspirations, and even a library of unique colors and …
Have you ever been at a store and found yourself staring longingly at a table full of scrumptious-looking bath bombs, shower melts, or lotion bars and thought, “Gee, it would be fun to make these at home, but where the heck would I begin?!” Well, “sisterpreneurs” Isabel and Caroline Bercaw of da Bomb Bath Fizzers are here to take the mystery out of bath and body recipes and give you all the tools you need to crown yourself Archbishop of Bathtopia in their first book, FIZZ BOOM BATH!
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They will hold your hand every step of the way, and then exfoliate it with some sugar scrub when you are finished making it on your own! This book will teach you how to create all kinds of delightful, natural, homemade treats like:
* “Candy Crush” Bath Bomb
* “Meet Me in Tahiti” Bath Bomb
* “Green Goodness” Face Mask
* “Pump It Up” Volumizing Hair Mask
* “Get Jiggly with It” Bath Jellies
From fizzers to scrubs, masks to soaps, bubble bars to shower melts, selfcare time will be fully covered in FIZZ BOOM BATH!
Publisher: Quarto Knows
ISBN: 9781631064623
Last year we purchased a bath bomb making kit for our 9 year old granddaughter for Christmas and she’s been interested in making her own bath bombs ever since. Her first run at it went pretty good, but she’s now ready to step out of the box and make them entirely on her own and not from a child’s craft kit. This book is exactly what we needed.
This book tells you about all of the supplies that you’ll need and they include a resource section in the book telling you where you can get them. All of the recipes and instructions are easy-to-follow and they really give you a good starting point on making your own bath bombs!
What is really cool about the book is that it goes even further. You’ll learn how to make your own bath melts, face masks, body scrubs, hair masks, bath jellies and more! I love all of the tips the girls give you along the way along with suggested variations. They also tell you how to come up with your own fragrance combinations and more. You can really get creative once you have the basics down.
We absolutely love the new hardcover book: Fizz Boom Bath! Learn to Make Your Own Bath Bombs, Body Scrubs and More by sisters Isabel and Caroline Bercaw. It’s a wonderful how-to book!
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Giveaway: One lucky winner is going to win the Fizz Boom Bath Hardcover Book from the publisher Quarto Knows. Good Luck!!! You’re going to love this book!
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My 9 year old daughter really enjoys arts and crafts, and that includes drawing. She will sit down with colored pencils and draw for hours at a time. While I don’t have an artistic bone in my body, she certainly does and takes after my …
When I was a little girl I used to sit and watch my grandmother and mother crochet. They would spend days and sometimes weeks working on pillows, blankets, hats, scarves, gloves, mittens, home decor and toys for the family. I was always amazed at the …
Experienced artists looking to master a new medium will relish this comprehensive guide to using colored pencils by Veronica Winters, author of How to Color Like an Artist. Step-by-step projects with photos and directions illustrate the many details that bring a simple composition to brilliant life, offering readers a comprehensive overview of colored pencil techniques.
A brief introduction covers necessary materials and explains the book’s overall approach, and subsequent chapters address specific techniques.
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Each lesson features color swatches that match the colors of different pencil brands, as well as the type of drawing paper and other supplies that will work best for the artwork. Winters expertly covers such techniques as shading and blending and discusses a wealth of other topics, including the importance of light, composition, drawing solid objects in 3-D, color theory, how to draw textures and fabric, how to create symmetrical shapes, and many other aspects of colored pencil drawing.
Title: The Colored Pencil Manual
Author: Veronica Winters
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 978-0486822969
For the past 3 years I’ve been really into adult coloring and paper crafts. With that said, I mostly use glitter gel ink pens and markers because I never knew how to properly use colored pencils. Well, until now and thanks to this wonderful instructional book by Veronica Winters.
The book includes step-by-step instructions on how to use colored pencils and the author lays it all out in an easy-to-understand format. The book goes over the materials that you need and then the instructions begin. You’ll learn the importance of light, all about the composition and the focal point, how to turn the form, how to create volume, how to blend colored pencils, how to draw fabric and so much more! It’s like a complete art course on colored pencils all in one handy book!
I just had my 2nd major knee surgery in the past 4 months and as soon as I can get down into my art & craft room again, I’ll definitely be sitting down with this book & my colored pencils to try out some of the techniques. This is the first time in YEARS that I’ve been excited to try out coloring and drawing with colored pencils.
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Giveaway: One lucky winner is going to win The Colored Pencil Manual by Veronica Winters from Dover Publications. Good Luck!
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Crafting with Wooden Crates and Pallets: 25 Simple Projects to Style Your Home by Natalie Wright. ISBN: 978-0486824239 You don’t have to be a carpenter or a home improvement expert to undertake these twenty-five projects, which combine elements of crafting and woodworking. Step-by-step instructions, accompanied by …
Twice a month my granddaughter, grandson and godson come over to my house for “Crafting with Nanny” play dates. These dates are my way of spending quality time with the kids, while teaching them fun skills that they can use throughout their lives. * Complimentary …