Craft Article

Once you plan to make a Scrapbook you need to collect all the necessary items which will be very useful while making the same. Collecting all the items personally with great care will result in a beautiful Scrapbook which will be admired by everyone who sees that.

The things that you need would be pen or pencil, glue for sticking, protector, scale etc., the main thing that you need is the craft paper. The quality of craft paper that you choose will finally determine the quality of your scrap book. The paper that you choose for this purpose should be lignin free and should not have any dye and should have fast color. One more thing that you should look out for is Photo Activity Test (P.A.T.) paper.

The background of the paper, i.e. the design should be subtle so as to not clash with the design that you are planning on it. You may want to stick some stickers or design some pattern on it. Scrapbook is the memoir of your past, you are making a book which will enhance your past, keeping that in mind select paper.

Choose patterns:
The safest paper to select is the paper with a very general pattern. Normally we get paper with variety to design such as flowers, strips, dots. If you are planning for a variety then it is better to choose general patter paper. For portraying your holiday mood select paper with dots, as this type of design will go very well with festive occasions like Christmas. After paper selection comes the next step of designs. Think and plan out some ideas.
 
Die cuts:
Use die cut layers to shape your design. You can use punch machine to make some innovative design by making holes or use some scrap to make the border.

Pierce:
Try out piercing the paper, it is an adventurous. To complete the method make many layers like templates matching, trace it, and then cut, and later join all the layers together. Make some letters by using this method. Record dates, location, name and even time along with the mood at the time. Write this with colorful pens. All this make your scrapbook very attractive.

Categories your scrapbook by giving proper index, title page, comments etc. You can stick the photo and for the background can stick matching stickers. As an example, if you have a photograph in which your child is dancing, choose the frame with something matching to the theme.

Making Quilts is one thing but then decorating it to make it look presentable is another. After completing the quilt, making the border makes it look very beautiful. To make the quilt border, we need to take proper measurement.

Make Quilts borders:
Measure proposition of the quilt, leave about one fourth inch on all the four sides of the quilt. The margin of the borders should be ideally ten inches by thirty four inches. Include the one fourth inch to this margin. Cut the cloth as per the measurement of the quilt to make it into two different borders. A upper border and the lower border.

Leaving a space of one fourth inch for stitching increasing your measurement accordingly. Cut the cloth as per the new measurement. This type of the quilt that you are creating is known as framed quilt.

Spruce Borders:

To make your framed quilt look beautiful, it should be spruced nicely.
Starting at the crown of your quilt and working down to the middle, measure your quilt. You want the length dimensions. If your dimensions are 30 ½ inches, thus round it off to the nearest tenth, i.e. 30 to complete your calculations: You will need to insert ¼ inch into the seams and make room for your sides. Next, use measuring tape, or a ruler to measure your quilt. Measure from the alongside and factor in the dimensions of your borders. Now insert the ¼-inch seams to the sides.

After finishing the borders, you need to make some unique pattern. For this fold the strips of the border into half and put the pin in the middle. Do the same on all the sides. Use pins used specially for crafts. Once you have marked all the points, you can start stitching, but make sure that it is aligned properly to give that neat look. If done properly, you will find beautiful layers forming on your quilt.

Porcelain Dolls as the name suggests are the dolls made of ceramics or porcelain. You need to dress them up to look good. The small shoes, socks, dresses like skirts, pants, tops and gowns look good on them.

Most the stuff is available in the local craft shops but if you want your doll to look stylist and fashionable. You need to design the special clothes for them. For making the dress, you will need the material, maybe the material which is remaining from your last dress can also be used. The material can be colored fabric or the plain one. The material required will vary from doll to doll. The bigger your doll the more material you will require. For the undergarment, you will need a plain white cloth and in case if you to make an apron for her you will need to get a plain matching cloth.

The thread to stitch in similar color and the accessories as buttons, bows etc the color of the thread varies as per your requirement and as per the design you are creating on the dress. The shoes you can get at the craft shop or you can knit them with a different color, which will enhance its beauty.

Once all the material is in place, you will now need to stitch it, try to get two of each as you will be able to change the clothes and it will always look new. You can also make small caps and hats for your doll from the same material as the dress. Once you get the idea of dressing up a doll, you will innumerable ideas, which will make your doll a new one every time others see her. For the under clothes you can add lace or different types of stitches or crotchet the sides.
To make it easier to remove and put on the dress on the doll you can add Velcro to the side or stitch it will a button or you can make two side the back and the front separately and join it with a Velcro or buttons. To make the dress more pleasant you can embroider some flowers or birds on the front.

Once you will make a dress for the doll, you will love it and will want to experiment with different materials and different styles.