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How to Install Elevator Rope Grippers
A rope gripper is a safety device to keep elevators from falling should one of the mechanisms come loose. The rope gripper is spring-activated and utilizes hydraulics to remain attached. To pull the rope gripper off, you need to engage the hydraulic lift to pull it off the rope. This provides the op
Craft Ideas With Organza
Organza is a sheer, plain-weave fabric with a crisp finish. This lightweight fabric made from nylon, rayon, cotton or silk looks the same on the front and back. Nylon organza may be more durable and better suited to crafts than silk organza, which may tear during machine sewing. Craft ideas for this
How to Print Quarter-Fold Cards
Greeting cards can be expensive. Sometimes store bought cards just don't say what you need them to say. Printing your own quarter fold cards allows you to be creative, while saving you time and money. You can print cards for any occasion, and people will love receiving your handcrafted greetings
Bow Tattoo Ideas
Bow tattoos are fun and unconventional.tattoo image by Carlos-bcn from Fotolia.comBow tattoos are becoming incredibly popular, especially with women, according to Best Tattoo Gallery. Bow tattoos are great because they can come in all shapes, sizes and locations. A simple bow by itself or...
How to Create a Mold of a Mouth
Go above and beyond when making your next Halloween costume by creating your own mouth mold, complete with creepy vampire fangs or chipped teeth. Alginate is a nontoxic craft product that's perfect for casting any body part, including your lips and teeth. Order supplies online or visit a local art-s
How to Do Cherokee Basket Weaving
The Cherokee double-walled basket is the Southeastern United States' oldest form of basket making, according to Peggy Brennan, a professional Cherokee basket weaver and teacher. Traditional basket patterns honor Cherokee traditions. Although mastery of complicated patterns requires instruction from
How to Make Glitter Picture Names
Glitter has been used for decades by fine artists, crafters, and students of the arts to produce works that gleam and dazzle. Used with an adhesive such as glue, glitter can be used to create words, shapes or lines, and even scenic pictures. Kids can engage in a special project that uses glitter and
How to Make Seashells With Paper Punches
A paper punch is a small crafting device used to punch out a certain shape from a sheet of paper. You can find paper punches in all shapes and sizes at most craft stores, and a whimsical seashell punch is an ideal addition to any paper punch collection. Seashell punches can be used for any number of
How to Make a Rubber Lantern Keychain
Make a rubber lantern keychain to test your talent in visual art. Employing rubber silicone craft putty allows you to mold and shape the lantern by hand. Painting rubber silicone requires an oil-based primer and oil-based paint to ensure the shade and colors you apply are permanently adhered. Constr
How to Make Your Own Firework Show Online That Kids Can Do
A firework show is an exhilarating and exciting event that kids are always looking forward to; it is also, however, dangerous, and children must always keep their distance. You can, instead, keep kids safe and entertained by letting them make a firework show online: it's fun, free entertainment that
Maintain Sewing Resources Planned Along with a Sewing Table
As much as sewing could be interesting, it's quite tough to arrange all like the excess small cloth, twine, tight situation. Getting a table with each of your sewing supplies is fantastic however consider your ...
The Best Fabric or Material for Binders
These days, a good binder is not always a pretty one. The solid, good quality binders are often unisex brown, red, blue and black and, if prints are present, they are normally bright and tacky. With scraps of fabric and a hot glue gun, an ugly binder can get a new face lift. The print choice, whethe
Native Beading Techniques
Native American beading techniques include working an intricate peyote stitch, stitching beads onto fabric or weaving strands of beads with a loom. Many of the beading techniques use tiny seed beads to create images or pattern formations in the beadwork.
How to Make a Key Photo
Key photos make unique gifts for relatives and loved ones. They also make your keys easily identifiable because they stand out from other plain key rings. To make this craft, you'll need to purchase a snap-together photo key chain. Also, photo software is helpful should you need to resize pictures s
How to Make Homemade Crafts From Glass Ball Ornaments
Make homemade crafts from glass ball ornaments. While glass ornaments work well for Christmas decorations, they also are suitable for everyday craft projects. Fill glass balls with different items to make decorations you can use in your home year-round. Create gifts for friends and family members, o
How to Make Button Dolls
Button dolls have been around since colonial days, when women would make dolls for their children out of leftover or mismatched buttons. They can still be made today out of buttons, although they are not often used as toys, but instead as decoration or novelty items.
Indian Basket Weave Styles and Types
Basket weaving has changed over the years from the traditional Native American styles.Jessica Boone/Photodisc/Getty ImagesBasket weaving has long been a craft and hobby of Native American tribes. Traditionally, each different tribe had a different basket weaving style based on the...
How to Use Collage Techniques
Collage offers aspiring artists with creative ideas and limited drawing skills the opportunity to express their ideas. By using collage techniques with fabrics, tissue paper, photographs and other media, you can create colorful, eye-catching patterns by following theses tips.
How to Find the GPG of Hard Water
"Hard" water results predominantly from the presence of dissolved calcium and magnesium. Hard water poses no health risks, but it interferes with the cleaning ability of soaps and detergents and causes scale buildup in pipes. Chemists typically express water hardness by assuming that all hardness re
How to Make a Saloon Girl Skirt
In the Wild West, saloon girls provided tired cowboys and farmers with entertainment and companionship, while encouraging the men to stay and order more drinks. This Halloween, create a costume that embraces the colors and fashion of girls who worked at the saloons and dance halls in the Old West. E