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Buying the Best Paper Cutter !

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         Hi friends, I am often asked for guidance on what products and tools to buy and I also love to keenly follow papercrafting tool discussions on social media and forums. One discussion which keeps cropping up time and again is which is  the best  paper cutter to buy ! Way back in 2012 I shared a post on Paper Cutting Tools  and though a lot of what I wrote then is still valid , 5 yrs down the lane I think it's time to revive the discussion on paper cutters. Should you really buy a Paper cutter ? The answer is a big YES!!! Regardless of whether you are a card maker, scrapbooker , hobby crafter , professional crafter or just a homemaker...you should definitely get a paper-cutter!! We all love using scissors but using a scissors to cut  perfectly straight lines does take a bit of effort and time doesn't it!! Having a decent cutter  makes cutting paper not only super easy but quick , accurate, enjoyable and efficient!! Which...

Paper Tree Tutorial -Recycling Craft

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Magazine Art - Paper Tree           Hi friends sharing a recycling craft - a desktop Paper Christmas tree made by recycling a magazine!          Nothing gives me a kick more than a recycling craft! Here is the humble magazine I recycled. Paper Tree Tutorial  There are so many tutorials on magazine folding and I tweaked a tutorial by Innova crafts  to make this Paper Tree. This one is pretty straightforward and very easy to get it right at your first go!            Paper Tree Tutorial Take 2 pages of your magazine and fold the top and bottom corners as shown above.Keep folding every 2 pages of your magazine until you have folded all the pages. Paper Tree Tutorial  Once you have folded all the pages of your magazine, take out your glue gun and apply a generous line of glue along the central part of your magazine. Take a folded page and roll it inwards and ...

Thermocol Crafts : Sparkling Snowman

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Sparkling Thermocol Snowman           Hi friends ,it feels so good to be back to blogland after a gap of a month. We had gone on a family vacation to Singapore and I am settling down to normal life only now!           While it's still winter I would like to share a cute snowman my daughter created using thermocol/styrofoam balls and "sparkling dust" a new product launched in India by Crafters Corner. Thermocol Crafts       My kiddo is quite good working with clay and she fashioned a nose and sculpted ear muffs  for her snowman using air-drying clay . The hat and muffler were made using pipe stem cleaners. It was so easy to make the snowman sparkle by giving a nice spray using the spray adhesive and dusting over with the "sparkling dust". You can read more about this child friendly spray adhesive here : Spray Glue Tutorial Snowman Crafts I hope you liked this simple cute sparkling snowman I have missed m...