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Aussie Crafts Community Chat about arts and crafts in Australia.    FAQ   Search   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Search found 10 matches Aussie Crafts Community Forum Index Author Message   Topic: Hey everybody, please help me out Chelle Replies: 1 Views: 858 Forum: Say Hi and Chit Chat   Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:25 pm   Subject: Hey everybody, please help me out I always struggled with the yahoo groups format, and so never managed to keep up with a group. It's just rather more complicated than I seem to be able to manage-I work with my hands, not my PC!   Topic: Paper Making With Hemp Chelle Replies: 1 Views: 1681 Forum: Papermaking in Australia   Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:23 pm   Subject: Paper Making With Hemp Does anyone here use hemp as a basic material for making paper? As I understand it, the crop is more sustainable and faster growing than trees, and the product is very durable. But there are obvious s ...   Topic: Paper making and book binding interview Chelle Replies: 3 Views: 3423 Forum: Papermaking in Australia   Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:46 am   Subject: Paper making and book binding interview The only paper making that I looked into used hemp as a natural and far more sustainable source of the fibre than trees. Has anyone here used that?   Topic: Hi all Chelle Replies: 9 Views: 3797 Forum: Pyrography   Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:40 am   Subject: Hi all I haven't done this since I was in high school, and all that we did back then was to make some door plaques, but I did enjoy it. What equipment does this take? I assume of course that practise make ...   Topic: Beads in needlework? Chelle Replies: 5 Views: 3335 Forum: Needlework   Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:04 pm   Subject: Beads in needlework? I think honestly that I only ever used them say, as eyes. They make a wonderful little addition-sparkly and shiny, and make whatever you are stitching seem more real-kind of draws the attention to the ...   Topic: Model Trains-Snow Chelle Replies: 2 Views: 1675 Forum: Model Painting   Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:02 pm   Subject: Model Trains-Snow I've dabbled in models of many kinds. I started with D&D characters, and other games like that. They are incredibly detailed, and getting down to inking them for depth and so on is wonderfully sat ...   Topic: Scenery for models Chelle Replies: 3 Views: 1884 Forum: Model Painting   Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:00 pm   Subject: Scenery for models Scale scenery is simply scenery made to match the scale of the model. For instance, if you have a model train or house, that is 1:16 scale (meaning that for every 1 inch, or 1 foot of the size of the ...   Topic: Card making! Chelle Replies: 12 Views: 5151 Forum: Scrapbooking and Cards   Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:53 am   Subject: Card making! Just how brittle would the flower be? I have pressed flowers but only ever to keep because they were important somehow-say from my wedding bouquet. They flake so easily when dried-don't they fall apar ...   Topic: I love scrapbooking Chelle Replies: 5 Views: 2601 Forum: Scrapbooking and Cards   Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:51 am   Subject: I love scrapbooking My daughter and I scrapbook together as a nice activity for us-she's only three so it's nothing spectacular. But we enjoy it, and we certainly have fairly unique scrapbooks, thanks to the three year o ...   Topic: Sea Shells on wedding cakes Chelle Replies: 8 Views: 7745 Forum: Cake Decorating   Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:50 am   Subject: Sea Shells on wedding cakes They really are fantastic! I have long been involved in the making of fancy cakes (characters and so on) but never seen that as an idea. You did a great job!   Page 1 of 1 All times are GMT + 10 Hours Jump to: Select a forum General Craft Discussion----------------Say Hi and Chit ChatWantedFor Sale Aussie Craft Website Help----------------Directory questions or issuesInterview requestsCraft search and directory Craft discussions -please post if you want your craft added----------------Add a new craft forumCandle MakingLampworkLeatherworkCrochet and KnittingScrapbooking and CardsPyrographyCake DecoratingModel PaintingNeedleworkPapermaking in AustraliaBeading and JewelleryPatchwork and QuiltingMachine Embroidery  Images from www.freeimages.co.uk , The Morgue File and Aussie Stock Photos are used for avatars in these forums.