A Guide to Selling Crafts for the Holidays

With August nearly half-way through, it’s time to start planning for the holiday season.  I know it seems a little soon.  Believe me, though, getting ready for the most critical season of the year takes time. I wanted to put together a simple guide that will help you prepare and plan your holiday strategy. Branding There are three things you need to know about creating a brand for your business that will make you stand out: Business...

Six Easy Steps to Pressing Flowers Between the Pages of a Book

Last month I began a blog series on drying and pressing flowers for use in your paperweight designs and other craft projects.  Now that I've covered drying flowers with silica gel (Six Easy Steps to Creating Beautiful, Dried Flowers) it's time to move on to pressing flowers. There are many different kinds of flower presses on the market that you can use.  My press of choice is a big, heavy book.  Practically everyone owns...

A Victorian Inspired Paperweight Featuring Dried Baby's Breath and Statice

This paperweight was made using some of the small flowers I dried in my earlier blog post (Six Easy Steps to Creating Beautiful, Dried Flowers). The supplies I used for this project are shown above.  They include tacky glue, foam mounting squares, a swatch of paper to use as the background, some dried flowers, and a brass heart finding. Once again, I'm using the Heirloom Dome paperweight kit from our shop at PhotoWeights.com.  This...