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How To Make Patterns - How to Make Permanent Templates (see below) All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info may be printed out and used for private purposes or school-room use only. It is NOT permitted to use our text or photographs on any website, any blog or any other form of publication. Here is some more useful information: You need patterns and templates mainly for sewing crafts, wood crafts and paper crafts. Creating permanent templates is easy and has a couple of advantages. First, if you wish to create the same project more than once you will save a lot of time because the template is already prepared. And second, if you are working with a group, the templates are durable and can be easily passed along to the next person. Permanent templates are especially useful when making crafts with children. Spring and Easter paper crafts - Have you ever made paper pinwheels or do you need Easter gift boxes? You will find these projects with instructions here, as well as many others to keep you crafting through the spring season! Creative paper crafts for all occasions >>> Would you like to learn about decoupaging or how to alter daily items into new treasures? Learn new paper craft techniques and Find these and other fun to create crafts in this section. Paper crafts for fall and Halloween >>> Decorate your home with typical halloween figures, embellish your window with pumpkin suncatchers or create a pumpkin luminary to lighten up dark evenings. Have fun creating these and more projects found in this section. Quick and easy paper craft projects for Christmas >>> Here you will find crafts to keep you busy at Christmas time. Create greeting card gift boxes, snowflake bookmarkers and a 3-D Christmas tree amongst other quick and easy fun crafts. Decorate your packages with these homemade tags >>> You have wrapped that perfect birthday present and need now the appropriate gift tag to finish it off? This section offers easy tag inpirations and ideas to help you decide what you would like to do. Artist Trading Cards to craft for summer and all occasions >>> Artist trading cards or otherwise known as ATC’s are like miniature works of art. Find out more about them here and examples to show you how you can start making them. Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.craftideas.info     Step-By-Step Tutorials 1 Here you will find over 80 step-by-step tutorials with pictures. Step-by-Step Tutorials 2 Find even more step-by-step tutorials and instructions. New tutorials are being added on a regular basis. How to Make a Gift Bag     1. Lay the tracing paper over item to be copied and trace with a pencil. 2. Once traced, turn paper overand lay it on paper orunderground to receive the pattern. Retrace the lines once again. The pencil markings will rub through to the underground. 3. Once traced, continue with craft according to instructions.   All Wood Crafts here >>>           How to make permanent templates: Supplies needed: Tracing paper, pencil, stick glue and cardboard or cardstock.     1. The first thing you need to do is print out your pattern from this site and transfer the markings on thin paper. 2. Turn the paper over. You can still see the markings. Take stick glue and glue along the edges and also a couple of places within the template. 3. Turn your paper over and stick it onto a sturdy piece of cardboard. You can recycle cereal boxes for this purpose. They are sturdy yet easy to cut through. 4. Cut the pattern now out. 5. Your template is finished. Lay it now on the cardstock or paper of choice and trace around the lines with a pencil. 6. Cut your object out along the lines. It is now ready for your craft project.