Guides

Step by step, for everyone crafting at the kitchen table.

Painting and colouring

Print a colouring page
From your own picture, the gallery or a private link: the picture alone on A4, which paper suits what, and what to do when the lines come out faint.
Wax crayons, colour pencils or felt tips?
What suits which age, which paper takes what, and what to do when the colour goes through.
Colouring at every age
From marks made with the whole arm to shading: what helps at each stage, and why the lines are not a test.

Which beads and pegboards?
Mini, Midi or Maxi, a clear or a white pegboard, and which kinds go together: how to choose beads and a pegboard.
How to make a fuse-bead picture
From pattern to finished picture: lay the beads, let an adult iron them through ironing paper, and let them cool flat.
When the ironing goes wrong
Beads that do not hold together, holes that have closed, a piece that has warped: what the makers themselves advise.
Print at the right size
A bead pattern is printed on A4 at 100 %, not shrunk. How to choose the right settings in your browser, and how to measure the check lines.
A good bead pattern from a photo
Which photos make good bead pictures, how to crop them and how to choose the size and colours.

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