But I draw the best spheres ever now
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It's been a year, I haven't gone past chapter 1. But I draw the best spheres ever now. It's an amazing book.
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Hi, this one is a beauty! I love the top curved pieces, I am still having a hard time getting them out of the mold in one piece! So if anyone has any tips or tricks, please pass them along. I have to read more of the reviews again. I will be adding these to some furniture pieces and some plaques, so many ideas, hard to decide! But having fun while gettin my hands dirty, not to mention my dining table and of course the floor! So yes I highly recommend all of these molds, I got all of them and if they make more, I will get them. So crafty, not to mention beautiful too! And FUN! Make earrings, use only part of the mold make smalls. A money saving beautiful item to add to your handmade items.
Lovely quality, you can use these molds for food, but not for crafting and food, one or the other. These are food grade, for chocolate, fondant and more. So hey you bakers out there and candy makers, these are great! Have fun! I hope you found this review helpful, I read all of them myself and appreciate those that take the time to get detailed, helps with my decision. When I saw these, I had never tried molds before, but oh my, I am hooked! I could make molded pieces all day, I am currently trying different paper clays and I do have a fave.
2844723
Amazing and fun drawings!  Looking forward to more volumes!
2826988
The artist who drew these pictures is amazing.  Super talented.  I couldn't wait to buy her book.  The pictures are so beautiful.  Hurry and get yours!
3704019
using this product on my drawings added value and depth to my art work, so much so that I'm still smiling...
3131633
I always thought I drew very well, however, I wanted help with shading. I bought this book and I am very pleased, I didn't realize how much I didn't know. I love this book! My drawing skills have improved to the point that I am sketching a self portrait, something that I never thought I would be able to do. If you love to draw I recommend this book very highly.
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Hands on!  That says it all for me.  Im constantly looking for new and engaging ways to interest my students and get their hands on items that will help them learn.  So when the folks at Learning Resources sent me their new Dive into Shapes, I knew my students were going to go crazy over it.
My little guys can never seem to get enough fine motor work, and if I can couple fine motor and working with shapes then I'm one happy teacher.  Plus, look at all those bright fun colors.  I have to admit, I couldn't resist diving in and working with these fun manipulatives. (It was actually a little bit addictive to tell you the truth.)
Dive into Shapes comes with a ton of colorful curves and straight plastic pieces including connecting balls.  These coupled with the playing cards included, had my kinder friends loving this activity during our learning stations.  The easily manipulated the pieces and quickly got into the groove of replicating the different shapes on the cards.
The cards provided just enough guidance for those that needed it, but also differentiated and extended learning by offering challenges beyond the basic shapes.  As an instructor, I could quickly assess to see which of my students could easily replicate the pictures and identify those that really needed more practice.
Since we had been studying 3D shapes as well, this activity was especially fun for students when I challenged them to make a cylinder, sphere, cube or cone (that was a tricky one).
They loved the bright colors to make patterns and come up with their own designs and creations or just work off from some of the ones on the cards.  This was definitely one of the quietest stations this go around as they seemed to engaged and were really concentrating on getting the pieces to fit 'just so.'
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I recently bought these pens as a much needed "mom present". I had a set a few years ago, and doodling my college notes became my fast fix for keeping my ADHD satisfied . Unfortunately, my focus was short lived.
I'm not one to blame my personal failures on others, BUT my grades and motivation started their slow decline as my wonderful husband and  children managed to lose my pens one by one. Would I be so bold to say my wonderful family singlehandedly destroyed my hopes of college success by losing my vibrant, smooth writing, colorful Staedtlers? Well, it is a pretty big "coincidence".  Nonetheless, I love the careless pen snatchers and decided to keep them.

I almost immediately started training the pen wreckers the fine art of never touching mom's stuff. Slowly I built my way up from nagging to buying dollar store decoy pens to monitor progress. I won't lie, at times I gave up all hope of ever having anything nice for me alone. I sacrificed so much in those years; I became my own mother's child -- the control freak. The mean guy. But I kept my precious pens in the back of my mind, and I persevered. The husband was the hardest to break, because of his already fully developed habit of using literally anything he can find for anything he wants. The guy has used an entire roll of decorative washi tape to bandage an open wound. It's almost awe inspiring how many ways he can thinks of to use my best tuperware and towels for purposes that leave them useless and disposed of. Yet, I persisted.

 And, finally, it all paid off. I made the plunge and bought the pens. I waited 3 days to try them out, and it was these pens that started my new doodling addiction. Doodling is my peace, my zen, my Xanax and even Adderall. And these pens paved the way.

They are absolutely amazing, but some colors were more amazing then others in their color vibrance, ink flow and overall smoothness in use. The inconsistency between pens, and the fact my black pen ran out in a matter of days factored into the 4 star rating.

And for the record, I am now sole controller of all household art supplies. My children enjoy my creativity, and I no longer immerse myself playing Farmville and Candy Crush to drown them out. My husband, however, has taken a liken to using my pens to color. Mostly under my direct supervision during his allotted time slots.

And the poor guy, bless his heart, truly believes he's using the big boy art supplies instead of their Dollar Tree alternatives.
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I've made cards for YEARS with just my printer, some pens and scissors. I would painstakingly cut out things that never looked perfect, and would buy stickers or pre-cut letters for any text.

No more.

I cannot even tell you how amazed I was the first time I used this. Of course, the first time I used it I made the text way too small, and had the blade down too low and nearly destroyed the mat. But after reading all instructions carefully (again) and watching a video or two on YouTube, I mastered it.

I just design my cards on the provided software, separate each design by material color (in my case paper, since they are cards!) and press go.

I absolutely love the Print 'N Cut feature, to print and cut out little shapes that I later color in. They come out cut perfectly and you can basically now make your own 3D stickers that you probably (like me) spent a fortune on at Hobby Lobby.

Very lovely little device to have if you are a serious crafter. I am so happy I bought this--I can now make cards in bulk in the same amount of time it would take me to make one or two.
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The work that goes into these is wondrous! Nathaniel Wake has done an amazing job with his illustrations and I couldn't be happier with what he offers to the adult coloring community. This book and the others I own do not disappoint. I find i out so much more thought into my pieces because all I want to do is bring these to life. You will be happy with these books not to mention how much bang for your buck you get. ENJOY!
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this is amazing. i absolutely love it, and so did everybody who saw me with it. i think i need to purchase a few more with different graphics
214127
High quality and are meeting all my drawing expectations!!!
203004
About a year ago I saw a video about 3D pens and I thought I want that. Now I have one and I am in love with it. Pen came in a cute little box with the plug in for it, 3 colors of ink and a piece of fabric for cleaning the lcd screen. Its very easy to understand and reminds me a lot like a hot glue gun. It comes in a nice sturdy box that is perfect for storing or at least keeping the extra ink colors you buy because you will buy more. First you have to heat up the pen so that the ink which is plastic can melt so that you can start your masterpiece. There is so often with a regular drawing I wish it was 3D and now it can be. This is so much fun and I love that there are so many colors you can get to refill this with. There is still so much I want to do with this because there is so much to learn and I am even thinking about getting one for an aunt for Christmas. She is a retired art teacher and now with all her free time she is doing so many art and crafts projects. This would be perfect for her. I would recommend this pen to anyone who has saw the videos and said I want one. Perfect gift for the artsy person in your family.
I received this at a discount for my honest and unbiased review
106745
This is so neat! Hold a sphere perfectly no matter the size!
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I haven't been able to make that perfect sphere but will keep at it.
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This is amazing!!!! I really love the quality, the graphite really just blends on the paper. I'm an animation/illustration major and this is great, it adds so much more life in my drawings. I could really get the feel on the paper, it just glides and its 24 count!
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OMG this is beautiful art painting so many comment