October 4th, 2016
Inside: the best scrapbooking tips that will make your pages look amazing! When I started scrapbooking all those years ago I started it because I wanted to remember the stories behind the photos. It wasn’t about beauty or design at first, just about the memory. But slowly, being the artistic person that I am, I wanted my pages to look good and tell the story in amore impressive way. It’s like a show with a nice set, beautiful costumes and fancy lighting compared to a show that is poorly produced and has no set, costumes or lighting to speak of. They both tell the story, but which is more interesting, more compelling and more enjoyable? SCRAPBOOKING TIPS TO UPGRADE YOUR PAGES Making beautiful scrapbook pages that tell the story behind the photos in an interesting, original and engaging way is much easier than you think! By following a few simple tips you can upgrade your …
September 16th, 2016
Inside: how to make whimsical DIY paper dolls for paper crafts Remember when we were kids (the older ladies among us) and paper dolls were a big hit? Well, they are now popular in crafts more than ever and they are being made in different styles and sizes. From altered paper dolls to mixed media, moving and stamped in art journaling, scrapbooking, cards and more. WHAT ARE PAPER DOLLS Paper dolls or paper piecing dolls are figures cut out of paper or thin card, sometimes with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the dolls by paper folding tabs. They may be a figure of a person, animal or inanimate object and they have been inexpensive children’s toys for almost two hundred years. Today, many artists are turning paper dolls into an art form. HOW TO MAKE PAPER PIECING DOLLS The basic technique for making paper dolls is …
July 19th, 2016
Inside: how to make a DIY bulletin board in minutes! How many times did you go grocery shopping and came back home with what you don’t need? It happens to me every time that I go to the supermarket without a list! I have a terrible memory and it doesn’t really help to see the products on the shelf and remember you need them, even though that’s what I tell myself. Experience has taught me that a list is my friend not just in the grocery store, if I don’t write things down I forget! So I write everything on post-it notes, pieces of papers and lately on my new DIY bulletin board that I made in minutes! WHAT CAN YOU USE TO MAKE A BULLETIN BOARD You can make a DIY bulletin board for home or the office from almost anything. You can recycle an old frame or make it from scratch. Here are …
June 26th, 2016
Inside: you’ll find what is gel printing and the basics of gelli printing – materials, tools and techniques you need to know! Although I have a room full of craft supplies I never seem to have the paper I need. I’m a control freak so I like to match my papers to the theme, mood, colors and basically everything. So it drives me crazy if I don’t have the exact same paper I envision in my head. The solution: Compromise on the projects I make, which is unacceptable to me… Make my own papers Move in the craft store so I’ll have access to as many papers I want I decided to make my own papers and I found the most fun, easy and creative way to do it! WHAT IS GEL PRINTING Gel printing or gelli printing is a form of art to make prints called monoprinting. Previously in order to …
June 5th, 2016
Inside: how to embellish pocket mini album pages When you go somewhere do you always take your purse? I have to admit I’m kind of lazy that way. Because when I go somewhere close or for a short time I prefer putting some things in my pockets and don’t take my purse at all. That’s why all my pants have pockets. So do all my jackets and coats, so this way I can stick my phone, keys and credit card in them and go! Pockets are very useful not only in pants but in mini albums too. They serve the same purpose of adding extra space for things. In this case more photos and journaling cards. POCKET MINI ALBUM Pocket mini album come in all shapes and sizes and you can make them in any size. It’s an album that has pocket pages, which means that all or most the pages have a space to …
May 24th, 2016
Inside: how to make frugal DIY paper embellishments for the most amazing craft projects How many times you were making a scrapbook page or a card and needed an embellishment but couldn’t find anything that fits? Instead of buying every embellishment in the craft store make your own! WHAT IS FRUGAL CRAFTING Frugal crafting is a way of crafting that emphasize using the craft supplies you have to make all your project and instead of buying supplies – making them from what you have! Here are a few tips how you can use the supplies you already have in your craft projects: Use household items as the base for your project. For example, use milk or juice cartons to make a project like a photo display, recipe box and more. Check out some ideas here. Add items from other parts of life as embellishments to your project. For example: use metal washers, screws and …
April 17th, 2016
Inside: how to make a pop up book! Pop up books always fascinated me with the beautiful 3D images and shapes standing on the book’s pages. How to make a pop up book seemed like a mystery to me and I thought they are impossible to make. I was determined to solve this mystery and find out how I can make such a book. WHAT IS A POP UP BOOK A pop-up book is any book with three-dimensional pages. Design and creation of such books in arts is also known as “paper engineering” and you need thick and siff cardstock, cutting, folding and the use of glue to make them. BASICS OF POP UP PAGE DESIGN Making a pop up book is not as complicated as it looks. There are really only two things you need to know to build a pop up page: How to build the pop up mechanism, which is the …
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