January 24th, 2020
Inside: craft cutting tools tips and recommendations I was recently asked about what paper cutting tools I use. I wanted to answer right away, but then I realized the answer is not as clear as I thought it was. There are different ways to achieve the same result and each crafter has its own preferences and tools. GENERAL PAPER CUTTING TOOLS When you are faced with a task of cutting a piece of paper you basically have two options: A craft knife or scissors right? Wrong! Because you have different kinds of knives and scissors and trimmers and cutters and the list is almost endless. So How do you know what to use for what? HOW TO MAKE A STRAIGHT CUT The best way to cut a straight line is to use a trimmer. It is fast, accurate and easy. I use it whenever I need to cut squares of paper, like a 12×12 page …
January 17th, 2020
Inside: four easy ideas on how to use bad photos on your scrapbook pages In the digital age we’re not afraid to take pictures and photograph things because we can always delete them! But I still have old developed photos which are not so successful to say the least and it really bother me that I can’t do anything with them. When I say unsuccessful I mean blurry photos but mostly un scrapable photos. Those photos which don’t tell any story, which have unwanted people in the background or not so nice facial expressions. The photos where somebody else took for me and I wish I didn’t ask because they are too close or too far or not what I wanted…you get the picture. WHAT ARE BAD PHOTOS? Bad photos are all those photos that are unusable both objectively and subjectively. So these photos may be unusable in your eyes but they can also be …
January 10th, 2020
Inside: smart ways to use all your old cards from the holidays. Instead of throwing them away reuse and re-purpose them ! This time of year we all have many cards around the house. On one hand I always feel really bad throwing them away because people took the time to pick them, write something and then send them but on the other hand I don’t really want to keep them because it’s just a card with a few words like I get every year and if I keep them all I’ll need another room… Lol So I started thinking if keeping them or throwing them were my two only options… apparently not! WAYS TO USE OLD CARDS KEEP THEM Keep cards from special events like a wedding or Bar-Mitzva as a piece of family history to show your children or grandchildren. Don’t keep all of them just the ones with special design, words …
January 3rd, 2020
Inside: 10 reasons you’ll want to make mini albums for your photos When I discovered mini albums a few years back I thought I discovered a treasure! I thought it was a genius solution for many of the issues I had with the large 12×12 scrapbook pages. I have to admit that since then I hardly made any layouts and I’m completely in love with the mini album concept. However I often get asked what’s the point? Why make mini albums instead of the traditional 12×12 pages? What are the benefits… why should I make them? WHY MAKE MINI ALBUMS MANAGEABLE PROJECT For some people, especially me, the thought of starting a big 12X12 scrapbook is just too overwhelming and time consuming. Just the thought of starting a large page, think about how to fit all these photos to one or two pages really discourages me from even starting. When I know there …
December 27th, 2019
Inside: what happened when I decided to organize my craft paper stash and how I did it I went into my craft room all inspired to start working on a new project. A new scrapbook page idea was rolling in my head and I wanted to finally make it. It was just a matter of finding the right 12×12 cardstock to start my page. I started going through my piles of paper looking for that one specific page I knew I had… 20 minutes later… I couldn’t find it! The entire idea was based on that paper and once I couldn’t find it I lost my inspiration and ended up never making that scrapbook page. Sure.. I could have come up with another idea for that page but I just lost my crafty feeling… So what happened? MY CRAFT PAPER STASH IS TOO BIG What happened was I couldn’t craft because I wasn’t organized! We all …
December 26th, 2019
Inside: best and important painting tips every beginner should know This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Polaroid Photobar. This post includes affiliate links. When you click and purchase from these links we may get a commission from the seller. The cool thing is, this doesn’t cost you any extra money! “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh I don’t have a formal artistic education… everything I know I taught myself. For many years i thought that if I don’t have that formal education I can’t paint… I even thought I have no right to paint because I don’t know how to do it, not properly. Boy!… was I wrong! THE MOST IMPORTANT PAINTING TIP Contrary to what people might think painting IS for EVERYONE and it’s much easier than you think. When …
December 6th, 2019
Inside: how to start an art journal page and completing it like a pro every time Sometimes I sit in front of my art journal and just stare at the blank page not knowing where to go from here. Yes!… it happens to me too – I just have no idea how to start… I really hates when it happens to me so I tried to think what happens when I do know how to start and my creative process runs smoothly. I discovered that whenever I’m stuck and don’t know how to begin there are three things that work. HOW TO START AN ART JOURNAL PAGE There are three main ways to start an art journal page: CREATE THE BACKGROUND: this is the best way to go if you don’t have any other idea or direction. START WITH A TECHNIQUE: if there’s a technique you want to try or experiment with then it will be …
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