August 13th, 2017
Inside: how to make an inspiration mini book with patterns and color combinations Do you ever create for the sake of creating and fun or do you always create something that is useful and has a purpose? I love creating with no specific goal or purpose just for the fun and the creative process. When that happens I start with a technique or a material and just play with it until something starts to form. This process is very inspiring because it allows you to experiment, try new things without worrying you’ll destroy a specific project. WHAT IS AN INSPIRATION MINI BOOK An inspiration book is something that inspires you to start a creative process. Each one is inspired by different things so each inspiration book will look different. The book can inspire you while you create it or after it’s complete – it is all up yo you! HOW TO MAKE YOUR …
August 6th, 2017
Inside: Learn how to make an interactive mini album in a box I love making DIY gifts but I want to make them useful and not something that will be forgotten on a shelf or in its box. That’s why a mini album in a box set is a great gift to make for someone because it’s not only pretty it’s also practical. But how do you make the box fit the mini album and how do you make the photo album inside? To answer these questions scroll down and check out the tutorial! DIY MINI ALBUM AND PAPER BOX SET When you go online you can get dizzy with all the options you can find. So let’s try to see what is what… There are two main types of mini albums in a box that you can make. Both are interactive, which means they are or have moving flaps, pockets and other mechanisms in …
June 27th, 2017
Hi dear crafty friends!Today I’m sharing a new mini album I created for Photographs ad Memoried Scrapbooking. My Man Masculine Interactive Mini Album Tutorial also has a supplies kit you can purchase to create this album! You can get this kit at Photographs ad Memoried Scrapbooking. It’s all about the men in your lives and what they love to do!! This mini album is full of space for photos and journaling. My Man Masculine Interactive Mini Album TutorialMasculine projects can some times be a problem but if you have the right materials you can create the most amazing project. This kit has beautiful pages with masculine colors like red, black and gray. It also has beautiful embellishments like cogwheels and matching ribbons and my favorite is the postcard size papers with vintage printing of masculinr hobbies like fishing, chess, bicycle and sports. The layout of this mini album might seems complicated at first but the video tutorial will take you step by …
October 21st, 2016
Inside: how to make a Halloween mini album with hidden pockets, surprising flaps and other interactive spooky elements. I think that interactive mini albums are great but they are especially great for Halloween. Making an interactive mini album filled with pockets, hidden flaps and inserts is exactly like making a witch’s spell book that every page is a new surprise. This mini album is full of spooky moving additions and you can make it too just follow the video tutorial HALLOWEEN MINI ALBUM Making holiday mini albums is a long and grand scrapbook tradition. When there is so much designed and specialty papers and embellishments available it is almost impossible to resist making a mini album for evey holiday. It is even more fitting when it comes to Halloween so here’s why I think making a Halloween mini album is a must: There are many great looking photos of kids in costumes that are just perfect …
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 …
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 …
November 17th, 2015
Inside: how to make a Christmas junk journal from all your paper scraps Every year I teach the 12 Cards of Christmas series (see recent 2020 series) and I’m left with a lot of Christmas papers that are too small for making cards but can still be used for something. I hate throwing away paper scraps and actually I almost never do so I’m left with lots of leftovers. I challenge myself to use them in different ways and one of these ways is to collect a pile of papers and turn them into a junk journal. WHAT IS A JUNK JOURNAL Junk journals can vary from person to person, but it generally most of them do share one primary characteristic: The journal is made with mostly a mix of found and recycled materials mostly papers. HOW TO MAKE A CHRISTMAS JUNK JOURNAL Making a junk jornal is easy if you follow three …
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