French Patisserie
Share May you find inspiration in the art of Paris’ world-famous patisserie house, Laduree, who creates refined chocolates, macarons and patisserie which taste exquisite and look like beautiful jewels, and which make glamorous gifts. Artists & artisans throughout time have been inspired by the colors and shapes of food. While renaissance painters may have preferred [...]
Digital Photography Business
Share If you love taking photos wherever you go: in the supermarket, on the street, at fairs, on vacation, and just about everywhere else, you probably stand a great stance to actually making an income from your digital photographic art. I just read an old children’s book this morning, that explains how photography used to [...]
Holiday Photo Cards
Share OK. Time to get the Christmas cards ready. Now. I know that my top 10 favorite people always get their Christmas cards either late, or on the day, because I’ll give them handmade Christmas cards by yours truly. And because they love me back, it’s ok that they are late-ish. However, for my wider [...]
Sea Shell Picture Frames: Not Just for Summer
Share As I love shell frames year round, I just want to remind you / set you free from any limiting thinking re seashells: seashell frames are not just for summer!!! When brushed with gold and silver paint, (or bronze) they are also appropriate decorations for Fall and as XMAS gifts. And in Spring, you [...]
50+ Cool Recycled Crafts – final part
Share Learn here how to make newspaper yarn, or T-shirt yarn…. It’s getting more and more creative! This last part of the series of ’50+ Recycled Crafts’ I’ve dedicated to a special category, i.e. on how to make recycled craft tools and supplies – some special tutorials. Great Recycling Tutorials for Eco Artists [...]
Tutorial Polymer Clay Bracelet & Earring Set
Share A fun and easy polymer clay jewelry set make a great Valentine’s Gift for a girl friend. Tip: You can use this tutorial as the basis, from which to make more complex designer jewelry. Even changing the colors to chocolate, powder blue and off-white will shift the style of the piece to be more [...]
Anthropologie for Less: 5 Decorating Craft Ideas
Share Apartment Therapy is starting to be ‘like me’ once and a while. Today, I looked at the Anthropologie January 2010 Catalog through their eyes, and this is what I found: 5 contemporary craft projects to make your home Parisian & splendid! For those of you who are not fortunate to live near an [...]
Craft Calendars 2010
Share It’s January 1. Time for a new calendar. While I’m all for recycling old calendars and creating your own calendar (In fact, I have an article on how to make your own desk calendar, and will soon post some new scrapbooking page layouts for this calendar), I could not help it but just needed [...]
How to Photograph Pumpkins
Share When it comes to photographing pumpkins anyone can benefit from photography tips that can make your seasonal photos look more professional. I thought to share my tips with you here so you too can create lovely, original photos of your own pumpkin creations of the lavish seasonal displays by others. 1. Tell a [...]
Most Popular Digital Camera
Share I was just over at Darren Rowse’s digital photography site (digital-photography-school.com) to see what is going on technically in the world of digital photography, that would be of interest for my craft crowd here. Turns out he did a review of the most popular digital cameras in the first quarter of 2009, listing Digital [...]
Zippy Father’s Day Card
Share Have a Cool, City Slicker Father? You might like to wish him Happy Father’s Day with this unique card of zippers, leaves and a butterfly. Click here for your free fathers day card Card reads “Dad, I love you.” If you wish, you can add ‘Happy Fathers Day’ on [...]
Father’s Day Card for Natural Dads
Share For Nature-loving Outdoors Dads & kids, I’ve made an easy solution: click this greeting card thumbnail to download, print and sign your card, and go play back outside. Your Father’s Day Card reads: ‘When it comes to being a Dad, you’re a Natural!’. Possible Card Embellishments: Glue some twigs and leaves onto a [...]
Father’s Day Card for a New Dad
Share This Father’s Day card for new fathers features a lovely baby coming fresh out of the cabbage. It is an absolutely adorable image, and yes, mom, you get to give it to the new dad. Click on the thumbnail to download your free greeting. Suggested Embellishment Give this greeting in a nice-looking frame. [...]
Craft & Art Instruction :: Books I’m Currently Reading
Share Today I thought to share with you the books that I like reading / am getting inspiration from / am currently plowing through. Most are related to projects I am either doing right now, articles I am planning to write, projects that are coming down the pipeline, and then of course, good old food [...]
Easy to Make Valentine’s Card in Photoshop
Share Today I want to take you through the easy steps to make a professional Valentine’s card with text in Photoshop. The Valentine’s Card I created here as an illustration ~ … and to email my hubby on Valentine’s day ~ took me all of 15 minutes to make, start to finish. How did I [...]
Nature Photo Contest :: Enter Today
Share The deadline for the International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition is upcoming: January 31, 2009. I love photo competitions and whenever I spot one, I’m considering and I’ll share the interesting ones here (even though I know that creates more competition ~ oh well.). Let’s consider this nature photo contest. Who can enter? [...]
Three Easy Steps For Marketing Your Photography Online
Share These are ways to both promote and sell your photo stock on the Internet. In the process of doing so, you will also have opportunities to ‘meet’ many people interested in your work and in photography along the way. As a result, you will gain in manifold by implementing the ideas suggested here. Live [...]
Prestigeous Photo Contest – Enter Today
Share The Hasselblad Masters Award competition is on now. The closing date for submissions is January 1st 2009, so start getting ready and don’t wait till the last 4 days, as it will be Christmas and crazy busy, both in your life and on their website. Entry is free. You may already know that “The [...]
Photo Camera Bestsellers
Share It is not often that I feature any photography, or other art and craft making tools. However, as we’re asked so often about cameras, I thought this could be an exception. Here is a top 10 from sourced from some of the world’s most successful online retailer, Amazon. You will find that Canon is [...]
Photography’s Digital Possibilities – Special Effects Using Photoshop- part 3
Share Continuation of part 2 of the digital photography artistry article by Morten Svenningsen: Colour grading You know how some movies have a ‘special look’, golden brown, sick yellow-greenish, cool blue etc.? You can get the same effect in your photos if you want. The simple way is to go to ‘Image > Adjustments > [...]
Photography’s Digital Possibilities – Special Effects Using Photoshop- part 2
Share Continuation of part 1 of the digital photography artistry article by Morten Svenningsen: Lens-like effects Using the layer masking described above, you can apply ‘Gaussian blur’ which will make the selected areas appear soft-focused, a bit like if you had used a large-aperture lens. With ‘Curves’ you can make your corners darker than the [...]
Photography’s Digital Possibilities – Special Effects Using Photoshop- part 1
Share Before you apply any of these special effects, it can be useful to apply a masking on your photo to select which areas you want to change and which you want to keep unchanged. You can easily get a nice soft fade between the effect and no-effect areas. This is called masking and there’s [...]
Flower Photo Tips
Share Ahhh… Spring is here again, the tulip festival is on, and million of gardens are blossoming, offering you millions of subjects to shoot and personify. Picture taking seems to naturally attach itself to visiting tulip fields for hobbyists and professional photographers alike. However, while the tulip fields offer a visually colorful inspiration to make [...]
Photography Scholarship
Share A National Geographic Assignment – For Life ~ WorldNomads.com announces 2008 Travel Photography Scholarship in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel. Making a living out of travelling the world is something many ‘world nomads’ aspire to, and we’re hoping to be able to help a few talented individuals make that their reality through our [...]
Digital Photography – 11 Tips For Taking Better Digital Photographs Of Jewelry And Craft Items
Share I am often asked by jewelry and craft artists what they can do to improve their photography. Here are my top 11 tips for anyone that has problems taking great digital photographs. 1.Use a tripod and the camera self-timer. Using these two items at all times will give you clear and sharp photographs. 2.Keep [...]
How to Get Your Photography Noticed, Gain Recognition and Start Making Money
Share The Questions When a reader wrote, “Recently I have taken an interest in photography and am taking a photography class at a local community college.” She then asked, “How do I get my artwork noticed by someone who can do something about it?” She added that her art, “… is something that I am [...]
