Art & Craft Ideas, How to Tutorials, Handmade Gift
Oh, the pressure of Valentine, year after year…. Most men dread the day or rather the implied obligation, I think. Looking beyond the social obligation, however, I think all want to do something kind and ideally, we’re all looking for some real originality? Something really NON-frilly, yet romantic? This is tough to find this, [...]
Sunday and … nothing to do??? Well, you don’t need to bring the ‘Cat in the Hat’ in the house for entertainment. You can just embellish a wooden heart frame. What you’ll need for this Valentine frame: Foam hearts sequins white glue a picture of yourself, a lovely photography, or some Valentine verses [...]
Yep. You get to create your own book of love…. That is: you can use it as a Valentines Book with love verses, lovely Baby Album for photos, or Affirmation Book with notes. No matter how you’ll use it, I ‘m sharing with you the ‘how to’ for a craft a lovely scrapbook project! I [...]
Ah, Valentine’s Day’s coming, and as I now live far from some of my North American friends, I better start early making some lovely cards. Yesterday I took the Scrapbooking books, tools and tootles out and look what I found that I had: a lovely illustrated tutorial on How to scrapbook a Friendship card. [...]
Free Funky Calendar 2010 on a zero $ budget? Yes, here are 4 fun & crafty calendars that you only have to … print! How lovely a start of the new year is that!
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 to [...]
Wonder what your kid could give grandma for Christmas? Well, that’s easy. Any craft shop, dollar store (& IKEA) has these inexpensive blank wood picture frames. They are so easy to decorate, and they look really good when embellished. How to Decorate Picture Frames Have your kids decide on a color-scheme and a theme, [...]
Did you know that Andy Warhol made some other kind of artwork than that ’4 images in different color scheme’ kinda thing? In the beginning of his art career, Warhol was a commercial graphic designer for retail. For this job, he created fun, whimsical artwork, particularly for the Christmas holidays. This image here is of [...]
I just came across this little article by NatureMom, Tiffany Washko, and as I haven’t written about scrapbooking lately other than in relation to back-to-school craft, I thought to post it here, as it is time to think about creating XMAS gifts. If you have a long list, you have to start early. And I [...]
I aimed for 50 good back-to-school craft ideas this year. Well, we did quite a lot of crafts, albeit not anywhere near 50 projects. In fact, we spent so much time on the crafts, that I’ve ran out of time to write articles about our own back-to-school craft projects. So instead, here are some of [...]
Wish Happy Fathers Day to your ‘Golf Pro’ dad with this personalized golf puzzle template / Fathers’ Day greeting card, which reads: “You swing being my Dad really well.” Simply click on the thumbnail to download your free template. Print the page and sign it with your name and a personal message for your dad [...]
This lovely teal and sand -colored card says all, and does so in a simple way: ‘I love dad’. The paisleys and the design are somewhat oriental, however, they probably appeal to Texan dads as well… Happy Fathers Day! To get your free downloadable greeting card, click on the thumbnail here. Complementary Fathers Day Ideas [...]
This is the sequel from the Craft a Simple, Marvellous Desk Calendar – February Page, and it marks my first of 30 entries featuring BUTTERFLIES. I am dedicating March to be BUTTERFLY month, the month of transformation and Spring. March Scarpbooking Layout Beyond the butterfly-theme, I have embraced the theme of Easter, featuring decorated Easter [...]
I thought to design some font for you to use for your free Valentine Card Template that I created for you a few days ago. Free Valentine Font Click on the image, to find the larger letters. Cut and paste your message. Yes, of course, you can use this lettering for any other scrapbooking project [...]
February just showed up and I hadn’t had a calendar page ready for this month for my brandnew handmade desk calendar. Oh la la… So, about a week ago, I devised this one, in less than 3 minutes… !! (Taking this picture, cropping and color correcting it in Photoshop took more time than the project [...]
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 do [...]
This is the season of new beginnings, and a new calendar always is the mark of it. Grap this button for easy linking from your site to this free tutorial. Free Tutorial for a Desk Calendar 1. Undo a classic (new) CD jewel case from its interior trappings. 2. Cut a light-colored piece of paper [...]
Rubber stamps are so versatile for the use of scrapbooking. They are fun and inexpensive. Above all: stamps allow you to create many scrapbooking styles and vignets, in a flash. Plus they can be used with other media and techniques. The more often you use them, it seems that the more versatile they become, as [...]
Even though crafting is really all about using your hands to create something pretty and soulful, there is no doubt that the advent of software has made our lives as crafters much easier! I personally use Photoshop a lot to analyze colors and to try out combinations very fast. In addition, there is fabulous software [...]
Are you getting bored with the beginner tactics you learned as a scrapbooker just starting out? Are all of your scrapbooks starting to look the same? If so, it may be time that you began implementing advanced techniques to take your scrapbooks to a higher level. If you’re beginning to lose inspiration for your scrapbooks, [...]
: amazing what a little ribbon can do…. Ribbons have to be a #1 loved item in the shopping baskets of scrapbooking artists. They are just so fun and versatile, and a mere inch of the right ribbon literally lifts an entire layout from flat and mediocre to show more dimensional zest. 50 Ways to [...]
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