Archive for August, 2009
September Challenge: Bouquets of Buttons
September always makes me think of two things: that line in You’ve Got Mail, where Tom Hanks writes to Meg Ryan that if he could, he’d send her a bouquet of sharpened pencils. The second thing September makes me think of is autumn, which makes me think of the leaves changing, and the need to [...]
Sketch Sunday – Aug. 30
Good morning. Hopefully over the past few 4 weeks, you’ve created 4 new awesome layouts. For the next few installments of Sketch Sunday, I’ll be bringing you great sketches plus some simple techniques to try from each of my corresponding layouts. This week’s sketch is a Becky Fleck PageMap featured in Basic [...]
Elina’s Everyday: Plumber’s tape
What is today’s tutorial? Plumber’s tape!
Head to your husband’s, boyfriend’s, father’s toolbox and get those plumber’s tapes to make a fantastic, easy mini accordion book!!Cut as many same size pieces of thin chipboard you want to make an accordion album and cover them with patterned paper. Distress the edges and ink them if you like [...]
Tutorial Tuesday: playdough embellishment
I did a page with playdough embllies and had a lot of people ask about them. So here we go….
Materials
play dough
stamps/cutters
1. Decide what you want to make. I will be showing you some hand cut and rolled embellies and some stamped embellies.
2.for the big flower I rolled the playdough like snakes.these are what I call [...]
Sketch Sunday 4
Good morning, and welcome to Sketch Sunday. There are so many fantastic scrapbook designers it’s easy to get overwhelmed by different styles, who’s doing what, and who designs for who. Here is one of my absolute personal favorites. Her name is Christine Middlecamp, and her blog is Retrospection. Since first discovering [...]
