Ok people just a link for you all to be able to view my Etsy shop. Have a look around Etsy and see what you can see, it's full of talented crafts people from all over the world, selling all kinds of wonderful craft, handmade, vintage, recycled and upcycled items.
My link to my site is HERE>
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Etsy soon
Well I had hoped to have my videos up this week, but I have found I need to give myself a video camera refresher course!
On the plus side I will be photographing some of my crafty items for upload into my etsy shop tomorrow, and will supply a link when done. I have been in a jewellery making frenzy the last few weeks, and along with my handmade scrap items will be posting them at Etsy for sale in my shop.
so I'm a busy bee this week, and will be adding a few posts here once im organised. with all this going on I have no time to scrap for myself, am hoping that will change next week and I can get some ME time.!
On the plus side I will be photographing some of my crafty items for upload into my etsy shop tomorrow, and will supply a link when done. I have been in a jewellery making frenzy the last few weeks, and along with my handmade scrap items will be posting them at Etsy for sale in my shop.
so I'm a busy bee this week, and will be adding a few posts here once im organised. with all this going on I have no time to scrap for myself, am hoping that will change next week and I can get some ME time.!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Seriously scrapbooking
Just a quick note to let you all know that in the next few days we will begin adding our "Scrapbooking for newbies" videos here for you to view.
We plan to take you on a voyage of discovery through the wonderful and amazing world of scrapbooking. I've always found it much more interesting to watch video instructions and lessons, so I figured I would do the same for my blog followers.
As many videos as I can make I will have here for viewing.
Taking you from the utter basics of scrapbooking, my primary aim at the moment is to show you how to scrap using minimal tools and embellishments, to let you dip your toe in the creative waters before running off to the Scrapbooking store and spending your months rent.
Please bookmark and check back regularly. This site will update every few days.
We plan to take you on a voyage of discovery through the wonderful and amazing world of scrapbooking. I've always found it much more interesting to watch video instructions and lessons, so I figured I would do the same for my blog followers.
As many videos as I can make I will have here for viewing.
Taking you from the utter basics of scrapbooking, my primary aim at the moment is to show you how to scrap using minimal tools and embellishments, to let you dip your toe in the creative waters before running off to the Scrapbooking store and spending your months rent.
Please bookmark and check back regularly. This site will update every few days.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Scrapbooking is easy
So I'd done a class, and bought a few magazines.
Ok if I am honest I bought quite a few magazines.
I spent a lot of time looking through these glorious pages and feeling quite overwhelmed. Scrapbook magazines full of incredibly creative and colourful scrapped pages that impressed me and left me feeling a little flat. I started to think it was a waste of time getting excited about it, as I'd never be as good as the people submitting pages to magazines.
One thing that at this very point in time, I want to share with you. every single scrapper I have ever met, has at some point thought like this. Don't.
Scrapbooking is about you, your creativity, your ideas, your family and your memories. Nobody elses. By all means use these gorgeous magazines for inspiration but don't hold your own work up to these pieces and start thinking that it's about comparisons and how your work measures up to someone else.
It's personal and it's to be enjoyed. Ultimately you don't even have to ever show anyone your work, do it for yourself and the pleasure you get from it. You will notice over time, once your confidence with your materials improves so will the confidence in your work.
I've noticed over the years how my style has changed too. Colours and embellishments I once loved have evolved and changed, into a look that is coompletely different to when I first began.
Back to the magazines - I have a huge collection of scrapping magazines, and would encourage any beginner to buy a few and have a really good look through them. Get a feel for how pages are put together, read through and take in the kinds of styles that are being used by scrappers. Take note of the topics and photo styles used on pages.
At this point you can start to think about your own pages. How many photographs have you got stuffed in a shoebox, or jammed into a dusty old photo album that deserve to be preserved and enlivened on a Scrap page?
Tips for today
1. Get a hold of some scrapbooking magazines
2. Read through and start taking note of the ideas behind pages, what is being celebrated in these pages?
3. Don't compare your work to others.
Ok if I am honest I bought quite a few magazines.
I spent a lot of time looking through these glorious pages and feeling quite overwhelmed. Scrapbook magazines full of incredibly creative and colourful scrapped pages that impressed me and left me feeling a little flat. I started to think it was a waste of time getting excited about it, as I'd never be as good as the people submitting pages to magazines.
One thing that at this very point in time, I want to share with you. every single scrapper I have ever met, has at some point thought like this. Don't.
Scrapbooking is about you, your creativity, your ideas, your family and your memories. Nobody elses. By all means use these gorgeous magazines for inspiration but don't hold your own work up to these pieces and start thinking that it's about comparisons and how your work measures up to someone else.
It's personal and it's to be enjoyed. Ultimately you don't even have to ever show anyone your work, do it for yourself and the pleasure you get from it. You will notice over time, once your confidence with your materials improves so will the confidence in your work.
I've noticed over the years how my style has changed too. Colours and embellishments I once loved have evolved and changed, into a look that is coompletely different to when I first began.
Back to the magazines - I have a huge collection of scrapping magazines, and would encourage any beginner to buy a few and have a really good look through them. Get a feel for how pages are put together, read through and take in the kinds of styles that are being used by scrappers. Take note of the topics and photo styles used on pages.
At this point you can start to think about your own pages. How many photographs have you got stuffed in a shoebox, or jammed into a dusty old photo album that deserve to be preserved and enlivened on a Scrap page?
Tips for today
1. Get a hold of some scrapbooking magazines
2. Read through and start taking note of the ideas behind pages, what is being celebrated in these pages?
3. Don't compare your work to others.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Scrapbooking for beginners - A place to start
Which in the words of Julie Andrews - is a very good place to start.
Scrapbooking is certainly not a new craft. The idea of collecting momentoes and placing them into a book for future reflection, has gone on since the dawn of time.
I know my own Grandmother collected cards, clippings the odd postcard and had them all stuck into an album with her reminiscent scribbles throughout, comments on who was who, where they were or what happened on a certain day. I myself, 30 odd years ago did the same thing putting old tickets stubs, photos, poems all into a book that I used to love flicking through and remembering fun times I had as a kid.
Around 1996, I had a mail order rubber stamp company. I'd been into stamps for a while, had made lots of cards and tags and dabbled in altered books. I had been importing rubber stamps from companies in the USA, and making do with what I could learn from the handful of stampers I knew, and what could be gained from the odd craft convention.
It was during a trip to the USA that year that my mind was truly opened to just what was out there. I realised that stamping was the tip of the iceberg, that what I had seen and learned previously, was NOTHING compared to what was out there for the creative soul. It was during this trip - visiting stamping wholesalers and retailers, that I really switched on to what could be done with some of the wonderful supplies available at that time in the USA. We all bought up big on gadgets and gizmos, papers, ribbons and of course stamps. Most of us (who all had craft businesses) had never seen some of the stuff here, that we could get there.
The internet was still relatively new, the only way to see a companies product was to get a hard copy catalogue mailed over, the net has now made it so much better for the home crafter to be able to get their hands on all kinds of exotic and exciting materials.
When I got home I started to think there has to be more that I can do than make cards. I didn't spend too much time thinking about it but there was a nagging feeling that.. I should be doing more with all these wonderful ideas and supplies. In the year 2000 I spotted an ad for a Scrapbooking class. I went along, and haven't looked back.
Tips for this week:
1. A scrapbooking class is a fantastic way to start. Be it with a local store on a Saturday afternoon, adult education or an independant consultants class. Take the plunge, do a class and get a feel for it. You will be hooked.
2.Use the internet to look for shops in your local area
3. Use the internet to source out of the ordinary products from scrapbook stores anywhere in the world.
Bookmark this blog and check regularly for updates.
Scrapbooking is certainly not a new craft. The idea of collecting momentoes and placing them into a book for future reflection, has gone on since the dawn of time.
I know my own Grandmother collected cards, clippings the odd postcard and had them all stuck into an album with her reminiscent scribbles throughout, comments on who was who, where they were or what happened on a certain day. I myself, 30 odd years ago did the same thing putting old tickets stubs, photos, poems all into a book that I used to love flicking through and remembering fun times I had as a kid.
Around 1996, I had a mail order rubber stamp company. I'd been into stamps for a while, had made lots of cards and tags and dabbled in altered books. I had been importing rubber stamps from companies in the USA, and making do with what I could learn from the handful of stampers I knew, and what could be gained from the odd craft convention.
It was during a trip to the USA that year that my mind was truly opened to just what was out there. I realised that stamping was the tip of the iceberg, that what I had seen and learned previously, was NOTHING compared to what was out there for the creative soul. It was during this trip - visiting stamping wholesalers and retailers, that I really switched on to what could be done with some of the wonderful supplies available at that time in the USA. We all bought up big on gadgets and gizmos, papers, ribbons and of course stamps. Most of us (who all had craft businesses) had never seen some of the stuff here, that we could get there.
The internet was still relatively new, the only way to see a companies product was to get a hard copy catalogue mailed over, the net has now made it so much better for the home crafter to be able to get their hands on all kinds of exotic and exciting materials.
When I got home I started to think there has to be more that I can do than make cards. I didn't spend too much time thinking about it but there was a nagging feeling that.. I should be doing more with all these wonderful ideas and supplies. In the year 2000 I spotted an ad for a Scrapbooking class. I went along, and haven't looked back.
Tips for this week:
1. A scrapbooking class is a fantastic way to start. Be it with a local store on a Saturday afternoon, adult education or an independant consultants class. Take the plunge, do a class and get a feel for it. You will be hooked.
2.Use the internet to look for shops in your local area
3. Use the internet to source out of the ordinary products from scrapbook stores anywhere in the world.
Bookmark this blog and check regularly for updates.
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