Tutorial: How to Wrap Chipboard

For the First Tutorial of this new year, I’m sharing a little instructive video on how to wrap chipboard with design paper. Think mini album (or junk journal) covers, or as I did, a layout that you’d like to mount on chipboard.

I mostly used Kaisercraft’s Christmas Edition papers to get an elegant black & white theme.

Have fun creating!

Technique Tutorial: Matting Triangular Pockets

It’s that time of the year where we do lots of crafting – Christmas cards, Christmas albums, and in some of your countries you’ve just finished celebrating Halloween and Thanksgiving. All occasions where you may have taken lots of pictures. So, this week I’m sharing a technique tutorial on how to mat triangular pockets: how do you get them in exactly the right size, shape and angle?

Check out the video below to crack that secret code! 🙂

How to Create with a Cut-apart Sheet

This week I’m sharing a free video tutorial again, on how to create a quick & easy card using only 1 cut-apart sheet and some cardstock. The paper I used was from the When We First Met collection by Piatek Trzynastego, a Polish brand.

Near the end of the video I’m sharing a bonus idea on what to do with the one leftover piece of your cut-apart sheet: easy, make another card! 🙂

Enjoy the video, hope you’ll find it inspiring!

One cutapart leftover? No problem, create a whole new card with it!

Craft Life Update & Video Tutorial

Hello everyone!

So I’m back after a 3-month hiatus… Check out my update, and also my latest project, two tri-fold cards with Studiolight’s Celebrate Spring papers – which I’m not just sharing with you but also showing you how to make at the end of this video!

Tutorial: How to Change the Color of Your Earrings

This week I’m sharing a different kind of creative project: how to use your alcohol inks to change the colors of your acryllic or plastic earrings. This little hack is very handy to know and use, especially if you’re having an accessorizing crisis and are in a bind 🙂

So here we go, check out the video! The only thing you’ll need is 1 or more alcohol inks – and your earrings of course.

How to Attach Small Metal Embellishments (Tutorial!)

There are several ways of attaching metal decorative pieces to your projects. Depending on the size and weight of your element, you can use glue dots, Ranger’s Glossy Accents, or several kinds of adhesive pastes, used mainly in mixed media projects.

Or, you can use my way 🙂 Which is using jewelry glue!

Check it out in the short video tutorial below, and you’ll see the advantage when compared to glue dots, especially when you’re working with hollowed-out embellishments – like me in the video.

Enjoy! Let me know in the comment section below if you have any questions.

Tutorial: How to Alter a Jewelry Box

As you know I sometimes alter these nice, small boxes of all shapes and different sizes. This time, as a Christmas present for my mom, I decided to alter a jewelry box and to shoot a short tutorial while I was doing it.

By now I have several “How to alter a box” tutorial videos, all highlighting different aspects. So if you combine them all you get the entire process 🙂 :

  1. On how to lay the foundations of your project, and how to take measurements for all of your mats;
  2. On how to actually mat, and put your box back together (video below)
  3. On the creative side of the process: how do you create a ‘look’, to make it your personal design

So, hopefully you’ll be enjoying – and pressing the Like button! – the below video and pictures, and I’ll be seeing you again next week!

Stamp: Everything has its beauty, but not everyone always sees that

Free video tutorial: Working with a step card die & How to mat

This week I’m sharing a free video tutorial with you all. Sometimes when working with a card shape die, like a die for a step card, it’s not always easy figuring out how to mat it. Which is why I’m sharing that specific technique in this week’s video.

Both the step card die and the little sentiment stamp Proficiat (Congratulations) are by Crealies. The paper collection is the stunning An Eerie Tale by Graphic 45, which has dreamy images and wondrously lovely autumn colors.

Enjoy the video & pics below and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

 


Scrap with me tutorial #4: Matting

Hello everyone,

As this beautiful summer is slowly preparing itself for the transition into autumn, I’m sharing what will be the last of my series of four video tutorials on basic papercrafting techniques. Today’s topic is matting: how to determine your measurements, taking into account the width of the margins you would like all around. Of course I’m incorporating both centimeters and inches into my explanation, to cater to all of you 🙂 .

In the video I’m also referring to an earlier tutorial of mine, concerning the matting of a wooden box (outside and inside), which I of course also shared on this blog, with that specific video tutorial embedded.

Hopefully all of this is helpful for you – if you still have any questions, let me know by leaving a comment! If you know anyone else who might find this useful, please share this on your social media. And please like & subscribe to never miss any of my posts again 🙂

 


Scrap With Me Tutorial #3: Converting from cm to inches and v.v.

Different people use different measurement systems, which can sometimes be a bit of a hassle, for instance if you want to follow a tutorial in centimeters whereas you are used to inches, or vice versa.

If I may shill for myself for a moment, all of my tutorials are in both centimeters AND in inches 🙂

Be that as it may, wouldn’t it be nice if you knew some easy ways to convert from one metric system to the other? Well, search no more, for that is what I’m offering you in my tutorial this week!

Let me know in the comment section if this was helpful at all, and if so, please click the like button 🙂