Happy Holiday season everyone!
Let’s create some easy-to-make Christmas cards together: shop your stash (I did! 😃) and make good use of the tips, tricks & tutorials I’m sharing with you in the below videos! Let me know what you think in the comments.
Have a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!
You can watch my free video tutorial for my deconstructed envelope card here:
Hope you found these tips & tutorials helpful, either for your Christmas cards or for any other occasion!
Every time I finish a craft project, I have design papers left over. Doesn’t matter whether it was a large mini album, or just a card; always there are sheets of loveliness I have to decide on what to do with them. Will I have to throw them out, of can I come up with yet another idea?
Fortunately as crafters we can always create something else with these extra papers, sometimes ending up with more than one bonus project.
A few weeks ago I created quite an elaborate desconstructed envelope card from 3 sheets of design paper + a cutapart sheet. But even after such a large card, I managed to squeeze out three extra cards from the paper pieces I had leftover!
So, hopefully I can inspire you with these ideas, to do the same and make use of every inch of paper real estate you can manage 🙂
Enjoy the video, happy crafting!
Sometimes I only buy 2 or 3 sheets from a design paper collection, mostly when I like the idea of it, but not the entire collection. This was the case with Kaisercraft’s Cottage Rose collection, which had lovely soft colors and some great graphic designs, but which overall I found too generic and boring to buy in its entirety.
So, I chose the sheets I liked the most, and used them all up in one go.
I turned them into four cards, one of which I’m sharing with you this week: a deconstructed envelope card. Also great for Valentine’s Day, btw 🙂
If you’d like to make one yourself, you can check out my free video tutorial!
This week I’m pleased to share my latest design category with you all: Deconstructed Envelope Cards. By which mean fold-out cards that when closed, resemble envelopes. This is the first of what will probably be several more variations of this design.
Enjoy!
Sometimes you want to mail someone more than just a card, especially if they’re far away and you still want to give them something special. Well, meet my Mailable Mini! This is a great way to send an elaborate all occasions card-slash-mini-album.
The two examples I’m sharing with you today are a birthday version and a commemorative version. One for a man, the other for a woman (my aunt) but filled with pictures of a man (my late uncle). So for both I used the masculine themed Barbershoppe collection by Kaisercraft. For my aunt, I used more feminine embellishments plus a rose paper on the back, for the man, I left it at clean and straight as possible, with of course a little bit of technique – in the form of a magnetized closure.
If you want to make one yourself but don’t know how, there’s a tutorial in the second half of the video. I’m also gladly referring you to my free video tutorial on matting, so enjoy!
Last year I designed and created what I call a Box Pocket Mini Album, by which I mean a mini album that holds a special kind of pocket, large enough to hold a notebook, a personal planner, a mini folio or a large stack of pictures.
This week I’m sharing a variation on that album: this time the actual box pocket is in the back of the album instead of the front, and this album has a gatefold magnetic closure. It also has a different ‘do up’ of the inside front cover. Most of these different elements I borrowed from another design of mine, the Springtime Dreams Keepsake Album Deluxe.
I designed this second version of the Box Pocket album for Nora, a lovely lady from Munich (Germany), who commissioned the album as a way to keep her most important memories. You’ll find more details about her story and why she wanted the album in the video below. You’ll also understand why I’m calling this version Remember Me.
Since there already is a tutorial for the original Box Pocket album in my webshop (#33), I decided to add a free bonus cutting guide to that, containing the measurements for the different elements of this new Remember Me version. Anyone who already owns Tutorial #33 can simply go back to their Etsy purchases page and download the bonus cutting guide for free! (It’s just a cutting guide mind you, if you want actual instructions, please check out my Tutorial #10 for the Springtime Dreams album.)
Anyway, thank you for watching and feel free to leave a comment below, in the comment section! 🙂
A little while ago I designed and created a Double-Paged Gatefold Album that I called Holiday Dreams – or for clarity’s sake, Vacation Dreams. I had some sunny and exotic photos in mind when I created it, and this week I’m happy to be able to share it with you again, but this time with pictures! 🙂
I’m also sharing a great tip for your large photo mats: leave them unmatted and turn them into printed journalling – so cool! You can check it all out in the video & pictures below.
If you’d like to create this album yourself with your own materials, you can purchase my very elaborate & clear (written) tutorial – with a huge amount of helpful pictures! – in my shop. Now with a 10% discount for International Scrapbook day (discount offer will end Sunday May 6th, 10PM CET) – just like every other tutorial in my shop!
If you’d like to purchase a kit with the Ubud Dreams paper collection that I used, plus lots of embellishments, check out the Photographs & Memories webshop, which offers a complete kit INCLUDING my tutorial! 🎉 It is US based so will hopefully be very convenient for people in the North Americas, shipping-wise.
I’ve been fascinated by this thing called ‘easel card’ for a while, but I hadn’t actually made one myself yet. The front of an easel card has a movable part, which enables it to stand up – like a painting on an easel I guess.
Of course I gave it my own Creator’s Image Studio twist, and designed what I’m now calling a Pocket Easel Card. Check it – and two regular ones – out in the video.
Let me know if you’d like me to share this little invention with you all by way of a (free) tutorial (even years after this post is fine with me, just drop me line or leave a comment – I’m always in for new blog and/or video ideas 🙂 ).
Frequently I get asked what to do with this thing called mini album. I tell everyone it’s for pictures and other memorabilia, but I find that showing an actual picture-filled mini album is the best explanation I can possibly give 🙂
So here’s my 2013 Tis the Season mini album, filled to the brim with my own family Christmas pictures. If you feel inspired to create such an album yourself, check out my mini album tutorial, it has hundreds of clear pictures and elaborate explanations. And for the many scrap mats you’ll see in the video, there’s a free video tutorial here.
Enjoy your Christmas holidays, have a very merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years!
In my last post I shared an XXL album with you, created with Kaisercraft’s Salty Kisses paper collection. As is most often the case, I had some papers left over. So I created a lovely summer-themed birthday card, combining a Kaisercraft sheet with the awesome die-cuts of Studiolight’s Summer at the Beach collection and a fun sentiment stamp by Crealies.
And by the way, cards also make great mini album page inserts! So there’s a bonus idea for you 😉
Card – or Mini Album Page Insert!
Hi all! I’m excited to be able to share this, my latest album! It is HUGE: it measures 9 x 12″ (23 x 30.5 cm), which makes it perfect to house the loads of pictures from any event or period of which you want to cherish many memories.
Since this particular album is beach-themed, it was created with our summer vacation in mind – so I named it Sunny Times!
It houses ten base pages – so 20 page surfaces – with lots of extra add-ons for your many pictures. You can add pictures of all sizes, ranging from wallet-sized all the way up to 8×10″ (20×27 cm), and in addition it offers lots of pockets and tuck spots for your memorabilia.
So check it out, enjoy the video, and consider your purchase options if you’d like to create one yourself: there’s the tutorial only option – a 178-page written tutorial (with over 500 clear pictures!) by way of immediate download – and then there’s the kit + tutorial you will very soon be able to get from Photographs and Memories, which is a kit full of goodies to create the album plus my aforementioned tutorial (no extra costs).
A lady asked me to create four double-layout cards for her, one for each season. She also provided me with four seasonal sentiments to incorporate. What a fun challenge that proved to be! 🙂
I also used four brands by the way, so I really saw all four ? corners of my craft supply room. Here’s the collections I used:
Let me know what you think!
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