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!
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! 🙂
This week I’m happy to take you with me on one of my 1-sheet card journeys, it’s not difficult and it shows you the different steps and techniques used. So, simply scrap along with me! 🙂
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!
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.
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 🙂 :
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!
This week I’m sharing my thinking process while decorating an altered box. Some things are planned, but not everything. Most things work out, but not everything – and how to fix those. All in all I was pretty contented with how this little treasure chest turned out, and my friend was thrilled to receive it 🙂
If you want to know how to mat such a box in the first place, then check out one of my previous blog posts – or simply scroll down and find that video at the end of this post.
With its 25 minutes this week’s video is a bit long, and I’m mostly rambling on about what the next decorative element might be and why, plus I’m including several tips along the way. So get into your Chill Out mode, get a great cup of coffee or tea and a little snack, sit back, and most of all: relax and let the tone of my voice wash over you. Who knows, if you watch this in bed you may even fall asleep before the end – in which case: Sweet Dreams! 🙂 💤
How to mat a box:
In previous blog posts I’ve shared several of my decoupaged projects in which I completely covered an object with napkins or rice paper. Think bonbon boxes, candles, porcelain ware and even shoes and a lampshade!
In today’s project I’d like to focus on a slightly different way of decoupaging, that is to say, not covering your obhect entirely but very intentionally only parts, covering the rest with paint. The trick here is to decoupage first, perhaps going against your instincts to paint the object first instead.
The reason is that decoupage papers (rice paper or the top layer of paper napkins) are so thin that any kind of paint color will shine through. The only color you can actually cover your object with before decoupaging, is white. All others will NOT work.
So, first carefully tear your selected pattern from the napkin or rice paper, decoupage it onto your object, then paint carefully in between the patches. I always cover my decoupage projects with either mod podge or some other kind of sealant after.
And there you go!
Hopefully you enjoyed this blog exclusive tip. Check out the pictures below for some examples.
By the way, I’m also including some free video tutorials at the end of this post in which I’m decoupaging two different objects, in case you’d like to watch the technique. Enjoy!
And here’s some decoupaging technique videos:
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!
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 🙂
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 🙂
In my second summer tutorial I’ll be talking about how to put tape on a glue strip, and secondly how to fit a piece of cardstock to your tape, for instance when creating a belly band.
Hope this helps, let me know in the comment section below. Enjoy the video!
