There are so many great scrapbooking techniques, in fact the variations are endless. In today’s Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions I am going to concentrate on piercing and the painting of stripes and gingham.
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Two Great Scrapbooking Techniques For You to Use
In today’s scrapbooking ideas and solutions, I am going to focus on making a cover for your album, whether you have made it yourself, or bought one and just want to personalise or protect the cover. This simple idea will give your precious album an extra layer of protection from dust and handling and is easy to make. If you choose to make a paper jacket, view it as something that will need to be replaced when it becomes tired and worn.
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Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions – Make Your Own Scrapbooking Album Covers
The strip collage technique is a great scrapbooking idea and solution, and an eye catching way to use up all the scraps that tend to build up in your kit. You can use this technique to create your own unique backgrounds for your layouts, and you can use the strips to draw together a theme or colour scheme for your layout.
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Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions – How to Do Strip Collage Technique
I don’t know about you, but when I do my layouts, a lot of the time I used mini booklets or flaps in order to fit all my photo’s from a particular occasion onto a page. The problem is that when you place the completed layout into your album, you have to do one of two things. The first is to pull the layout out from the plastic sleeve each time you want to view its contents, and the other is to cut your plastic sleeve appropriately, but this in turn makes the album untidy and vulnerable to damage. A lot of my layouts fall out in this way or get broken.
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Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions – How to Display Layered Layouts in Your Album
Last week, Jarod gave us some ideas of what to do with stale bread. This week he'll be explaining how to turn old or undrinkable wine into a mother of vinegar, and then how to make vinegar from the mother.
About a month ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a dinner party given by Jarod. My boyfriend and I brought a bottle of wine to share, but were disappointed when it was found to be "corked" -- a term given to unopened wine that has that vinegary, wet-dog-musty-cave taste associated with the presence of 2,4,6 Trichloroanisole. (While the cork is often thought to be culpable, other variables such as the barrel and storage conditions can also be the cause.) Jarod didn't miss a beat, he grabbed the wine, added a splash of vinegar, put the cork back in and placed the bottle atop his fridge saying, "No problem, I'll make it into mother of vinegar."
"Mother of vinegar?" we asked, wide-eyed. "What's that?" Mother of vinegar (MOV or Mother for shorthand purposes) is essentially a fermenting bacteria culture used to make vinegar -- an acetobacter that develops in fermenting alcohol and converts the ethanol into acetic acid (what gives vinegar its sour taste) in the presence of oxygen. Fermenting bacteria can be found in other food products like kombucha, sourdough, and, well, in vinegar.
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Read this article | Comment on this articleThe initial goal of this project was to make a couple of bean bag-style pillow chairs stuffed with pieces of recycled foam.
But when I began working on a cover for the first pillow chair, I realized it looked a heck of a lot like an enormous brassiere. So I did what most maker-types would do when they get a wacky idea like this. They modify their original course, and pursue the wacky idea.
I love ...is five's take on the magnetic bookmark. She stitched on paper, added magnets and scraps of ribbon to create these fun bookmarks.
Read this article | Comment on this articleHere's a cool no-sew toolbelt tutorial video from ManMade, which would be a great weekend couples craft project for getting your guy comfortable working with fabric.
Casey of Casey's Elegant Musings shares her tips for how to handle and use vintage sewing patterns.
If you like to sew with vintage patterns, you know they can be quite fragile in their original state. Or maybe the pattern you have in mind is not quite the right size and you need to grade it up or down and need it in a form that you can cut up.Read this article | Comment on this article
Mayonnaise is one part of a fast way to soften & smooth hands
If your hands aren’t smooth many threads will catch and some, such a Trebizond or Silk Serica, can become so snagged they are unusable.
Carrying around a small tube of lotion in your project bag is a great way to go, but what if you don’t have some? The solution is as close as your nearest deli or your kitchen. To smooth your hands you need a package of mayo and a packet of sugar. Begin by putting the mayo on your hands and smoothing it around. Sprinkle the sugar in your palms and rub it into the mayo and rub them all over your hands, including around the cuticles where there is usually rough skin.
Now wash your hands with soap and water. The mayonnaise softens the hands, while the granular sugar exfoliates and gets rid of the rough stuff. It’s an outstanding method and really works.
But you may also want to go the tried and true route of using lotion. If you do, be careful. Many lotions leave a residue on your hands that can be transferred to the threads, helping them attract dirt. Just thread has an excellent post on lotions good for stitchers with links to places to buy them.
I’d also shy away from scented creams as well. Often scent can linger on threads and even scent other threads kept with them. I know this from experience I used to shop, from time to time, at an LNS that burned scented candles in the store. Years later the threads still smell if they have been kept in drawers.
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