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How to use a movie poster as scrapbook inspiration
After seeing the movie “Julie & Julia” in 2009—which intertwines the story of Julia Child’s start in the cooking profession with blogger Julie Powell’s challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s...
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How can you resist?
Twisted Sketches launches its 98th sketch today, and the twist this time is “paint.” The sketch and the design team’s interpretations are awaiting you at Twisted Sketches’ site…and here is my design...
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Why do fake mustaches tickle us like the real ones?
Are you a fan of the mustache trend that’s been surging through the design world? I personally think it’s charming, even though I haven’t yet done anything with it. But with Father’s Day coming this...
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My first guest blog post!
Hello, and welcome to my visitors who have come from Live. Teach. Create. I am very excited to be the guest blogger today on Jennifer’s site and so happy to have you here! If you have arrived here some...
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Blogtoberfest Day 7
Travel chess/backgammon set Here’s a little different way to use your stamps and cardstock. Just buy a wooden cigar box, wood stain and shellac and make a travel game board! When I made mine I first...
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Blogtoberfest Day 11
BOOkmark tutorial + freebie This wee worried monster is quite happy to gobble up your book while he holds your place! Have you seen any of the fun tutorials for making monster bookmarks—the kind that...
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Rosette pumpkin tutorial
Blogtoberfest Day 18 I was in Archiver’s about a month ago looking at new scrapbook products and saw a pretty 3D pumpkin they had made. The store was out of the printed instructions for it, so I took...
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Origami leaf wreath
This has been add-on week on Sketch Support, and today my project is live! Please head over to grab the sketch so you can use it in your own crafting, and while you’re there I would love it if you...
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The Lord God made them all
It’s already time for the June Sketches With a Twist challenge—the last design of my term with them. I am very proud to have created this sketch, although I’ll admit that it’s a little harder than...
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Oasis
I swear I heard a rattlesnake while we were on this walk into hell. To be fair, it was my idea for us to go for a hike on July 4th. There’s a trail running along Brushy Creek Road that I see lots of...
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Why we are vegetarians
For World Vegetarian Day I decided to sit down and document why my husband and I returned to a vegetarian lifestyle last October. When I found out that today is World Vegetarian Day, I decided that the...
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There’s always room for ice cream
I know it's hard to believe, but I actually do love these two more than ice cream. I thought I would share a Silhouette technique today. I had a lot of fun concocting this layout in my head, then in my...
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One is silver, the other is gold
Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold. I thought I had just about finished this layout with a photo of me and my baby brother in front of this cool gold artifact wall in...
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Silhouette tutorial: How to add crochet to the edge of page elements
To add the lovely crocheted detail around the circles on this page about our 17th anniversary, I turned to my Sihouette Cameo. I wanted to create a really special look for this photo of us on our 17th...
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Using patterned paper strips to create a colorful silhouetted wall hanging
Once I had completed layouts with all the patterned paper in this month’s Back Porch Memories kit, I used the scraps to create something pretty for our home. Here’s how I turned my offcuts into a...
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Wine bottle tag tutorial
We have some Christmas parties to attend this weekend, so I thought I would try my hand at making some wine tags to adorn the bottles we took along. Here’s a tutorial based on what I learned while...
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Tutorial: Make a planner for the new year
If the raw potential of a new year makes you feel like planning, then you might want to make this mini album to use as a way of organizing yourself. All the products I used to create this came from the...
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Kiss kiss layout and string art tutorial
I’m so excited about today’s project because 1) I tried something new and 2) liked how it turned out, so 3) I want to share the idea with you! Do you remember doing string art projects as a kid?...
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