…compilation of tutorials
It’s not long anymore until Valentin’s Day. If you don’t know how best to show your love to your sweetheart let you inspire by the article ‘Valentine’s Day Photo Ideas’ at photojojo.
I just begun with taking a photo from my glass heart, perhaps I’ll make photos from me and my friend and give him the three pictures as message.
Perhaps I won’t ;-)))
Links:
At photojojo: Valentine’s Day Photo Ideas
A long time ago I found an instruction for encaustic for poor.
On the photo you see one of the tries I made – I like it ;-))
I think that I will have to do it once more.
Links:
Encaustic für Arme (German)
English: Read the section ‘Ironing Crayon’. On this site you find more ideas for melted crayons.
I presented before a website where you can find card sketches.
This time it’s a website which shows sketches for cards, for scrapbooking and more.
Some of them are soo beautiful!
What I like most are the added photos which show how you can realize the sketched card.
Links:
Page|Maps
The sketches of this day (CardMaps)
Archive of sketches (not only cards) – JPGs
Archive of sketches (not only cards) – PDFs
Here at unikatissima: Sketch for Card
Today I present a tutorial on how to make a spinner tutorial on how to make a spinner, which actually is meant for an Altered Book, but which can be used as well for a greeting card.
You can e.g. make a card for Valentine and write ‘I love you’ in different languages or make a gift coupon card with pictures of different plants and the beneficiary may select one of them, etc.
Links:
Spinner How-To: unfortunately the link isn’t available no more.
Accidentally I found a way of making beautiful coloured background papers from tissue paper or paper napkins and markers.
That’s what you have to do:
First I cut the tissue paper in pieces of about 6×6 cm (roughly 2,5×2,5 inches).
I painted them (through all layers) with colour matching markers.
It doesn’t matter if there are little white areas.
I layed the coloured pieces out on plastic foil (e.g. an unused garbage bag) and moisted them with water.
The water makes the colours bleed wonderfully.
It is best to add the water dropwise, this way you can determine best how much water you add (if it gets too wet, the colours bleeds too much and doesn’t stay on the tissue paper).
In the end I let dry the coloured squares.
When using them for cardmaking, I mostly only use two or three layers, not all of them.
But you have to try this by yourself.
Here I show two hand embroidered postcard sized wallhangings (just like the Paper Crazy Quilt) I worked with self coloured tissue papers. Both tissue papers are layers of the same paper (you can see that they have the same pattern), but the different coloured background papers make them glow differently.
Once I used the same technique on fabric (an old (clean! ;-)) bedsheet) and it worked.
The next time I added too much water and suddenly everything was of the same dull colour. ;-)
I think that this colour can be heat set just as the acryl coloured or the crayon tinted fabric, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Crazy Quilt
Sometimes you need a nice background and I recommend the Tartan Maker for all those who like Tartan patterns.
On the picture I tried to make a Tartan which matches the blog.
Matches great, doesn’t it?
;-)
Links:
Tartan Maker
An advent calendar doesn’t always have to be a lot of filled boxes, why not simply mailing a card a day?
It is more exciting for the recipient if the cards put together form a poster.
Photojojo shows how to make a poster with 24 cards from a photo. I think that you can also use a self-designed Christmas card for an advent calendar.
And on the back you can write a nice, amusing or inspiring aphorism (apart from the address ;-)).
Links:
Bei Photojojo: How to Turn a Photo into a Mailable Mosaic
Google search result for ‘aphorism’
Google search result for ‘aphorismus’
Here at unikatissima: Boxes not only for the advent calendar
Because I don’t like to buy stuff I was glad about the tutorial on how to make your own sticker glue.
I’d like to try it on self designed labels for my teas.
Links:
Make Your Own Sticker Glue
I found a very inspiring tutorial on how to make backgound stamps tutorial on how to make backgound stamps.
I say inspiring, because she shows photos of her beautiful backgrounds.
At my Artist-Book I could have done with the stamps, instead I stamped every single diamond.
But it was great, too ;-)
Links:
Handmade Background Stamps: unfortunately the link isn’t available no more.
Here at unikatissima: Artist-Book
I presented an entry about leaves skeletons already. There you had to use particular leaves and I don’t know if they grow nearby.
Now I found another tutorial on how to make skeleton leaves where the only condition is the use of thick leaves.
I find this easier ;-)
At my next walk in the woods I think I will take a little bag with me ;-))
Links:
Skeleton Leaves
Here at unikatissima: Leaves Skeletons