Day: January 22, 2013

Behind the Scenes: 6 Ways of Scraplifting

Who of us hasn’t stumbled upon a pretty scrapbook page in one of the galleries, and thought, Oh man, why haven’t I come up with the idea for this page? That, however, doesn’t mean you still can’t use that idea on one of your own pages. The solution to the problem? Scraplifting, duh! But there’s more to scraplifting than scraplifting, if you know what I mean. There are lots of ways, in fact of how you can lift someone else’s layout.   No. 1 | Whole Layout Probably the most common way of scraplifting (at least for my part) is to reproduce the whole page. You take a layout, look at the way papers and elements are arranged, and then you copy that straight onto your own canvas.       No. 2 | Clusters Another way of scraplifting is to take one cluster and reproduce it on your own page. This could be the main cluster of a composition, but leaving out other details, or it could be parts of a cluster. Lifting clusters of other …

At Last! Those Christmas Cards!

I know, the sending of my Christmas cards has taken quite a bit of space on my blog these last two months. But guess what I just found out! They arrived! My Christmas Cards arrived. After almost two months, and after I’d already given up all hope and thought all was lost. Of course, they’re too late for the season, but at least they did arrive at last (though it makes me wonder what took so long again this time). Last time I sent Christmas cards, they arrived after 10 days (which I thought was fast), so I’d thought three weeks would be plenty of time for them. But I guess, after having thought all that work of creating those cards had been in vain I’m not complaining. At least they did arrive at last!