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September 27, 2008
Contain Your Craft Supplies with Style!
I just saw this awesome storage idea for containing your craft supplies from Martha Stewart's Organizing Tips...
Many stampers and crafters, myself included, derive almost as much satisfaction from organizing our supplies with visual appeal almost as much as using them. I've also recognized the need for labeling, especially if the items are in a closed container. There is almost nothing as irritating to me than having to search for something I know I have but can't remember where I stored it. Well, this solution not only solves that problem, but adds an interesting decor element as well.
(from Martha Steward Kids):
Even ordinary items, such as rubber bands and spools, look great when they're turned into patterned labels for desktop containers. Here's how to make them:
Container How-To
1. Decide which items you need to store.
2. Choose an empty container with a lid. Oatmeal or cigar boxes, clean cans, or plain tins from an art-supply store all work well. Check the size of your items to make sure they'll fit: Tall canisters are best for pencils; small boxes are good for buttons or beads.
3. Select items for the label, and place on the scanner. Try a few arrangements: You might lay the objects down randomly or line them up to make a border. Then scan the image into the computer. A parent can use photo-editing software to adjust the brightness or contrast of the image or to erase shadows.
4. Print the image onto white or colored paper, or onto peel-and-stick paper (it comes in many colors, as well as clear, and is available at office-supply stores).
5. Trim the printout to fit the size of the container. If using regular paper, apply a glue stick to the back of the label. Stick the label on the container, starting at one end and smoothing it out with your hand.
Container Gifts
Kids can also create special containers to give as gifts. Make a bank for a friend by scanning coins onto a label for a powdered-drink canister, and have a parent cut a slit in the lid with a utility knife. Use spools to decorate a biscuit tin for mom's sewing supplies. Or make an attractive box to hold a gift you're giving. For example, package art supplies in a cigar box decorated with images of paints, brushes, colored pencils, and scissors.
Container Collections
Matchboxes are just right for keeping collections of small objects because they come in a couple of sizes and are easily stacked and stored. Scan your favorite pieces for the label, and you'll have no trouble finding the box you want when you're ready to play with your collection or add to it.
April 22, 2008
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March 11, 2008
My First Ever Digital Scrapbook Page!
I can't believe it! I'm finally learning how to use Photoshop Elements! I can barely make a watermark with that software, and to actually finish a digital scrapbook page with it is such a achievement! I'm not even a "true" scrapbooker (or cropper or whatever one is called that creates scrapbook pages); not that I don't want to be. It's just that I find scrapbooking a bit intimidating-all that "space" to cover! I get a lot of encouragement from my youngest sister, Nancy, and my daughter, Missy, but it's just something I don't feel inspired to do-yet! I do, however, love collecting "stuff" to scrapbook with, someday.
It has been a personal goal of mine to learn how to use Photoshop Elements because I want to be able to edit and enhance my photos, and maybe do some hybrid scrapbooking. The first time I opened the program, about a year ago, it just seemed to glare at me like a techno-monster, and I just couldn't do anything with it. I tried it a few more times-results always the same-nothing. I refuse to let a computer program get the best of me, so I enrolled in a month-long class by Jessica Sprague (online), and just finished my first week of assignments (the rest of the class has no doubt started week 2). So far I'm lovin' it-even though I WAS a week behind. Just too afraid I'd fail at it I guess. You know what they say about teaching an old dog...but I learned a "bunch of stuff" tonight, and I'm excited to share it with you...now, if I can get through week 2 I'll be cruisin'!
Thanks for looking!
Toodles,
Anita
March 05, 2008
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