Here is the first episode of the Artful Adventures podcast!
Don’t run off yet, because I want you to stay tuned! We are about to launch the first podcast series, “Everyday Artist,” where we will interview a variety of women from many walks of life. We want to know how they find to work their arts and crafts into their busy lives, and how they feel it makes a difference in their life – not only to themselves, but to others!
Oh my goodness! I almost forgot to invite you!
It’s a new year, and you may have a lot of goals that you’re not sure how you are going to accomplish! Obviously, a lot depends on your everyday strategy and how you plan your life, even on a day-to-day basis. Lain Ehmann from Layout A Day is hosting a “scrapinar” Monday, January 7th, with guest Crystal Wilkerson, creator of “The Life Planner.”
Lain and Crystal will share their tips on planning your year and ideas for staying right on track! Lain’s scrapinars have a heaping dose of fun and happiness sprinkled in on top of all the great tips and ideas shared!
Be sure and sign up, because even if you can’t make it during that time, the event will be recorded and still accessible for free for a period of time. I hope to see you there! Let me know if you plan to come! I can ALWAYS use tips for staying on track of my life plan! I always figure if I even learn one thing, it can be well worth the time I attended! How about you?
Sometimes it is just fun to create a background layout without the fuss of trying to get it all done. For some reason, when I scrapbook, it’s all about getting a page complete. On the other hand, when I am creating something in a more artful manner, I find it more relaxing and fun!
This method of scrapbooking is no exception. In fact, I enjoy creating the basis of the page so much, I have a secret stash of pages that have backgrounds and no pictures yet! Okay, I’m not suggesting that YOU create a bunch of scrapbook pages with no pictures, (because I’ve already done that) but you can make some pages for things you know happen every year. By that I mean, seasons, holidays, birthdays, you get the idea!
This winter scene with a snowman was just the thing to use for a wintery day with family playing outdoors. These pictures were taken a number of years ago, and every time I ran across them I knew they should go on a fun page like this.
Notice how the bottom snow drift “border” are not solidly adhered to the page. When you ScrapAhead you want to allow places you can tuck photos in, because you don’t really know how many photos you may have, or how you may want to lay them out.
Here’s a quick rundown on this page creation:
Happy New Year!
Oh my goodness, it’s the new year and I hope you all had enjoyable days during the holidays! Recently, I was invited to join in on a challenge I hadn’t heard of before – making an art journal calendar for the year. Wait, don’t run off before I tell you about it! You may want to try something like this.
Basically, you create your own calendar in an artsy way, and then just jot down something each day! That’s about all the journaling some of us may do! It’s even more than some of us do now! Some people create theirs with 1.5 inch squares, but this one was made with 2″ squares since the pages were large and could accomodate that size. Plus, I’m not sure I can get anything written in something smaller than that!
Since many of you scrapbook, I wanted to give you an idea of how to do this, scrapbook style!
Here’s a basic run down on how my January 2013 was created:
I just finished mine today, but I know a couple of things I’ll write for yesterday. Don’t be put off from doing this, just because you didn’t get it ready by January 1st! There are plenty of days to come, and it could be a fun thing to have and look back at. Just think, 12 layouts to sum up a year! What fun to look back on.
If you end up making something, please come over and share it with us over at the Artful Adventures FaceBook Group!