It has been a long time since the podcast has had a new episode. Listen in to this short episode and find out the future of the Artful Adventures Podcast!
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You will find updated Adventures on a new website! It has a new feel and is a temporary stop on the way to the new and improved site! I didn’t want you to miss anything. Jump over here to Artful Adventures for the newest projects and updates. There will also be a little store coming soon!
Find out about the fun paintings below and what’s coming soon! You’ll find info on these latest projects:
Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!
Kristie
Welcome to Make It Monday blog hop! If you’ve come Gina’s site at GinaZee.com, you are in the right place!
Now it’s my turn to show you an idea! If you’ve been following along lately, you know that today is the day that the Creative Christmas Bundle goes on sale! 15 Crafters/Designers – 15 products – 1 low price – for 1 week only!
My contribution to this special bundle is an online Art Journaling Basics class! You can find out about it here, but don’t order from that page, because for a few dollars more you can get the entire Creative Christmas Bundle!
Today, I want to show you a project using Karen Fitting’s contribution to the bundle. Karen takes photos of flowers through the whole year, and then finds her favorites to create a calendar. She has put one each month of the year on a separate photo and save them all as 4×6″ .jpg images. That way, we can use them however we want to!
I decided that I would like to make an at-a-glance type calendar in a 12″x12″ size. I created a digital template with twelve 3″x4″ segments. Since the the original images are in a 4″x6″ size they don’t size down without losing part of the image, or changing the proportions. I chose to size them down as much as possible and then just leaving off a bit of the image. That way the photo and calendar remain proportional.
Images from Karen Fitting’s contribution to the Creative Christmas bundle.
After I got all the images on, I linked them all together and sized the entire block of images to about an 11″x11″ square, and changed my background to black.
I added the “2015” text so I’d know the calendar year. Pretty smart, right? Save it all in a single image and it’s ready to print!
Right now, during the month of November, you can print two 12″x12″ layouts from Close to My Heart’s Studio J, for $5.00. This may be a good time to get some of your photos onto pages, or just print your calendar. You could print the calendar on both sides of the double layout, and you’ll have a calendar to give and one to keep!
Watch how to create the calendar page in Studio J.
CTMH #Z2016
CTMH Item #Z2015
Now, hurry over and check out how Beth Soler from Scrapping Wonders is using the Bundle to prep for her December Daily album! If you’re not sure what that even is, it’s an album to capture all the memories of December in one great place, urging you to capture bits of each and every day in December!
Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!
Image courtesy Flickr/chrissy.farnan
Have you accumulated more arts and crafts supplies for your favorite hobby than you know what to do with? Would you like to find some ways to use them?
Whether you like to scrapbook, stamp, make cards, art journal, create mixed media, or any number of other hobbies, you probably have a stash of items that you are not really using on a regular basis. This picture depicts a very tidy space, but many of us don’t have things this organized (and you know who you are)! The fact remains, if you’re not using your stash of goodies, they are just taking up valuable real estate in your space! If you are like most hobby enthusiasts, there is no telling how much money you have invested in these items.
This isn’t about making you feel guilty for not utilizing all that great stuff. Instead, it’s about creating a plan to use it up! We often get in a rut and use the same products over and over, and the rest just begin to collect dust. In part, Artful Adventures is about helping you find new ways to use stuff you already have on hand! We are going to dig in and find what you have, and help you find some ways to use it up!
As we get ready to do that, I would urge you to get started by finding out what you have. Put like with like so that you begin to see what you really have. Once you begin to do that, you’ll know what you have and it will be so much easier to move forward. That way, as we talk about ways to use different products, you’ll know if you have it on hand, or if it looks like something that could work with others things you have, you won’t end up having duplicates.
I’ll confess right now that my arts and crafts items have finally made their way into a single area, and it so much more efficient! However, I had been carrying items all over the house and using them when the mood hit me. I am afraid that method has cost me several black markers I was using on some lettering projects. Ouch. I still hope they turn up before I need them and end up replacing any or all of them!
Not only are we going to talk about ways to use products, but we’ll talk about using them to cross from one thing to another: (come on say it with me) whether you want to use it in scrapbooking, stamping, card making, mixed media or art journaling!
Yes, today IS the day! It’s time to stop thinking about things and get started. Remember that done is better than perfect, especially if it means you are waiting for something to get the “perfect” stage before you complete it! That’s it for the important stuff of the day!
The Fourth of July is over and they’ll be trying to sell off summer things and bring in the snow shovels. The retail world is just like that! So in a couple of weeks if somebody needs a swimsuit, they’ll be able to buy school supplies or corduroy pants. Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but it’s not far from the truth!
Many of my friends are getting ready to go to their annual events that their direct sales companies hold. It is an exciting time to get together with others who enjoy the same products, the company philosophies, and meet new friends along the way. Some of these events are rather overwhelming for those with rather laid back personalities. I heard a lady not long ago tell about going to one, and that she really did not enjoy it — she felt like they would be serving the kool-aid next! (Kool-aid is a reference to a very sad cult event where poison was interlaced in kool-aid for a mass suicide/murder.) In my case, I love the events because I’m just not that timid, and the events are a great way to get a pulse of the company by meeting people from corporate.
I’m not attending anything again this year, as there are just too many family members with health issues that need tended. I’m okay with that, because my art projects are working there way into little crevices of time! Sometimes I don’t get something finished, but it needs to dry anyway between things I doing, so it works out well.
Have a wonderful summer and get something done!