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Here it is! The Creative Christmas Bundle!

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 Are you pressed for time during the holidays?

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Do you want to make handmade gifts, cards, and scrapbook pages, but find it hard to find inspiration to help you get it all done NOW?

Have we got the solution for you!

Our Creative Christmas Bundle contains all the information, inspiration, and instruction you need to craft your most creative Christmas ever.

In this bundle you’ll learn how to:

  • Create easy, inexpensive gifts for everyone on your list
  • Spend more quality time with your family while counting down the days to Christmas
  • Make a beautiful December Daily album or Christmas Journal
  • Use cut files and your iPhone to create your own journal and filler cards for pocket-style scrapping
  • Upcycle everyday household items into stunning holiday projects
  • Use digital printables to create your own holiday greeting cards and scrapbook elements
  • Make custom photo gifts
  • Use your art supplies to create a unique Christmas journal
  • And so much more!

You’ll have the tools and inspiration to get started creating right away. Here’s what’s included:

Your December Solution

Digital scrapbooking bundle from Melissa Shanhun with BONUS audio and video inspiration and tutorials

Creative Christmas Bundle December Solution

My Dream December Printable Cards and Digital Overlays from Margareta Carlsson

Creative Christmas Bundle My Dream December Digipack

Whimsical Printable Christmas Cards

from Cara Vincens with BONUS postcard option and coupon code to The Hooting Pirate Etsy StoreCara Vincens Printable Christmas Cards

Advent Calendar and Activities

Printable content from Connie Hanks; with BONUS planner in both list and calendar formats

Creative Christmas Bundle Advent Calendar Pockets and Activities

2015 Flower Calendar

Printable from Karen Fitting, with BONUS Artisan tutorial

Creative Christmas Bundle Floral Calendar

Let There Be Night

Silhouette Cross-stitch Patterns from Jen Weber

Christmas-Cross-Stitch-Christmas Creative Bundle

12 Day Advent Envelope Project Tutorial

from Jen Wright;  with BONUS advent cards

Creative Christmas Bundle Advent Pockets

PaintShop Pro Calendar Making Class

from Carole Cassel

Creative Christmas Bundle Calendar Class

Santa’s Helpers Gift-making Workshop

from Lisa Harris

Creative Christmas Bundle Santas Helpers Workshop

iPhone Christmas Scrapbooking Class

from Beth Soler

Creative Christmas Bundle iScrap-n-Snap class

Art Journaling Basics Class

from Kristie Sloan at Artful Adventures

Art Journaling Basics online class with eBook bonus!

Pocket-style December Scrapping Cut Files

from Alison Day, Day Designs

Creative Christmas Bundle December Pocket Page Cut Files

An Upcycled Christmas Class

from Gina Zee, GinaZee.com

Creative Christmas Bundle Upcycled Christmas

Photo Gifts for the Holidays Class

from Mary Mosely and Jackie Lyals

Creative Christmas Bundle Photo Gifts Class

Be Jolly Digital Scrapbooking Collection Kit 

from Janet Carr

Creative Christmas Bundle Janet Carr

 

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FAQs

HOW WILL I RECEIVED THE PRODUCTS?

The products are delivered by instant download – no physical products will be shipped.

After purchasing you will receive an email with a link to download the products, including coupon codes to redeem the video classes.

HOW DO I USE THE PRODUCTS?

  • Purchase the bundle
  • Open the email titled Creative Christmas Bundle, Here’s Your Bundle!
  • Download the Creative Christmas Bundle.zip file
  • Unzip the file (this will be done automatically in Safari, or simply right click and select Extract all…)
  • Inside will be 15 folders, one for each designer’s contribution
  • Open the PDFs with the details on how to complete the project or access the classes.
  • Watch the videos
  • Print the patterns/printables/projects of your choice
  • Enjoy creating your Christmas!

HOW DO I OPEN THE PRINTABLES?

  • Unzip the main Creative Christmas Bundle.zip file
  • Within each folder will be the relevant files for each project.
  • Simply print the PDFs and JPEG files at home or use your favourite photo processor to print them professionally.

HOW DO I REDEEM MY CLASSES?

  • Unzip the main Creative Christmas Bundle.zip file
  • Within each folder will be the relevant files for each class.
  • Open the PDF for the class you want to redeem and the instructions for redeeming it, plus any coupon codes will be inside.

HOW CAN I GET HELP?

Email Lisa info@scrapbookbundles.com

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Wednesday Wonder – Easy Hand Drawn Borders

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Whether it’s a journal page, a card,  or a scrapbook page, we often like to add that little extra element of a border. One of my art friends, Tammy Northrup, has some great ideas for some ways to add borders to your creative projects!

Tammy’s love of flowers and gardening show in her work!  Take a peek here on her website, MyFlowerJournal.com and give it a try!  Don’t forget to share your Artful Adventures with us over on our FaceBook Group!

KS

 

Art Journaling Basics – Art Journal from a Recycled Book

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The second stop on our Artful Adventure into Art Journaling is learning how to recycle a book into an art journal.

Not only is it economical, it’s a very “green” thing to do! Read, watch, or do both! It’s up to you!  You can find the first episode here.

We have a thrift store nearby that always has an excellent selection of books, and I periodically stop in to see what there is to choose from. For this episode I stopped by and found a fun book by Erma Bombeck. I always loved her column and her take on looking at life with humor. The book was only 99 cents, and was a pink tag item. Pink tag items were half off today! So I picked up a hard back book for 50 cents. However, as I began to flip through the book, I decided I would rather read it before I turned it into an art journal. Yes, this is problem you may have when selecting books that you don’t own.  You may decide you want to read it first, and then you have to select something else.  I found another one that was a similar size and that I could live with taking it home to turn into a journal today! Actually, I think I read that book before! No wonder I didn’t mind turning it into a journal!

After you select your book, you need gesso.  That’s it!  If you want to use a brush or a sponge applicator, you may. However, I will warn you now, you will have to clean them!  So, I just prefer to use my hands to spread the gesso.  I use a liquid gesso, and it makes it so easy to smooth onto the pages.

Before you start applying gesso, you’ll want to thin your book down.  As you work through your art journal, you’ll be adding layers of paint, paper, and who knows what else!  So you’ll want to thin out some pages so there is actually room for your art journal pages to live within the covers, and still have a chance of closing it.

As you look through your book, there may be pages you want to keep free of gesso, and leave in the book.  That way, you can have some text backgrounds, or some titles or phrases peeking through that really “speak” to you.  You don’t have to, it’s just an idea. Again, I remind you, there is not a right or wrong way to art journal!

Now, you are ready to start weeding out pages and thinning down your book.Leave a few pages, and then take out 3 or 4. You can carefully tear them out, or use an craft knife to cut close to inside edge of the page.  Keep the ones you remove to use for text pages in your journal or for other projects.  Just repeat the process until you have made your way through the book.

Next, pour a little gesso on an open spread of 2 pages, and just smooth it out with your hand, brush, or applicator. Leave it open until it is dry. You may need to hold it open by clipping a bit of the edge with a clothes pin, tiny clamp, or binder clip. If you are in a hurry, you may like to use a heat tool to dry it.

You can take the bit that is left on your hand and smear it onto the next page, and it will act as adhesive and you can adhere two or three pages together to give more strength to the page.

That’s it! Acrylic gesso cleans up with water, so just clean up your hands or brushes with water!

The next stop on this art journaling journey will cover different adhesives we can use in our art journal for decoupage, collage techniques, or just sealing things down.  So stay on board, I’m sure you’ll want to know about them!

Oh, we’d love to have you show or tell us about your journal you create with this method! Feel free to connect in the comments, or over at the Artful Adventures Facebook group!

Until our next stop,

KS