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Friday, February 18

As Seen On the GingerScrapsStreet Blog - A Tutorial

How to Recycle and Alter Your Valentine Candy Boxes in 8 Steps!

Hi, it's Julie Ann bringing you a tutorial today on How to Recycle and Alter Your Valentine Candy Boxes! It's easy and fun, and good for the environment too!!! This appeared on the Scrapstreet Blog on Valentine's Day. These are inspired by Lisa Kettell.

SUPPLIES
To start, you need a few supplies:

heart-shaped candy box
liquid adhesive (I used gel matte medium, and I also really love Fabri-Tac by Beacon)
pop-dots adhesive
digi printables- vintage valentines vignettes: I Heart You by Tangie Baxter (Scrapbookgraphics)
pen or pencil (for tracing)
scissors (one with fine tip is preferable)
vintage music paper or patterned paper of your choice
crepe paper aka streamers
flowers
wing and jewel (Prima Marketing, Inc) *optional
glitter
silver pipe cleaner or garland
ribbon
hole puncher or Crop-A-Dile

TUTORIAL

1. Trace on wrong side of music sheet paper or patterned paper around the heart, and cut out. Adhere to the top of the heart lid.
2. Add adhesive around the edges of the heart on the paper.

3. Gather and scrunch/pinch the crepe paper together as you adhere it to the edges of the heart. Go all the way around the heart in this manner.

4. Adhere silver pipe cleaner or silver garland in a heart shape over the edges of the crepe paper where it meets the music paper. I find Fabri-Tac adhesive works best.
5. Sprinkle vintage glass glitter over the project and it will adhere to the glue left over from the pipe cleaner.

6. Adhere the three cut-out digi printable hearts, overlapping, as shown above, using pop-dots for dimension.

7. Embellish with flowers, a wing on the angel, and a jewel at the bottom tip of the heart.

8. I punched two holes, one on each side, of the candy box - with my Crop-a-Dile (or you can use a hole puncher). Pull ribbon through and tie a knot. It's now ready for hanging when you put both sides of the candy box together!

And here are a few others I've made this year for additional inspiration..........

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Wednesday, February 16

Favorite Bloggers

Here are a few favorite bloggers of mine, perhaps you'll add them to your bookmarks too:

Creature Comforts

Alisa Burke - Author of Canvas Remix, fantastic craft and creative sewing tutorials
Creature Comforts - D.I.Y. projects and printables, plus a guide for better blogging
Creative Chaos - her blog speaks to my love of all things shabby chic
Wayside Treasures - again, shabby chic love meets flea market goodies
Selina Lake, Stylist - Author of Romantic Style and Bazaar Style books, amazing interior and lifestyle stylist
Craftily Ever After - free subway art printables, and awesome inspiring craft tutorials
Infarrantly Creative - crafts, tutorials, home projects, and sew much more

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Tuesday, February 8

Valentine Inspiration from Tumblr

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valentine feng shui.
the only real feng shui for love that matters is to be open to it. so, get a piece of paper and write down every negative thought you have about partnership and you having a great partnership. think realllllllly hard about it all for a bit. now, go burn it (extremely safely, please!)… or dump it in a shredder. start fresh tomorrow, and throw away/donate everything that reminds you of loves of the past, and everything that torments you with bad memories. the present is our time, and you are ~~getting~~ ready for it!
Source: the tao of dana #valentine feng shui

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http://love-theonlyrule.tumblr.com/ #cute #couple #love #hug #photography #ocean #sunset

How-To: Heart Cake @Craftzine.com blog

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“I shall love you till that final stretch of sand that the sea never quite reaches is finally swathed by crashing waves. Or, perhaps longer… if there’s time.”

—

Morrissey

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Thursday, February 3

Thursday's Tutorial: Simply Great to Simply Sensational

Here is a tutorial I found in my files that I never posted online, as it was submitted to a magazine. The magazine wanted to publish it if I could have both versions of the journal, but I only had the one.

Ideas for Taking Projects from Simply Great to Simply Sensational!
by Julie Ann Shahin

Ever create a project, and after sitting back and looking at it from a distance - realize it's just not quite right?

This very thing happened to me as I altered a composition notebook. I thought I was all finished - set it up on the bookcase, and after watching television for twenty minutes, decided the design was not quite right.

The first thing that I noticed was that the color of the ribbon was not quite right. Perhaps it was the ribbon was too thin - I needed a wider ribbon. STEP ONE. I replaced the thin ribbon with gorgeous (wider) ribbon from Strano Designs. Although I loved that the rubon was on the ribbon, I realized the thin ribbon was going to have to go.

I also didn't like the juxtaposition of the orange flower under the lime green flower. STEP TWO. Here I decided simpler was better - thus going with just one layer of flower petals. STEP THREE. I then added a 7gypsies tab that says "Dream" to the first page in the book.

Finally, I was bothered by a lack of definition near the binding of the book. STEP FOUR. I decided the aqua scalloped patterned paper would give just the right amount of "oomph", while staying trendy and feminine. Plus, it gave a line of definition for the binding - which I thought was charming.

STEP FIVE. I moved the 7gypsies sticker down near the word "spirit" and then added the rub-on word "share" where the flower and felt tags had been. Otherwise, I would have been left with dead white space.

STEP SIX. My final touch was to remove the photo corner sticker above the slide mount, and add the Heidi Swapp bling word "cherish" which I had wanted to use but forgot about! I'm much happier now that I re-worked the design. My mood changed from frustrated to feeling fabulous as well. Next time you make a creation, be willing to re-vise and re-work just like you would if you were writing a letter or a story.

Have fun and be creative!

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Monday, January 3

New Year New Inspiring Quotes - 2011 First Edition

“ May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. May your coming year be a wonderful thing, in which you dream both dangerously and outrageously. I hope you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), I hope that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. And I hope that somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. ”
— Neil Gaiman, New Year’s Benediction

This year, I swear to myself I will never let anyone make me feel irrelevant and keep in mind that I don't live to please them.
http://yourcherie.tumblr.com/

http://midenian-lostie.deviantart.com/art/Happiness-189032512?q=&qo=

“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”
— Allen Ginsberg

http://www.minivantravel.tumblr.com/

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
— It’s A Wonderful Life

http://imgfave.tumblr.com/post/2553810745/discovered-on-imgfave-com-social-image

http://soverypretty.tumblr.com/

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. Don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live.”
— Bob Marley

http://love-theonlyrule.tumblr.com/

http://soverypretty.tumblr.com/

SEEMINGLYENDLESS.TUMBLR.COM

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”
— Milan Kundera

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
— Gilda Radner

http://tkim90.tumblr.com/post/2450584662

Having done "BAD THINGS" doesn't mean you're a BAD PERSON. You're just someone who has made an UNWISE decision. Just like everybody else.
http://black-star.tumblr.com/

http://thresca.tumblr.com/post/2549995651

http://thresca.tumblr.com/post/2550090814

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
— Tom Bodett

http://quote-book.tumblr.com/

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf

http://www.gwenbell.com/blog/2009/9/2/how-to-create-your-personal-manifesto.html

http://clongetch.tumblr.com/

“True commitment takes effort and sacrifice.”
— Grey’s Anatomy

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/dhiejhaexvii

- CHRISTIAN BAUTISTA / SITTI
http://quote-book.tumblr.com/

It’s a whole new year…and I feel GOOD!
http://hellogifs-.tumblr.com/post/2524859326

http://madelinebecker.tumblr.com/post/2467042098

“And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)”
— Dr. Seuss (Oh! The Places You’ll Go!)

http://lovingyouendlessly.tumblr.com/post/2526670869

“Don’t go changing, to try and please me. You never let me down before.”
— Just The Way You Are | Billy Joel

by Marcus Aurelius (By vahneszah)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vahneszahpics/

A strong person is not the one who doesn't cry. A strong person is one the who is quiet and shed tears for a moment, and then picks up their sword and fights again.
http://black-star.tumblr.com/

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
— Victor Borge

http://peaceofshell.tumblr.com/post/2498739183

http://clongetch.tumblr.com/

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
— George Sand (1804 - 1876)

Photographer: Sebastian Stern
http://www.beautyineverything.com/4911437646
Words: smilesaregolden
http://smilesaregolden.tumblr.com/

http://soverypretty.tumblr.com/post/2477082427

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James

“Your heart just breaks, that’s all. But you can’t judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.”
— Audrey Hepburn

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.”
— Marilyn Monroe

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
— The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

“What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.”
— Barbara Kingsolver

“Our right to be different is, in a deep sense, the most precious right we human beings have.”
— Lillian Smith

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
— Hans Hofmann