I love recycling. It is no news to you. What can I say, giving something a new lease of life just before it was about to be tossed away is magical to me.
Paper towels or a heat gun. (I actually prefer the paper towels for this purpose)
How To
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Step-By-Step Instructions
First Flower Style -
Cut your sheet into strips of about 1″ wide. It doesn’t have to be precise. The wider the strip, the larger the flower would be. For a Two layered flower, make 1 strip wider than the other.
Dye your strip with Glimmer Mists and Perfect Pearls mixed with water.
Dry your dryer sheet completely. You may use a heat gun to dry the strips, but be careful not to get too close and not to concentrate on one zone for too long, or the strip will rip from the heat. You may also use a paper towel to blot the excess liquids.
Pleat the strip around the button and make sure all the ends are tucked underneath the button. Secure all the pleats with a button and embroidery floss.
Tie both ends of the embroidery floss in a double knot and cut off the excess.
Second Flower Style -
Take a couple of sheets and lay them together. Fold them into thirds and cut out an imperfect circle to create a stack of dryer-sheet-circles.
Dye each circle with the mists. To make it more interesting, use different colors on each circle.
Let the circles dry completely.
Stack them together again in an order that appeals to you and secure them with a button and embroidery floss. Alternative: Sew them together with embroidery floss threaded with small beads.
Tie both ends of the embroidery floss in a double knot and cut off the excess.
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I would also be very happy to see your own creations, so don’t be shy and share
This year you can really make your dream come true!
“Capture Your Dream” workshop is a self-paced, six weeks long workshop, that will walk you through a journey of capturing your biggest dream and making it come true.
In the process of making your dream happen – with lots of inspiration and guided self-exploration, you will also create a mixed media mini album from scratch and learn many tips and techniques – including some photography pointers that will add character to your photos and will help you take better pictures of your projects.
The workshop includes 30 printable PDF lessons with step-by-step pictures and instructions as well as several printable templates you may use in other projects too.
I am confident you will enjoy it and find it helpful so I also offer full money back guarantee while the workshop lasts.
Anyone who hasn’t sent her ATCs yet and hasn’t notified me about it – please e-mail me.
I would like to go ahead and send the ATCs already, unless there are ATCs which are already on their way here… It isn’t fair towards the ladies who already sent their ATCs on time to delay it any longer. I hope you understand.
Journaling reads: Whether I like it or not (honestly, I haven’t decided yet) most of 2009 has passed online. I blogged. I read other people’s blogs. I have joined a couple of new forums. I shopped until the connection dropped. I reconnected with old friends through Facebook and met new cyber-friends on Twitter. I connected with friends via e-mail, instant messages and Skype. I kept in touch with my family – all ONLINE. So it’s only natural to represent the past year by my different Avatars…
Looking back at the past year, in a retrospective look that is only attainable early the next year, you can ALWAYS find one dominant recurring theme which is weaved through the entire year. One theme that hasn’t changed from the beginning throughout the end.
As it seems 2009 has been a “cyber” year for me. I spent most of my time online – both for business and pleasure (Hello Hulu and live streaming on Netflix. Hello facebook, Ustream and Twitter. Hello poor eyesight and pale skin…).
Therefore I felt like my Avatars on the different social media websites represent 2009 fully & succintly for me.
It may be lame but it is what it is. Thanks god for 2010…
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What was your recurring theme in 2009? What do you think will your predominant motif be in 2010? What would you like it to be? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.
I would love to hear about your past year and predictions regarding the current one.
This year you can really make your dream come true!
“Capture Your Dream” workshop is a self-paced, six weeks long workshop, that will walk you through a journey of capturing your biggest dream and making it come true.
In the process of making your dream happen – with lots of inspiration and guided self-exploration, you will also create a mixed media mini album from scratch and learn many tips and techniques – including some photography pointers that will add character to your photos and will help you take better pictures of your projects.
The workshop includes 30 printable PDF lessons with step-by-step pictures and instructions as well as several printable templates you may use in other projects too.
I am confident you will enjoy it and find it helpful so I also offer full money back guarantee while the workshop lasts.
In light of the coming new year, I backtracked a little bit and gathered the most popular posts on creativity Prompt in 2009.
Without further ado, here are the posts which attracted most of your attention and sparked a wonderful conversation – either on the blog or privately, via e-mails.
What Creativity Prompt did you like the best? What types of projects are pulling you to create?
What project have you tried yourself? Share a link!
Happy New Year!!!
This year you can really make your dream come true!
“Capture Your Dream” workshop is a self-paced, six weeks long workshop, that will walk you through a journey of capturing your biggest dream and making it come true.
In the process of making your dream happen – with lots of inspiration and guided self-exploration, you will also create a mixed media mini album from scratch and learn many tips and techniques – including some photography pointers that will add character to your photos and will help you take better pictures of your projects.
The workshop includes 30 printable PDF lessons with step-by-step pictures and instructions as well as several printable templates you may use in other projects too.
I am confident you will enjoy it and find it helpful so I also offer full money back guarantee while the workshop lasts.
In light of the coming new year, I backtracked a little bit and gathered the most popular posts on creativity Prompt in 2009.
Without further ado, here are the posts which attracted most of your attention and sparked a wonderful conversation – either on the blog or privately, via e-mails.
What Journaling Prompt did you like the best? What had made this prompt sparkle?
What story would you like to tell today and what would you like to journal about tomorrow?
This year you can really make your dream come true!
“Capture Your Dream” workshop is a self-paced, six weeks long workshop, that will walk you through a journey of capturing your biggest dream and making it come true.
In the process of making your dream happen – with lots of inspiration and guided self-exploration, you will also create a mixed media mini album from scratch and learn many tips and techniques – including some photography pointers that will add character to your photos and will help you take better pictures of your projects.
The workshop includes 30 printable PDF lessons with step-by-step pictures and instructions as well as several printable templates you may use in other projects too.
I am confident you will enjoy it and find it helpful so I also offer full money back guarantee while the workshop lasts.
In light of the coming new year, I backtracked a little bit and gathered the most popular posts on creativity Prompt in 2009.
Without further ado, here are posts which attracted most of your attention and sparked a wonderful conversation – either on the blog or privately, via e-mails.
This is the time to announce that there will not be any more inspiration prompts on Creativity Prompt. In 2010 and onwards I would like to concentrate on more scrapbooking, card-making and craft projects as well as on story telling.
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What Inspiration Prompt did you like the best? Why? What nerve has it tingled?
This year you can really make your dream come true!
“Capture Your Dream” workshop is a self-paced, six weeks long workshop, that will walk you through a journey of capturing your biggest dream and making it come true.
In the process of making your dream happen – with lots of inspiration and guided self-exploration, you will also create a mixed media mini album from scratch and learn many tips and techniques – including some photography pointers that will add character to your photos and will help you take better pictures of your projects.
The workshop includes 30 printable PDF lessons with step-by-step pictures and instructions as well as several printable templates you may use in other projects too.
I am confident you will enjoy it and find it helpful so I also offer full money back guarantee while the workshop lasts.
[Fonts: Vegur, Popsies; Digital Kits: Karla Dudley's Capture + Record, Digi Essentials & Blakely]
I have been very fortunate in the last couple of weeks to meet a group of fantastic people to hang out and have loads of fun with.
One of the most difficult aspects of a relocation is starting afresh socially. You are displaced from the close group of friends you’ve been nurturing since childhood and get into a place where a tight circle of friends had already been formed. Pair with it natural shyness and a funny accent and suddenly your “play dates” are getting sparse.
Little by little we are widening our circle of friends here and our social calendar is getting full again. To “celebrate” the occasion we’ve decided to narrow down another circle – our apartment’s interior design.
When we got here we had to buy all the furniture at once and lost a lot of money by converting Euros to US Dollars. So we decided to lightly furnish the apartment with all the necessities and add on furnitures as the need arises…
Therefore on December 24th we rented a pick up truck, drove to IKEA in Palo-Alto and purchased the second sofa and some decorations. Thus, with a slight backache, our living room is finally finished
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Have you narrowed down a circle in life as another one widened? Leave a comment and engage in the discussion.
This project is also an easy one you can whip up in under 10 minutes. I love those type of projects and I can never have enough notebooks to sketch, doodle and write in. Can you?
I used the ribbon for the binding, as an alternative to the linen thread or embroidery floss I normally use for binding and as an added bonus, the ends of the ribbon also provide a nifty closure for the notebook.
If you are interested in making this sweet and simple notebook, then keep on reading for the supply, video how to and step-by-step instructions. Enjoy!
Tools & Supply
Plain white paper (I used 10 papers for a 40 pages notebook)
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Step-by-Step Instructions
Cut your papers 8″ wide and 5½” tall. Fold in half to 5½” by 4″.
Straighten the edges of the paper stack with a grid ruler, aligned with the edge of the paper and a craft knife.
Cut your cardstock 8½” wide and 5½” tall and wrap around the paper stack to adjust the spine.
Lay the paper stack over the cardstock cover and mark the piercing holes: one at the center and one to each side – 1″ apart.
Pierce the papers and cardstock following the marks you created before.
Thread the ribbon through the needle so both ends would meet and start the binding stitching from the inside out, through one of the outer holes.
Then go in through the opposite hole.
Tie the ends together in a double knot and thread the needle out through the center hole and in again through the same hole.
Thread the needle through the loop the tied ends create and then underneath the first stitch.
Thread the needle out through the center hole again.
Cut the ribbon off the needle and use the ends to close the notebook.
To embellish the notebook I adhered 3 buttons with a dab of Diamond Glaze to the center of the notebook’s cover and adhered three punched out circles of patterned paper to the button. I then secured the patterned paper with another layer of Diamond Glaze.
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If you have any question, suggestion or remark – don’t hesitate to contact me – either leave a comment here, use the contact form or start a new thread on the Creativity Prompt Flickr Group!!!
I would also be very happy to see your own creations, so don’t be shy and share
“Capture Your Dream” workshop is relaunching as a self-paced workshop. Isn’t this the perfect time for you to capture your dream and make it happen?
This is the last step in making effective new years resolutions. Last but certainly not least.
One of the main problems in following through with the list of resolutions is going after too many resolutions and starting off the year with an unrealistic expectation that will nip any sense of accomplishment in the bud.
Dream far. Wish for the stars, but do not spread your attention too thin. Even a simple resolution such as relaxing more is time consuming and by pairing it with a million more resolutions you destine yourself to fail.
Go over the list you compiled last week and choose. between one to five resolutions to stick to in 2010. Make it a realistic list. Make sure all the resolutions are feasible and can be done in a course of a year.
For a more comprehensive, fail-proof system to capture a dream and follow through to realization, check out the relaunched “Capture Your Dream” workshop.
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What is your resolutions for 2010? Share by leaving a comment on this post.
