3D Snowflakes or Stars

When I saw these beautiful homemade paper Christmas ornaments I knew instantly that I had to find out how to make them for my tree this year. I spent a few days researching and planning how I could offer this as a tutorial. Here is the written step by step process for you. A video tutorial is also available at…

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7 Simple Homemade Christmas Crafts – Ornament Ideas

One of my favorite memories of growing up was coming up with ornament ideas and making homemade Christmas ornaments. When we exchanged gifts with our aunts and uncles, we could not purchase gifts, we had to make them. Mom would have us start our handmade Christmas gifts pretty early in the year so that we could have them completed in…

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Bleeding Cowboys Font

Today’s font is called: The Bleeding Cowboys font was first seen on the DaFont website in 2007, but it has since been updated. It was created by Gyom Séguin, a graphic designer, illustrator and artist from Canada. Gyom claims, “I am a graphic designer that listens to rock music and designs rocking fonts!” Gyom also has over 40 fonts available….

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Photo Weaving

I was reading a number of tips and tricks for Scrapbooking and card making and found one that I thought was really interesting and somewhat unique. Did you know that you can create a 3-dimensional look by weaving your photos. Yes, I did say weaving, you know just like you used to do in kindergarten with the strips of coloered…

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Fixing Photos

So what do you do when the photos that you want to highlight are not quite the right shape or size? Or what if the photo or image is not centered? Placing these photos or images onto a page “as is” makes your page look unprofessional. To get a professional looking scrapbook page, you may need to make some adjustments…

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Coffee and Curry Shop Font

Today’s font is:The Coffee and Curry Shop font is another font that I think would work very well as text as well as a title. It is relatively clean and rather easy to read. It is plain and simple, yet still has a bit of flair to set it apart from a completely embellishment free styled font like Ariel. The…

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Creative Pursuits – Why I Scrapbook and Write

Freelance Writer, Editor, Blogger. Writer for Women’s Memoirs on the net. Does the “ScrapMoirs” twice a month. Enjoys scrapbooking and other creative arts. Primary site “Creative Pursuits” promotes all creative arts including scrapbooking, card making, writing, photography, quilting, needlecrafts, culinary arts, all are welcome. Contests and prizes. Who is this wonderwoman? Well… we would like to introduce BettyAnn Schmidt! BettyAnn…

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