Art & Craft

Collages and Colors

Today’s article is a Guest Post from Dee who’ll be sharing some ideas on making collages that will hopefully spark your creative imagination. Collages and Colors A collage is similar to a mosaic style piece of artwork, crafted from paper, card, moving boxes, photos or any other paper-based medium (and if you’re digitally minded you [...]

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Digital Silk

Here’s a bit of fun I thought you might like to play with. If you go to this website here http://weavesilk.com/?a You can play with this little thingumy that lets you create this cool looking sort of silk by dragging your mouse around. The web app is created by Yuri Vishnevsky as an experiment in [...]

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Scotch Brand Most Gifted Wrapper Contest

How would you like to win $10,000 for wrapping some presents? Well the 3M Company who own Scotch Brand are holding their 14th annual gift wrapping contest in December this year. Entries close 18th October 2010 and the winner of the Scotch Brand Most Gifted Wrapper walks away with $10,000.00.

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Cuttlebugs and Creativity

Well Summer is in full swing here in Oz. And I’ll be honest with you; I haven’t done much in the scrapbooking line for a few months. But I haven’t shut up shop entirely. My Tuesday night craft group ensures that I still keep projects on the go. Last year I introduced Marla to the [...]

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Artist Trading Card (ATC) Swaps

You might remember me writing about a Christmas Card Making in July event I went to that was a whole bucket load of fun. Well following on from that, Marla invited me over to a regular Tuesday night craft session that she and a few friends hold each week. I’ve mentioned in previous posts that [...]

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Christmas Card Making in July

Although I have always enjoyed sharing my crafting experiences with you online my crafting, in a physical sense, tends to be done in isolation. I occasionally have a card making afternoon up at my sister’s place in Wallan, which is always fun and we both enjoy it. But I’ve never really had a group of [...]

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Wrapping Up the Celtic Theme

A Contest and a Video Following on from my update last Monday on the Kilmore Celtic Festival, I came across the video below. It seems a fitting conclusion to my Celtic week. But first a gift wrapping contest Yes, you read that right. Many scrapbookers extend their love for all things paper and decorative and [...]

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Inflatable Bag Monsters

Remember this classic photo of Marilyn Monroe standing over a hot air grating? I think everybody in the western world, no matter what their age, must have seen this. Well is seems that a guy called Joshua Allen has taken this concept and turned it into some great street art. I’m a big fan of [...]

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Me Time with ATCs

Just lately life seems to be just work, work and still more work. I’m sure you know the feeling. I really felt I was getting stale so I decided to block out an afternoon of  ‘me’ time and get reconnected with my ‘touchy feely’ self. I decided to make some Artist Trading Cards, which I [...]

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Craft Survey Results

A couple of weeks ago I ran a Survey to try to find out how many readers did multiple crafts and what they might be. Well it turns out you’re all very busy people. I had 30 people respond to the survey and they voted on 99 crafts! That means that Scraps of Mind readers [...]

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