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13d •
so many books!
Day 2 was amazing as well! I always get excited when I see Consie is presenting! Thank you Consie! And all the other speakers too! Not so much a take-a-way but good reminder: just start, doesn't have to be perfect, do it your way. I LOVE how everyone has the same premise and ideas-but yet, they are all so different! I don't think I have made this many books at the same time! Sad today is the last day but Let's Go Day 3! @Christine Karpiak @Amanda Amanda Trought @Consie Sindet
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Beautiful work! I think one of my future action plans (after I finish this first 12 week goal related to fitness) will be to set up a papercrafting/bookmaking/painting center at the downstairs desk and sort thru my old supplies in the basement! I won a gift card to Artistic Artifacts in Virginia during a past fiber arts event and they are both a quilt/fabric shop and a mixed media shop... But I've been totally frozen on how to use it.. I have no idea which of my supplies survived the move here ages ago, and the basement/garage redos and roof damage over the years, which paints are still usable, and what I can easily get my hands on. I've got some great supplies that I used to use prolifically before I had some health hurdles (making me allergic to so much of my supplies) and a big move to a smaller house with 3 teens that kept me super busy, so I switched gears to more compact crafts and picking up more sewing once they left home. Somewhere I should still have my Gelli Arts plate, my Ranger non stick mats, great stencils and paper cutting tools, various book binding supplies/kits and instruction books (plus so many that I've made in the past, gifted but should have photos on my old external hard drive), and lots of lovely cardstock and printed paper... I've been babystepping back with select clear cling stamp sets that I use to make tags for gifts and then I started a bullet journal last summer and draw in it or stamp and color it up with pencils and some watercolor pieces pasted in... Ready to really get back to it all... do journaling writing, art journals, books for others to fill, slow stitching, etc as well as the purely practical things like kntiting/crochet/weaving/sewing hats, scarves, blankets, etc that I have been working on.
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@Michelle Caldwell Thank you! I've sadly also lost the use of most of my older die cutting collection (all the sizzix dies have natural rubber latex in the foam padding, for example). I would have loved to use these and another layered flower die on fabric for slow stitching! (forgive the watermarks that photobucket wound up adding to my images that I hosted on there before switching from pc to an apple laptop). We got a lot of life out of them! Not just as these layered decorations on mini books, but also simpler things like tags tied onto all of the girl scout cookie bundles, die cutting coin holder squares with those round openings after printing messages onto them to gift the new state quarter as my son's valentine when he was busy doing coin collecting, mini bags, envelopes, and more... plsu simple shapes they loved using for crafts! I did try to lure family and local friends into taking my die collection to use, and later to cut me items, but no one was up for it! Luckily there are some new low profile metal-only dies out there but it's still painful to try to gather any when I know how much I lost that I already spent years slowly collecting.
12d •
🎉 Congratulations to Our Day 3 Bingo Winners! 🎉
A big round of applause to our amazing winners! ✨ @Jean Diorio Winner of the Journaling Reset Kit (3 Months: January–March) from @Michelle Garrett ✨ @Neith Juch Winner of The Dream Life Digital Planner from @Stacy Zant 🌟 @Cindy Mccully Winner of our Grand Prize — the HobbyScool Creative Vision VIP Pass! 🤩 Thank you so much to everyone who joined in and played Bingo during the summit. It was such a joy seeing you participate and celebrate creativity with us. We hope you’ll join us again for our next HobbyScool event, more creativity, more fun, and more prizes coming your way! 🎨✨
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Thank you! So many great possibilities between all of the presentations, handouts and now a prize!
13d •
12 Week Plan & Little Envelopes!
Got myself started on @Emily Guerra ‘s 12 week plan and dummied up a few envelopes from yesterday’s Art Journaling class with @Amanda Amanda Trought and some origami paper thatI had on hand… Can’t wait to make more from each of them and the rest of today’s presentations! Thank you!
14d •
Hello Again (and Day 1 reflections)
Hello, I'm Neith from Massachusetts. Lately I mostly craft with yarn between knitting, crochet, and weaving and attempts at sewing. I used to prolifically paper craft, scrapbooking, card making, book binding, stamping, ink play, etc, but never got it set back up when we moved to a smaller house over 10 years ago with 3 pre-teens/teens. I just reclaimed a room for fiber crafting but the papercrafts are still mostly in storage outside of a small box of stamps and a little more. I started a bullet journal last summer in a mini binder with sections for planned gifts, gifts to myself, project notes, exercises for crafters and physical therapy linked ones (it was very ill conceived to ask my husband to gently rub my sore back, he tried some back massage move that he didn't know how to do and I had to get physical therapy and weeks and weeks where my left arm wasn't usable, then I hurt my knee while trying to compensate for the pain... so we did knee work plus arm, neck, shoulder work and I saved a lot of notes in that bullet journal!) and I would decorate it with new themes and colors every week, tracking craft work, exercising (physical therapy and apple fitness plus ring fit and outdoor walks), worked to rotate what types of projects I did and what types of exercise both weekly and monthly in summary pages and charts. But, then came the Christmas gift crunch, as well as joining a big huge make-a-long on Ravelry and challenging myself to create items in each category and get back to making items for myself and for charity... I finished all my gifts and all of my personal challenges, but let the journalling get super streamlined without artwork or color and less of my exercising. Now I'm ready to jump back in and take advantage of this week's presentations to help me with more ideas for it, ideas for gifting journalling kits and prompts to loved ones, and more! I loved Debasree Dey's Collage & Paint workshop with a mini book. I miss my bookmaking and this one was so simple, but it also brought in junk journalling/mixed media techniques and included writing out your personal intentions first as background to paint/collage over and as journalling for the final pages. I've not hidden my old journaling under the artwork/collagework before... I've tucked it into pockets or used morse code to write out the titles, etc, but this was a really neat idea for me that I'll run with! I also grabbed her freebie with access to a nice library of printables and prompts!
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@Jean Diorio Thank you! Plugging away, learning more all the time, and trying to remember to take photos before they are gifted away!
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@J'aime Wells It is so fun! Others, with sewing talent, make lovely tailored clothing from their weaves. Once I rearrange some things i’ll likely pick some color themes and keep a perfect bag loaded with the 30cm on the visas continuous weave pin loom and work up different plaid squares to seam together as teen boy/gender neutral blankets to donate to Project Linus… Little Looms magazine has a great pattern for doing just that. I also like the idea of using the shorter leftovers on my shuttles to make coordinating washcloths wherever I make batches of cotton kitchen towels or placemats and you can work up most of the same colorwork designs on it that you make on the rigid heddle loom. Loving tablet weaving also and you can use the rigid heddle loom to hold your warp instead of an inkle (and get more width or length that way if you wished) and there are a bunch of free tools to use to design your patterns for them, or alter existing draft patterns that you find to suit your needs and match your colors… you can replicate 3-4 shaft krokbragd with them (add a spacer to a3 shaft one is a simple way but you can get 3 holes or even six hole cards instead of the standard; hole squares… or make your own via 3 d printing, cutting playing cards down or other materials you have)… I loved sneaking designs into the little hanging loops but also had fun making the wider and longer yoga mat carrying straps… My best friend needs to pick her with and hardware for the end then we’ll make her a guitar strap, and I got extra hardware so I can later make things like camera straps, removable purse straps etc and will use them as tote and other bag straps as well… Made a belt for my son and will be making more as well… maybe even doing shoelaces for another friend once i spy better pics of her new boots so I can figure out the length needed. (Back as a teen she loves getting special shoelaces for her Doc Martens!)
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Love these for easy journaling!
Thanks to Kristin Tweedale @rukristin for these Currently cards and the great ideas for simple memory keeping in our journals! Here is my page using washi tape for the background. :)
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So... I'm only just trying washi tape! My paper crafting went into storage when we moved to this house nearly 15 years ago and I was already allergic to latex (in soo much adhesive, all of my lovely natural rubber stamps, and most stickers) but it's gotten so much worse... so I closed my eyes to it and didn't try to figure out a way to unpack my paper crafting supplies with a full and smaller house.... BUT a few folks in my latex allergy group were touting washi tape and I bought just a little from a known safe brand (3m) in a stationery set, then I threw caution to the wind and bought some random floral ones... Just tried the random florals for the first time and didn't handle them much, but my hands aren't swelling and blistering! Now to see where I want to use them! Started with my own Currently page!
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@Shannon Fowler Oh gosh, it is everywhere! Between severe latex and pine allergies I can't even touch or be around turning pages in so many of the new full color crafting instruction books or in the same area as some erasers (thank you so much that so many brands now offer latex free erasers and non-natural rubber grips) and elastics (I was going to try to get a pretty dot grid notebook but each of the ones I liked had an elastic band to keep them shut, settled on a binder version and cross my fingers if I buy little bound ones). If I want a book in print I always borrow it first from the library to see if I can handle it, but a lot of knitting/crochet/weaving aren't there for a while and whatever they are using for the printing and binding usually gives me strong reactions. But, there are a few brands of stickers that are latex free (I think most that have been shared in my allergy group are made by brands where someone in the founders' family has a latex allergy) and I did order some Bloom Daily Planners nursing themed stickers for my daughter (with a sheet worth for myself). Very grateful that clear polymer cling stamps got popular more recently, and while I miss my vast collection of rubber stamps, it's not emotionally draining anymore to use clear stamps now and then. When we moved it was still too fresh for me and I had my stamps boxed up in bins... it was so hard trying to get them rehomed.
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