enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: get crafty
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I'm just cruising through all the old school crafts I can find this year apparently. I saw a rad tye-dye project here a few months ago and then patiently counted the days until I was visiting my parents and had full access to a garage and a utility sink. Some folks dream about beautiful backyards…
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Still working… I ended up adding most of these travel updates after we got home. As always, the end of the trip got away from me. It worked out though because I was able to add some printed photos. I put together a video tutorial for creating photo grids like the one above awhile back.…
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Okay. So this is up there on the Not Too Exciting list. But I've got a long way to go to get to 26 projects by February so we're rolling with it. I never use a camera strap. Ever. In general, I only use my big camera around the house so it's never in harms…
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As mentioned a million and three times (excited much?) I'm leaving town for the next two weeks. And the summer minibook is coming with me. I won't have access to a printer or sewing machine on this trip so there will not be any photos, typed text or sewn details added on the road. Instead,…
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My book is growing! On the backside of the sunglass box cardboard, I added a silhouetted photo of some flowers. My rule with silhouettes is if the shape is simple or the background is distracting – chop it. Next to that, I stuck in the packaging that my sample of kate spade twirl perfume came…
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A fantastic photo of brightly colored friendship bracelets – of the old school woven variety – popped up on Pinterest last week and I couldn't get it out of my head. (Here's the photo and here's the blog post it came from, complete with tutorials.) I dug through my craft supply box for the seven…
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I technically started this project last summer when I carved this stamp. Somewhere along the line, the project lost steam and I never got around to making a bunch of cards. Yesterday, I was digging through some craft boxes and found it. This time, I decided to grab some paper before I forgot about it…
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Moving along… lots to include these past few days. I added letter/number stickers from an office supply store to both sides of the grid transparency to represent how many miles I ran in the half-marathon. I like these letter stickers because no matter what letters you're working with, they are the same size. This was…
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Moving along with this album… I reformatted my "hello june" graphic from Wednesday into a 4×6 image and printed it out on plain white paper. I backed it with the orange patterned paper from the album (it was further back and I just pulled it up) and part of a photobooth strip taken at the…
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Hooray! More progress! I talk about this a bit at the beginning of the video, but I want to mention it again : I am putting no emphasis on “daily updates” to this album. Whatever says “SUMMER” (in all caps) gets in. And whatever doesn’t say “SUMMER” stays out. This is keeping the pressure off…
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