enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: tutorials

  • tuesday how to : take fun vacation photos.

  • tuesday how to : mosaic banners.

    I have had a lot of different blog banners in the past few years of blogging. (I posted a list of most of them here.) Currently, I have a photo mosaic of somewhat recent photos on display. This is a simple tutorial on how to make something similar for your blog. (Click on images to…

  • tuesday : how to.

    I often get asked how I get my own handwriting onto my photos / business cards / save the dates. This is a step-by-step tutorial of how it gets done. (Disclaimer : I know there are probably a lot of ways to make this work and some of them are probably much more efficient, but…

  • on mini book making.

    I have gotten emails with this question enough times that I thought it might be worth a blog post. "What's the best way to incorporate both landscape and portrait photos into a minibook?"   I have a few ideas. Option one : Don't worry about the direction. Make a book that's a square shape and…

  • tips for building a simple digital scrapbook.

    There is so much information out there about how to make really stunning digital scrapbook pages. I know how to do about 2% of it. However, by request, I am going to share a few of my tips for making a book like my engagement book. First things first. You have to pick a page…

  • let’s talk about pattern.

    I do not have a local scrapbook store when I am home in Maryland. I shop for paper at Paper Source. Which means I get a lot of great prints in full size sheets that could serve as wrapping paper. This works well for what I do, which is a lot of cropping down to…

  • a few ideas.

    Stay organized : Sort your email into folders to keep track of shop orders. Have a system for marking things as paid and shipped. Keep your inventory sorted as well so you don't run into the problem I have dealt with twice where you re-sell something that you have already sold. Keep a spreadsheet :…

  • loads of little books.

    Little books are my favorite thing to make. They are concise. They can be made out of anything. They can stick with a theme. They can be clean and organized. They can be messy and fluid. Here is a list of many of them. You can also see more photos in my flickr. I store…

  • the one where i try to explain how letterpress printing works though i am quite far from being an expert.

    My introduction to letterpress printing came in August 2007 when I started working at Paper Source. We sell letterpressed invitations as well as boxed sets of letterpressed cards. At first I was like "ho-hum." And eventually I was like, "That is fantastic." Back in the day, letterpress printing was the most common form of printing. Newspapers…