Three Things : Creative Books (+ a giveaway)

Thank you for all the give aways.
current favorite: altering the photos themselves. Photojojo always has good ideas, distressing the photos, journaling right on them, painting on them, using them as pages in mini books and layering transparencies on top of them. This results in using less photos but larger prints and I love it!

Love painting over letter stickers and then peelingthem off..old technique but fun.

My favorite scrapbooking technique these days is using rub-ons. They're so easy and add such a nice touch to a layout.

I'm a spimple girl, sititching (hand or machine) on a layout aways looks great to me.

hey cool chick!!! i am sooo excited to hear the news for your new family member to be :) i have not been using anything new...just love coming up with new ideas with the tools i've collected along the way...stamps w/ paint and layering with punched shapes and mod podging everything together :) and love the all the new clear goodies!! are you coming to seattle any time soon??? your personal stalkers miss you :)

My creative technique right now is playing with found objects, adding them to my scrapbooking pages and mini-books. Love that they found their way to me. :)
Thanks for sharing the book ideas!

Your give aways are the greatest!
Let's see...my favorite creative technique lately would have to be making dinner by adding "super powers" in it, so that my boys will eat it....
oh and with scrapbooking it would be to add black ink around every photo to make it stand out a bit more!
gretchen

I have been watching Suzi Blu's videos for some time (she's on YouTube) and finally had the courage to to put paint to canvas. I really enjoy mixed media. I now need the confidence to show my work to people without feeling embarrassed.
Thanks for the chance to win :-)

I have been very into sewing things lately...fabric to fabric or fabric to paper, whatever. There is so many fabulous fabrics out there...they make me drool!

I am currently taking an advanced typography class so my favorite technique these days is playing around with type and getting really creative with it. Thinking outside the box and using letterforms to make shapes, etc.

I pretty much stick to digital, except when I make a mini-album--then I like to add a few "real" pretties to the pages.
(The book looks like it's really inspirational.)

I am currently taking an advanced typography class so my favorite technique these days is playing around with type and getting really creative with it. Thinking outside the box and using letterforms to make shapes, etc.

I am really into minibooks right now and using YES glue to seal my chipboard albums.

These days, I'm working on hybrid scrapbooking. I'm also learning interior design drawing.

As long as there is scissors, glue and a silent spot in my busy schedule I am fine - inspiration-reading is what I long for now when the evenings are getting darker and I am allowed to put some logs into the fireplace, sip some tea and hopefully enjoy a new book-friend ;)

My favorite "technique" is trying to find just the right combination of regular, everyday "stuff" to add to my cards and/or layouts; things like washers from the hardware department, lace, fabrics, beads, canvas, the paper stuff of life, wood...as opposed to dedicated scrapbooking products. That kind of combination of art makes me very happy.
Cheers,
Karen Geckler

I am really trying to do more journaling. The story behind the pictures is so important. Thanks for the give-away.

Hi Ali,
I am all about mixed media and finding new uses for just about anything.
thanks.

Right now it is paint and ink! Love the messiness of it all! I also like to try to make it look new and different!

I am intrested in painting the chipboard the same color as the page. I am loving that look and want to do something with my kids back to school pictures and that process.