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Ok, so not only is it Friday, I’m also completely addicted to Pinterest. It’s a complete flood of inspiration and colour (and pictures of delicious cakes, for some reason), and as I’m pinning things to my boars they grow and overwhelm. If you EVER have any lack of inspiration, look no further. But also, be warned that it’s hard to close down you browser once you start.
It’s a bit like ending up spending a day googling random interesting things, except, people have done it for you.
I’ve been a bit into retro colours and aesthetics lately (well, what I personally consider to be retro that is, I am born in the late 70-s after all), so I started a board where I will pin various pictures in this category. I hope in the end to have a whole collection that will help me make a good colour swatch. Pretty awesome, if you ask me.
These last couple of weeks have been very busy at work, and a bit lonely since my co-workers are all on holiday. I for one am very grateful that it’s Friday, finally.
But as I was doing Week in the Life last week I somehow clicked my way to the Paperclipping Roundtable podcast. It’s such an awesome show, I LOVE it, and have spent the better part of this week listening to it. Whether on the bus on my way to work, or when taking a walk on my lunch break, or crafting in my little corner at home, this podcast is a great companion.
It’s very well produced with wonderful hosts and terrific guests, some of who’s blogs I’ve been following for years, and it’s great fun to suddenly hear their voices too. Each pod cast is at least a good solid hour, the discussions are engaging and pleasantly chatty, sometimes you almost forget you’re not in the room with them. Sometimes I sort of get the urge to bake a cake to bring to the next show.
Right now I’m powering through all of the pod casts whenever I have a minute to spare, but I’m looking forward to this coming fall when I can crawl up in the couch with a cup of tea or work on some of my new projects while listening to new episodes.
So, love that show. Go listen to it now!
Friday, the day before The-Two-Epic-Days-Of-Spare-Time when you can craft and be creative. Ideas pop into my head during the week but I seldom have time to do something with them, hopefully I get to spend some hours this weekend crafting though. I just need to remember the ideas… yay for post-its!
If you feel a bit short for motivation, here is one sure source of inspiration: Old designed labels. Do a Google image search or do a search on Flickr or Photobucket, you’re bound to find a ton of appealing designs. Or find objects in your home with labels on them. Someone has already come up with a design; you can borrow inspiration from that. Make it into your own and turn it into a card or a photo layout.
Here are some examples I love from Flickr:
1. Apple Crate Label, 2. Label Tributo Shiraz 2007, 3. Polish matchbox label, 4. Label Detail: Crown, 5. Hungarian matchbox label, 6. Zuddyl (Logo&Label), 7. Dur Dur D’Être Bebé Inner Label, 8. 70′s Gunne Sax Label, 9. Airmail Labels, 10. Personal Use Only – Vintage Labels, Box Tops, Tins, 11. champagne label, 12. Vintage Orange Crate Label
This Friday is was snowing in Stockholm! I love it. I know it wont stay, in fact it’s already beginning to melt away, but up here in the north snow means light, it means those grey and dark late autumn evenings are going to be so much brighter. Plus, you get to bundle up with socks and sweaters and hopefully under a blanket with your special someone. No bad conscience when you stay inside and craft! In fact, you might have to stock up with some more papers and things, who knows how much time you’ll have to spend inside, scrapbooking! Especially since it is now the weekend.
I’ve been indoors most of the day pottering about with a layoutI am doing. It is going to be the base for a photo of Tricks. I’m a bit nervous, I haven’t done a lot of crafting with photos before, in the traditional scrapbook sense. But I really want to start an album, so I have to start sometime, right?
I sat in my couch looking at the chaos in front of me and started thinking about what things I use the most, things I always bring out when I’m crafting with papers. Here they are:
- My heat gun. I emboss a lot, I have ever since I started this hobby. I remember in the beginning when Tricks and I stood in her kitchen heating up the embossing powder with her toaster. Sure it smelled really pleasant, but the result was not to satisfactory.The heat gun was one of the first items I bought, it’s going on 5 years now and still works like a charm.
- My brush. Got to get rid of that extra powder somehow, this brush is good for both large and small areas.
- My watermark stamp pad. Again, for the embossing. I just like seeing where I stamp before I pour the powder on, I just don’t like that blue tint that some pads have. The watermark pad gives a good neutral image and the motif keeps sticky long enough not to rush you. Again, one of the first items I bought, and still no sign of drying out.
- My Fiskars trimmer. I can’t cut a straight line by hand for the life of me. I know there are better models than this one, but this is small enough to bring with you.
I hope you all have a great Friday and a really good weekend! Don’t forget to create something. You can find time, I promise!
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