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Happy New Year!!!

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Best wishes for 2009 to all my readers! I am really looking forward to spending the next year on the Craft Gossip network, and I have quite a few exciting plans for the blog! Please help me out too and let me know what kind of information you would like to see posted here? General industry news, tips and tricks, great sales, tutorials? I’ll do my best to accommodate you!

And to start the year off right follow these links to some great giveaways

A camera strap on Today’s Creative Blog

Cathy Zielske is giving away one of the Project 365 kits I wrote about!

Elsie Flannigan is giving away a 2009 Inspirational journal

Kimber McGray has a cool Hero Arts stamp up for grabs

And check the Hero Arts blog for a chance to win a copy of the Cardmakers Sketch Book

Good luck!!

Comments

  1. I would like to see tutorials, such as how to’s on making mini-books with innovative binding techniques. Also tips on how to use up scraps, making your own embellishments, and ideas for using up stash items like brads and eyelets that you get a ton of in a package. Thanks and looking forward to reading your blog this year!

Have you read?

80’s Inspired Boombox Shaped Mini Album

I was a teen in the 80’s so this totally rad Boombox shaped mini album from Traci really speaks to me! She created a rectangle shaped black acrylic album with rounded corners, adding buttons and a handle on the top with a cover decorated to look like a real boombox with speakers, a tape deck, buttons and more. She used the Totally 80’s collection of products from Simple Stories that has lots of bright pink and teal colors with cool 80’s inspired patterns like black and white check and colorful graphics. There’s also load of fun embellishments like a Walkman, high top sneakers, retro TV, camera, hair spray can and more. 

I had huge hair in the 80’s and am embarrassed to admit how much Aquanet hair spray I used!

Traci has included her totally tubular signature flaps and pockets in the album too for some radical interactive elements too.

Visit the Artsy Album blog to learn more about this bodacious mini album project.

-Heather

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