Spinning Yarns

The crafting industry is catching on to the fact that most crafters are not loyal to one art form or another. Oftentimes, our “other” passions make their way into our scrapbooking lay-outs….sewing, fabrics, fibers, stamping, beading, mixed media collage and altered arts. Scrapbooking is about your voice and how you tell the story rather than the format or even the product.

Today I stumbled upon a lovely blog called Method Playground that was just so cool. Not only does it have wonderful challenges that spark your creativity and tickle that muse of yours, it tests the boundaries and redefines scrapbooking as a whole. This last challenge involved adding fiber to your pages….AMAZING!!! If you’d like to emulate this look and perhaps haven’t the foggiest idea as to where to start, we have incredible folks right here on Craft Gossip to help. The amazing Vickie Howell can not only help you learn how to knit but, gives you valuable insight and loads of inspiration! JD Wolfe will help you master crochet and provide you with wonderful tidbits to take your art to the next level. Crafting knows no boundaries really. It’s about finding new ways to spin your own yarns and telling those amazing stories in your world and, it starts with defining your own voice and following your passion.

Here, look at the close up….these pages were crocheted

Niella used the Color Me Crafty collection from Doodlebug to create this adorable crafty themed mini album. The cover and each page are shaped like giant tickets and there’s a disc binding on the edges and fun dangling charm hanging on the spine. The cover has a cute stack of Polaroids accent and a layered scalloped border with button pattern paper.

Inside she used more crafty pattern papers, embellishments, stickers, cardstock, puffy words and more to designs wonderful pages that have lots of room for crafty photos and journaling.

There’s even a pocket to tuck in mementos and ephemera. I love the color scheme of this collection, it’s so bright and cheerful! This little album project is perfect for all your memories of going to scrapbooking classes, crops, conventions, retreats, hanging out crafting with friends or pics of your craft room.

Visit the Doodlebug blog to learn more about this project and watch a flip through video.

-Heather

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