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

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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