I was just out surfing the web and was amazed to find a "How-To" I did YEARS ago...and never knew it was "published"!!! I remember doing it, just didn't know it was "out there".
http://www.annaboveembroidery.com/making-monogrammed-notepad.html
My Legacy ... leg-a-cy [leg-uh-see] noun: anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor
Friday, December 24, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
My First "Little" Student
This is Nicole Snyder. She is one of my best friend's daughters. She is 8 years old and decided she wanted to make her older brother a pillow for Christmas. She ended up making two pillows and 9 tissue covers in about 3 hours! AWESOME!!! She made gifts for all her teachers, grandmothers, mother, brother, grandfather, and even a tissue cover for herself! (IN JUST THREE HOURS!!!) WOW! Pretty amazing since it was her first time to ever sew anything!
It took two trips over to her house because the "teacher" failed to bring any extra needles so when the one and only broke on the first trip, all production stopped! I went back over today and was there just for show, I could have left my sewing machine there and she could have done it all completely without me! She remembered everything I had said last week! She ran in from school and got on the machine immediately, finishing the first pillow and two tissue covers, then made another pillow and two more covers!!! (in just over an hour!!!)
YOU ROCK NICOLE!!!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
How to Make Colored "Watermarked" Background Paper
Creating Watermark Background Paper
One of my favorite techniques for creating background paper use to be using Versa Mark to add watermarks on a solid sheet of cardstock .... Hummm???? How to do that with digis??? EASY!!!
Several months ago I discovered (after YEARS of not knowing about it) that there is a "borderless" printing option on the Windows "print screen" (under Preferences)! That has CHANGED MY LIFE and made creating background paper a PIECE OF CAKE!!
To use a digital stamp the same way you would have used Versa Mark (the old fashion way) just
change your stamp color to be the same color as your colored cardstock, change your printing option to borderless,
print and VOILA! You have a watermarked paper!
For the sample below I just built a one column grid and filled every other cell with red for my red paper… results:
So, you can use any digi to make your own colored background paper, and save on ink!
One of my favorite techniques for creating background paper use to be using Versa Mark to add watermarks on a solid sheet of cardstock .... Hummm???? How to do that with digis??? EASY!!!
Several months ago I discovered (after YEARS of not knowing about it) that there is a "borderless" printing option on the Windows "print screen" (under Preferences)! That has CHANGED MY LIFE and made creating background paper a PIECE OF CAKE!!
To use a digital stamp the same way you would have used Versa Mark (the old fashion way) just
change your stamp color to be the same color as your colored cardstock, change your printing option to borderless,
print and VOILA! You have a watermarked paper!
For the sample below I just built a one column grid and filled every other cell with red for my red paper… results:
So, you can use any digi to make your own colored background paper, and save on ink!