Three Things : Creative Books (+ a giveaway)

Mostly working on photos and organization right now, and always journaling. I'm going to take Cathy's Design Your Life class in October at BPS and I'm getting really into scrapbooking again.

Scrapbooking...but I have also been in a creative "rut" lately. Hoping to get some inspiration from these books :)

I love to combine scrapbooking with all different kinds of techniques. I love using acrylic paints. I would really like to learn more about mixed media. That always looks sooooo good!

My latest creative endeavor is sewing. I used to sew a fair bit, but recently got back into it and am really enjoying the whole process. Are you familiar with Alabama Chanin? It's just spectacular.

My favorite creative technique is scrapbooking first...and then I really love to do little projects like mini-albums and various crafts. Thanks for the give-away!

My new love is canvases.I am loving putting pictures,paint and stuff onto canvas.A new way to scrapbook....I find it freeing from scrapbooking as a change.Journalling in little books that I have started to keep around to tell my storyis something I am enjoying.

Hi Ali,
After a long, dry spell of just looking at a blank paper and feeling uninspired, my mind is again slowly "seeing" what is important to me RIGHT NOW and how I would like to interpret that - I would love to own this book to help my creative thoughts take flight! Thanks for all the inspiration and support!! Love, Maria

oh, art journals. for sure.
though they're more like life journals, with shopping lists and scraps of this and that everywhere...
my favorite new tool is my handwriting font via Fontifier, so i can take something i wrote on the computer and print out what *looks* like handwriting....

Lately I've been all about mod podging tissue paper on whatever I'm altering and then painting over it. Love the texture!

Scrapbooking and rubber stamp carving! Both are great activities to relieve stress!! :D

Keeping my journal and adding photos and everyday stuff & doo-dads in there. Makes me smile,it's been so long since I did this.

I'd have to say my favorite creative technique these days is incorporating fabrics & other textiles in my scrapbooking projects. Totally inspired by Kelly Rae's work! Thanks for the chance to win her lovely new book.

Mixed media in my scrapbooking. Am loving the hybrid work I've seen lately and have decided that I need to do more of this. My pages tend to be either all paper or all digital. Not anymore!!!

I'm such a traditional scrapbooker, but I love-love-love the digital books I've been doing lately! It's so tempting to stray because it's easy to pull out my computer for a few minutes (I've got three, ages 4 and under) and not have to worry about the kids getting into my stuff.
I'm about to start a digital scrapbook that will be a collection of both of my grandmas and my mom's recipes--so excited!

I am primarily a card maker who also makes mini albums. I have recently gone back to creating jewelry, primarily woven seed bead bracelets - it's like meditation for me! :D
Thanks for the chance!

Thank you for all the give aways.
current favorite: altering the photos themselves. Photojojo always has good ideas, distressing the photos, journaling right on them, painting on them, using them as pages in mini books and layering transparencies on top of them. This results in using less photos but larger prints and I love it!

Love painting over letter stickers and then peelingthem off..old technique but fun.

My favorite scrapbooking technique these days is using rub-ons. They're so easy and add such a nice touch to a layout.

I'm a spimple girl, sititching (hand or machine) on a layout aways looks great to me.

hey cool chick!!! i am sooo excited to hear the news for your new family member to be :) i have not been using anything new...just love coming up with new ideas with the tools i've collected along the way...stamps w/ paint and layering with punched shapes and mod podging everything together :) and love the all the new clear goodies!! are you coming to seattle any time soon??? your personal stalkers miss you :)

My creative technique right now is playing with found objects, adding them to my scrapbooking pages and mini-books. Love that they found their way to me. :)
Thanks for sharing the book ideas!

Your give aways are the greatest!
Let's see...my favorite creative technique lately would have to be making dinner by adding "super powers" in it, so that my boys will eat it....
oh and with scrapbooking it would be to add black ink around every photo to make it stand out a bit more!
gretchen

I have been watching Suzi Blu's videos for some time (she's on YouTube) and finally had the courage to to put paint to canvas. I really enjoy mixed media. I now need the confidence to show my work to people without feeling embarrassed.
Thanks for the chance to win :-)

I have been very into sewing things lately...fabric to fabric or fabric to paper, whatever. There is so many fabulous fabrics out there...they make me drool!

I am currently taking an advanced typography class so my favorite technique these days is playing around with type and getting really creative with it. Thinking outside the box and using letterforms to make shapes, etc.