Video | The Crafter’s Workshop Templates

September 29, 2011 by 8 Comments

[Editor's Note: Working with templates is hot hot hot right now in papercrafting, and who better to bring Scrapbook Update readers a tutorial on how to work with them than the designer of the hottest line of templates in the industry - Julie Fei-Fan Balzer! Many thanks to Julie for sharing her expertise with us!]

When May Flaum asked me to contribute a technique to her book, Scrapbook Workshop: The Best Techniques From Your Favorite Scrapbook Bloggers, I was incredibly flattered and then incredibly scared.  I wanted to pick the absolute perfect technique that was going to be simply the most amazing thing in the whole world.  Well, May gave me some good advice: She told me not to overcomplicate it and just do what came naturally to me.

The technique I share in the book is how to paint titles for your scrapbook. It’s something I love doing. And while it’s easy to do, I have run into a lot of people who hate their handwriting and want their titles to look like mine. And so I finally came up with a solution!

Earlier this year I teamed up with The Crafter’s Workshop to design a line of templates. Two of the eighteen templates are word masks. I used one…

…to title this layout:

Watch the video to learn three ways to stamp with your stencils!

Here are the samples from the video:

I hope you’ll give it a try!

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About Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a self-taught mixed media collage artist and avid scrapbooker. She has been published in many books & magazines including Cloth Paper Scissors, Quilting Arts, Creating Keepsakes, Better Homes & Gardens’ Scrapbooks Etc., Scrapbook Trends, Somerset Memories, and books by Leisure Arts, F&W Publications, and Quarry (upcoming), as well as multiple e-zines. Beginning in January 2011, Julie will be writing a column in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine. Julie is also currently the co-host of Scrapbook Soup TV (PBS) and has also appeared on Quilting Arts TV (PBS) and on Scrapbook Memories TV (PBS). She will be appearing on the upcoming season of Crafting at The Spotted Canary (PBS). Julie’s instructional DVD “Collage Fast & Furious” was released in July 2010.  

To learn more about Julie, visit her blog, where she is currently offering a free online class called Stencil 101.

Comments

  1. Marlene Moore says:
    September 30, 2011 at 11:57 am

    Wow! love this video, am going to go try this right now! Thanks Julie, love all your videos :)

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  2. Deanna says:
    September 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

    OH I really like this! Thank you!

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  3. Lisa M. Zepponi says:
    September 30, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    Love Julie’s stencils/masks! Great video! I just wish Two Peas and simon says carried them!! Love that layout! thanks for sharing!

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  4. Judy Webb says:
    September 30, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    So glad to learn more uses for mask.

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  5. Mary L says:
    September 30, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    I am already a follower of Julie on her blog (totally addicted) and she just rocks these stencils along with lots of other great ideas on how to use all kinds of mediums. I really love her artist journal pages along with her scrapbook layouts.

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  6. Angie says:
    September 30, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    I appreciate your posting this info, I’m going to share it with friends. This was really creative! Thanks!

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  7. lyneen says:
    October 1, 2011 at 12:16 am

    Great technique…. love how well the template works as a stamp!!!

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  8. Kathy H says:
    October 17, 2011 at 10:59 am

    Absolutely love this!! I don’t know which I love more, the stencil techniques or the tip using the roll of paper towels! Well done!!! ( sorry for the prolific use of the exclamation mark for those that are annoyed by it!:)

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