Weekend Reading | 10.19.2012

October 19, 2012 by 5 Comments

Looking for some creative inspiration or edutainment reading for the weekend? Check these great links out!

Have you got too many 3×4 Project Life journaling cards that you don’t know what to do with? With the growing number of these cards available, it’s easy to collect too many of them. Tammy Dailor at Your Memory Connection has a great post on using up those journaling cards by using them on traditional layouts  and scrapbooking projects!

If you are like me and have a hard drive full of photos that are almost fabulous – except for the drab washed out sky – then you’ll love this tutorial from The Daily Digi. In her post, Steph shows step-by-step how to take that drab gray sky and turn it a beautiful natural looking blue gradient. The instructions work for both Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements.

“Mommy, where do baby Distress Stains come from?” Ranger is very proud of their products being made in the USA, and this week on their blog, they showed off a photo tour of the process of making a batch of Metallic Distress Stains. It’s a surprisingly complex process!

 Hero Arts has been focusing this month on holiday cardmaking, and today they featured a great Christmas card made with a stamping/masking technique that gives new versatility to background stamps. It also makes beautiful use of stamping on patterned paper. The result is a pretty and sparkly card made from just a few patterned scraps and some stamps!

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About Nancy Nally

Nancy Nally is the founder & editor of Scrapbook Update and the owner of Nally Studios LLC (formerly Balalaberry Media). She's also the Modern Business columnist for Creative Retailer magazine. Her self-paced class "Pro Press Releases" is currently available from Big Picture Classes, and she can be seen appearing in two shows on the currently airing season of the PBS series "Scrapbook Soup".

Comments

  1. Gab says:
    October 20, 2012 at 8:06 am

    Wow, this is great, thanks Nancy!

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  2. loriscraps3 says:
    October 20, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    Great suggestions–I enjoyed all those articles. Thanks, Nancy!

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  3. Trish Stewart says:
    October 20, 2012 at 5:28 pm

    I really enjoyed the 3×4 blog. I appreciate what you do! Thanks! Trish

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  4. Vicki says:
    October 21, 2012 at 10:19 am

    Love the weekend reading!

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  5. Tammy says:
    October 23, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    Thanks for the link Nancy! I love these posts. I just checked out Steph’s article and wish I had known this when I lived in Nashville. I had tons of grey sky photos. Not so much a problem now that I’m back in the sunshine state though! :D

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