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Video Of The Week 24th Feb

24 February 2010
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This week I enjoyed a video from Hero Arts presented by Jennifer McGuire. In the video Jennifer demonstrates how to emboss on ribbon. Jen uses the embossed ribbons to create a card example (pictured).
It’s actually something I’d never of thought of doing, so it was interesting to watch such a simple and effective technique. Jen [...]

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Video Of The Week 16th Feb

17 February 2010
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This week I watched a video by KI Memories demonstrating how to make stacked (or 3D) embellishments.
Presenter, Shannon Tidwell uses three sizes of the same sticker design. The stickers have a clear backing sheet which is retained so the stickers aren’t actually sticky on the back.
Shannon cuts around each sticker shape and layers one on [...]

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Video Of The Week 9th Feb

10 February 2010
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This week I watched a video demonstration of Zutter’s new tool, the Distrezz-It-All, by Donna Salazar. In the first part of the video Donna talks about her part in the development of the tool. (It sounds like she provided the idea for the tool for Zutter.)
In the latter part of the video, Donna demonstrates the [...]

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Video Of The Week 27th Jan

27 January 2010
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This week I’ve enjoyed watching a video from Shimmerz demonstrating a technique called “monoprinting” to create a scrapbooking page background. The technique involves dripping various paint colours onto a transparency (or acetate) sheet. A second transparency sheet is then placed over the top of the paint droplets. The top sheet is pressed down to “squish” [...]

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Video Of The Week 1st Jan

1 January 2010
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First things first, I wish all Aussie readers a very happy New Year.
I didn’t get around to featuring a video on Wednesday per my usual schedule, so I figured I do it today instead.
This week I enjoyed watching a video over on the Prima blog. Tami Indra demonstrates a project she calls a [...]

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Video Of The Week 23rd Dec

23 December 2009
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This week I enjoyed watching a segment from the Scrap It TV Christmas Special (on the Aurora channel here in Australia). In it Rachel Greig of Darkroom Door demonstrates how to make a simple stamped gift bag and gift tag with Yultide collection).
For our international readers, that’s an Aussie accent Rachel’s sporting. An accent just [...]

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Video Of The Week 16th Dec

16 December 2009
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Well it’s a case of from feast to famine this week in scrapbooking video land. Last week I had too many videos to choose from and this week I haven’t found any new videos worth sharing. Luckily, I held one in reserve from last week.
This week I’m featuring a video by Stephanie Barnard demonstrating [...]

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Video Of The Week 9th Dec

9 December 2009
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There’s so many great scrapbooking related video’s around, that I’m having trouble narrowing it down to one to feature each week. Today I’ve decided feature not one, but three great videos.

The first video is from Shimmerz demonstrating a masking technique on fabric using Shimmerz Spritz spray mist. The related blog post is here. [...]

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Video Of The Week 2nd Dec

2 December 2009
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This week I’ve watched a number of scrapbooking related videos. In the end, I decided to show you this one by the people at My Little Shoebox. It demonstrates how to make a super quick paper flower (pictured) plus some general silliness and bloopers at the end.
The video’s just shy of 4 minutes long. The [...]

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Video Of The Week 25th Nov

25 November 2009
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This week I enjoyed a video by Shari Carroll demonstrating how to make a porthole card over at the Hero Arts blog. The snowflake card example used in the demonstration is absolutely gorgeous, but you could no doubt adapt the idea to suit any type of theme – a leaf for autumn, a pumpkin for [...]

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