People often tell me they aren’t crafty or creative. “I just can’t come up with ideas!” they’ll moan. Here’s the truth: Every craft idea is built upon another idea you glean from somewhere else. My favorite crafting these days is to take one layout, one design, and recycle the stuffing out of it.
For example, I posted this original page design from Spotted Canary back in September:
And here are all the “variations” I’ve created on that same theme, using the template they provided. (By the way, I’ve loaded that template onto http://www.youpublish.com/ so you can download it and use it, too. Many thanks to everyone at Spotted Canary for their generosity!)#1. Cheer
The bird is obviously a cardinal, and I did slightly modify his tail to be larger. I also used the beak as a pattern to add the black crest. The eye is a jewel pasted onto a flower. The snowflakes are pre-made embellishments that I added to the page with pearl dressmaker pins. I also thinned out the branch a bit for a better proportion. The snow is a fabric textured paper from Paper Adventures. (I’ve held onto EVERY scrap of that paper now for years!) I covered the chipboard letters shown on the original page with paper–I even added a black rubber-stamped pattern to the letter “R.” The red flower is multiple punched layers stacked on each other.
#2. Never More
The moon is a circle cut by using a mug as a pattern. I covered it with duct tape. (You should see how silvery and cool it is!) The background of the caption is bits of newspaper stuck together, as is the word “NEVER.” (I cut letters from a headline.) I flipped over the black velvet paper to create the underside of the raven’s wing. The silver circle embellishment is a common washer from a hardware store with a shiny brad stuck through the center.
#3. Boo
Clouds made from self-adhesive vellum add to the spooky theme. The bats are punched with an ultra-cool border punch from the Paper Shapers family of flat punches from EK Success. The witch is a punch. The branch was cut from a cardboard box. I drew and hand-colored the owl with markers.
#4. Who Loves You?
Before Christmas I hope to do one more variation. I want to make a partridge in a pear tree!
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