This will be the first in an ongoing series about how the creative people in the world get to their finished product, from first thought to finished piece.
A Pocketful of Dandelions is a fantastic blog that is written by Vickie.
http://www.apocketfulofdandelions.com/
Vickie describes herself as “…a 40-something wife and mum from Hampshire. I’m a crafter and a self-confessed makeup horder. I write a little bit about everything I love, including the adventures I have with my daughter Bubs…”
Vickie just recently started filming both her unboxing of scrapbooking kits and showing how she uses the kits (and tons of other stuff!) and uploading to her YouTube channel.
What I love about her videos is that she doesn’t just show you the beginning and the end with maybe a tiny bit in the middle of where she puts items, but actually discusses the items, both ones that she used and ones she decided against, and shows her placing things around the page until it looks the way she wants.
Interspersed through out are her tips and tricks for layout and using various embellishments. For example, at 3:46 she is seen putting foam tape on the back of her central photograph and says she does this so she has room to put embellishments behind it. Granted, I’m not a scrapbooker, but that would never have occurred to me. I would have put the embellishments on first and then put the picture on top!
Happy Scrapping – Don’t Look Down!
This way she can place the picture and then see how various embellishments will look behind it.
She also mentions that she sorts her embellishments by colour rather than subject and we get to see her sort through her box of blue ones.
Watching her get to her final page is fascinating and her soft English accent is lovely to listen too as she talks through her whole process.
So head on over to A Pocketful of Dandelions and check all of her things out. You may learn something. I certainly did.
You can also catch up with Vickie on Twitter @vintagevicshop