Thankful for Scor Pal

I just made a quick pretty box for cookies with nothing more than Scor Pal and leftover embellishments. It really weighs on me to have lots of bits and ends from other projects. I like order and hate hoarding, so I love that i can clear out a lot of supplies by making boxes and treat boxes. What will you be doing with your scraps this holiday

Take a 12.x12 piece of paper or cardstock score at 2 inches and at 10 inches turn paper 90 degree and score at 2 inches and 10 inches also. At top of paper, slit the vertical score line only up to the horizonal scoreline do the same at the bottom. Fold into box secure with your ATG or whatever you use as an adhesive. box bottom will be about 8 x 8 inches.

Now for the top, take 10 by 10 piece of paper. Score at 3/4 of an inch all around like you did with the bottom. Slit vertical scorelines at top and bottom only to the horizontal line fold into box shape. Secure with your ATG. Finished top will be about 8.5 x 8.5 inches
If you have a cricut, you can cut a shape in the middle of your 10 x 10 peice for a see-through hole that you can back with clear acetate or vellum.
Embellish.

Cuttlebug

So the cuttlebug is a great tool for adding texture to your layouts. But I am confused about how I should do a video on the cuttlebug. I've watched about 50 videos on the CB and I get bored everytime someone uses film to crank the handle while the camera is staring blankly at a hand going round and round. That doesn't make compelling video, and I amazed no one else has realized how boring and useless that is to the viewer. So I will make a video on the cuttlebug and make sure that part is left out. See you soon

How To Tell The Obama Story for Generations to Come

So, now history has been made. Barack Obama is President Elect. The new question is how do we save the mementos? The video, the individual stories of what this means? Should we interview neighbors and relatives? Should we clip paste into scrapbooks? What is the process of giving a public victory your own personal perspective so that your grandchildren and great grandchildren will know you were alive and apart of the history.

I Want More Feelings on YouTube

So, I started this HeartNote Series because I wanted to express the way some of the videos make me feel. When you go to a movie, you can go with a friend or even if you go without that friend you can call them and ask if they saw the movie and discuss how it makes you feel.

But not with YouTube. On YouTube I send videos to other friends but rarely do I follow-up with a conversation “How did it make you feel?” The type of discussions on YouTube are passionate, but rarely about feelings, they are about opinions. Even if someone starts a conversation with the words, “I feel…” they are not talking about feelings, they are talking about their opinion, which may not last as long as the life of the video posting.

Through art I can quickly, cheaply express something that is moving through me.
That strong reaction that could sit in my body and disturb me or I can grab the Derwent tin and some paper and go, go, go.

My youtube channel is JazznJava look for the HeartNotes Series