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Guest Post: Scrapbooking Scraps DIY

Today's post is a special one as it is my first proper guest post! This guest post is written by one of my favourite bloggers- Dainty and Ivory! In her guest post, she has given some tips on how to use those little bits of scraps in scrapbooking.

Materials:

Scrapbook

Fabric Scraps

Gems- optional

Tools:

Scissors

Glue

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5 Valentine Inspired DIY's to try

Coversation Hearts Screen Print / Secret Message In A Bottle / Heart Party Straws

Heart Themed Gift Tags / My Heart Belongs To You Necklace

With Valentine's right around the corner, you may thinking about buying or even making some little bits and pieces for the loved ones in your life! The collection of DIY's I've came across are great and even versatile DIY's that aren't just for that one day a year and you could try it any time!

I hope you like these DIY's and let me know if you try any of these out or any other inspired Valentine's DIY's!

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DIY Reading & Memory Jar

Before the start of the year, I shared with you all my Hopes & Resolutions for 2014. These included doing more 'crafty' things, reading through my 'to-read' pile and writing more for this blog. I feel like this post is going to be the start of including all three together!

The reason I've wanted to start being a bit more 'creative' just because of the face that working 2 jobs, being in college 9-meant to be 5 3 days a week, really does take it out of me. So I've just been wanting to try and do creative and crafty things that have nothing to do with college work at all. I'm hoping doing this might help me look at my studies differently and that I may feel a bit more creative, especially during units that I don't particularly get along with *cough, cough, I'm looking at you infographic brief*.

Inspired by the many crafts over at e-elise etc I've been wanting to get my hands on little glass jars and use them for a number of different projects for a while now. The two I've been really wanting to make have been a Reading Jar and as of recently a Memory Jar.

The jar I decorated for my Reading Jar is simple just decorated with my stripy washi tape that I bought from TK Maxx. I also wrote a little label on it. The jar is about half full with all the books I have written about in my books to read post.

The second jar I bought is a slightly larger than the one I've used for the 'books to read'. For this jar I used a similar idea to how Erin decorated her own jar. I flicked through magazines and stamped pretty designs that I seen. Throughout 2014 I hope to fill this jar with heaps of memories!

I hope these have sparked imagination in yourself and you try to create your own version too! For a detailed DIY post on how to decorate jars then have a look over at Erins blog posts about it here.

Please link me below to any creations or DIYs you have made/liked a lot! Always looking for more inspiration.

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Hello Janurary

ohmygod! I can't believe it's already January 2014! This past year has flown by so quickly. And over the past year I've had a very good year. With setting up my Folksy shop and selling two of them within the last month, turning 18, passing my theory test and Darren and I celebrating our 3rd anniversary together it certainly has been crazy!

I'm hoping within the next month and throughout 2014 I will continue to develop my Folksy shop and hopefully manage to set up an Etsy one as well. I'm generally thinking that I would make prints, notebooks, buttons, greetings cards and post cards. I also may try making some magnets or mirrors if I'm able to get supplies to go with my button maker, however I could always just use a company like Awesome Merchandise to make them. In the mean time, I'd really love it if you could give me any other ideas of stuff I could create. I'm really hoping this year to be a bit more creative in my work and would love to try some new things!

As well as being creative in my work and such, I want to do more creative projects for myself. Ones like little D.I.Y's that I can share on here.

I realise this post is basically just extending on my hopes and resolution post but to be honest, this is really all that's going to be going on this month. Apart from the obvious college related posts and such!

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All wrapped up!

As the days are fastly decreasing to Christmas day, it means that everybody is starting to think about what and how they are going to wrap the presents they have bought. Normally most people will go for the standard patterned wrapping paper but it's fun to go a bit different and try something else....

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I love the idea of making your own wrapping paper and making like stamps for it. I also like the idea of using washi tape and kraft paper!

This year for my christmas wrapping, I am using kraft paper and washi tape that says "Merry Christmas". I'm still considering what to do about tags, but Darren did give me some. I also bought several clay stars that say "with love" on them so im going to attach those to the presents as well. I think I might to do the tying it up with twine as well! It just looks so adorable and such!

How are you wrapping your presents this year? Just the standard store bought paper or are you making your own?

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A Handmade Christmas

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Over the past few weeks I have seen so many Christmas Crafts that I would love to do! However, I've not really made the time to do any of these. Anyway, I've made a collection of crafts that I think you will enjoy and you can try out!
There is definitely a mixture of ideas that I've put here and ones that are good for everything! For quick makes to longer ones and for ones from the young to the old! So I hope you can all get a little crafty this Christmas.

Anyway please let me know if you have do any of these D.I.Ys and how they went!

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LiveMakeDesign- Live it. Love it. Make it.

This weeks LiveMakeDesign features a blogging duo that obviously have a very similar name to this feature- Live It. Love It. Make It., or also known as H and Sammy.

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LiveMakeDesign- Dear Wilde

This weeks LiveMakeDesign is Dear Wilde- and no not Mr Oscar Wilde but Rachel Palof.

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LiveMakeDesign- Vivid Please

This weeks LiveMakeDesign is going to be about quirky design and blog duo- Vivid Please.

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LiveMakeDesign- Erin Elise

This weeks LiveMakeDesign features designer, blogger, DIYer and bookworm Erin Elise.

I think I first discovered Erins blog/shop when another blog had been showing off something that she had bought from her store. I really fell in love with her Harry Potter and The Hunger Games inspired designs she had created.

Erin is the face behind the blog e-lise etc, Sawyer and Scout and co-runs Bloggers Bookshelf. Erins store (Sawyer and Scout) has collections inspired by films, books and TV shows such as Harry Potter and Divergent. She also makes and sells DIY jewelry and some times posts about how she makes them on her blog. On her shop she also sells supplies for making your own DIY creations.

Her blog includes a large variety of posts, so you should definitely check it out because there is something for everybody. Some of these posts include DIY's, Nail Art Tutorials and baking. However, as I've said she also co-runs Bloggers Bookshelf. Bloggers Bookshelf is a blog that has bloggers review books and is definitely worth a look at if you are a bookworm on the hunt for a new book to drool over.

I personally have never bought something from her shop but I have seen quite a few reviews that praises her work and the delivery. Many people have said that they have received their orders within two days(!!) and in great condition with cute packaging.

You can find Erin here:
Facebook
Twitter
Sawyer And Scout
E-lise etc
Bloggers Bookshelf