The Czur Shine ultra portable scanner

No matter what your craft be it sewing, kneedle work (yarns), drawing painting and even scrapbooking, plus there’s more….

you can use a scanner in some form for your craft. Be it to just scan patterns, copy a specific part, or to get a better image (and lighting) of

Your photo, drawing, painting or the jewelry you made to upload to your website shop or blog.

Its a bit more money, but if you are someone  in school that needs to use a reference book (in other words, you can’t remove it from the library) but you can scan the book safely and take home a digital version. Same for any story you write a(or illustrations) scan them and make your digital book.

back them now https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shine-ultra-next-gen-portable-powerful-scanner#/

as I think the prices might be higher through Amazon!

CZUR ET16 Plus Advanced Book&Document Scanner, 2nd Gen Auto-Flatten & Deskew Tech, 16MP Sony Camera, Capture A3, 186 languages OCR, Convert to PDF/Searchable PDF/Word/TIFF/Excel, Run On Windows&Mac OS

CZUR Aura-B Book & Document Scanner, Auto-Flatten & Deskew Powered by AI Technology, Foldable & Portable, Capture Size A3, Compatible with Windows & Mac OS

CZUR Smart Writing Journal Notebook, PU Leather Peach Velvet Cover, 7.9”×5.6”, 192 pages premium thick, work with CZUR APP’s OCR and 10GB Cloud-based storage,Purify Series.

Inspiration station ~Pop-up recipe (?) book

I’m posting this early as I’m sure it takes a while to plan and prepare. Here’s an idea for a Mothers’ day gift or a shower gift for a mom to be (especially if she will make her own baby food).

You can make it for one recipe throughout the book, or make each page a recipe. Either way this would make a great gift full of love for your mom of her, Yours or everyone in the family’s favorite recipe(s).

Even better, is your daughter getting married? Why not make this for her with the family recipes (especially ones passed down) This makes a lovely gift full of love, for anyone. I love the way they include the ingredients with little mini versions of what you need.

Bread: an instructional pop-up book

Search scrapbook Pop up books for inspiration  or for a simpler, not as pretty version (good for school projects)

How to Stay Creative

ANY thought you have for anything, Write it sketch it or a bit of both just so you can retain it when it’s more convenient to really write it out, draw or paint it. This is to keep the reminder of the vision you had for it, and to retain it.

I carry some sort of pad with me at all times, (even if it’s just my little palm sized planner, I figured this way when In a bind, I can at least make a quick note or the basic plot idea, character name or poem I got an idea for

 

Here is what I have for my Pocket journal (via amazon) and it literally fits in my back pocket or a tiny purse etc!

 

Here’s a cheaper way to go 

I can even make one for you, $5 (for materials and includes postage) or see if the journal or Post-it pads are of interest to you. Have something  specific in mind,

Tell me what text and colors you want  Zazzle account. 

Matchbox books

http://nurturestore.co.uk/literacy-and-art-ideas-incy-wincy-books-with-artist-becky-adams

Splatter Nails tutorial

Let me guess, You are probably thinking that I was working on my blogs at the same time and put this one on here and the craft one int he beauty blog right? WRONG!  (though I did probably include it in the beauty blog as well)

I thought this was an idea for painting like making clouds use a q-tip and or cotton balls!!!

Paint chips /swatches

So what can you do with the free paint chips?

One They can be used for table settings, Make confetti, use them as journal cards (write a quote a day on them, or as a journal themselves write a small summary of something great that happened You’ll have a very colorful journal (or just one color depending on what you prefer) use them for an art project like mixed media like they can be used as skyscrapers etc.

Use them in a presentation (like a bar graph)  and many others you can find here