Fun With Photos
Now how cool is this? You just upload/pick your photos, download and print a PDF, cut it out and put it together and voila! You have a swell photo cube! Not bad for free!
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January 12, 2008 at 10:29 am | Crafting, Papercrafts
A New Year and a New Swap
Ahhhhh welcome to 2008! I had hoped to blog something every day, but as usual I’ve been busy with a major web design project. At least I know I’ll be able to budget at least some creative time this month, since I signed up for the Dreamscapes ATC Swap on Swap-bot!. I hope you’ll find some crafty time this new year too!
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ATCs: Inspiration and Ideas
Today I gave my presentation on Artist Trading Cards at the Odd Topics Society luncheon, and since a couple people requested it, here are my favorite sources of ATC inspiration and ideas.
And if these weren’t enough to eat up your afternoon, do a search on altered books, collage art, papercrafts, card making, or scrapbooking to really feel creatively charged.
Oh, and by the way, Saturday is World Card Making Day! 
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September 26, 2007 at 1:10 pm | Crafting, ATC's, Card Making, Papercrafts, Scrapbooking
It’s here! It’s here!
My PhotoBook Creator is here!
Fair warning: Another long post everyone…
Back in October, I did the photography for my friend’s wedding. Admittedly, I’m not a particularly experienced or knowledgeable photographer (yet), but I do have a good camera (Nikon D50), a decent eye, and I take a sh*t-ton of photos that make up for it.
I got extremely lucky with a beautiful fall day and an exceptionally hansom couple to shoot, and I ended up with nearly 700 photos. Now the question becomes what to do with them. I’ve already created a DVD slideshow for them to view the photos, and we’ve got through our first round of sorting them down. Digital is nice, but when it comes to a wedding album, that needs to be printed.
I investigated photobook creation services, and decided on Picaboo because they offer downloadable software in which to create your pages. (It would take forever to upload and work with my high-res photos.) I added the first batch of photos (the prettiest outdoor shots) and realized I had a book with over 100 pages, so I decided to investigate how much it would cost. At $29.95 for the first 20 pages, and $1.99/each additional page, you can see how this would get pretty expensive, pretty quickly. Another thing to consider was the size. The book is only 8.5″ x 11″, which I personally think is too small for a wedding album. 12″ x 12″ books start at around $55 through another service.
I figured it was time to a) pare down the number of photos, and b) contact the bride to discuss budget. (More later on the wedding book saga.)
Another option I investigated is binding my own book. I didn’t want that spiral binding, so I did a search and came up with thermal binding, and the PhotoBook Creator. At $130 from Target (with 6 covers - the best deal amongst the retailers), it took me a week to decide I really wanted it.
Essentially, a heating element in the binding machine heats the glue applied to the inside spine of the book cover. You insert your printed pages into the cover and after the adhesive is heated and cooled, you have a book. Neat, huh?
Anyway, it arrived today, so I’m off to print some photos. (Don’t bother with the Collage Creator software that comes with it. I checked it out for about 3 minutes before I uninstalled it.) I’m going to use PhotoShop/InDesign cuz I’m an elitist techy smarta** (and it really is the best if you know how to use it). But no worries if you’re not down with the Adobe stuff - try that Picaboo software. It’s actually pretty cool and easy. In fact, I’m going to try printing from it first!
February 19, 2007 at 6:46 pm | Scrapbooking
