Posts Tagged ‘Techniques’

This post is about dreaming up experimental ideas and seeing them through to completion.

I’ve been wanting to design a book like this for a long time (several years, if I’m being honest) and a couple weeks ago I decided to just bite the bullet and make it.

Besides, I had this amazing retro paper that needed [...]

The following is a project I did in college for my Experimental Bookmaking class. We were to use the Venetian Blind binding technique and here’s my result, a book that commemorates all the trips I’d made to different parts of the world at that time.
The covers were made from .5″ foam core board wrapped in [...]

For Christmas, my friend Sarah wanted some custom-designed photo albums for the women in her family. I was exciting to take this project on, as I’d never re-covered existing photo albums before. Below are the final results.
To start, I found several inexpensive albums that held at least two hundred 4×6 photos. Needless to say, I [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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I wanted to make some cute “sweetheart-type” cupcakes, and I figured Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp cupcakes might be the perfect opportunity! I started by getting out my super-cute pink-zebra-print cupcake liners that my best friends got me for [...]

“Butterfly in the skyyyyyy…I can fly twice as hiiiiiiiigh.
When I bake, I make a cake….an eating rainbowwww”
Okay, so it’s a Reading Rainbow, not an Eating Rainbow, but I couldn’t resist…I had to get your attention somehow!
This is one of the first cakes I made in my Wilton decorating class. The pattern was cheesy, [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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I absolutely love to host parties. One of my favorite parts of entertaining is the food (surprised?) and how it is displayed.
A couple weeks ago, I was rifling through my scrapbook paper stash when I was struck [...]

To understand the #87 in today’s post title, refer to this blog from a few weeks ago.
As I work my way through all 113 recipes in the book Cupcakes Galore, I am skipping around a bit to keep things interesting. There is a chapter in the back of the book called “Cupcakes Plus.” To quote [...]

Two weeks ago, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Since bananas are a weekly grocery list item at our house, it comes as no surprise that we’d have a couple extra ripe ones available. So…I turned them into cupcakes! Following the recipe exactly, the batter [...]

For my birthday last summer, my husband’s Aunt Cristi got me the book Cupcakes Galore by Gail Wagman.

I’m embarrassed to admit that the book sat on a shelf for nearly a year before I got the nerve to even leaf through it much. The recipes contain so many ingredients and techniques that I’m unfamiliar with [...]

Remember this post from last week? That book was a simple mock-up that I made to practice the buttonhole stitch. The following project was my second attempt at buttonhole binding and box-making.
I created a box from Davy board and covered it in some very swanky flocked (fuzzy) paper I found at the SCAD bookstore, Ex [...]