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Making one word work for you in your crafting from the book Crafter's Devotional By Barbara Call

Crafter's Devotional
365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit
By
Barbara Call

There is something elemental shared among artists and crafters, regardless of chosen medium: creative energy. Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline. For all crafts, there are established techniques to follow but wild, innumerable ways to experiment, using the basics to launch crafters to new heights. Crafter's Devotional can aid that launch.

Each week day is allocated its own entry, on which the reader will find a daily dose of craft content that inspires, instructs, and illuminates. Weekend entries explore topics and techniques in greater depth--perfect for enjoying on a more leisurely pace.

Barbara (Bourassa) Call (North Andover, MA) is a professional writer and editor specializing in crafts, food, and health & wellness. She is the author of five books, including Beyond Scrapbooks: Using Your Scrapbook Supplies to Make Beautiful Cards, Gifts, Books, Journals, Home Decorations and More and a 4-book children's book series called Get Active!

You know the saying, "keep it simple " or "less is more"

Well that's what today's inspiration is all about. Click on the image to enlarge and read about the importance of one word and how designing around it can be a great way to work.

So my word is "Welcome"

 

With a little snarkiness thrown in....get it????

This is how I made my "Knot Welcome" sign

First I cut my letters out with my Cricut using Blackletter font out of just some plain black paper.

Then I used the surrounding paper as my template to get my spacing right. I simply cut it out in a straight rectangle.

I taped the surrounding paper onto the slice of wood along the top edge with paper masking tape (the removable kind you use when painting) so it would hing up. I adhered each letter in the spaces.

 

Then I glued a bit of rope tied in a knot. I should also add I embellished the edges of the letters and the knot with a bit of gold ink from an ink pad.

So pick a word and make something!

Today's Question:

Do you have a good homophone you like to use? And how?

Leave your answer in the comments and you are entered to win a free book!

If not and want to know more check out this List.

There are some good ones and some I had to go to dictionary.com to look up. I love learning new things.

And on a final note, if you liked this project and want to see another one I did only die cutting fabric pop on over here.

The Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit by Barbara R. Call

When I get a new book I tend to devour it instantly and look through it completely. This one I think I am going to savor and only read a few pages at I time, it is sooooooo good!

The Crafter's Devotional
365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit
By
Barbara Call

There is something elemental shared among artists and crafters, regardless of chosen medium: creative energy. Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline. For all crafts, there are established techniques to follow but wild, innumerable ways to experiment, using the basics to launch crafters to new heights. The Crafter's Devotional can aid that launch.

Each week day is allocated its own entry, on which the reader will find a daily dose of craft content that inspires, instructs, and illuminates. Weekend entries explore topics and techniques in greater depth--perfect for enjoying on a more leisurely pace.

Barbara (Bourassa) Call (North Andover, MA) is a professional writer and editor specializing in crafts, food, and health & wellness. She is the author of five books, including Beyond Scrapbooks: Using Your Scrapbook Supplies to Make Beautiful Cards, Gifts, Books, Journals, Home Decorations and More and a 4-book children's book series called Get Active!

The first inside peek I want to share with you is this one about Wordless Journaling. Click on the image to read all about how to make a clipping journal.

Here is a page from my journal that the common theme is a circle. They are a bunch of unique designs that I would like to keep as a photo reference or just cool.

By the way another neat thing about this book is it has one of the built-in book mark ribbons, I love those!

The Crafter's Devotional will be available this July!

So the question of the day is:

Do you journal with, without or a combo of both pictures and words?

I think I was pretty much either/or. But I am definitely working on both now, whether it be in my journal, altered art or ATCs.