Just in case you don’t regularly check out any of the other blogs in this Lifestyle Channel I’ve decided to share a few entries from Chloe at Tangled Thread. She has kindly written up and photographed an entire step by step tutorial on how to cover a notebook in fabric. You can’t go wrong. Here are the steps in order:
Intro
Step One
Step Two
Step Three
Step Four
Please take a moment to leave a comment on the Tangled Thread blog if you appreciated the tutorial. And feel free to leave any comments in the section below. I’m particularly interested if you have a cool …read more

After last week’s success here are more links from b5media.com’s artsy blogs for you this week:
Stamping Mad shows why Too Much Thinking is a Bad Thing.
The Artful Crafter blogs about some of the latest discoveries in arts & crafts.
Chloe Findlay shares 50 Reasons I Like to Make Things.
Layers Upon Layers has a digital photography tutorial on how to fake infrared – Infrared with Photoshop.
Mary Emma Allen shows you how to Put Some “WOW” into Your Quilting & Fabric Art!
My link is for the Journal Craft website where you can learn more about visual journals.
Heather

I’ve joined up with other artsy b5media blogs so you can glean the best of techniques and ideas for your visual journals. Use these any way you like, though, even if it’s only for inspiration.
Stamping Mad brings us How Important is Color?
Layers Upon Layers shares Cyanotypes with Photoshop.
Quilting & Patchwork reveals how Quliters Celebrate Black History Month.
Tangled Thread shows Part Five: How to Go from Photo to Finished Art.
And I shared Zura’s free collage sheet download from last week.
Keep your eye out for more next week.
Heather

I have been a bit neglectful not to point out the excellent blogs right here on b5media.com that are brimming over with resources for your visual journals. Stamping Mad by Katelyn Thomas has excellent ideas for backgrounds & many other stamping related ideas. Layers Upon Layers by Cyndi Lavin, which I may have mentioned before, has unlimited resources for visual journal keepers. Artist Hideout by William Lehman should inspire you to create art. Digital Photography School will help you with any digital images you create. Don’t overlook The Mad Cropper, Junk Creation, Hankering for Yarn, Tangled Thread and even Quilting …read more