I love your crafts and project but I think I return also for your personality. You make crafting fun and low pressure! Also the lighting looks good to me!
Loved crafting with you on the fly. Really like that you are totally yourself on these vids. Part of the reason you've reached 100,000 subs. Congrats! Love how you share ideas as you go along and aren't worried that you have to stop for the dog. Fun to hear what goes on around you. So refreshing to have a down-to-earth instructor who's not concerned when things may not be perfect. That's helped me ALOT! Thanks for uploading this vid. Take care with all that snow. I'm in 80 degree California (in February!?) (not gloating, just thankful!) : )
***** thanks so much, everyone has such short vids now sometimes I worry that these long ones are boring, I'm glad that you guys are happy to have them in the mix:) They are really fun to make, it is like I am crafting with friends:)
I have to say, Lindsay, I have seen a lot of wonderful tutorials and scrapbook pages BUT this is the funkiest and most beautiful page! By far my favorite! Thank you for the inspiration and instruction on frugal and stunning creations! WOW! WOW! WOW!
I try to watch TV when I'm crafting but miss most of the shows. I have a similar stencil and always wanted to journal in wavy lines like that. Never thought to use the stencil that way. Have a journal page to do tonight so will definitely try this technique. Thanks a lot. I learn so much from you.. Hugs,
Hey Lindsay.......love this scrapbook page, you have given me some great ideas for my journal. Love the colors, the bee's, the dragonflies, and of course the cute photos of your kids. Thanks so much for sharing, take care.
Filming location is good and lighting okay compared to your previous set up but nothing to really change or fix. As always I enjoy my daily frugal fix. Keep doing what your doing, love it!
Great creative Spirit! Beautiful page. I like the longer videos better, seems to anticipate my questions in advance. In WV we have -10 degrees & more snow on our 12", unusual here. Trying these will prevent Cabin Fever. Thank you.
I love your mix of videos. I'm watching this one and am THRILLED I bought the lyra water color crayons when you reccomended them. Your videos are not long! There is a channel that I enjoy but rarely watch a full video. 2 hours is a long time. I enjoy the ones where you simply play. I have butterflies and dragonflies. I have the lyras and I have colored pencils. I'm thinking of the photos I would put on my page. Probably my daughter in a brightly-colored dress at the park. I have only completed 3 scrapbook pages but I think this will be my fourth. Thank you! I especially like your limited supply videos. You understand that a lot of us don't have 50 sets of dies, every Ranger product, and a full selection of prima flowers
Jesse b Thank you;) There will be more limited supply videos as I film upstairs in the warm (my studio was 47 degrees this am, brrrrr!) I also love using what you have for scrapping, you can make your own paper and embellishments and they are just as lovely!
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich I got back home and spent time with my kids before pulling out a sheet of 12x12 paper and a few supplies. The page is VERY imperfect and only has 1 4x6 picture on it but its done. The tattered floral die flower in the middlish part of the page was painted by my daughter. I journaled randomly on the page. Thank you for the inspiration! My 4th page is done and I like it. From start to finish it probably took 10 or 15 minutes. That included picking the photo. Thanks to you, and another you tube lady, I am okay with imperfections. I am even okay with HUGE imperfections. The memory is recorded and will not be forgotten. That is what I see now. The scrapbook is for my daughter and I. My husband will glance at it. Her and I don't need perfection, we need finished pages.
I feel for all you up north especially having doors closed from the snow. Thankfully it isn't all of them. I guess it hasn't stopped your kids from having to go to school so that is a good thing. We have 1 inch here in GA and everything comes to a complete halt! Your lighting looks good to me. I like the fly by the seat of your pants design. All the bugs go well with cross country. TFS!
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich I don't miss snow like that. I used to live in Buffalo. My sympathies and empathies on the closed doors. I don't miss making sure the kitchen door opened inward and the metal edged snow shovel was kept in doors! I do not miss the words "lake effect snow".
New viewer and subscriber! Love your channel! This is a great project for folks (like me) who can get too precious/critical about the work. Lighting looks great, btw. Also love the Q&A sessions. Keep up the great work! Happy to have found you!
Y'all have gotten way too much snow recently. My sister in law lives in Mass, near Boston. She's got about 4 feet of it in the last week and a half! Lighting is ok, but a bit dim. Could be the window light. Cute page. I like those crayons! I would love to play with them for my pages for my youngest grandson, and my great granddaughter too. Thanks for the lesson. Hugs, Jess
Jessica Germain thanks for the feedback, I can brighten it in youtube editor but I wanted to see how it e=was as is. The benefit of being in the basement is there is no variables like light from the window so I can control everything but I do love the warmth upstairs! I'll keep tweaking it!
I think the crayons would be great for kids. I got these for my birthday on 9/18 and I use them a lot! Other than paper, and my scoring board they may be the supply I use most often. In January I sent my mom 160 or so cards for a church project. I did 30 with the tattered floral die colored with the lyra crayons. Quick and easy!
Suggestion for large stamp block. Use a cutting plate from BigShot. If you have one. It's thin but bigger than most big stamps. If I had a bunch of big stamps I might buy a replacement set of plates. On sale, they're cheaper than the really big acrylic blocks. Really liked the stencil for journal lines.
Your lighting is perfect. Everything is great. Love the technique but no I don't have water color crayons. I'll stick with water colors. My favorite of the entire page are the dragonflys. The just were perfect.
Love your page. I have so much paper that I try to use it instead of making my own background paper but that may have to change! I have a hard time just putting cropped photos down without mounting them or running a black archival pen along them edges...your way is so much quicker.
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich I use an old greeting card placed on the photo in case the pen slips and just run it down the edge, about 1/8" (archival pen of course). It really makes a difference. I'm usually too lazy to mount them but sometimes they look better mounted.
The project would have made a better art journaling page because the bugs- particularly the blue dragonfly- are stunning and too many were covered up by the pictures. I love the variegated effect you got from using the crayons that way. Using the wavy stencil for your journaling makes a funky and fun journaling block.
Is there a foam mount on the back of the dragonfly stamp? And will the rubber stamps just stick to plastic or the stamp mounts without any adhesive? This is SUCH A BEAUTIFUL page!!!
my table shrinks and my gigantic adhesive gun disappears. i love that your layouts are photocentric and not just about product. i always appreciate multiphoto layouts too. they seem to nearing extinction these days. lighting was fine, no details were lost.
Great video, lighting is fine, and your color use is beautiful. Yes, my desk space gets smaller and smaller as I work. Trying to arrange things a little to keep that from happening. I want what I need for a project close, but if I don't have room for the project, that is just too close ;)
Beautiful. By the way, I'm really looking forward to your tutorial on art mediums (media). The vids regarding mediums (media) on youtube that are done by the companies (Golden, etc) are geared more for fine artists' needs and are useless to me. I know that you will bring some light to a confusing subject. Thank you!!
Yes, all crafters have "shrinking table syndrome". I would MUCH rather have shrinking waist syndrome. lol Love the page Lindsay. I thought, Oh that would look great in a art journal. Great video as always. tfs Marguerite
Shannon Rae they are very nice, they are not as opaque as the Caran' Dache but they are creamier. It could be that I only have the 24 set, there may be more pastels in the larger sets. They are a great value (half the price of CaranDache) but I do prefer the CaranDache albeit only slightly. If they cost the same I would recommend CaranDache but there is only a little difference in quality for a huge difference in price.
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich Thanks I think I will give them a try. I have been going a little crazy for water soluble products lately...they just lay down backgrounds soo easy. Thanks again :)
Dear Lindsay, thank you for all your craft ideas and technices! When I was a teenager, my grandpa passed away, leaving a room full of artsupplies in his house... (He was an architect). My grandma gave me all of his still usefull supplies and even these expensive caran d'ache pencils you are taling about. I have no idea what to do with them, I don't just want to use them for coloring...Could you give me some ideas and technices? Thank you! :)
Quntah888 yes, you can use them for coloring, I have some colored pencil techniques here in this playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLNxvOHHWCjFipd-MzHo2dc4hJEGkpwPHH.html
would you say the lyra watercolor crayons are better or worse than the staedtler brand of watercolor crayons(if you've tried those)? having a hard time choosing which to buy since they're both the same price on amazon.
sladeyy They are bit better, between stadtler and Caran Dache. There is nothing wrong with staedler though, if you have them already you don't need these too unless you are looking for more colors.
Well I had the staedtler before, but my ex stole them when he kicked me out lol and i finally got the extra money to replace them and then saw the lyras were around the same price, so i think i might give the lyras a try, haha its not like they're a huge investment, so if for some reason i dont like them, which I doubt that will be the case, it wont be a huge loss. :P
Iam a new subscriber and your videos are refreshing.one question though. My prisma color pencil leads keep breaking off. Any suggestions on that and once again thanks for your awesome videos.
Prakash Natarajan that is a common problem. a quick fix is to glue the lead back in with a drop of super glue (also called Krazy glue) and what I do sometimes (this works great for me but do this at your own risk) is microwave them one at a time for 5 seconds, let cool and sharpen. It melts the wax lead so it can fuse together. Some people say they caught their pencil on fire doing this but it never happed to me, if I left it too long the worst that ever happened was the paint on the barrel bubbled (at about 10 seconds), good luck;)
One question...do you have an inexpensive way to cushion stamps? I love buying stamp sheets but it can get really expensive to cushion them. BTW, I find the best stamp sites due to your blog. Thanks!
that is so funny you should ask! I have a video that will be published tonight showing how to use fun foam for stamp mounting. You can use either rubber cement or send it through a xyron machine for adhesive;)
I love the colors you chose. The lighting was fine, but I'm not sure if its a different camera angle or just a different location, but I felt like something was a wee bit off. Or maybe its me that is a little off.
Karen Erwin no, it's not you. Downstairs I have my camera mounted above me so it is square with my work. Here it is on a tripod in from of me so there is a bit of paralax. I think I have a solution to this though. Thanks for the feedback Karen!
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich Glad you figured it out...of course I would watch you upside down if it boiled down to it. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, LINDSAY AND FELLOW CRAFTERS!
I love your crafts and project but I think I return also for your personality. You make crafting fun and low pressure!
Also the lighting looks good to me!
Antonea Payan thanks so much!
Loved crafting with you on the fly. Really like that you are totally yourself on these vids. Part of the reason you've reached 100,000 subs. Congrats! Love how you share ideas as you go along and aren't worried that you have to stop for the dog. Fun to hear what goes on around you. So refreshing to have a down-to-earth instructor who's not concerned when things may not be perfect. That's helped me ALOT! Thanks for uploading this vid. Take care with all that snow. I'm in 80 degree California (in February!?) (not gloating, just thankful!) : )
***** thanks so much, everyone has such short vids now sometimes I worry that these long ones are boring, I'm glad that you guys are happy to have them in the mix:) They are really fun to make, it is like I am crafting with friends:)
Very pretty! I loved when you said, "It's my world, I can have a teal bumble bee if I want." I must remember that about coloring!
I totally love those bug stamps... Such a fun layout. TFS 😀
I have to say, Lindsay, I have seen a lot of wonderful tutorials and scrapbook pages BUT this is the funkiest and most beautiful page! By far my favorite! Thank you for the inspiration and instruction on frugal and stunning creations! WOW! WOW! WOW!
TheScrappyPumpkin thank you!
Very pretty Lindsay. I love that stencil. Great idea to journal on it.
I try to watch TV when I'm crafting but miss most of the shows. I have a similar stencil and always wanted to journal in wavy lines like that. Never thought to use the stencil that way. Have a journal page to do tonight so will definitely try this technique. Thanks a lot. I learn so much from you.. Hugs,
Anxiously awaiting your videos filmed during our pending blizzard...yikes up to 24 more inches! Loved the free spirit crafts you do.
Love the stencil. It is so relaxing to watch you! You make it all seem so easy...
Rita Maxwell thanks! Lost Coast has it on their website now!
Very cool design. Also, your lighting looked fine to me. Better to be warm to enjoy creating ! ! Love and Hugs
Love your work Lindsey. Thanks!!
looks great, really enjoyed the video and the page turned out fantastic. Special memories captured in such a fun way
Hey Lindsay.......love this scrapbook page, you have given me some great ideas for my journal. Love the colors, the bee's, the dragonflies, and of course the cute photos of your kids. Thanks so much for sharing, take care.
Hunnie B thank you!
Filming location is good and lighting okay compared to your previous set up but nothing to really change or fix. As always I enjoy my daily frugal fix. Keep doing what your doing, love it!
The lighting was on point for this video, everything look clear withouth any reflections!
Glad you can work in a warmer space :)
***** thanks!
Great creative Spirit! Beautiful page. I like the longer videos better, seems to anticipate my questions in advance. In WV we have -10 degrees & more snow on our 12", unusual here. Trying these will prevent Cabin Fever. Thank you.
Wow - awesome page!
I love your mix of videos. I'm watching this one and am THRILLED I bought the lyra water color crayons when you reccomended them.
Your videos are not long! There is a channel that I enjoy but rarely watch a full video. 2 hours is a long time.
I enjoy the ones where you simply play. I have butterflies and dragonflies. I have the lyras and I have colored pencils. I'm thinking of the photos I would put on my page. Probably my daughter in a brightly-colored dress at the park. I have only completed 3 scrapbook pages but I think this will be my fourth. Thank you!
I especially like your limited supply videos. You understand that a lot of us don't have 50 sets of dies, every Ranger product, and a full selection of prima flowers
Jesse b Thank you;) There will be more limited supply videos as I film upstairs in the warm (my studio was 47 degrees this am, brrrrr!) I also love using what you have for scrapping, you can make your own paper and embellishments and they are just as lovely!
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich I got back home and spent time with my kids before pulling out a sheet of 12x12 paper and a few supplies. The page is VERY imperfect and only has 1 4x6 picture on it but its done. The tattered floral die flower in the middlish part of the page was painted by my daughter. I journaled randomly on the page. Thank you for the inspiration! My 4th page is done and I like it. From start to finish it probably took 10 or 15 minutes. That included picking the photo.
Thanks to you, and another you tube lady, I am okay with imperfections. I am even okay with HUGE imperfections. The memory is recorded and will not be forgotten. That is what I see now. The scrapbook is for my daughter and I. My husband will glance at it. Her and I don't need perfection, we need finished pages.
Jesse b good for you & I am sure it is beautiful!
Thank you. I can't call it beautiful but I can call it cute.
I enjoy all your videos and learn a lot. Thank you:-)
Everything looked fine
I feel for all you up north especially having doors closed from the snow. Thankfully it isn't all of them. I guess it hasn't stopped your kids from having to go to school so that is a good thing. We have 1 inch here in GA and everything comes to a complete halt! Your lighting looks good to me. I like the fly by the seat of your pants design. All the bugs go well with cross country. TFS!
Belinda Wiggins thanks for the feedback! An inch of snow is what we call a dusting:)
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich I don't miss snow like that. I used to live in Buffalo. My sympathies and empathies on the closed doors. I don't miss making sure the kitchen door opened inward and the metal edged snow shovel was kept in doors! I do not miss the words "lake effect snow".
Jesse I grew up 20 miles from Buffalo,, NY. I know what you are talking about. Living in GA is so different but I don't miss the snow whatsoever!
Lindsay I don;t think you could do a bad video. Great page! I love the colors! Thank you :-)
Jeanie Gregory aww, thanks!
New viewer and subscriber! Love your channel! This is a great project for folks (like me) who can get too precious/critical about the work. Lighting looks great, btw. Also love the Q&A sessions. Keep up the great work! Happy to have found you!
Hi Lindsay, I love this scrapbook page. I also have shrinking table syndrome lol!
Y'all have gotten way too much snow recently. My sister in law lives in Mass, near Boston. She's got about 4 feet of it in the last week and a half!
Lighting is ok, but a bit dim. Could be the window light. Cute page. I like those crayons! I would love to play with them for my pages for my youngest grandson, and my great granddaughter too. Thanks for the lesson.
Hugs, Jess
Jessica Germain thanks for the feedback, I can brighten it in youtube editor but I wanted to see how it e=was as is. The benefit of being in the basement is there is no variables like light from the window so I can control everything but I do love the warmth upstairs! I'll keep tweaking it!
I think the crayons would be great for kids. I got these for my birthday on 9/18 and I use them a lot! Other than paper, and my scoring board they may be the supply I use most often.
In January I sent my mom 160 or so cards for a church project. I did 30 with the tattered floral die colored with the lyra crayons. Quick and easy!
Suggestion for large stamp block. Use a cutting plate from BigShot. If you have one. It's thin but bigger than most big stamps. If I had a bunch of big stamps I might buy a replacement set of plates. On sale, they're cheaper than the really big acrylic blocks. Really liked the stencil for journal lines.
Your lighting is perfect. Everything is great. Love the technique but no I don't have water color crayons. I'll stick with water colors. My favorite of the entire page are the dragonflys. The just were perfect.
awesome page!!! love it! :)
Okay wow you were right, they are better than staedtler :) really glad i picked the lyras
Cutest intro!!!
Love your page. I have so much paper that I try to use it instead of making my own background paper but that may have to change! I have a hard time just putting cropped photos down without mounting them or running a black archival pen along them edges...your way is so much quicker.
Violet Verhoog I like the black pen idea though!
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich I use an old greeting card placed on the photo in case the pen slips and just run it down the edge, about 1/8" (archival pen of course). It really makes a difference. I'm usually too lazy to mount them but sometimes they look better mounted.
The project would have made a better art journaling page because the bugs- particularly the blue dragonfly- are stunning and too many were covered up by the pictures. I love the variegated effect you got from using the crayons that way. Using the wavy stencil for your journaling makes a funky and fun journaling block.
Pls do more scrapbooking videos!
Is there a foam mount on the back of the dragonfly stamp? And will the rubber stamps just stick to plastic or the stamp mounts without any adhesive? This is SUCH A BEAUTIFUL page!!!
my table shrinks and my gigantic adhesive gun disappears. i love that your layouts are photocentric and not just about product. i always appreciate multiphoto layouts too. they seem to nearing extinction these days. lighting was fine, no details were lost.
love it
Great video, lighting is fine, and your color use is beautiful. Yes, my desk space gets smaller and smaller as I work. Trying to arrange things a little to keep that from happening. I want what I need for a project close, but if I don't have room for the project, that is just too close ;)
very cool
Beautiful. By the way, I'm really looking forward to your tutorial on art mediums (media). The vids regarding mediums (media) on youtube that are done by the companies (Golden, etc) are geared more for fine artists' needs and are useless to me. I know that you will bring some light to a confusing subject. Thank you!!
What do you use for the blocks on the stamps at the beginning of the video? And where do you get them?
Yes, all crafters have "shrinking table syndrome". I would MUCH rather have shrinking waist syndrome. lol Love the page Lindsay. I thought, Oh that would look great in a art journal. Great video as always. tfs Marguerite
Thanks for the prompt reply and I will cautiously try the microwave method. Meanwhile can you suggest any other comparable brand of colored pencils.
Prakash Natarajan Faber Castel PolyChromos, Lyra Polycolor, Coloursoft by Derwent, Spectrum Noir
I have been thinking of getting the Lyra watercolor crayons...what do you think of them???
Shannon Rae they are very nice, they are not as opaque as the Caran' Dache but they are creamier. It could be that I only have the 24 set, there may be more pastels in the larger sets. They are a great value (half the price of CaranDache) but I do prefer the CaranDache albeit only slightly. If they cost the same I would recommend CaranDache but there is only a little difference in quality for a huge difference in price.
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich Thanks I think I will give them a try. I have been going a little crazy for water soluble products lately...they just lay down backgrounds soo easy. Thanks again :)
Dear Lindsay, thank you for all your craft ideas and technices!
When I was a teenager, my grandpa passed away, leaving a room full of artsupplies in his house... (He was an architect). My grandma gave me all of his still usefull supplies and even these expensive caran d'ache pencils you are taling about. I have no idea what to do with them, I don't just want to use them for coloring...Could you give me some ideas and technices? Thank you! :)
Quntah888 yes, you can use them for coloring, I have some colored pencil techniques here in this playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLNxvOHHWCjFipd-MzHo2dc4hJEGkpwPHH.html
would you say the lyra watercolor crayons are better or worse than the staedtler brand of watercolor crayons(if you've tried those)? having a hard time choosing which to buy since they're both the same price on amazon.
sladeyy They are bit better, between stadtler and Caran Dache. There is nothing wrong with staedler though, if you have them already you don't need these too unless you are looking for more colors.
Well I had the staedtler before, but my ex stole them when he kicked me out lol and i finally got the extra money to replace them and then saw the lyras were around the same price, so i think i might give the lyras a try, haha its not like they're a huge investment, so if for some reason i dont like them, which I doubt that will be the case, it wont be a huge loss. :P
first one to thumbs up your video! :)
Did you get a new camera? The images look much clearer. Love the painting!
The Rainbow Cauldron no, I am playing with different lighting and shooting in my office;) thanks!
The Rainbow Cauldron oh, did you mean for the photos? They were taken by someone else and professionally printed:)
Iam a new subscriber and your videos are refreshing.one question though. My prisma color pencil leads keep breaking off. Any suggestions on that and once again thanks for your awesome videos.
Prakash Natarajan that is a common problem. a quick fix is to glue the lead back in with a drop of super glue (also called Krazy glue) and what I do sometimes (this works great for me but do this at your own risk) is microwave them one at a time for 5 seconds, let cool and sharpen. It melts the wax lead so it can fuse together. Some people say they caught their pencil on fire doing this but it never happed to me, if I left it too long the worst that ever happened was the paint on the barrel bubbled (at about 10 seconds), good luck;)
why you don't tape down the stencil?
maimee2angel good idea!
I am super sad about my pirsmacolor pencils, the leads are terrible. They keep breaking. I might have to take a look into the brand you have.
One question...do you have an inexpensive way to cushion stamps? I love buying stamp sheets but it can get really expensive to cushion them. BTW, I find the best stamp sites due to your blog. Thanks!
that is so funny you should ask! I have a video that will be published tonight showing how to use fun foam for stamp mounting. You can use either rubber cement or send it through a xyron machine for adhesive;)
That's awesome (and timely)!
Now I'm off to Joann's to see what kind of craft stash I can find. I'm really love your videos but they seem to always cost me money!
Cindy Marlow sorry about that;)
I love the colors you chose.
The lighting was fine, but I'm not sure if its a different camera angle or just a different location, but I felt like something was a wee bit off. Or maybe its me that is a little off.
Karen Erwin no, it's not you. Downstairs I have my camera mounted above me so it is square with my work. Here it is on a tripod in from of me so there is a bit of paralax. I think I have a solution to this though. Thanks for the feedback Karen!
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich Glad you figured it out...of course I would watch you upside down if it boiled down to it. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, LINDSAY AND FELLOW CRAFTERS!
A GLUE BURGGER????? How perfect for what happens! LOL!!! LOL!!!
Yep , I'm a member of shrinking tables anonymous lol
TheCrankyCrafter I does not matter the size table I start with either! I', in a 4" square of space before I am done;)
glue booger. Lol