Freebie Friday: Minizine

During all those years of penpalling, I've learned that if there's something I'm very terrible at, it is first letters. When you have to write to someone you don't really know much about, especially if you have to introduce yourself and you wouldn't enjoy ending up with a self-centered wall of text, there is a fun way to to do it with a twist!

Instead of a regular letter, you could unleash your creativity and craft a minizine (or a regular zine for that matter) all about you and your interests.

Here's some examples of what I've done in the past~ you can use a regular sheet of paper and decorate it with your favorite technique,

 or you can use scrap paper, book pages, and whatnot, and just fill it afterwords with bits and bobs about you!

One more thing is, if you're not feeling inspired or you just need somewhere to start, you can download this minizine template I made, here. It has ready-to-fill pages with simple prompts (such as fav books, facts about you etc). Also, if it's your first time folding one, help yourself:

Have a great day,
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Inspiring People: Flow Magazine

Welcome to another inspirational post;
Today I want to introduce you to Flow Magazine, a Dutch magazine for paper lovers that recently launched their first International edition (that I, of course, grabbed as soon as I found it out).

Inspiring People: AnkePanke

Every artist needs sources of inspiration, so I decided to dedicate a few post about inspiring people, new and old acquaintances of mine or just bloggers that I admire from the shadows.
I want to start this series with AnkePanke, a Dutch illustrator I had the chance to meet through instagram (@ankepanke).

The perfect way to introduce her to you, in my opinion, is to show you what I received yesterday in the mail:

smash sunday: packaging inspiration

Don't you just love wrapping presents? I really do! I'm the family member in charge for present wrapping during Christmas, and I always enjoy picking up pretty wrapping paper, ribbons and what not; But it doesn't have to be Christmas to beautifully wrap a present, right? So today I'm going to share a bit of packaging inspiration featuring some lovely people that joined my swap ☺

1.  Bright coloured tissue paper: you can't go wrong with that, especially if you tie a pretty tag with thread around it!

pic © jolien

Inspirational Sunday #1

To inaugurate my new blog schedule (see sidebar >) I decided to start by doing an 'Inspirational Sunday', since this week keywords have been inspiration & brain storming.

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