Good morning! My Mom is 80 and having memory problems. I've been looking for simple projects to keep her busy and help her to feel useful. This is the perfect project for Mom. Thank you!

I build paper in old phone books. The paper is super thin and really can't be used by itself but makes a great base.

@mollymouse4900

10 ай бұрын

Such a good idea ! 😊

@RedArrowTinker

10 ай бұрын

Yes, it is a good idea. But where are you finding old phone books? I guess a person could also use all the catalogs we receive in the mail.

TURDA o’clock 🤣 hilariously funny l just love that ❤

22:46 - I feel seen as I craft from the bed ❤ Long Covid is a bitch but playing with my paper stash makes me happy

Now THERE's an idea for a video, Pam. Using "just" a 1" circle punch, and of course the assorted other supplies, let's see how many ways we can use that ONE punched shaped. Maybe start with a variety of already punched ones, like scrapbook paper/card stock, dyed papers, collaged papers, etc. Maybe decorate a few "plain" ones to become things like "buttons" or similar. Then, how to add these things in, for example the tabs, etc. ❤ (edited to add: omg, "saturday" broke at the funniest spot!!! Had to pause to laugh it out!) I hope all my wonderful fellow Outpostian peeps are doing great and having a creative weekend! ❤

@pamobryan5455

10 ай бұрын

Thanks...you too!

Hello Fellow Crafters! Love today’s video! Anything is a craft supply ! Sometimes punching through aluminum foil will sharpen the punch. Hugs to all❤️

@maineiacts

10 ай бұрын

How about a piece of Emory cloth sanding paper..( dark gray type) instead of aluminum?

@jemimapuddleduck77

10 ай бұрын

Nice tip - Thank you :)

Omg. I wake up, it is 6:45am. I get coffee on let dogs out and feed rabbit. I get coffee and laptop get online and what? I find this Fantastic tutorial. I am no playin people. My day is off to wonderful start and this tut was is the cherry on top. I got craft table set up yesterday and this evening I am so doing this. Thank you so much lady. Hugs

I’m so glad you can laugh at yourself! Refreshing!!!

Good morning Pam ,and Sunny and the rest of the family. Glad he's okay. Have a great week fellow crafter's. 😀

I totally would have left the “special” circle just to see how many people noticed 😉 Thanks for providing a fantastic laugh and a great video!

Oh I love that inner thirteen year old boy coming out to play when Saturday tore. I'm the same!

Love the phrase disaster pants! 😂 It has started coming out of my mouth and I get blank stares from my family. Love your videos, Pam.

@RColleen1

10 ай бұрын

I’m with you! I’m adding “putzing “ to my vocabulary! ♥️

@Llama_Whisperer

10 ай бұрын

I’m constantly saying, “Everything is a craft supply until proven otherwise.” I get a lot of strange looks. 😂

10/10 Pam for the Entertainment

Good morning Miss Pam. Love your spontaneity! Watching you is the highlight of my day!

Turd! LMAO🤣 Thanks for the giggles Pam! Your embellishments came out super cute!

Good morning Pam💕 ☕️☕️ I want and need to head to the craft room and am procrastinating. 😊 I consolidated some baskets and bins of trims and laces yesterday. Today, my craft room looks like a Hobby Lobby and Joann’s both exploded taking out a Walmart plastics storage aisle to boot. 🙄 Thanks for the ideas and sharing your time with us. Have a great weekend all! 💕

Saturday had me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You are hilarious ...those punches !! I laughed out loud 😅...Great craft idea , loved it ❤

This is a Great idea. Very thrifty. Your Sunshine, Sonny, Sunny is so adorable.

You have some nice punches! I'm so happy Sunshine is back to "normal"!

Wow ! Love the bird punch . That really turned out well. Couldn’t believe the smaller worked better than some of the bigger ones. Lol! Love 💕 the T- - - one . Thanks for sharing.

Oh dear, Ms Happy Pants! 😂 'some days are diamond, some days are turd!' 😂😂😂

Oh! Turd!!! I am dying here!😂😂😂

Oh Pam. Your broken saTURDAy just had me laughing out loud 😂 brilliant. I could see it coming and was yelling at the screen NO! And then you started to laugh too. That's why I love your posts. Have a wonderful day everyone, love n hugs from England xxxx

@sarahpauline4904

10 ай бұрын

Me too! I thought..it's going to happen...couldn't look away. Best thing that happened to me today.

The sa’turd’ay thing - I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. 😂😂😂 I will never be able to look at that word again in the same way…

Love this idea and they could take you to so many places in a journal. Sun I hope you rest and are well.

Hello Pam and Sunshine 🌞! 💙

Hello Pam and Sunshine 🌞!! 💙

Good Morning Sunshine and Pam. I'm sure glad Sunshine is okay. I truly think that Sunshine was upset with you for leaving him alone. I hope and pray everyone has a fantastic crafty weekend. Sending love and big hugs Sherry ❤ ❤❤

Yes maam, i DO have scrap paper! Woohoo lets go have fun!! ❤

Your videos create reckless amusement in my home! I just love listening to you while I’m crafting and i always learn something.💙💙

Love this idea…I love the way the punched embellishments turned out

Great ideas, Pam. Thank you for inspiring us and making us laugh too. Blessings on your weekend. ❤

Wonderful ideas as usual! I always love to watch you craft and share you share you thought process in doing things, or don't think, just do it! I tend to over think, so that is what I am trying to work on, not thinking about it, just craft and see where it goes. Sunny is so cute. I'm glad he is feeling better. Have a grwat weekend Pam! ❤😊

Good Morning Pam :) This is fun ! Thank you ❤

As I’ve said before Pam, you always make me laugh! Way to use the scraps!

Good morning Pam 🤗 Lot of giggles on this one but very successful, love how the birds turned out. Fabulous ideas, thank you for sharing! Have a wonderful weekend, hugs! 💕

I'm so glad I found your channel & subscribed! A little over a month ago, my only son had a very serious heart attack. Thankfully, he miraculously survived, although the doctors can't explain how. It's left me with some stress & feelings to work through - my only brother died from a heart attack at 38 - my son is 39. Since his heart attack, I've started journaling to work through some stuff, and I started creating junk journals as an extension. I didn't have a lot of "supplies" to work with, so I'm slowly building a collection. I love how you demonstrate that we can literally turn trash into treasure, and teach us how to use stuff we have lying around - it's not only a great way to save money & save things from the landfill, it is an emotional boost to create something pretty and have that sense of accomplishment it provides. Thank you so much for doing this - you just don't have any idea how much it means to me - and I'm sure so many others as well! I know I can't be the only creative soul who doesn't have a lot of money to spend on hobbies! Just wanted to say "Thanks!" and tell you that YOU ROCK!!!

Mornin' Pam. Ways to use up scraps is always good. TFS Hope you all have a great day. 🌞

Oh! Pam, not only did you teach me a great way to use up my scraps but you made me laugh so much, especially the Saturday bit. 😂. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and also your beautiful happy nature. Bless you! Love from Australia 😊. Just as an aside, I am actually from Cape Town but have settled here in Australia. Yes, paper does bring people from all over the world. Blessings!

Fun video! The Saturday moment cracked me up too! Glad Sunny is just fine!!

Pam you just made my saTURDAY! I have to go to work in 2 hours…..so this was a effect craft this morning! Lol! Love these! ❤️📕🇨🇦 (now I NEED a bird punch….that is so great! )

WE LOVE SUNSHINE ... KISSES from Brazil

Hi Pam, & Sunshine! So glad Sunshine is better & nothing serious! Yes, I love a 1 inch punch circle. Put 4 of them to make flower, 3 can make a roundish heart. Then upside-down it & put another one on top for maybe a person. Just a few ideas with one inch punch circle. Thanks for the idea of making collage paper from scraps then use it to punch one each circles & other punches also! ❤Shari ☺️🫂🐾🍄🦩🐦🦋🍁

Great idea, Pam! I love using up my scraps and this will use the tiniest pieces. I think backing them with the catalog pages is a great wayto use the catalogs up. Glad Sunny is back to his old self. You always know something is wrong when they stop eating. Have a great weekend!❤

Love, love, love everything thing about this video! We are not perfect but I firmly believe we need to throw our anxieties to the wind and rage on! Love your willingness to try anything with fearless, joyful abandon. Maybe a little reckless! 🖤🖤🖤

Hi Pam and crafty friends. This was really a very funny video. Was LOL 😂. Great idea. Nice, stress free craft session 😉 We have a Yorkie and when we leave her alone at home for a couple of hours she would sulk so badly she would really seem ill... refusing food, treats, belly rubs or hugs... and then the next day she'll be fine again. That does however not stop my husband and I from going into a flat panic thinking she might be terminal when she does this. I have to mention that she does have several health issues so we can never just assume she's faking it. Better safe than sorry. 🐕Glad that Sunny is feeling better 💞 I'm also from South Africa (I think I've mentioned that before), unfortunately I am nowhere close to the lovely Cape Town. I am stuck in a concrete jungle called "Gauteng". But up here we create our own beauty in our craft rooms 😁👍🏻🖍️ Have a wonderful weekend and create with reckless abandon ❤

Sa... turday. 🤣 Oh Pam, I laughed SO hard that I was crying and tears were streaming down my face. I had to pause the video because I couldn't hear what you were saying! Bless your beautiful heart. You've made my day end with a ton of giggles. Sending love from me here in very hot Dorset in England, to you there, stuck up with glue stick and probably sticking to your craft mat! ~ Cobs. (UK) ❤

I have some scrapbooks that are over 100 yrs old and the pages that have nothing on. I saved a box of scraps..so I love this

You made me laugh so hard when I was viewing the gluing of saTURDay paper......it was such an innocent thing but funny....Thank you for sharing your creative ideas...............😻

I don't often laugh out loud, but I did this am. Thank you!! I needed thst!

PERFECT TIMING! I'm making birthday cards for all of my sisters. Five of us have birthdays this month and we're getting together for dinner tonight. We usually just give cards with money or lottery tickets. I'm done with the envelopes but I need junk journaly ideas for the cars. None of them know what a junk journal is. But, they're all artists so I need to impress them.

@abigailphoenixthepaperaddi2501

10 ай бұрын

How about... turning your card into a mini junk journal style card? Add a little signature of maybe 2-3 total extra sheets. Create a few little pockets/tucks, maybe add a prompt word to a couple pages... Depending on the type of art they do, they may be more aquainted with an Art Journal, and you can lean on that by including papers with background color/texture they can add to. Incorporate a few things we do in a JJ, such as bits of trims, a button, paper clips, old bits of paper... I call this hybrid a Creativity Journal. I leave space for actual writing, space for ... well, basically, any kind of creativity! [I love these when I want to be creative, but don't feel very inspired]. I mix up types of paper, like multi-media, cardstock, printer paper I dyed, etc. Collaging, rubber stamps, and other background techniques on some pages. A page with a tuck can hold a journaling card with a one-word prompt on it, like, "Harmony", or "Nature". The recipient can choose whatever direction their personal Creativity Journal goes in, be it mostly written or full-on art, or if they want to lean into the actual JJ side of things. Adding enough elements you find (mostly) in a JJ adds that amazing flair to it, and (gradually) introduces the recipent to the idea of a JJ. (I still cannot manage to give a single-sentence response to the question, "what is a junk journal?" Other than: i like to use what a lot of folks call "junk" in my journals. Yeah, that doesn't really work 😂) Anyway, just my thought. Whatever you create for your sisters, I know it will be amazing, and your sisters will absolutely love it. 😊 The best gifts come straight from the heart.

🤣 happy Saturday!

Love the xxturday. Laughed out loud. Fun video! Great ideas!

Great idea I love these ! Thanks Pam glad sunshine is okay

Thanks for the laugh today! What time is it....TURD o'clock...LOL

OMG Pam!! Thanks for the great saTURDay laugh out loud 😂 moment! So great 💙

LOL Pam love it . 💘 You are so funny. love the reckless abandon.

Ha! Oh Pam, you make me laugh. xx

This is the inspiration I needed for some leftover scraps of of papers that need to use up. Thank you!

nose right and nose left 😀 great tip for the paper punches! LOL! SaTURDay!😂😂😂

Glad your pup is ok🙂

I must say Thank you! I followed your example and put my Fabric Fix glue in an icing piping bottle. My project gluing is so much easier and neater with this method. Thank you, thank you so much for all the tips and tricks!!!!

Hey Pam, fun video❤ Suggestion I've seen from a crafter here in Brazil regarding punches that don't cut well: apply a couple of drops of sewing machine oil to the mechanism (in between or below the cutting surface where sometimes? There is a spring). Let it dry before using...

Oh you are wonderfully crazy and crafty! I've introduced your craziness to some friends who haven't done this before. And; kisses to my other fav puppy. My Sweet Potato doesn't have to know lol.

Pam - instead of tugging them into oblivian - then try layers of silver paper - with your stamps - it works with sharpening scissors 💖

You make me laugh Pam! Oh, and I left my Scotch glue stick uncovered the other night and I thought of you when I saw it the next day … I took out my exacto knife and cut off the dry part. Thanks for all you tips.

I have decided that I really like the way your mind works. I will now throw nothing away without at least trying to craft with it. Thank you for an enlightening video. If Sunny gets that way again you may want to try come unsweetened canned pumpkin. I works with my little furnace whenever he won't eat.

Thanks Pam. I will use this in my journal group that I teach at the gallery where I sell my stuff.

Great fun video Pam. Excellent idea and fun presentation. Your the best!!

I love that bird punch tfs Pam...Kia Kaha...

I’m glad SunBun is okay.

Always fun and genius creative an awesome ideas!!🐞🐞🐞

Those are really lovely. I enjoyed the process.😃

Love this video!!! Sometimes I just need to go back to the basics. Thank you Pam!! 😊

I hope Sunny feels better soon ❤ love your videa

❤ TFS! Saturday ! Laughed so good 😅

Roflmbo! I usually laugh at least once during your videos but today my sides hurt from laughing so hard! Hope Sunny continues to feel better! I wonder if he was lonesome? TFS your Saturday with us! 😁😱🙃 Hugs from South Dakota 🤗

I felt like he did yesterday. What we call being “off his feed.” I am fine today too! Love the scrappy play. Thank you.

Goodmorning ❤️ lol oh your funny of COURSE I have scraps!😅😅

Loved your scraps ideas🩵

Did you say elephant poop paper? 😂😂😂😂😂 next level Pam, next level. 😅❤

@abigailphoenixthepaperaddi2501

10 ай бұрын

My jaw dropped and i had to pause to laugh! 😂

TURD...I never laughed so hard.

😂❤such a fun idea I can’t wait to make some, thank you Pam

You made my day!🤣🤗🌸

All fun!

Pam have you ever inked the edge of each scrap b4 you glue it down? It creates a whole new look. I think Mr. Sun-bun was trying to make you feel guilty for leaving him at home alone 😜. Thank goodness he didn't decide it was "turd o'clock" time... 😂

Some punches may be like scissors and it matters which way the pressure is made. Like right-handed or left-handed scissors. Or maybe they were dull already if you got them at a thrift store. And my last idea is that maybe there is gunk on the blades that need to be cleaned off. I think that's why punching foil or sandpaper helps things cut. Not that it sharpens but it cleans the blades. And that's my 2 cents worth. Oh, and if you have a directional punch you can change the direction of the image by turning the paper over. Thanks for your inspiration. I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot watching you. Not only the way you do things but the idea of just trying something. It's only paper!! ❤❤❤

really Pamm??? Lol with the word in the circle ... you got a laught out of me xD !!! hahaha

Fabulous idea! You are cooking with Crisco! I'll definitely try this!!!

@mollymouse4900

10 ай бұрын

Crisco is one of the oils that is really bad for you. I only use olive oil now. Took all seed oils out of my diet. They are proven to be carcinogenic and also cause heart disease.

i am definitely going to try this. i love those punches. you are so clever!

Your laughter brightened my day!!! Thank you. I needed that😊. Btw, I really enjoy watching your videos! Have a great weekend everyone!!

Fun!

This is a great idea

Wonderful

I actually step on some of mine,it works

Sunny would like to read Hank the Cowdog adventures. :)

Oooh! A way to use Science in crafting! Given paper of uniform thickness, I think the amount of outline in the punch image affects the force you need to apply to punch the paper. The EK punches of each size have equal sized handles (levers) but the images are unequal in the total "length" of the outline. Imagine if you used a long string to make the shapes. A circle/oval encloses the space with the smallest amount of string. Any force you put on that shape is distributed onto a smaller surface. The butterfly, on the other hand, has those scallops along the edge of the wings, a longer string would be needed to make the outline and the same pressure to cut all of that extra surface would produce less overall force per square centimeter on the paper. This relates to the same idea of a person lying on a bed of nails with all of their weight as opposed to lying on ONE nail. Now to think about cookie cutters.... :-)

I'm so glad glad Sunny is back to his happy, healthy self! 🥰 Pam, I love this new use for strip collage!!! Excellent idea!!!

I just bought knew punches and at first they are very difficult but after I used it a couple of times it was fine👍🏻love your project. Paper collage is beautiful ❤