Comments on: Video Tutorial: Star Book

By: billiescraftroom

billiescraftroom — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:54:42 +0000

Great work on your snowflake ornament, thanks to you both for linking back to me. Love Ciaee’s daisy book too. I’m so going to try and make one of those.

Best wishes

Billie

By: Star Book Ornament « divinecrone

Star Book Ornament « divinecrone — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:09:46 +0000

[...] Pinterest. Ciaee listed two links with wonderful instructions for making a star book here & here. Both links are very clear, one has written instructions with lots of photos, the other is [...]

By: billiescraftroom

billiescraftroom — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:26:43 +0000

You are most welcome, hope the person you made it for liked it.

By: PccMBsF

PccMBsF — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:52 +0000

Thank you very much for this tutorial, the book is beautiful !
I made one for my Valentine !

By: billiescraftroom

billiescraftroom — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:56:28 +0000

Hi Rosa

Thanks It’s not my own design but one I’d seen demo’d. It’s quite simple to make up though.

Best wishes

Billie

By: Rosa Simonetti

Rosa Simonetti — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:54:22 +0000

Thank you, Billie. I’ve seen star card books before but not made with teabag folds. You’re a star.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:06:08 +0000

Hi Billie
Thanks so much. That’s really useful to know. I really like the layout of the wordpress blogs – they are really easy on the eye. I love your commitment to your blog .
Many thanks
Liz

By: billiescraftroom

billiescraftroom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:14:57 +0000

Hi Liz

Thanks for your lovely comments, it’s encouragement like this that makes the hours that go into this blog worthwhile.

Yes this blog is on wordpress. I LOVE WordPress, it is very versatile, has many layouts and so many options.

Which blog host suits you, is very much a personal taste. Eblogger, Windows Live etc are very simple to use but have very limited options. WordPress has many different styles available, and more options to personalise the layouts.

Visit http://wordpress.com/ to see the many styles available. This theme gave me the option of adding my own image to the area at the top of the page. I stamped the background photographed it and added text and other images in Photoshop. The colour scheme and text styles are locked to the style. But it is gentle on the eye and as my blog features lots of text it works for me.

I tried other blog hosts but found unless all you want to do is add one photo and some text underneath, that was about as much as you could do. The other hosts wanted the photo top or bottom and then text. They didn’t like multiple photos in a post. Since I wanted to add many photos to support the tutorials these other hosts did not suit me.

If funds allow at a later stage, I could go over to a paid website with wordpress and all that I have done so far would be able to ‘travel’ with me. A great advantage if I need to expand this idea at a later date.

If you need any help or advice, I’ll be happy to try and help you. Bear in mind though that I am not really a techie, so html and the like is beyond me.

I would recommend WordPress as an excellent blog host, their help pages are excellent and when I’ve posted a question or reported the problem I’ve had help within hours. Top marks on the back up front!

Best wishes

Billie

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:45:39 +0000

Hi again
I forgot to ask about setting up a blog and I’ve just read your blog tutorials. I like the layout of your blog and am wondering if its wordpress – would you recommend them?
Thanks
Liz

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:20:33 +0000

Hi Billie
Another lovely tutorial and using the gorgeous Barbara Gray stamps – I have quite a few myself and particularly like her clever corners. Will be having a try myself on my next day off!!
Well done again.
Liz