ANGEL COMPANY
- A company that will let you use their images (rubber stamps or graphics usually) to make a product that you intend to sell. They grant a limited license to sell things made with their images. Different companies usually have different rules for using their images so make sure you take the time to read all the rules!
- Artist Trading Card
- ATC must not be sold, only exchanged, as the whole essence of these tiny works of art is about artists meeting (by correspondence or online if need be) and exchanging their works, thus meeting many artists and getting exposed to many personal styles.
- ATCs are made in limited numbers, often no more than one of a kind.
- Dimensions of the ATC must be 2.5"x3.5", or 64x89mm, and should contain the artist's information (name, contact info) on the back.
- Sparkle or glitter added to a paper project.
- Can include such things as glitter glue, rhinestones, gems, jewels, loose glitter.
- A small animated graphic for use on a webpage, usually taking the form of a picture or phrase with blinking lights around it.
- A type of online journal usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as pictures.
- Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
- Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
- Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments.
- Assortment of crafting goodies offered as a prize by a specific blog.
- Generally you are required to be a follower of the blog, and to post the blog candy on your own blog to qualify for the draw.
- A blog that exists only for the purpose of entering for Blog Candy; it has no original content, just the required. references to the blog candy that some blogs require.
- Move from one blog to another to read the entries or to leave comments.
- Clean And Simple
- A design of card with clean lines, minimal elements, areas of white space and few or no embellishments.
After some research (by Jan Leeflang) it seems that CASE and SCRAPLIFT are basically the same thing, except that scrapbookers like to use the term ‘scraplift’.
- Copy And Share Everything / Copy And Selectively Edit
- Using someone else's card as your inspiration; generally involves using many of the same elements.
- When you CASE/SCRAPLIFT someone's project, make sure to give them full credit.
- Project created using black and white with a limited amount of one other colour
- The act of cropping/trimming your photos for a scrapbook page
- A gathering designed to allow you to meet new friends in a group s.etting while working on your scrapbooks.
- Design paper or designer paper
- Basically any patterned paper that is designed and sold by a crafting company.
- Design Team
- A group of like-minded crafters who create projects to demonstrate how a specific product can be used, or to provide examples of appropriate challenge entries.
- 4" x 4" work of art using any medium, any design and usually lots of embellishment
- Something that is free.
- In the case of digital stamps/papers/embellishments, just because there is no charge does not mean that you can share the item with others. Please refer interested persons to the artist's site.
- A one-inch square piece of artwork.
- An invitation to create a project using the posted item (usually a picture) as the inspiration or starting point.
- A scrapbook page
- A technique of creating your own background paper for projects generally by re-purposing scraps.
- Can be created by stamping, inking, chalking, collage, etc but the intent is to create something that will be used as the background for other projects.
- A project containing only one colour with detail represented by differing hues and tints of that colour.
MOO
a 1-1/8 x 2-3/4 inch piece of artwork. Originally called Moo Cards or Mini Moo Cards, they were first printed at Moo.com from people’s Flickr photos. The size became so popular that folks started making artwork to be printed on the cards, and then just started making the artwork that size. Moo cards came from a different direction than inchies, but they’re now traded in pretty much the same way. ( Thanks Jan Leeflang for this definition)
- One layer card
- One piece of card folded in half with no additional layers and minimal embellishments, where the image is stamped directly onto the cardstock.
- One Sheet Wonder
- A technique for using a single stamped sheet of patterned paper cut into multiple pieces to create a quick-to-make set of cards (where each card is different), 3-D projects or scrapbook pages.
- Generally refers to the cutting diagram rather than to the finished products.
- Operation Write Home
- An organization that supports US armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.
- Papercraft paper piecing involves cutting pieces out from a design and layering them on paper.
- Rubber stamp designs are often used. A design can be stamped several times onto one or more pieces of paper (quite often one or more patterned papers), then these can be cut and adhered to a project.
- Pay To Use
- Refers to an image or font that the creator is SELLING. It is unethical to share this with your friends or repost it as a freebie. If someone else wants it, refer them to the site where they can buy it.
- A one-inch round piece of artwork.
TERMS OF USE
- The legal terms under which you (the crafter) can use a product.
- An instruction or "how-to" guide.
- A two-inch square piece of artwork.
- The part of a project that is left unmarked.
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