I made my first video tutorial in December. I wanted to share the video. If you would prefer to see the video in full length (about 35 minutes) you can go to the A Million Memories blog for it. I posted this same post on the A Million Memories blog with the full length version vs. the you tube versions. I don't like the invasive advertising in the full length version. I think the quality may be a bit better in the youtube videos. Youtube limits your videos to 10 minutes, which is why there are four parts. Here's the post from AMM:
This is my first time doing a video and I've learned a ton. I talk too much. It's impossible to load high quality lengthy videos on free sites. I say "I'm an imperfect scrapper" enough times for the video to be worthy as a drinking game. Ha! The coolest thing, however, that I've learned? Making video tutorials is super fun to do. I'm hooked. I've learned many lessons on how to improve the videos and I'm looking forward doing more. In the meantime, I hope you'll go easy on me with this first pass.
This December, I made thirteen banners. One was for me and the rest were for friends in Secret Santa/Twelve Days gift exchanges. I love doing them and I wanted to share a video tutorial on how to make one. If you want step-by-step written directions, you can pay a tiny $4.99 and get a really detailed pdf file. The file includes the step-by-steps on a different banner, but the basics are exactly the same. It comes with a banner template and a bonus step-by-step on turning a chipboard book page into an accordion album using paper. While the pdf was designed with Christmas in mind, the techniques taught can be used for any project and any theme. That's a small investment for a large file containing tons of techniques that can be used on nearly everything you create.
Loving Banner
This is what I'll be doing in the video. The video is really long. It's around 35 minutes long. Remember I mentioned I talk too much? :) My suggestion is that you pause it and do each step along with me. Again, I apologize for the quality. I'm on a research mission to figure out how to do perfect, crystal clear videos for the web. I know it can be done.
Supplies needed:
Grosgrain ribbon - offwhite (at least 1" wide)
Pink Paislee Tinsel Town Ribbon Card
Pink Paislee Sugar Plum Glitter Pixee Stix
Queen & Co. Self adhesive crystals
Maya Road large chipboard alphabet
Tools needed:
Edging tool
Scissors
Wavy or Scallop Scissors
Mechanical Pencil
Hole punch
Paper Piercer
Mod Podge
Foam Brush
Foam Pop Dots
Paper Trimmer
One last comment before you click the play button. When you click on play, you will get an annoying advertisement window. Just close it. The site I chose to use claims they are better than Youtube. Naturally, the fact that they will let me upload videos longer than 1o minutes, had me believing in them. However, as soon as I played my video for the first time and found that invasive advertising, I quickly changed my mind. And, so, I loaded my video (in four parts) on Youtube. If you want to avoid the ad window, you can scoot over there, instead. However, to view the video below, all you need to do is close the ad window when it opens and you'll see the video, no problem. When you are playing the video the controls are invisible. To bring them back into view, to pause, etc., all you need to do is move your mouse over the video window and they will display for you.
I failed to mention on the video the size of the 2 or 3 strips. They are 0.5" x 12".
Enjoy.
