Fake YouTube Emails have been circulating for a long time, warning YouTubers that their channels are about to be suspended if they do not take the action dictated by the potential hackers.
After receiving a large number of such emails over the past year or so, I have made a quick video showing what the emails look like, how you can tell they are fake and what you should do if you get one.
This is typically what the fake YouTube emails say:
With the aim of increasing easy intelligibility and transparency, We are updating our Terms of service for YouTube channels that are open to making money. Please accept our new terms of service by clicking on the link below. Otherwise, the monetization feature of your YouTube channel will be disabled within 24 hours. The new terms of service apply to people with monetization enabled. Thank you for being part of the YouTube community.
This is followed by a clickable link saying ‘click for details’.
Here is another typical message:
We’ve received a complaint that your channel has lots of spam videos. Please check and edit the spam videos we have marked by clicking on the link below. Otherwise, if you don’t edit spam videos on your channel, your channel will close in 24 hours. Thank you for your patience in this process.
This also comes with a clickable link which, if clicked will surely take you down a rabbit hole from which you will not escape with your YouTube channel intact.
Fake YouTube Emails depend on your kneejerk reaction in order for them to work for the hackers.
Us YouTubers put a huge amount of work into our channels and naturally, getting a message warning us they will be shut down within 24 hours if we don’t click the link and follow the instructions is going to cause a sense of panic.
Don’t be fooled into parting with your channel by cyber criminals
Even YouTubers who sense that these messages could be one of the dreaded fake YouTube emails are tempted to click on the link ‘just in case’.
Don’t do it. Watch my video and other videos on YouTube from other channel owners like me, who have had these emails.
I apologise for this not being a craft post but hopefully it will help someone not fall prey to all the fake YouTube emails currently doing the rounds.
Landscape quilting is very much in vogue and in a few weeks, I will be behind a sewing machine, in a classroom, making art with a very talented fabric artist and tutor called Anne Robson.
Anne created the beautiful landscapes you see above and this week, I went over to Studio 2, where I will also be delivering courses, to see how everything is coming along.
Anne teaches in the same studio where I will also be teaching art and craft starting in January and I just love the space where all this creativity is taking place.
If you are based in Suffolk UK, then you too have the chance to come along to Studio 2 to dabble in some new arts and crafts with us.
Studio 2 is a beautiful art & craft hub over at Rendlesham, Suffolk.
Studio 2 is part of Wooden Roots, a music studio on the old American Air Force base known as Bentwaters. (More about Studio 1 on my sister website early in the New Year.)
In January, several of us will be launching our four week art & craft courses at Wooden Roots.
I will be teaching workshops in making beautiful art/writing journals from scratch – more about that in my next post.
Gorgeous art journals – learn how to paint covers, assemble pages and handbind the whole album
For now, I want to highlight Landscape quilting artist and tutor Anne Robson who will be leading the workshops on landscape quilting.
Anne has sewing in her blood. She made her first sewn item at seven years old and by her teen years, she was making her own clothes.
She later went on to design cuddly toys that were also night-dress cases in the form of dinosaurs, polar bears, lambs and koala bears.
Although Anne really only made these as novelty toys for her children, the demand for them was such that Anne and a friend had a small business selling the cuddly nightie cases.
She gradually moved on to designing gorgeous bags made from furnishing fabrics, while she was living in Spain.
Some of Anne’s more recent bag designs made with African fabrics.
Anne had discovered fabric art, back in 2006 in Santa Monica California, where she fell completely in love with it.
She didn’t know it at the time, but her love of quilting would eventually lead her into teaching others the art of Landscape Quilting.
Anne told me that seeing enormous wall quilts hanging in an exhibition at an Arts & Crafts house in Santa Monica made her want to know more about the art.
She said: “The wall hangings really left an impression on me – I was completely inspiredby themand began thinking about how I could create my own fabric art.”
Landscape Quilting – One of Anne’s pieces
As Anne’s knowledge and experience of Landscape Quilting grew, the pieces she was producing attracted a huge amount of attention from people wanting to learn how they could do it too.
She often found herself being asked to show people how to produce the quilts and eventually, she decided to begin teaching workshops.
This has now grown to the point were Anne needs to be teaching in a purpose built studio where everyone can sit comfortably at sewing machines with space to layout designs.
Finding somewhere to do that wasn’t difficult because daughter Gemma, along with percussionist husband Marcus, already have a music based business where there was plenty of room for Anne to have her studio.
Left to right: Gemma, Anne and student Sarah-Jane looking at fabrics in Studio 2
Marcus, Gemma and Anne all lived in California for many years and it was there that Marcus started the very successful Wooden Roots, a business specialising in making high-end Djembe drums that are sold to musicians world-wide.
Two years ago, they all returned to the UK to continue developing the business and they moved into spacious premises formerly occupied by the US Air Force.
Studio 1 and Studio 2 nestle side by side at Wooden Roots in an atmosphere of absolute warmth and creativity, both musical and artistic.
This is the perfect place to learn something new. And as someone who is both teaching and learning at Wooden Roots, I can tell you this is the place to be if you want to explore your creative possibilities in a truly inclusive and supportive atmosphere.
I will be writing more about Marcus in the New Year and sharing my Djembe experiences with you.
I will also be reporting back on how I get on in Anne’s Landscape Quilting classes – so watch this space to see how I get on🤔. I’m sure I’ll be fine!
To be honest – I can’t wait to get started learning landscape quilting with Anne!
Although I know my way around a sewing machine and have made ‘stuff’ throughout my life, I’m not a stitchy, sewy kind of person – well I thought I wasn’t until I saw Anne’s work. Whatever happens, it will be enormous fun having a go because Anne is so passionate about her art.
Tutor Anne Robson explaining the do’s and don’ts of fabric composition.
Landscape quilting student Sarah-Jane gets some one-to-one tuition from Anne.
How can anyone resist boxes of neatly folded, colour coordinated fabrics to choose from?
This will be a compete departure from my usual creative environment which is an array of paints, inks, papers, glues and varnishes.
The boxes of beautiful fabrics that Anne has are so calming compared to my own tangle of art stuff in my home studio. It will make a change to have clean hands while I create!
Fabric, cottons, pins and sewing machines. What more could a girl (or boy!) ask for?
What are you waiting for?
Places on this block of workshops are being reserved fast.
If you want to ensure you get a place – hop on the Wooden Roots website now to book and pay and then you will be guaranteed a place. For those who have only provisionally reserved with the office, remember, booked and paid for trumps reserved – yep, life is like that!😍
The course is over four Wednesdays from 1pm – 3pm – January 15th, 22nd, 29th and February 5th 2020.
If you fancy learning Landscape quilting – this is a brilliant opportunity to do it NOW – see you there!
Fancy paper beads are a step ahead of the usual triangular shaped bead strip that make a fairly standard paper bead.
Standard paper beads made from triangular strips.
Diablo shaped beads made from a more adventurous paper bead strip shape. As these strips are quite hard for beginners to make, I sell the pre-cut diablo bead strips online. They are currently only available as part of a kit. See further down for details.
Making these fancy paper beads in the diablo shape is easy.
I have created a pre-cut diablo paper bead strip in plain white, to make it easy for beginners to make basic diablo paper beads which they can paint and decorate in their own style.
In the picture above, you can see the diablo beads I made in my most recent film and they are painted with metallic pink and green paint with a sealer/glaze on top.
I have added some tiny gold and silver spacer beads to set off the colours.
Two bracelets I made with my pre-cut diablo srips.
If you want to see how to make these fancy paper beads, watch the video over on my YouTube channel.
I have made a short film showing the technique for rolling the strips. When you first see the strips, especially if you are a beginner to paper bead making, they can look a little intimidating and complicated.
But they really are not difficult to roll and the fancy paper beads they make are a lovely change from standard paper beads.
I show you very clearly in the tutorial over on YouTube how to roll the diablo strips with ease to make perfect diablo shaped paper beads.
If you want to get hold of these pre-cut paper bead strips, I am selling kits with enough strips to make three bracelets
The kit – a 3mm paper bead rolling tool, 36 diablo strips and 100 3mm metal bead cores.
And while stocks last – I am giving away a free glue stick with every kit.
A free glue stick while stocks last.
UK, European and other worldwide customers can buy my diablo paper bead kits from my Folksy shop below.
In my Folksy shop, the postage costs are separate. I have set this shop up especially for UK customers but I do ship worldwide from here for those who want to use Folksy.
If you are wondering how to make Christmas decorations out of paper – you are in the right place.
To make your hanging Christmas decorations, you will need the following:
Assorted Christmas themed heavyweight paper
A glue pen
Glitter
9mm split rings and some smaller jump rings
Assorted silver or gold Christmas themed charms
20mm or 22mm gauge craft wire
Tiny glue dots for crafting
Christmassy ribbon
Stick on craft gems.
And you will also find the following tools helpful in making these simple Christmas decorations:
Large craft punches in symmetrical shapes but you can of course just cut by hand with scissors or crft knife.Looping pliers are brilliant for making neat loops on craft wire.
A bone folder is very useful in making sure your creases are sharp.Craft wire cutters are best so you do not blunt your scissors.
The instructions on how to make Christmas decorations out of paper – step by step are in my video below.
If you want to try out my, ‘how to make Christmas decorations out of paper’ project but you don’t have a craft shop near you, have a look in my Amazon shops (links below).
It’s always best to try and source your supplies and tools from local craft shops, especially the small independant ones.
However, if you live in a place where there is no easily accessible craft shop, then you will find what you need in in Amazon stores.
You will find my Amazon Afflilate statement by clicking here.
Did you find this video useful?
Now you know how to make Christmas decorations out of paper – you can go and make lots of gorgeous decorations – let me know how you get on in the commnets below.
Now that you have your free bottle cap images, do you need help getting the supplies I use in the tutorial?
For those people who can’t get to a craft store or who don’t have one nearby, I have two Amazon storefronts where people in the Amazon.com and .co.uk areas can easily get the items seen in my tutorials.
But if you can get your supplies from a local craft shop, then please do to support any independent shop owners who are struggling to compete with the internet.
And not just easy – also very inexpensive to make because…Ta dah! …they are made from bread!
Warning – these decorations ARE NOT EDIBLE!
I’ll give you a brief step by step guide here so you can get the idea of how to make these cute decorations complete with holes so you can hang them up.
Free Halloween printables as png files may be just what you need to add the finishing touches to a Halloween project.
Whether you are a teacher needing free Halloween printables for your class to use or a crafter wanting very simple designs depicting Halloween, these designs may be what you need.
There are 12 very simple, basic designs in this Halloween printables set.
You can either print them out or drag them onto another image in Photoshop. The backgrounds are transparent, although they show as white on here.
They will print out as white but if you drag the design onto another image in Photoshop, you will only get the black part.
You will find your free, full size free Halloween images by clicking the links under the pictures.
We hope you enjoy using your free Halloween printables.
We will be adding more free printables soon so if you want to make sure you get access to them all, please subscribe to this blog and you will find out as soon as new designs are available to download.
Coming up next is a sheet of beautiful 1 inch circular designs in rich autumn colors.
I have designed these to be in intense, warm colors to match the season that September brings to the northern hemisphere.
You will be able to print the 6×4 inch sheet of designs off and cut them out with a 1 inch circular punch to make handbag dangles, bottle cap pendants, key chains or to use in scrap booking.
You can see in the pic below right what I have done with some of the designs.
I will also be giving you step by step instructions on how to use these free printable designs next time so you can make these charms too.
My newest free designs coming up in my next post.
Examples of what you can make with my free designs.
Meanwhile sign up to my blog so you don’t miss any freebies…
…And have fun with your free Halloween printables!
I created them to use in various crafts including scrapbooking, card making or for making pendants – basically, any creative activity where you can use small, colourful circular designs.
This time, I am starting to build on my digital freebies.
I have added another 6×4 inch sheet of 1 inch circular designs that could be used in any creative craft you want, including bottle cap pendants, or 1 inch bezel pendants.
This design can be used with a 1 inch circle punch or cut by hand.
Just print out onto 6×4 glossy photo paper and punch/cut the designs out.
If you want to access my digital freebies – all I ask is that you watch my latest YouTube Video showing how I used these designs.
This is the page on this website where you can access the free designs once you have the password.
Get the password from the YouTube video and come back here to unlock your free designs.
And while you are over at my YouTube channel, I would love it if you also subscribed and hit the bell icon to get regular updates which will include more free designs for your crafts.
This is what I used my designs for…
…what will you make with yours?
There will be more and more of these free designs coming up in the future – do you have any requests for colours or shapes of designs you would like to have?
I can’t promise to be able to supply what you have in mind but it’s worth asking me.
You can do that by scrolling down to the comments section below and leaving your ideas there or filling in the.
If you aren’t sure where to source the craft supplies I use in my videos, you can visit my Amazon stores and browse through to find what you need.
Not sure where to buy 1 inch glass domes or clear resin stickers?
Check out my Amazon shop links above.
Hope you enjoy using the designs!
Don’t forget to subscribe to this site by going to the black menu bar to the left of the screen and scrolling to the place where you can leave your email address to get notifications of new posts and free designs.
You will get a confirmation email and all you have to do is click the confirm link and you’re good to go.
Enjoy the digital freebies and watch out for more free images and designs to use in your crafts.
My latest YouTube tutorial is all about making this cute set of star themed earrings and a small matching pendant necklace.
If you have arrived here from my YouTube video and you would like to get the free printable design to make this pendant and earring set, click here.
This must be printed out on 6×4 inch glossy paper to achieve the look that I got in my finished pendant and earrings.
My free printable 6×4 inch sheet of earring and pendant designs.
Each sheet has four different designs repeated to make four sets of earrings with matching pendants.
The earring designs are approximately 0.9cm – 1cm and the pendant designs are approximately 1.7 – 1.8cm – so unless you are very good at cutting by hand, you will need to use the equivalent size circular craft punches to cut out these designs.
To accurately cut the designs from your free printable…
…it will help if you have some handy little craft punches like these.
The smaller one cuts circles almost 1cm across and the bigger ones cuts circles around 1.7 cm across.
That is why it is important that you do not resize the free printable you have downloaded.
I have made the circles the right size for the punches.
I couldn’t find these exact punches for you to put in my Amazon shops but I have found a couple that are about the same size.
I suggest you get my free printable design first, print it off and measure across the centre of the circles and then look online or in your local craft store for punches.
I’ve also put both sizes of glass cabochons (domes) in my Amazon stores.
Mine were fractionally bigger than my circles but that’s fine, you don’t need to worry about that as a fractional difference in size doesn’t look odd, in fact it doesn’t really show.
Below are the links to my Amazon storefronts and my Amazon Affiliate statement.
You can cut your free printable by hand with small sharp scissors but it’s much easier if you can find craft punches the right size to punch them out evenly.
The smallest circle punch you see in the picture below (the square white one) was bought from Hobby Craft in the UK.
I didn’t get it online, I went into the Ipswich store and bought it off the shelf. It’s an xCut Palm Punch Small Circle.
The bigger one was one that I already had in my collection of circle punches.
After searching online, I found some similar circle punches to sell in my Amazon storefronts (both.com and .co.uk).
The sizes I have chosen should be the same as the punches I used but once you have my free printable downloaded and printed off, make sure you measure the circle shape across the middle and find punches that fit.
If you print the free downloadable designs out at 6×4 inches without changing the document size, the measurements should stay the same as the I used, but I can’t guarantee that – it depends on your knowledge of using downloaded files and printing them on your particular printer.
Experiment and measure before you buy the punches – or, cut them by hand.
Did you enjoy using the free printable?
Would you like more?
If you enjoyed using this design and would like more, subscribe to this blog because there are more freebies in the pipeline!
I will be posting more free printables this summer (2019).
If you have any requests for printables, let me know what colours, designs or sizes you would like and I will do my best to accommodate your needs – just let me know in the comments section below the post or in the comments section on my YouTube channel.
You can also use the contact form.
Hope you have fun using this particular free printable and I look forward to seeing you back here next time!
In making your own buttons, you have complete control over the style, color and size.
For me, the attraction of making my own buttons was being able to create buttons in exactly the colours or designs I wanted.
For those who are familiar with creating their own designs in Photoshop or a similar design programme, you can make some spectacular button designs in eye-catching colours and patterns.
If you aren't so adventurous, then you can keep an eye out for lovely colours and designs in glossy magazines or use discarded wrapping paper and wall paper.
In this project, I used various papers I already had and the results were very pretty.
The buttons you see in the picture at the top of this post are not glazed but you will need to glaze your buttons with a robust glazing agent such as Triple Thick or Diamond Glaze.
This will keep them strong and splash-proof. In the tutorial, I use clear nail varnish - so that is an option if you don't have anything else.
Hope you enjoy the tutorial about making your own buttons over on my YT Channel.
And I hope it encourages you to have a go at making your own buttons - let me know what you come up with!
