Printer projects: wow!

We’ve had so much fun over the last couple of months, bringing you some brilliant creative posts from resident bloggers, running competitions to celebrate your ideas and hosting a Twitter party that generated so many ideas it took us days to go back over them. Firstly, let’s give our craft experts Maggy from Red Ted [...]

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Winners of December’s challenge, revealed!

Our second printer projects competition seemed to mine a deeply creative vein, with a great number of entries coming in throughout the month. We left the guidelines fairly open, asking you to submit either a photograph you would like to use in a Christmas craft, or a post detailing your best printer craft. Now we’re [...]

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BritMums: How to print and make your own advent calendar

For the Kodak Christmas #printerprojects Challenge, I printed and assembled an advent calendar for my daughter using pictures of past Christmases – it includes photos of her and her brother, her pets, other family members and her favourite decorations. This video describes how I did it, using this advent calendar template.  

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Penny: Christmas wrapping, tagging and memory making

I don’t like gift wrap. I think it’s all the waste of trees, energy and time. I put off buying it, waiting for a greener, simpler solution to hit me each year. Then at the last minute, having procrastinated so long, I am forced to buy reams of the tackiest stuff imaginable. So this year [...]

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Maggy: Christmas picture baubles

Iiiiiiiiiiiiit’s Christmas! Well, almost. And this latest video from the wonderful Maggy of Red Ted Art is guaranteed to get you in the seasonal spirit. Here, she shows us how to make gorgeous Christmas baubles simply using printed family photos, card, scissors and glue. Watch the video to find out just how easy it is to [...]

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Penny: Festive family theatre project

Penny from The Alexander Residence, one of our Printer Project Experts, rings in the festive season with this brilliant family craft idea: a puppet theatre. Using super-cheap printer ink from Kodak, Penny and her children have created puppets of the whole family, perfect for putting on shows and keeping kids occupied on cold days. Watch [...]

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Take the Christmas Photocrafts Challenge (#printerprojects)!

Ladies and gentlemen, start your printers. Our next challenge is here: the Christmas Photocrafts Challenge! #printerprojects We’ve teamed up with Kodak and two fantastic craft bloggers – Maggy from Red Ted Art and Penny from the Alexander Residence – to highlight how mums and dads can use their printer and Kodak’s cheaper-than-you’d-think printer ink to [...]

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