Plastic stencils are great used with ink and paint but did you know that you can dry emboss with plastic stencils too? A rubber embossing mat in a manual die cutting machine allows you to get raised embossing on cardstock, … Read More...
Coloring the Same Stamp with Different Mediums
Julie Koerber got different looks using the same stamp just by changing the ink color she stamped in and the different coloring mediums she chose. It’s a great way to challenge yourself to try new ways to color your stamps … Read More...
Pretty Craft Room Organization Ideas
Meghann and Paige share some helpful tips on lovely ways to organize your craft room. From keeping embellishments in pretty bowls, to hanging scrapbook layouts on the wall, to stamp and album storage these ideas make for a colorful work … Read More...
Rainbow Grid Block Page
Rainbow colors, themes and patterns are super on trend right now. And Lisa captured this feel perfectly with this rainbow block scrapbook layout. She used 2″ x 2″ squares of pattern papers to layout a grid in all the shades … Read More...
Double Embossing Technique
If you don’t have the right color of embossing powder for your project don’t worry, you can try this cool (or should I say hot? :)) double embossing technique. Kim stamped her fun nerdy science images with colored ink pads … Read More...
Stitched “Love” Title Layout
Nathalie die cut the letters for her page title from different pattern paper and stitched around each one adding some great pattern and texture. Embroidery floss and hand sewing is an easy way to add colorful stitching to a page … Read More...
Magnetic Slider Card
Jessica put a really fun twist on a slider card and used magnets to pull the balloon up into the sky, how fun is that? By using magnets there’s not an open channel to show (or to hide) on the … Read More...
Easter Chicks Card with Reverse Stamping
Terry wanted to have two chicks facing each other on her adorable Easter card. So she used an easy mirror/reverse stamping technique with a stamp positioner and solid rubber stamp. She’s sharing this tip over on her blog, Waving My … Read More...
Ink Blending: Distress vs Oxide Inks
Distress Ink from Tim Holtz have been out quite a while now and have become a stamping staple in most craft rooms. We also now have Distress Oxide Inks and they have quickly become just as, if not more popular, … Read More...
11 Craft Product Organization Tips
JD has 11 great tips and hacks to help you get better organized in your crafting area. I particularly like the tip of going from horizontal to vertical storage on certain items and using a paper towel holder for large … Read More...
Style Inspiration Challenge
If you’re stuck for ideas and need a little creative boost try working in the style of someone you admire. Carol Theng loves the scrapbook style of Dawid Trezpizor and she used it as a jumping off point to inspire … Read More...
19 Questions to Improve Journaling
I must admit I’m one of those scrapbookers who just adds a title, date and maybe a few words about what’s going on on the page. I feel like I’m terrible at meaningful journaling and sometimes that’s half the story … Read More...
Distress Inks 5 Ways
Distress Ink pads are great for ink blending, watercolor, backgrounds, adding color, direct stamping, smooshing and more. Jessica Frost-Ballas shares 5 different ways you can use Distress Inks on your cards.
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Stamped Sentiments Strips Tip
I love this helpful stamping tip from Katie. She used a stamp positioning tool to stamp an entire set of sentiment stamps onto cardstock at once and then used small rectangle dies to cut each out. This makes for such … Read More...
13 Ways to Get Kids to Journal
Journaling is a great way to help kids make goals, be more mindful and increase creativity. They can focus on nature, school work, goals, arts and reading. The Tip Junkies has 13 awesome ways to get kids interested in journaling.… Read More...
Sticky Note Holder for a Planner
Jin created these crazy cute sticky note holders to keep track of them in planners. She used animal shaped calendar digital images from Lettering Delights and changed them up a bit on her computer to fit her needs.
She shares … Read More...
How to Create Digital Vellum
Vellum paper adds a soft touch to paper crafting projects. And did you know you can create this look digitally as well in Photoshop? Using a layered digital scrapbook template you can turn down the opacity on layers to get … Read More...
Easy Shabby Chic Look
Get that Shabby Chic look on your project by simply adding a light brush of white paint on the edges. It can added to the edges of paper, 3d flowers and embellishments, die cut shapes and more.
Sandi shares how … Read More...
Paper Scraps Layout
Don’t throw away all those pretty pattern paper scraps! This wonderful layout from Kathleen has lots of color, texture and layers and was made with only scraps of paper she had left over from other projects.
How to Emboss Metal with Your Cricut
Chomas Creations offers an adjustable pen holder that works with your Cricut Maker and Explore electronic die cutting machine. And in addition to using it to write out texts and titles with pens or markers you can also use the … Read More...