If you want to incorporate lots of photos on one layout try a grid pattern, simple clean backgrounds, minimal journaling and not a lot of embellishment so the page isn’t too cluttered and busy and the focus remains on the … Read More...
Hidden Journaling Page
Sam doesn’t enjoy journaling and came up with a fun way to hide it. The 1/2 tree on the side of the layout opens up to form a whole tree and reveal the hidden journaling inside, so cute and clever. … Read More...
Craft Room Storage for Cardstock and Dies
Did you make a New Years Resolution to be more organized this year? Or are you cleaning up from the mess you created making all those holiday projects? Get your stuff together with some great tips from Rebecca Luminarias. She’s … Read More...
Create Flower Vases from Other Stamps
I love to see stamping outside of the box, mixing sets, using stamps for themes other then intended or turning an image into something else. Sandy Allnock has some amazingly inventive uses for turning stamps into flower vases, she used … Read More...
Card Making – Stenciled Birthday Card
Stenciling is a great way to add some pizzazz to your card backgrounds. Ilina used several colors of ink pads with blending brushes over her stencil for a colorful birthday card background. I love the bright Neon colors from Hero … Read More...
Hidden Journaling Layout
Sometimes you might want to make notes about a scrapbooking layout but maybe you don’t want everyone who sees it to read your thoughts. Sheena came up with a clever way to hide her journaling on this Home Page. The … Read More...
Heat Embossing 101
If you’re new to stamping and card making or just never learned about Heat Embossing then you’re going to love the Ellen Hutson Essential Guide to Heat Embossing. Heat embossing uses a pigment based ink pads (which are slow drying) … Read More...
Santa’s Village Card
Jenn used a masking technique with her stamps as well as to create the background on this cute Santa’s Village Card. It’s a great way to have the look of dimension but really only have one layer.
Project Life Cards 8 Ways
Julie has 8 different way to use Project Life cards on your scrapbook layouts and paper crafting projects. You can use them to make tags and albums, use them on cards, calendars, planners and more.
Making an Old Layout New
When you flip through your old scrapbooks do you find pages you weren’t happy with or maybe they look too date or old fashioned? You can’t go back and change them all, part of the fun is looking back and … Read More...
Digital Quilting Layout
If you don’t have a sewing machine or the time (or patience :)) to stitch together lots of little pieces of paper you can still get the look of quilting on your layout by doing it digitally. Shannon will show … Read More...
Napkin Die Cutting
This technique from Dave Brethauer really blew me away! His die cut shapes have an amazing texture to them and the reason is he used napkins instead of cardstock! And when he adds watercolors to them them puff a bit … Read More...
Interactive Traveler’s Notebook Pages
Steffi used the new The Works tool to create a couple of terrific interactive Traveler’s Notebook pages. One contains a layered row of small envelopes, perfect for tucking in mementos and ephemera. The other is a pull out accordion fold … Read More...
Holiday Joy Card with a Kissing Technique
The kissing technique is a fun and easy way to add patterns to your stamped images. By touching (or kissing) two stamps together you can transfer a design from one stamp to another. It sounds hard but it’s really a … Read More...
Using Water Reactive Inks 3 Ways
Using Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir I created this fun winter Yeti Card. These versatile inks can be used for lots of different stamping and coloring techniques. If you missed my review on them last week be sure to … Read More...
How to Use Stitching Dies without Sewing
Several companies make dies that have holes in them so you can add some stitching. These dies might seem a bit limiting but you don’t always have to add sewing to them. You can use the negative space left from … Read More...
Layout with 3 Pattern Paper Techniques
There’s not too many items we use as scrapbookers that is more versatile than pattern paper. It’s a basic building block of most layouts and can be used in so many different ways. Zinia created this layout using pattern paper … Read More...
Stamping and Shading on Pattern Papers
A quick and easy way to add color and pattern to your stamped images is by stamping on patterned paper. Heather Hoffman used some pretty florals for this technique and added some inking to the edges of her images for … Read More...
Create Custom Ink Colors
Laurie has a fantastic tip to get more from your ink pad colors. She creates her own custom colors by stamping two colors over top of each other for a totally new shade. She stamps the lighter shade then stamps … Read More...
Stamped Fabric Bag
Martha has directions for customizing a muslin fabric bag with layering stamps and Versa Color Ink Pads. I find I don’t always get the best image when stamping on fabric so I love her tip of using a stamp positioner … Read More...