Glitter Strikes Again
Glitter bomb your supplies Time to get your glitter on! Watch this video and see how to make these glitter pencils. Give some away or hang onto them for yourself. Great group project to do together. Of course, everyone will be sparkling by the time it’s over. Occupation hazards 🙂 A couple of tips here:…
Small Scrap Paper Organizing
Get those scrap papers lined up like ducks! We all have them. Bins of scrap paper. Some bins are bigger than others. When it gets to be dumpster sized, something probably needs to be done besides rolling it out to the corner 🙂 Using inexpensive photo storage boxes (you can get this on the cheap…
Where Have you Lived?
Document the many houses you have lived in and loved. Do you travel around a lot? Have you decorated and loved numerous homes or apartments or condos over the years? Have your children played and grown up in places all over? If so, why not document all the different places you have lived, the special…
Scrapping up Coasters
DIY Wall Art with a few Scrapbooking Supplies. This project is a stunner! Rummage through your stash of paper. Come up with some images that you like. Next, look through your letters, either chipboard or stamps and pull those out. Grab a cool background paper to go with your images. Look through your markers…
Don’t scrap without reading this!
Quick and easy way to get your memories down fast Not creative? Think it’s too hard to scrap? No time you say? No place to spread out for weeks on end? Here’s the solution for you. Take a pre-packaged ready-to-go approach to scrapping. All you need are a few supplies. Add photos and little scraps…
How to make punches fun!
Bonus ways to use tools you already have. Step into any scrappers creative room and you will see lots of tools. It’s make the process more fun and enjoyable. Hey, we don’t wash clothes on a rock anymore do we? And it’s always exciting to be able to use our tools for more than we…
DIY Travel Journal
Easy way to make an awesome travel journal. You just got back from your trip. Pictures out the wazoo. Amazing shots and lots of fun memerabilia to go with it. Pooped out and tired, you think…”I’ll just put these in this cute box and get to it tomorrow”. You want to make the mother of…
(Video) Easy Origami tutorial
Grab those squares of paper. Limber up your fingers and get ready to make this easy origami butterfly. Elegant enough for classy pages, cute enough for little girl pages, art pages, vacation pages. How about a flutter of butterflies flying off the page? That would be fun. Showing How to make Origami, is best…
Washi Tape and Photo Journals
Use Photo booth pics and washi tape for a unique journal. This journal gives you a great reason to head to your nearest photo booth and start posing! Grab up all those cute photo strips and make this journal. Here are the materials you need to get started: Materials blank journals photostrips washi tape double…
DIY Craft Room Pegboard
Make your own framed pegboard for your craft room. Peg boards have a tendency to be boring and not very pretty. You can paint them to make it look nicer, but how do you attach it to the wall and still be able to use it? Answer: DIY one! Here is a complete tutorial on…
Washi Tape Wonders
Washi tape and binder clips colide! Washi Tape.  Nobody knew what washi tape was a few years ago. Now there are blog posts galore all about the wonders of washi tape. And it is very versatile. Washi tape has been stuck on, covered and placed on so many things, it’s surprising the White House hasn’t…
Craft Closet Transformation
See the amazing transformation of a plain closet to Super Craft Closet. Take any closet in your house and be ready to apply your super powers to transform it into the Super Craft Closet of your dreams. Take some paint, glue, shelves, a little muscle, some power tools, organizers and a trip to your local…
DIY Marbled Paper
Make your own marbled paper with nail polish. This is an unusual technique. Using small amounts of nail polish, water and watercolor paper use can create amazing swirled effects in a short period of time. Use these as accent pieces, cut into shapes, as background pieces, cut into letters, lots of possibilities with this. Here’s…
Use Chalk Ink pads to Make Clouds
DIY background of clouds for your pages. Use this ingenious idea to make fun clouds for your pages. You could add a cloud here or over there, peeking out from the corner of a photo or an embellsihment. In the words of the author: Today’s How To has to be one of the most ingenious ideas…
(Video) Walk through a Craft Room
Take a peek inside this beautiful craft room. This is a gorgeously beautiful room. Nice layout and everything handy to grab and easy to spot. Sometimes “out-of-site” really is “out-of-mind” and we end buying more of the same things we had before only to find them in 2 weeks and say, “I knew I had…
Cute Birthday Pages
Re-create some of these cute scrapbook pages for your next birthday celebration. It can be difficult to keep thinking of good ideas for birthday page layouts. They come around every year like clockwork and sometimes the old brain just doesn’t engage well. That’s why noodling around can help you come up with new ideas. Here…
DIY “clothes hangers” for pages
Make these cute little clothes hangers for your next project. Okay, when you head over to this page be prepared. It’s in Spanish but Google will translate for you if you want. Photo courtesy of Agus Yornet You really don’t need to, there is an English explanation typed…
(Video)Pockets add Pizzazz to Scrap Pages
Add dimension to your scrapbook pages with pockets. Using easy techniques and beautiful papers, you can lure people into your pages by giving them things to do. Pockets can hold photos, memorabilia and other fun items that begged to be pulled out and looked at. Add a little journaling to the mix and you have…
DIY pressed flowers
Make your own pressed flowers for pages. Go outside and take a peek at all the beautiful flowers around you. Gather up a basket, some pruning shears and a hat. Spend a little time outside gathering flowers to be used in your next scrap book or card project. Be sure to ask the neighbors if…
Scrapbook using Infographics
Use Infographics to Journal You see infographics everywhere these days. Those catchy pic’s with pithy phrasing next to them. Short and sweet, infographics make the information fun and quick to read. You can use that same method in your journaling. Assemble your pictures, add some fun “graphics” and make your own “infographic” style scrapbook page.…
