DIY Smash Book
Use a 37 cent journal and some tape for amazing results. We’ve all seen the Smash books. Fun journals ready to go that help make scrapping easy and quick. But maybe not the price tag. What’s a scrapper to do? DIY your own of course. Grab a discounted after-school composition journal, pull out your washi…
Cute Baby Smiles Page Layout
Easy layout for baby pages. Isn’t she the sweetest thing? Scrapping baby pictures just brings an automatic smile to your face. Make sure to go back and put all those adorable pic’s together, even if their 25 years old. It’s fun to go back and add new ones to the mix. Get going and make…
Easy strawberries to make
You can make these cute strawberries with only 2 punches. Open up that punch draw. Pull out a heart shaped punch and a flower shaped one. Then reach into your crafty drawer( you have one right?). After rummaging around ( I know you do, so do I) grab that little bottle of puff paint. Hopefully,…
Wonderful Art Bookmarks
These bookmarks get 5 stars. Using a few supplies, some blank bookmarks ( or make your own out of card stock) you can transform plain paper into these beauties. The instructions go through using different types of pencils to draw the designs, color and then wash to achieve the watercolor effect. But I think you…
Join the Lollipop Guild
Grab a punch and make these in no time at all. Here’s another fast and easy card that you can make in two shakes of a monkey’s tail (my mom used to say that…don’t know where she got the monkey but, you don’t ask that kind of thing as a kid). Match the punch size…
Birds Celebrate Card
Get all your birds lined up in a row for this cute card. These birds are quick and easy to do, thank goodness. It should take you no time at all to make up a batch of these for future use. Just think….. birthday’s, anniversary, celebrations, and just because. Change out the greeting, the color…
Give your House a New Look
You have everything you need to give your rooms added pizzazz. Forget about going to the big box home supply store and spending lots of bucks to replace your blah looking switch plate covers. Head into your scrap room. Pull out lots of cool papers in your stash. Walk around your rooms and start matching…
(Video) Organize Your Stamps and Dies
Be able to find anything you have in a flash with this system. Trying to keep your stamps and dies together? Can’t find the ones you want? Has the cat batted them across the room and now they’ve scooted under the table? Bending down to retrieve things is a pain. You need to get organized…
(Video) Working with Colored Pencils
Stamping and colored pencils go very well together. Take a look at this stamped image. It has been colored in with pencils. Take a moment and watch this video that teaches some easy ways to add beautiful artistic color to your pages. All handmade by you. Using colors that completment your paper and photos. And…
Cute Cat Card
Wiggly and bouncy card made easy with punches. Cute Cat Card…. now say that fast three times in a row! This absolutely adorable kitty card is made from….punches. Yes! That means it will turn out like the photo 🙂 Grab up your scrap paper and make this cat any color you want. What about white…
(Video)More Mini’s Made from Everyday Things 2
Here’s the second video in the series on how to make these cute mini albums using regular envelopes and a few other supplies. This one shows you how to add the hinges to your album and make your chipboard covers. Just love these. Look at the examples here: Aren’t these adorable! Let’s see what you…
More Mini’s Made from Everyday Things
Another album made from humble items. This proves that you don’t need to spend a lot of money on pre-made albums. Not when you can make something like this from simple envelopes. Amazing what can come from office supplies. We need to get over there and grab some goodies for this. Here’s a list of…
Paper bags turn into art
Grab those paper lunch bags and turn them into a scrapbook. It’s amazing how such ordinary everyday things can be turned into gorgeous works of art. Using paper sacks, scrapbook papers, embellishments and a little know how, wonderful mini albums full of precious photos and memories emerge. Kind of like a caterpillar turning into a…
Sizzix Vagabond do’s and don’ts
Learn the ins and outs of Sizzix and the Vagabond Sometimes you don’t know what you need to know, you know? This video explains some of the extra things you might want to get for your Sizzix, especially if you don’t have one yet. Larger dies? You need this extra thing that she explains here…
Fun with Sizzix
Lot’s of options with one of these. the big Sizzix machine is pretty awesome. You can emboss paper, perfect for adding texture on a scrapbook page or card, cut out your own paper embellishments, like the fence they demonstrate here. Add a little ink on the edges to distress and quick and easy. Lot’s of…
Another Pop up for you to try
Make this Pop-Up card with all your goodies. It’s okay. You can make cards with your scrapbook supplies too you know. Call it expanding your horizons, stretching your limits, engaging your creative side and capabilities. Or just face it, we all have plenty of stuff and can easily save the 5 bucks for a card…
Make this to hold lots of scrapbook photos
It’s almost a scrapbooking Jack-in-the-Box. Try this technique for making an awesome scrapbook box. No album needed. You will need 4 12×12 pieces of decorative scrapbook paper, 3 pieces of solid coordinating colors, stamp set of your choice or chipboard embellishments, other goodies for decorating, and basic supplies. This is sooooo cute! Make a couple…
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…
