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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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(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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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(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…

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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…

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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…

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(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…

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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…

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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.…

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(Video) Art Journal Using Tim Holtz Products

Stamps and Tim Holtz Products are Awesome Just looking at this journal makes us smile. The bird stamps are fun and funky. The word bubbles are cute too. You could easily add photos to the ‘clothesline” and make fun captions to go along with. Love the colors and, according to the author, it just took…

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Scrappy Paper Clips

Alter some paper clips with this easy technique. Dig around inside your junk draw and grab some of those paper clips that are just taking up space. Then, poke around in your stash of stuff and make these decorative altered paper clips. You could use these to  hold photos, memorabilia, attach to cards, as a…

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DIY Paper Flowers for fun

Make Awesome Flowers with Scrapbook Paper We love scrapping the night away. And sometimes we can get carried away. But we spotted these DIY paper flowers and fell in love with them. Since all of us have a nice assortment ( dare we say Large?) of scrapbook paper, what could be better than turning some…

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