(Video) Embossing on Ribbon
Make a “bleached” look on ribbon in three easy steps. You just need basic supplies for this look. While watching this video, I have one comment to make. I think it would be helpful to tape down the edges of the ribbon to the work table surface when you stamp it. That way you don’t…
Wall frame with photos
Scrapbooking turns into wall art. This idea comes from a 5th grade teacher who wanted to showcase her classroom students photos. Inexpensive to do but really cute, this would be fun to embellish and jazz it up. You could make one for Christmas Photos, or an all purpose Holiday one. It could be used to…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Scrapbook Layout for Pets
Use a simple embellishment for this adorable layout. All you need for this layout is one blank puzzle that you can adhere your photo to. Photo by Sherri Werner This is an amazing use of blank puzzles. This should give you a bunch of brain storming ideas…
