Techniques

Flowers for Fall pages

Flowers for Fall pages

Just in time for fall, hand crafted flowers to make. Grab all those fall colors and get ready to make some fun flowers to embellish your pages, cards or just to stick on things around the house. You could place a chop stick on the back and poke them into the base of...

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Pansies Perfection

Pansies Perfection

Cute adorable pansies made with a punch. These beautiful blue pansies are just gorgeous. With blue paper as the base, an ink pad, sponges, glitter and a brad, you can transform them into these cute pansies.   Use any color paper you have on hand. Form them into a...

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Scrapbook Template two Ways

Scrapbook Template two Ways

Think outside the box with your scrapbook templates. Every one has seen scrapbook templates. Easy to follow and quick to use, templates are a great time saver. But have you ever thought about using it in different ways? The original template was at a different angle...

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Camping Card and Background

Camping Card and Background

Learn how to make an awesome background on any page.   The amazing color blending on this camping card looks incredible. Think it took hours of applying and careful blending techniques? Think again. All you need is a couple of ink pads and a brayer. In this step...

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(Video) Embossing on Ribbon

(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...

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A Scrapbook Layout Dream

A Scrapbook Layout Dream

So many layouts you’ll be inspired. This site is awesome. The amount of layouts should inspire you to get scrapping. And the technique is fabulous. Just paper and some art embellishments. But not embellishments in the way you think. But with pencil strokes and a...

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DIY Flower Embellishment

DIY Flower Embellishment

Easy to do embellishment for your pages. Odds and ends are everywhere in our scrap rooms. It seems we never throw anything away. You just never know when you might need that perfect little scrap of something. And embellishments? Don’t get us started. There are...

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DIY Smash Book

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...

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Easy strawberries to 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...

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Wonderful Art Bookmarks

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...

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Birds Celebrate Card

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...

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Give your House a New Look

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...

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