I'm often asked by my customers how to create cards and scrapbook layouts with dimension, yet not use a lot of extra supplies. Layering is one way that I use up my scraps and also step up my cards and pages. As this card shows, you can combine layering with other cardmaking and scrapbooking techniques …
From time to time I find great articles on other blogs that I visit. Here is an article by Monna Ellithorpe that gives some great scrapbooking techniques and tips. Your scrapbooking layouts can make all the difference in how your pages look. The key is to have many scrapbook sketches available already there for you …
One of the things I love about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, is being with my downline ladies at our monthly meetings. We have a blast getting together and sharing ideas for our rubber stamping supplies, scrapbooking techniques, and other projects. This month our card swap theme is "spring". Everyone makes a card for those …
In last month's technique class, I taught the ladies how to use bleaching on their handmade cards. Out of the six techniques I showed, the bleaching was the one I think they all enjoyed most. Bleaching is very easy to do and you can come up with totally different looks depending upon which color card …
At my monthly rubber stamping/scrapbooking techniques class last month, one of my featured techniques used shaving cream and re-inkers. For this technique, you pump shaving cream into a small container, put drops from 2-3 colors of re-inkers into the shaving cream, swirl around, lay glossy card stock on top of the shaving cream and gently …
You might be expecting four fabulous samples of hand made cards, rubber stamping techniques using four fabulous stamp sets, four fabulous scrapbooking techniques, or perhaps any number of other fab four crafting ideas? Well, guess again! Today I wanted to share a fun fact about the original Fab Four….The Beatles? WHO? Now, I know SOME …