by Michelle Houghton Michelle’s class Oodles of Doodles starts this Monday, July 19th! It’s full of specific how-tos for embellishing pages with your own hand-drawn touches. Grab some spare prints of your photos, patterned paper with design you love, a good craft knife, cutting mat, and a great...

by Michelle Houghton If you’ve never sewn with a sewing machine before, check out Michelle’s article on Preparing Your Sewing Machine for Sewing on Scrapbook Pages. And . . . if you’d like to create some cool doodled paths for your sewing, check out Michelle’s upcoming class, Oodles  of...

by Michelle Houghton If you’re new to this series by Michelle, you can find all of her tutorials here: Copic Marker Tutorials. So here he is, my favorite image so far, meet Izzy!  He was intended as a dragon but I realize he could double as a dinosaur or even an alligator.  I did something a little...

by Michelle Houghton Would you like to sew on your scrapbook pages? Have you got a sewing machine—but are you stopped by understanding the basics of how to get it moving?  While every machine is different, the basics that you need to figure out are the same. Get your sewing machine out of the box or dust...

by Michelle Houghton If you’re new to this series by Michelle, you can find all of her tutorials here: Copic Marker Tutorials. I had to squeeze in one more lesson for the fourth of July—especially since I have a friend with a birthday on the fourth. I needed a special card for her so I decided to share...

by Amy Kingsford It’s June already…and love is in the air!  How many of you are planning or helping to plan a wedding over the next couple months?!  Well…why not save yourself some green and give designing your own guestbook a try?  All you’ll need are a few supplies and you’ll be on your...

by Michelle Houghton If you’re new to this series by Michelle, you can find all of her tutorials here: Copic Marker Tutorials. This lesson includes a much simpler shape to shade. The heart image does not have tons of colors or sections to shade in different steps.  What makes it a little more interesting...

by Amy Kingsford Trust me…dad is going to love this idea for putting new twist on an old game with your papercrafting supplies!  Whether it ends up being a method of stress relief on Dad’s desk or a conversation piece on your living room coffee table, your father will love this extra special...

by Amy Kingsford Here’s an idea for jazzing up your scrapbook page titles and embellishments. Ransom Alphas are a fun new trend both in paper and digital scrapbooking worlds. Basically a “Ransom Alpha” is an alphabet that is made up of mismatched letters and fonts.  Like this fun font called For...

by Michelle Houghton As promised, here is another step-by-step tutorial for using your Copic markers and shading an image we can all work on together. This time we are playing with an image made specially for all my friends with little boys.  For those of you with little girls I am sure you can find an...

by Paula Gilarde You don’t even need to have some fancy-schmancy photo editing software to try this digital technique. All you need is word-processing software like Word. I used a dingbat font to create a fun custom embellishment for my page. Dingbat fonts are fonts that uses small pictures instead of...

by Paula Gilarde Paula is a prolific paper and digital scrapbooker and former Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame winner who currently designs for Jillibean Soup, Core-dinations, and Designer Digitals. She also writes for The Scrap Review. Check out Paula’s self-paced class “How To Use Photoshop for Digital...

By Amy Kingsford If you had asked me a little over a year and a half ago if I ever thought it possible to design and print my own fabric from home to use on my scrapbook pages and hybrid projects, I would have said “NO!” That was before I fell in love with digital scrapbooking…before I found...

By Amy Kingsford I don’t know about you, but I love the way a bouquet of fresh flowers can bring a smile to your face by reminding you that someone LOVES you! Unfortunately between a two year old, cats, and allergies, fresh flowers aren’t exactly suited to our home.  So each year at Mother’s Day, my...

by Amy Kingsford SUPPLIES for spinning recipe holder 6 pages of 12” x 12” double-sided patterned paper 4 pieces of 12” x 12” chipboard flower pot with at least a ½” draining hole 1/2” dowel (yard long) 1/2” cable clamps (12 pk) 3/8” o-rings stick on hooks (24) Exacto knife/scissors hot...

by Michelle Houghton This is not going to be as easy as the color-by-numbers pages we did way back when, but I thought it would be fun to share some images that we could shade together for some practice.  I am planning on doing at least three articles including this one.  Each will include an image that...