Favorite Scrapbooking Tip or Technique

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Post a comment to this blog entry telling us your favorite scrapbooking tip or technique!

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Comments

[StaceyM]

I love to make my own ghost shapes out of all the packaging that I receive when I go scrappy shopping. There are some easy ways to make your own shapes.....use a die cutting machine or even use your punches. Then you can embellish them with beads, paint, outline the sides with a marker to make them pop. So much that can be done to create that perfect embellishment!

[molly b]

My new favorite technique is stitching on pages.

[Emelyn Magpoc]

Yippee, you have great challenges going on at WT!

My favorite technique would be layering embellishments. It adds fun texture and dimension!

[michele]

my favorite technique is inking the edges of paper--I can't scrap without my inks!!

[Anita Hiltz]

My latest technique is glittering my brads! I take a glue dot and wrap it around the head of a brad. Then I take that brad and swirl it into a bowl of glitter, then tap off the excess glitter. Then I press it down so the glitter is embedded really good on the glue dot brad. Voila! You now have a glittered brad! :)

[Michelle Nommensen]

That is a fabulous tip. Love it! One of my favorite new products since Christmas has been the sugarcoated brads from Doodlebug. I will definitely be trying this one.

Thanks so much for sharing!!

Michelle

[Michelle Nommensen]

Great idea! I knew I was saving all of that packaging for a reason. Can't wait to try this.

Thanks for posting!

Michelle

[Michelle Nommensen]

Haven't done that either but I want to. I've been cheating, using the new Daisy D's rub-on stitch tape and Doodlebug stitching rub-ons. I know, a little bit of a slacker. I actually received an Easter card that had the layers sewn together and it was soo cool - which had me thinking "I can do that!"

Thanks for sharing.

Michelle

[Michelle Nommensen]

I love doing that too, especially with chipboard and flowers.

Thanks for posting!

Michelle

[Michelle Nommensen]

Inks...it's something that once you start doing it, you can't stop. I am an inking fanatic as well, especially cards. Love the Cat's Eye!!

Thanks for posting!

Michelle

[michele]

yup- love me some cats eyes!!

here's another tip, one for storing acrylic stamps... I have mine on transparencies slid into page protectors and held in my 3-ring binder. I also put a page protector after each sheet of acrylics with a solid sheet of colored cs...that way, I can flip through my binder and easily see what stamp I am looking for!

[Patricia]

My favorite technique would be using my pen! I've been loving putting a thin border of white or black pen along the edge of my photo. Actually on the photo like a frame. It really makes the photo pop!

[Rebecca K.]

i use zots for adhesive and i've found that half a zot works just as well as 1 so i fold the backing over onto the zots and cut them in half!

[Michelle Nommensen]

Thanks for that tip - I will have to remember that!

[Michelle Nommensen]

Thanks Patricia - I would love to see something you've done doing this - it sounds neat (and easy)!

[Michelle Nommensen]

Exellent tip - I need to get my clear stamps in order. I've been buying them like craze and they are just sitting in a drawer. Ahhhh...to get organize :)