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I Make Mistakes. Regularly!
One of the excuses I frequently hear is “I’m afraid I’m going to ruin ___.” Sometimes it’s a piece of paper. Sometimes it’s a photo. Sometimes it’s even the memory you’re trying to record. Well, I’m...
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Don’t Fear the Paper
One of the most common problems I hear about when talking with both new and established scrapbookers, is the fear of “ruining” a piece of paper. They’ve fallen in love with a piece of paper, and want...
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Using that Patterned Paper
Are you ready for some examples to help you visualize how to use your precious paper? Let’s start with the most common: a paper with a large design. When you’re working with a large design, you need to...
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Turning Techniques into Pages
As I said on Monday, I love techniques. When my local stamp store was open, I took tons of classes, which gave me the confidence to experiment with all sorts of tools and techniques. Then the store...
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Dealing with Imperfect Stamping
As much as I love using stamps to embellish my scrapbook pages, they don’t always turn out perfect. Then again, I’m not looking for perfect. I’m sure you can pick out all the imperfections on this...
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Bringing Multiple Inspiration Ideas Together
Today’s card started with one idea, added another, and then finished with a third. It was rather a struggle putting it together, not because the techniques were hard, but because I kept running into...
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Happy Accidents
One of the things that will really make you happier as a crafter is learning how to let your mistakes marinate, and figuring out how to use them as a creative catalyst. As I may have mentioned on...
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A Moment of Reflection
This blog has been up and running for two years now. How cool is that? In the past two years, I’ve published 236 posts. That’s an average of a post every three days. Not too shabby. The most popular...
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