http://bepositivemom.com/2011/04/moment-for-mo.html My friend Steph runs “Be Positive Mom” (http://www.BePositiveMom.com). I love her idea of take five! Of course we all know what my take 5 would be- and no, of course, it is NOT cooking!!! And Sorry to say Dad, it is NOT doing Math problems either I spend my 5 minutes doing something crafty….
My husband makes homemade gnocchi. I would never even consider making gnocchi by hand. So I asked him one time why he would bother going through all that trouble when he could simply buy the packaged kind. He looked at me and said “I am willing to make the effort for homemade gnocchi for the…
Easter was on my brain and I wanted to make a card for my parents (hopefully they won’t see this post til after Easter ). I was a bit dry for Easter Card ideas, so I spent a bit of time working on another project that I had already started. I had stamped Easy Scraps…
The other day I was playing around again with Tim Holtz Kraft Glassine and I decided that I wanted a Grunge look, but this project was for a girl. So, I didn’t really want it to be the typically dark grunge look. More on that later. First, I embossed the Glassine using a cool technique…
While playing around with the Kraft Glassine from Tim Holtz, I decided I wanted it a little bit lighter and a bit textured, and maybe not so grunge-y. So I decided to layer some plain white tissue paper on top. I used Gel Medium to adhere the tissue paper to the Kraft Glassine, allowing the…
Photo Collages are a great way to get a lot of pictures on a page. You then need to worry less about backgrounds and embellishments- the pictures take center stage and tell the story. This is a great technique for creating a scrapbook page describing a trip, or building a yearbook page that encompasses a…
bal·ance/ˈbaləns/ Noun: An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady: “she lost her balance before falling”. In scrapbook layouts, balance can help a reader feel comfortable while viewing your page, and (for the most part) that is the effect you want. You’d like to draw the viewer in, and…
One of the first things you might do when sitting down to build a scrapbook page is to consider the background. Generally, much of the background will not show and you certainly do not want to distract from the photos on the page. But what if you don’t have a lot to fill the page?…