1. Bookmarks: Grab one of your favorite pieces of paper and start stamping, misting, buttoning, and sticking! It’s easy a quick, a set of three to four makes for a perfect gift for the reader in your life.

2. Coasters: Do you know a new homeowner? Well they sure could use their own unique coasters. Make beautiful shapes, then cover them in a clear acrylic resin. Make sure you cover every bit of paper!

3. Decoupage Box: Grab a paper mache box or other shape and go at it! Decoupage brings out personality in simple and affordable boxes! It’s also a great way to package another unique gift

4. Accordion Mini Album: If you’ve been to our store, you know we LOVE accordion albums! The design is so quick and easy. Fold a long strip of paper back and forth to give it the shape, and you’re ready to start! Putting an accordion album in a small box or tin adds a whole new level of excitement to this gift!

5. Picture Frame: Affordable and heart-warming a picture frame is the perfect way to capture someone’s attention. Put your favorite photo in a frame, then just decoupage, glue, trim, and embellish your heart out!

6. Magnets: Great in a set, or as just one meaningful magnet. Make your friend a gift they can see every day! Magnets are easy to add to any size project, just make sure it’s hefty enough to hold up your creation!

7. Memory Box: You may remember this project from a few months back. Take a look at how great these turn out HERE.

8. Scrapbook sans Pictures: Yes, pictures are what make a scrapbook your own, and personal. BUT! Let’s try something new, and do a scrapbook with just words, and maybe some clippings from magazines. It forces creativity, and with more journalling sometimes these things become even more personal!

9. Project of the Month: Always keep track of what our Project of the Month is! This month we’re featuring a great recipe album from Bo Bunny. Take a look at our calendar and call us to join in the fun!

10. Kits of the Month: Every month we offer two to three new kits for you! These are great options for a quick fix, they come complete with easy to follow instructions and everything else you may need!

1. Try folding the corners in to make the end of your ribbon look like an arrow. Iron it for just a moment, then add adhesive for a new look.

2. If your ribbon’s fraying, dab a bit of clear nail polish on it to help stop those gnarly ends from getting away from you.

3. Want a zig-zag stitch look without rub-ons or pulling out the sewing machine? Grab a piece of ribbon, and pull out one of the frayed strings on the end. The string comes out zig-zag! Use a small amount of glue to adhere.

4. Use a hair straightener, or small curling iron on the lowest setting to help smooth out all those kinks in your ribbons.

5. Do you like to use eyelets in your pages? For a fresh look stitch some ribbon through a couple across the page, or tie a bow.

6. Ribbon not giving you the look you want? Need something with a little more character? Try hemp, twine, or even shoelaces!

7. Run out of dots, and glue is too messy? Try running your ribbon through a Xyron machine. Works flawlessly!

8. Grab a stamp pad, and smear it across sheer ribbon to get the perfect match.

9. Stamp words or letters onto a larger piece of ribbon to create a unique embellishment.

10. Attach your ribbon with two brads at the ends instead of using up all your glue or glue dots up

11. Use up all the extra scraps of ribbon to create a playful border on a page

12. Cover up the spiral binding on a journal, or album with ribbon bows

13. Smooth over those awkward meetings of your paper’s edges. Use a length of ribbon to hide them.

14. Run a thread through the length of your ribbon, then pull tight to make a gathered look

15. Criss-cross ribbon across a page to make a great “French memo board” look

16. Layer different shades of green ribbons to create a grassy look

17. Use black and white ribbons with only one color of cardstock for a new and classy effect.

18. Can’t find a use for your favorite ribbon? Challenge yourself and make a layout just based off of that ribbon.

19. Don’t be afraid to use wire ribbon, just grab the end of the wire in the seam, and pull! The wire will slide out and the ribbon’s now free to be transformed into anything you want.

20. Don’t have any ribbon left? Cut out strips of patterned paper and use them as you would ribbon.

1. Add a button to the center of a flower for a crafty and cute look

2. Try threading a bow through your button instead of the usual stitch-look you now have a cute accent

3. Use a pair of wire cutters to trim the hole off of your favorite hole-in-the-back buttons.

4. Pull your thread through the buttons before attaching them to your page, this will make your job worlds easier.

5. Use glue dots or Zots to attach your buttons instead of waiting for glue to dry, or trying to sew them on

6. Inexpensive buttons are easy to find! Just salvage them off of old sweaters or check out a neighbor’s garage sale. Buttons are everywhere!

7. Buttons are great for adding a smattering of color to your page when you’d rather not add more layers of paper

8. Stamp images onto clear buttons with solvent inks creates great depth, make sure they dry before you add them to your design!

9. If you’ve run out of “o’s” buttons create the perfect replacement

10. Use buttons to finish off the pull string or loop on a tag and cover those gnarly ends on ribbons.

New summer and pool papers from Imaginisce with a little sparkle will help you scrapbook all those summer photos! Check out this new Build a Page available now. Stop by the store to complete yours or take one home today!

This layout features 3 different patterned papers. Take advantage of papers from the same line  and manufacturer to create a collage look on your layout. No more worries or stress about matching different papers!

Use stamps to create journaling blocks and cut them out using punches or scissors. Try journaling in a list format to get the who, what, where, when, and why down. It’ll take some of the stress off of creating that perfect journaling!

Consider the theme of your photo when creating your layout. The edges of the papers were torn and inked with brown chalk ink to give them the look of sand to go with the beachy photo!

Notice how the embellishments (the journaling blocks and 2 ribbon clusters) form a triangle and there are odd numbers of them? Creating a visual triangle helps frame an item to draw attention to it (in this case the photo) and odd numbers are more visually pleasing to the eye.

This layout features our new line of Fancy Pants Sweet Spring paper as well as Bazzill scalloped paper. Create this layout in the store today!

Think outside the box when using your paper. Instead of just placing the scalloped paper flat on your layout cut it in half and use just the edges. Take advantage of the holes and thread ribbon through them for a neat viusal & textural effect.

Tearing & inking the edges of the blue photo mat as well as distessing the edges of the photo with sand paper or a file add to the distressed look of the patterned paper.

Take advantage of pre-made embellishments that match the paper, in this case the journaling and quote cards. They can be a great time saver!

SOLD OUT

Lisa Bearnson will be here at ScrapMasters signing her new book

“50 Moments Scrapbook The Pages That Matter Most”

Saturday July 19th
7:30pm-9:30pm

Order your book to reserve your spot in line today!
410-638-2301

Lisa Bearnson

http://www.lisabearnson.com/blog/2008/07/east-coast-here-i-come-id-love-to-meet.html

 Lisa’s new book is about Scrapbooking your Life!

This book inspires you to create scrapbook pages that celebrate who you are, and your life.  Inside you will find the 50 most important topics to include in your scrapbook,  150 thoughts to prompt your creative flow, inspirational quotes, and150 scrapbook pages and ideas!

Lisa Bearnson is the founding editor of Creating Keepsakes scrapbook magazine as well as the co-author of three books, Mom’s Little Book of Displaying Children’s Art (Creating Keepsakes Books, 2000), Mom’s Little Book of Photo Tips (Creating Keepsakes Books, 1999) and the Joy of Scrapbooking (Oxmoor House, 1998). She is also host of a monthly, hour-long QVC show called the “Creating Keepsakes Hour,” and is a frequent guest lecturer at scrapbook expos and craft shows nationwide.

Starting on June 14th there will be a Stamp Club for all those interested in learning new techniques and ideas using stamps! Come in and check out all of the awesome ideas waiting for you to explore!

Adding some life to your pages has never been so easy! 

First: Take your brad and put it through the flower’s center

Second: Poke a hole through the paper with your brad

 Finally: Fold over both sides of the brad to secure the flower to the paper

And Voila! You have a beautiful accent to your layout!

Here are some quick and easy tips to give those pages a little extra pizzazz!

Layering:

Create a three dimensional project out of a one dimensional process! Layering paper that coordinates is a wonderful way to spice up your project! Use solid colors or paper that matches to get this collage feel without overwhelming yourself! Check out these examples:

Inking:

A very simple way to add that little something that is missing from your pages is to ink! Ink the edges of your pictures, ink the edges of your pages, ink the edges of your flowers! The sky is the limit with experimenting with this quick way to instantly enhance your pages! Check out some of the ways people have used inking in their pages and projects:

look at the edges of pictures, the actual page, and the sand in the Disney page!

Have a special circle of friends? A close-knit family? or do you just want to create something fun to get to know people better?

Well ScrapMasters is starting three Circle Groups! A Circle Journal is a journal what is passed around a group of people that has a specific theme. Through that theme, you develop 2 layouts. After you are finished, you pass the book!

Some of the themes include: Favorite foods, Favorite sites, Hobbies, Favorite Foods, etc. There are about 30-40 themes to choose from!

Here are some examples of circle journals:

The Front:

The Instruction Page:

The “Sign- In” page:

Entry Example:

Explore and show off your creative styles through this crafty project! Share with your friends and meet knew ones!

$10.00

New to scrapbooking and don’t know an eyelet from a needle tool? Then this is the class for you! Learn to use various tools and techniques as you create your very first project!