Article and photos By Lee Brehon How to make your own WIRE letters: You need: heavy gauge wire, a marker, wire cutters, paper, mini letters, glossy accents. 1. Gather your supplies 2. Wrap wire around your marker or dowel, holding one end of the wire firmly. 3. Remove the wire in one bunch and gather [...]
This week, we have some timely tips on recycling and reusing from Scrapbooker’s Club House member, Trina Carbert. Trina adds some super ideas to our Scrappin’ Green repertoire! Thanks for these excellent ideas. Read on… I’ll bet you hadn’t thought of some of these! RECYCLE, REDUCE, REUSE By~ Trina Carbert There are many ways we [...]
Ceramic Tile Coasters By Mary Chong Ceramic Tile Coasters are a super easy project to make. They make great gifts – given individually or as a set tied with a pretty ribbon bow. A friend of mine gives them to teachers/baby sitters and has her kids decorate and sign/date the underside of the coasters. This [...]
Today we welcome scrapbooker Elisha Drewery. Elisha has a wonderful idea about repurposing ribbon spools! Read on if you’d like to create something beautiful!! I am always looking for ways to repurpose or reuse an item. Since I am a self proclaimed ribbon addict, there is no shortage of ribbon spoolies at my house. I [...]
This week, Scrapbooker’s Club House member Lynn Marsh provides us with some excellent ‘food for thought’ about ways we can recycle and reuse old, outdated business cards and the out-of-fashion costume jewellery that almost all of us have sitting in our jewellery boxes. Read on for some great “green” tips! Repurposing Business Cards and Costume [...]
We would love to see what you can create with the following sketch. We will choose a winner from all entries and you will win a prize from SBCH! The winner chosen will then get to design an example from one of my sketches for one of the future blog sketch contests. The deadline for the contest is Monday July 28th. A [...]
Is………SHANNON CUMMINS for this wonderful interpretation of the sketch! Congratulations Shannon! Please be sure to send us your snail mail addy so Nicole can send you your prize! You will also be featured as a designer on one of our next sketch contests. Details will be sent you you via email!
Trendwatch: Scallop Flowers by Nicole Drewniak You’ve seen them everywhere: those adorable little scallop flowers that you were convinced could only be had if you had the right punch. Well, fret no longer! Here is how you can have the same look with supplies you have at home. You will need: 2 sizes of circle [...]
What do you do with page layouts that you’ve spent many happy hours creating? Where do you store beautiful pages made of memories that are important to you and your loved ones? Can you share them when family or friends visit?? Can you pass the album around? Will your album “take it?” There is a [...]
Creating Alternative Storage for Cardstock and Paper By Cathy Ford Hello everyone! This idea came to me one day when I was cleaning up my scrap space. I had been keeping all my cardstock and pattern paper in a paper file….but it was busting at the seams…so I had to find another alternative. I looked [...]
