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 How to Scrapbook:
Learning how to scrapbook takes practice and education. At Scrapbooks & Stuff, we don’t just sell scrapbook page kits or decorated chipboard albums. We pride ourselves on teaching our customers how to use their purchases and most importantly, how to finish their scrapbook pages.
Many of our scrapbook page kits are available with detailed instructions. But for specific scrapbooking skills, the Article section offers tips, techniques and the hottest trends in scrapbooking. Each article addresses a single technique such as how to rubber stamp or how to customize a page kit. Each article is easy to understand, practical and often includes little tips and tricks, making the scrapbooking process easier.
A few of the most popular topics include:
 Paper piecing
Paper bag albums
Rubberstamping 101
Making handmade cards
Decorating chipboard
Patterned paper perfection
Acrylic albums Do’s and Don’ts
Transparencies silhouettes
Check back frequently for new and updated articles. Our blog is also a great place to get new ideas and inspiration for your scrapbook pages. And if you have something you would like to learn or know, please let us know. We would love to address it in an article or in a video tutorial on our blog.
Articles:
 Sticker CPR
Bringing Stickers Back to Life
Do you find yourself sorting through your pile of sticker, trying to find just the right one? Stickers seem to move out of style very quickly and can seem dated. Don’t toss them out yet though. Instead consider these life-saving techniques to revitalize old or dated supplies:
Distress It
Old is the new “new.” Using items such as steel wool, sandpaper or crinkling, you can make your stickers look aged and distressed. Created distressed stickers can give your scrapbook page a heritage look and match today’s colors and styles.
Stamp It
Rubber stamps aren’t just for paper anymore. Stamp over a collection of small stickers with a rubber stamp, adding interest. Use an ink pad to darken the edges or a sepia pad to add age to a new sticker. The options are endless.
Pop It
Add dimension to your sticker by lifting it up. Add foam tape underneath the whole sticker or just part of the sticker. Add dimension on top by using crystal lacquer, epoxy stickers or even glitter. Any added dimension will make your stickers “pop.”
Cut It
Create a mosaic by cutting your sticker into small pieces. Reassemble with a small space in between each piece to create a stain glass window or mosaic effect. This is a lovely effect for busy or elaborate stickers.
Your sticker stash will have a whole new life with these altering techniques.
Using Vinyl letters on your Layouts
“Old Wheels” by Louise Maine
Kit contents:
Bazzill cardstock in Tootsie, Limeade (2), and Great Lakes
Fancy Pants About a Boy double sided cardstock – Wild child and Vivid
Vinyl stickers from Midnight Oil Scrapbook Designs
1/2 Yard Ribbon by May Arts
Cut the Fancy Pants Vivid paper in half. Adhere to the Limeade bazzill cardstock pieces. On the
back of the Fancy Pants Wild Child paper, draw a free- hand scallop border. Cut a few inches
below this with a cutter to make a 2” scallop border. Cut out the scallop part. Duplicate another
border piece. Adhere to the top of the patterned paper strips as shown on layout. Embellish with
black pen lines. Cut mini scallop borders for the bottom edge of the pictures from the Tootsie
cardstock. Use this cardstock for journaling. Assemble pieces. On the large circle, space out the
vinyl lettering for the title. Embellish around the edges with black pen. Use blue ice stickles to
embellish the white vinyl lettering. Adhere the rest of the cardstock circles randomly on the layout.
Other uses for the vinyl lettering:
Vinyl lettering can be colored with a sharpie marker (sunshine card), adhered directly on glass or
placed on cardstock as a glass label.
Altering vinyl:
Here are some examples of altering of vinyl. Use alcohol inks, krylon leafing pens, perfect pearls, ice
stickles, acrylic paints, glossy accents to make it puffy, or markers.
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