Hey all! Good Wednesday to you! Hope your week is off to a great start!

This week I wanted to focus on Cards and how they can connect us to others! I recently made this card for a special 8 year old in my life. I was overjoyed by his message on my phone saying how much he loved it! Cards are a great way for us to connect with others! So come share on the forum under Website topics a recent card you have created for someone special!

Have a blessed day!

~Jewels~

Tiny alphabet stickers are readily available at most scrapbook stores in black, white, and even some in color. You know the ones I’m talking about, the ones with typewriter type letters on a little itty bitty rectangle sticker? I like the ones made by Making Memories and EK Success the best.

These stickers are pretty cute on their own but sometimes I feel they just don’t “fit” my layout. Yesterday as I was glimmer misting some Prima flowers for a page I was working on it occured to me that I could possibly glimmer mist some of the letters I wanted to use so they’d match the feel of the layout. Here’s the “how to”:

1. Stick your stickers to a piece of plastic. You can even use the back from an old, empty sticker pack if you have one. You want to make sure the stickers will peel off the plastic later.

2. Spray your glimmer mist as desired. You can use a heat gun to help it dry faster just be careful not to melt the plastic – it can release harmful fumes not to mention mess up your stickers if they get melted into it.

3. Dab off the excess glimmer mist with a paper towel. The mist on the plastic won’t dry so make sure you remove it before staining your hands or clothes. Let the stickers dry completely before peeling them from the plastic. Then stick to your project:

I inked these with some distress ink as well to make them look more antiqued like the rest of the page elements. Here’s the page  I used them on (published in Scrap & Stamp Arts Magazine):

Have fun with this one!!

——posted by Jennifer Priest

Happy Monday!  I hope that everyone enjoyed their weekend.  Here in PA the weather was beautiful, & we rode bikes & played outside for several hours yesterday.  It felt so good to be outside, & get some fresh air!

Now, I’m sure that we all have taken some “not so great” photos.  I know that I have!!  But what do you do when it is the only photo that captures the moment that you wanted to get?  That very thing happened to me at my parents 40th anniversary wedding/vow renewals.  My parents were doing their dance, & you could just see the love on their faces!  Unfortunately the movement & lighting & where I was standing, well, let’s just say that the picture did not turn out so hot.  See for yourself:

I told you!  It came out a bit blurry, & not so useable for anything, right? ….. or so I thought! 

I really wanted to use this picture.  Their smiling, & being close, it just captured the moment.  So, what I did, I got some patterened paper, some rub ons, ribbon, eyelets, & a nice piece of velum.  I centered the picture onto the patterned paper, cut my velum to the desired measurements, popped in some eyelets, thread the ribbon, added a few rub-ons, & viola!  It has now become a sneak peak into a private moment at my parents renewal reception. The velum covered up my less than perfect picture, & I got a pretty good page to add to my parents scrapbook.

Have you ever used a “Not So Good Photo” on a layout?  If so, please share with us, in the forum, what you did & how you made your picture workable.

Thanks for looking!  Have a wonderful week!

Good morning and welcome to Sketch Sunday. This week we’re going to be treated to a sketch by TES designer, Mia.

I really like the different shaped elements and the vertical title in this sketch. Since it’s a playful design, I chose fun pictures and papers. Here is my layout.

You may notice the right edge of my page is not straight. I trimmed away about 1/2″ from the cardstock background sheet and adhered a Sassafras Lass border strip. The page still measures 12″ across, but the scallop border gives it a different look. This is my first time trying it, and I would definitely do it again. If you like Sassafras, you’ll often see layouts on their blog with this technique.

Share your creations here. Thanks for reading.

Good Morning!
This month, I challenge you to use up those letters that we all have lying around. Create a title using different chipboard, letter stickers, etc, like I did here.

Mix it up, and enter your page in our Contests and Challenges section before March 30th to be entered to win a $10 Gift Certificate towards scrapbooking supplies from our March featured store and sponsor, Embellish Your Page.