Scrapbooking Tips

When I first started papercrafting, I was looking for all the scrapbooking tips I could find.

"Tell me and I'll forget;
show me and I may remember;
involve me and I'll understand.
~Chinese Proverb"

There seemed to be so many tools and techniques, I was excited about learning about them. I soon realised there was a knack to doing most things and I needed to learn those shortcuts and secrets.

You will find your own best and comfortable way to scrapbook over time. I hope those of you with experience will add your own scrapbooking tips here to help get some beginners scrapbooking with confidence a little sooner.

It is true that it takes practice to get to be good at new skills, so do give yourself some time to perfect your techniques. Practice makes progress!

There are lots of ideas that help make scrapbooking the pleasure it is. Let me share some with you. You might like to bookmark this page as I will add more hints and tips as I discover them myself.

Scrapbooking Hints and Tips

• Try making your own embellishments using your paper punches. Many items can be made with basic shapes like circles, squares, hearts and ovals. Here I have made a teddy bear using circles and ovals. I made some Hearty Ladies with hearts, what else? Lol!
• Is your Mojo on holiday? Do you need some inspiration or new challenges? Try these ideas and see if they help bring your Mojo/Muse back home
• Got ink on your skin and can't get it off? I discovered a way to remove Stampin Up!'s Classic Inks from my skin. Let me share the idea with you.
• Here are some tips on Designing your own page layouts by sketching
• Once you have created a special page, you want to protect it, right? Here's how to get a Page Protector on your completed layout easily and smoothly, without knocking your new creation around.
• Find out what Rubons are and how you can use them
• Have you ever tried drawing up your own Page Sketches? It may be easier than you think to get started
• How about making your own Hand Made Embellishments?
  • Hand Made Broom
  • How to Make Flat Paper Flowers
  • How to make 3-d Paper Flowers
  • How to make Paper Butterflies

Now I need your help. What helped you when you first started paper crafting? How do you think about layouts before you create them? Did someone help you when you were a beginner? If you would like to add your own helpful hint, please do. And thank you for taking the time to do so :)

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