Fixing Photos

So what do you do when the photos that you want to highlight are not quite the right shape or size? Or what if the photo or image is not centered? Placing these photos or images onto a page “as is” makes your page look unprofessional. To get a professional looking scrapbook page, you may need to make some adjustments…

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How to Choose and Use Color

Back in the 90′s I took some design classes at the local college and learned about color and got my first formal introduction to a color wheel. It was a fascinating class and I learned a lot of techniques that I still use today in many of my projects. Fast forward a few years and now I find myself buying…

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Tips For Beginners On Selecting The Right Crochet Patterns

When first starting out with crocheting, it’s often hard to know where to start or to know which crochet patterns are the best to use or try out. Thanks to the wonderful resources made available of the internet or through how-to books, our options are virtually limitless. But where do you start?

5 Easy Ways to Be More Creative Each day

Many people have lives that are directed on everything BUT being creative. We’ve got heavy things we just have to do, having to go to meetings, work on the house or aparment,commitments and ever increasing demands coming from every direction.  Who has time for creativity,and then who has the energy for it, even when we have the time? Luckily,even small amounts…

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Clicking The Best Digital Pictures

Taking great pictures doesn’t come naturally to many of us. However, we can improve the quality of the pictures we take with a little practice and some smart techniques which can help overcome all digital difficulties.Read on for some suggestions on how to make your digital clicking more creative and correct. First off you need to find a high quality…

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Dig Out Your Chalks

This week’s tip is by Ally. Go ahead and dig out your chalks and utilize some of these great tips: I have been creating a stamping class surrounding the use of chalks this past weekend so I thought I’d share some fun tips of stamping and using chalks. You can buy some beautiful packages of multi-coloured chalk palettes for very…

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Tips on Using Blender Pens

This tip was provided by Jacquelin Green a DT member over at weScrap! Here are some tips to help you use that blender pen you bought and don’t know what to do with!!! USING THE BLENDER PEN WITH INK PADS Stamp an image using a water based dye pad. Use the blender pen to lightly stroke the outline color into…

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