Scrapbooking

As most of you know, I love scrapbooking! My mom and I went to another Friday night/Saturday crop on June 17th/18th. Tommy came with us and we had a great time as always. We learned a few really cool new techniques, but here is one of my favorite old techniques: chalked edges. Take a chalk ink (I like Fluid Box) and rub it along the edges of your cardstock. This is a quick and easy way to enhance your page. You can also use Tim Holtz distress inks, which give a more subtle aged look. I do this with almost everything now because it gives it that little extra pop. If you try it, I think you will love the way it looks and become just as obsessed with it as I am. I learned a cool new trick this weekend that I used for my Easter Egg Page. I covered the eggs with Tim Holtz Distress Ink (it has to be really wet). Then I covered the egg with embossing powder and flicked some off. Then I heat with a scrapbooking heater until the texture changes. Then I go back over with a different ink color and it only sticks to the embossing giving it a cool "speckled egg" look. For the more advanced scrapbookers, here is a video showing tons of other cool things you can do with the Tim Holtz distress inks. Happy Scrappin! :)