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House Cleaning I think 80% of paper crafting involves house cleaning of some sort and these combined posts and projects have been no exception. These embellishments actually began with the hope that I could quickly make some paper embellishments that resembled polymer clay charms as shown in a previous post. It was almost an epic fail aside from the frames but I didn’t want to throw all that work away so I came up with these little pieces.   I didn’t think too much of it but since I am way behind on my intended group participation I took a few...

What began as.... This project began as some of the best scrap buster projects I have seen in a long time but wanting to follow along with one of them by using stickers I realized I didn’t have any…. what to do? Well I knew I wanted them matte and transparent if possible, I also knew I wasn’t going to buy another item. It had been in the back of my mind to try wax on Tim Holtz paper and some other hand stamped tissue that I had lying around so I did it and the results were beyond my...

Make Your Own Ephemera Webster’s Dictionary defines ephemera as something of no lasting significance. I have the same popular ephemera collections as most paper crafters but I also like to design my own ephemera.  This little paper project has been in my ephemera box for quite a while and I finally got around to making more than one to share and creating a video post as well. The photo below inspired me to try to create a paper fan as an ephemera piece and it brought back a memory of a fan necklace charm that I still have that is almost...

Are you loaded with labels? Here are ten things you can do with them.  

Hidden Paper Clip - Bobbi Pin Brooches I have a previous post on making these faux junk journal brooches by using a hidden paper clip and I didn’t like the bulk the paper clip and extra layers of paper were adding so I came up with a new idea using bobbi pins. This works so much better so I decided to do a video of the process.  I did use one of my ladies in hats from My Fair Lady ephemera to create one of the paper clip designs, shown on the mini journal.  This is also part of my use it...