Create texture on your pages with non-traditional items. Rita Barakat from Scrapping from the Inside out, shows you how. Click here to go to tutorial.

Lucy Edson shows how to further embellish stick pins in this video tutorial from A Million Memories. Click here to go to tutorial.

Fonts.com has launched a new collection of fonts called Nice Price. According to the site Nice Price is

A great little collection of fonts – at great prices – for scrapbookers, educators, home and small business users. These distinctive designs and your operating system fonts combine perfectly to tackle a wide variety of projects.

In addition, Fonts.com offers 80 percent off one new font every day in its Font Deal of the Day program. A new font goes on sale each day at 10:00 a.m EST. Click here to go to Fonts.com

Get instructions from the Crop Mom website on transforming puzzle pieces into this adorable mini album. Click here to go to tutorial.

Wendy McKeehan and the Designer Digitals team have just released this new e-book featuring 48 layouts showcasing the use of Designer Digitals frames. The book is available in PDF format for download and costs $9.99. Click here to purchase

Get more inspiration from her gallery and blog.

Learn how to make rolled paper flowers in this tutorial by Tia Bennett on the Creating Keepsakes blog. Click here to go to tutorial.

This tutorial on the Kenner Road blog shows you how to make background papers using craft items you probably already have on hand. Click here to go to tutorial

Grab your scrapbooking papers and stickers and create these inexpensive Halloween projects from our sister site Craftbits.com

Halloween Bag Toppers

Tin Of Bones Invitations

Written by guest editor Shellie Wilson

White space is also known as negative space, and is that part of a layout that isn’t “filled up” with elements. It doesn’t need to be white, just empty, but I chose to use white card stock for my background. White space is an effective design element because it allows the eyes to rest, and also helps to emphasize the elements that are there, thus pulling the viewer in.
You will need:

1 photo
12×12 Card stock
Patterned paper
felt or other trim
acrylic paint in two colours
journaling stamp
Phrase stamp
decorative stamp
circle label
letter stickers (small and large)
decorative border punch or scissors
Bubble wrap

1. Paint a roughly square shape in the center of the card stock. This doesn’t have to be precise, simple swipe the brush several times across the card stock

2. Brush some of the second colour of paint across a piece of bubble wrap and press into the top left and bottom right corners of the painted square

3. Stick photo approximately in center of painted area

4. Cut a strip of patterned paper about 1.5″ wide by 7″ long and tear a bit off each end. Use the punch or scissors to make a border along one long side. Add to left, slightly on top of photo

5. Stamp journaling spot to bottom left of photo, slightly on top of the paper strip

6. Add felt trim and circle label as shown

7. Add title with letter stickers

8. Stamp phrase stamp below title, overlapping journaling spot

9. Use decorative stamp to make a photo corner above the top right edge of photo

10. Add journaling and voila!

Note: This tutorial was originally posted on my tutorial blog Tuesday To-Do

1. Alcohol free baby wipes are perfect for cleaning rubber and acrylic stamps
2. Not sure if a stamp is the perfect design for a certain spot? Stamp it first with a solvent ink like StazOn on a piece of plastic and lay over your project in progress to check. Clear inserts or packaging that come with products are handy for this.
3. Glossy Accents by Ranger is also a great adhesive for lumpy stuff and clear elements
4.Older stickers and diecuts that you probably won’t use again make great masks. To use the diecuts lightly apply a re-positionable adhesive to the back. Then ink, paint or spray over them
5. Place embellishments in odd numbers like three and five for more visual impact
6. No more e’s in your letter sticker pack? Try an upside down 3! I’ve done this tons of times. In fact I have also changed a lower case g into a y and an h, and an ampersand (&) into an S. It all depends on the font, so take a closer look to see what you can improvise!
7. Try using themed products on unrelated projects. I’ve used stickers from a wedding sheet on a layout about pizza and another about dinner guests. This way you get more bang for your buck!
8. Punch holes in raw chipboard to make it a more decorative element. The Crop-a-Dile cuts through chipboard like butter!
9.Grab five to seven left out items from your desk and challenge yourself to use them on a quick page. You’ll be amazed at what you come up with
10. When all fails, use Thickers!

Note: This article was originally posted on my Callaloo Soup Blog.