Quickly & easily color your rhinestones, brads, plastic buttons, and pearls to match 
Instead of buying colored rhinestones, brads, plastic buttons, or pearls that you use for embellishments, color them with your craft pens - alcohol markers …

Baby Powder and Glue 
I have noticed that there are times that I tend to get glue all over my hands. I have found that baby powder will help to take off the sticky from the …

Blunt scissors are a nightmare  
If you use a butcher knife sharpener to sharpen craft scissors and fabric scissors take the knife sharpener and use your scissors as tho your cutting paper …

Glue in the Wrong Place 
I have, on many occasions used too much glue and when I put it together it squeezes out where I don't want it to be. In the past I have thrown away …

Sentiment Cutting and Stacking 
I like to stack my sentiments like happy birthday, best wishes etc. but I am a complete klutz when gluing them together. I usually end up sticking them …

Applying glue to small pieces. 
I was given this tip and I have found it really good. Instead of trying to add glue to small embellishments like Happy Birthday and Good Wishes etc., …

Just a couple of tips for now. 
I have used clear glass making liquid to make my flowers shiny, clear nail polish with glitter in it and clear full gloss varnish. I also do Autumn …

Cleaning scissors and craft knifes 
As an ex hairdresser I know the only thing to get hair laquer off mirrors is methylated spirit no smears either it's also very good for getting all the …

Pinhole edging 
I liked the pinhole edging I saw on some cards, but when I realized I had to buy a special ruler and painstakingly prick at intervals I decided to have …

Do the last first 
I am still a novice card maker and it seems like the times I am likely to mess up my cards happen in the very last stages of making the card. Now …

Glitter Stamping 
I love using glitter on the flowers that I add to my cards, but I wanted to take the glitter a step further... and use it on my stamped sentiments. …

Stamper ma jig 
I made my own stamp positioner! I used photo mounts which came with some photo frames I had bought and cut them with a craft knife to obtain four quarters. …

storing unmounted stamps 
Hi everyone my name is Sue and I live in Australia. I've been having a clean out of my craft room and in doing so came across so many stamps that I …

Spellbinder Storage 
I've got quite a few sets of Spellbinders, and I was having trouble with keeping them together. I did some research on storage ideas, and finally I …

The perfect card 
I thought I made the "Perfect card" Until I opened it, only to find. I had the inside, upside down. I kept it for a long time. One day I was late …

Empty CD jewel cases for storage 
I bought four cd towers made from wood and they were hiding in the garage gathering dust. Gradually as I got more and more rubber stamps I thought …

Save money buying coloured flowers/card candi and twine 
I am a pensioner, so have to get pretty frugal to enable me to save up to afford the things I need like cutting dies and punches. Here are a few ideas …

'Free' storage for beads, buttons, brads and other things 
I have found that I now use the empty supermarket brand herb jars for shaking glitter as well as for storing brads; 2mm 3mm 4mm 6mm beads and brads as …

Ribbons  
When you get a new dress or top it normally comes with two ribbons near the sholders. Instead of keeping the ribbons on ... that always have a mind of …

Video boxes 
Thought you might like this one. I came across a lot of old video cases (remember them) and I have put my Spellbinders in them and there is enough room …

Storing Your Dies 
My Grand Calibur die cutter stands on my desk and the wall in front of me holds 3 magnetic kitchen knife holders full of my dies. This way they are …

Cleaning Stamps 
Cleaning stamps at the end of a project was always a pain for me until I read a tip which works for me. Have a shallow plastic container on your desk, …

Odd Earrings are Perfect!! 
I craft on a budget, a very tight one!! I was clearing out my jewellery box and found around 20 odd stud earrings. If they have jewels I leave them …

Mixed up peel-offs 
Every time I went near a craft shop I came home with more peel-offs. Fancy~straight~coloured~corners and names, you name it I had it. I stored them …

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Ribbon storage 
My ribbons were tucked in a drawer and getting in a mess. I'd used cards and cut out the shape to wrap ribbon round but found them becoming unravelled. …

Ribbon scrap storage 
I had a ton of ribbon scraps and pieces that weren't on spools for whatever reason (some of them came in packets instead, some were scraps that were too …

Matching gift tag when making windowed cards 
When making my own trifold window cards I am often using spellbinders rectangles etc. to cut out the window. Using the cutout piece for a matching gift …

I need a solution 
I'm sort of new to card making/scrapbooking, and have gone a little overboard with buying supplies. Now I don't know where to store them. I've got …

Matting board 
I went to a picture framer and asked if they wanted to get rid of their off cut bits. I needed a car and this was loaded, by them, with all the "off …

Paper Scraps 
I finally gave in! My scraps of paper were unmanageable in a drawer. I could never find the color I wanted only to give up and use an entire piece just …

Cleaning scissors 
I found this tip on another forum and it works wonderfully. When your scissors get sticky from cutting foam tape, just spray them with WD40 and wipe …

Homemade Crafty Storage Solutions 
Instead of spending a fortune on storage for your crafty treasures, stop for a minute and have a look at what's already there.... I "borrowed" the removable …

A very cheap alternative to U Mount for unmounted stamps 
Instead of paying a small fortune for U Mount, or something like it to back your unmounted stamps with, instead I buy a large roll of double sided craft …

Using double sided tape 
I use double sided tape all the time but it is very unforgiving and once it is stuck, so are you... if you haven't got it quite right! But if you rub …

Card/Paper Scraps Storage 
At the side of my workdesk I have a small box. It holds a lot of clear A4 sleeves (like you use in ring binders) all standing upright so the tops are …

Free embellishments. 
Embellishments & ladies undies...!!! For small neat tidy flowers and/or bows, I snip them off new briefs and bras...Yes. True. I do not like the …

Storing your brads, buttons etc.  
A handy tip on storing for your brads, buttons etc... Spice jars, with lids, and in their holder. Easy to mount on the wall, and easy to see colours. …

Decoupage Snippit 
I can't remember where I read this tip but it has proved to be so helpful to me. Before cutting out your decoupage it helps to put a bit of sellotape …

Embossing Buddy 
I was trying to figure out how to stop the small particles of ink from staying on my card when I was heat embossing. I had heard of embossing buddies …

Dry embossing 
When using a stylus in dry embossing I find it much easier to PULL the stylus TOWARD me (along the edge of the stencil design you are embossing) especially …

Coloring flowers, lace, ribbon with Copics 
Coloring lace, ribbon, flowers with Copics. You can use Colorless blender solution or 91-95% Isopropyl rubbing alcohol, which is a LOT cheaper. …

Storing Punches. 
Recycling and Storage. Storing punches. From Argus: a wooden CD unit which can be wall mounted. It has 12 sections, and it is strong, so it …

Storage Containers Not rated yet
If you have an ice cream parlour near you ask if you can collect some of the containers they use. They often have to pay to send them to refuse sites, …

Ribbons Not rated yet
A little tip for fellow crafters. When treating yourself to a new item of clothing, normally a pretty little summer top; snip out the ribbons used to …

Storing Peel offs Not rated yet
I use a binder and clear page protectors. I staple the page in the middle of the page protector on the top, bottom, and center (vertically) and then I …

Zig 2-way glue pen Not rated yet
I saw the Zig 2-Way Glue Pen at Walmart and decided to try it out. The way it works, is it goes on blue, then dries to clear within a few seconds. …

Cleaning stamps-another method Not rated yet
I've heard that baby wipes were good for cleaning rubber stamps. But, they can be pretty expensive! So when I found some at a dollar store while looking …

Carboard Back  Not rated yet
On Card, if you want a picture to stand out, then a simple thing to do is to add plain carboard to the back of the image, and stick it on the paper as …

Whitmans to the rescue! Not rated yet
I use Whitmans candy boxes for storage because they are very sturdy. They can be decorated and labeled if you wish. I store scissors and other tools for …

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Annoying ribbons in tops Not rated yet
Make use of those annoying ribbons, that come inside the shoulders of every top or blouse, for hanging up on a hanger. I have started to cut them off …

Quick C6 inserts (makes 2) Not rated yet
Take an A4 sheet of paper and fold it in half, lengthways. Then fold in half again, widthways, so its quarter of an A4 size. Then all you do is trim the …

Die cutter storage Not rated yet
I have a Big Shot and because it wasn't a cheap piece of equipment I like to look after it. It has to last me a long time, and so do the dies I buy to …

Storing Ink pads. Not rated yet
Casette tape holders are good for storing the large ink pads. Bet most homes have some, if you are a more mature household, that is!!!!! Anyone got …

Storing your ribbons. Not rated yet
Pegs or paper clips are useful for storing ribbons,and these scarf holders too. But I've found another way to store them on reels. 1. A holder …