Blogger Profile: BoBunny full of scrapbooking ideas

If you're like me, you have limited time to craft and surf the web.  Here on Best Crafters we like to profile blogs that offer us one stop shopping for ideas.

Don't ask me how I found BoBunny.blogspot.com , but it is a treasure of information for you if you scrapbook.  Check out all the ideas they have for a scrapbook page layout for Thanksgiving.  There are some awesome ideas.

BoBunny also offers "Sketches." It's a page of sketches to inspire your next scrapbook page layout.  This blog is worth a bookmark.

Have fun!

Best Crafter's Blog: It's Just Paper

I’m a busy person and really don’t have time for scrapbook techniques that are complicated.  The other day I ran across the blog "It's Just Paper" by Stacey Michaud.  Now this woman knows how to inspire with some very easy tips.

When I landed on her blog she was talking about stamping. She writes: 

\"I am not normally a user of stamps...I always get nervous about it.
If you stamp right on a page, you can't take it back.
What if the stamp is slightly crooked?"

Stacey Michaud

I scanned her latest posts and she had ideas on several ways to dress up your scrapbook pages. You get what she's talking about from the post titles.  Here are some of them:

• Just keep adding
• Simple stories
• Summer ready
• Triangles

Stacey started her blog in 2008.  She’s also part of a couple design teams for scrapbook products.  She has a lot of experience as a writer and designer.

Book mark "It's Just Paper."  Happy Scrapbooking!

The Queen of Rubber Stamping ideas on Youtube

Sometimes I look at all my rubber stamps and inks and wonder what can I create next? What can “wow” me? I often go through books and blogs looking for inspiration.

Let me tell you, on Youtube you’re bound to find that one person who jumps out with ideas and inspiration. One of my favorites is Stephanie Barnard. She’s informative, to the point, not flashy, full of ideas and is fun to watch. On her YouTube channel she describes herself:

“Stephanie Barnard began scrapbooking in 1997 and became a professional designer two years later. Since then, her work has been published more than 400 times in magazines, books and websites.”

I like her simple ideas on her videos. She has dozens posted on YouTube. I’m thinking I can watch at least two a week.

She’s a natural on video and definitely knows her stuff when it comes to rubber stamping. She actually designs many of them. As she puts it “I’m a stamper and I don’t mess around.”

Though, I’m still trying to figure out who is Ken and Cookie.

Hair decorations can be the next bling for scrapbookers

I was food shopping last week when I saw a basket of stuff that read “Sale.”  Well if you know me that word is like a magnet.


So as I’m digging through this basket of stuff, I run across these hair and hand decorations.  I'm looking them over, because they were new to me.  I never knew there was such a thing.

Suddenly my scrapbooking brain went BING!  These little decorations had rhinestones and double sided tape. Wow! They were tiny and cute.  


You know where I'm going.  The heck with the hair---these would be perfect for my next scrapbooking page or greeting card.
Each sheet had more than 50 small decorations.  Now here is the
BONUS....

One sheet more than 50 pieces of bling---for one ONE DOLLAR. You heard me right---one dollar.  How could I go wrong.   

I ran home to see if they looked good on a card.  I didn’t want them to fall off if someone got one of my greeting cards.. 


Here’s one of the results.  A little bling on a felt flower.  It just gives it that extra special touch.

So my tip of the day—go to your local beauty salon or beauty supply shop and see if you can find these inexpensive hair and hand decorations and start blinging your scrapbooks and greeting cards!

The Mobile Organizer: Avoid buying duplicates of anything

Rubber Stamps

If I find a good rubber stamp on sale, I usually buy it. But I ran into a little problem a few years back.

Suddenly, I was buying duplicates and didn’t know it.

I know many of you rubber stampers and scrapbookers have your own tips on how to keep track of what stamps you have in your stash. I needed an inexpensive organizer.


So I bought a journal that was on sale at Target for 3 dollars.  I took each one of my stamps and stamped them into what I call my “mobile organizer.”

Mobile Organizer

I labeled each page with a category: plants, celebration, birthday, baby, etc. It’s basically the same way I keep them in my boxes at home.

It’s important to label everything.

Once I stamp the rubber stamp in my “mobile book” I put a small red dot on the side of the stamp. That lets me know the stamp has already been put in my "mobile organizer."


The great thing about my “mobile organizer” is that I can keep it in my car or take it with me when I know I’m going to hit a good sale at JoAnn Fabrics, Michaels , Hancock Fabrics and Hobby Lobby.

Now I no longer buy duplicate stamps.  It's also a nice book I can flip through for inspiration for my next project: scrapbook page or greeting card.

And guess what? I'm also saving money!