Author Archives: Diana Opiela

Organizing Colors

Cyndi Freeman, one of our Ontario CA guests, shares a great Tip of the Day on how to keep your colors organized. This helps you know what you have and what you don’t have!  Plus, since this system is portable, carry it with you to Scrapbook Expo so you don’t buy the same color twice!

 

Let It Snow

If truth be told, I enjoy the winter.  Especially the snow.  Now I know that is not a popular position among most folks, but I think the snow is beautiful.  Maureen of the blog, Buttons & Bling created this wonderful card with inspiration from a color challenge (and snow!) Take a look at the challenge […]

Love Beyond Measure

Capturing daily life can sometimes be a challenge, but when the weather gives you something to scrap about it makes it easier!  Amy Heller, one of the talented designers from the October Afternoon design team, took a photo of her son measuring the snow from the previous night.  How clever of her to take a […]

Perfectly Straight Journaling

This is one of those tips that is so simple, you just want to kick yourself for not thinking of it earlier.  Watch this tip from Eileen Tindall on getting your journaling perfectly straight with no lines to erase! Thanks Eileen for that wonderful tip!

Happy

This is such a snowy fresh page!  And the B/W photo really pops on it.  Thanks to Mona Pendleton for sharing this project on her blog, Cupcake’s Creations. Mona created all the texture with white acrylic paint, some dies and stencils.  The patterned paper is from a Polish company called 13 Arts.  It is beautiful. […]

Keep Glitter in Its Place

On today’s Tip of the Day, tipster Jory Rickman from our Tip of the Day showcase shares us a great tip for keeping your workspace clean. Thanks Jory.  We all like to keep our workspace tidy and save every piece of that precious glitter when we use it.