Card Making TIps

Check out the list of tips graciously contributed by other card makers. Just scroll down to read them.

• Use wooden, cardboard or plastic floss cards to organise your ribbons. (refer photo above)
• Keep all the scrap paper. You can use them to punch out punchies. (punchies: what you punch out with your paper punches).
• Put a pack of Baby Wipe nearby to clean your rubber stamps in-between change of colors.
• Ink your stamp with Versamark ink before using Stazon, Brilliance inks or any other difficult to clean ink.
• Use washable inkpads when making cards with children. Children love to stamp on their hands, arms and faces.
• Keep a notebook beside you on your bedside table to jot down card making ideas in the night.
• Shake your chalk re-inker by putting it in a sock and spin it!
• If the rubber on your rubber stamps are turning white, apply a light coat of glycerin over the rubber to avoid ghosting. You can find glycerin at your local pharmacy.
• Not sure what color card to use to layer your image on? Choose a color from the image.
• Lightly sand your shrink plastic first before stamping on it.
• Dip a brush in water and paint your shape on the paper, pull paper apart with your hands to give a lovely feathered edge to your shape.
• Stamp some images on white cardstocks with black pigment ink and carry them in your purse with a small pack of color pencils. Color them during waiting time.
• Store your markers horizontally.
• Store your not so juicy inkpads upside down to let the ink sink to the top of the pads.