Adding Text From Journal Cards
Journal cards are very versatile. One of my fave ways to use them is to remove the text and use it separate from the card. Let me show you a number of ways you can do this. Here are some…
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Make Beautiful, Original Titles With Styles
Hi Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here with some great tips to make your titles come alive with originality and fun! Â Yesterday, clever Polly Judie showed you a cool way to use paper and a Photoshop trick to create beveled…
Quick Beveled Alphas
Hello all my artsy friends! I hope everyone is recovering well from MOC 5. 🙂 I just wanted to pop in today with a quick tip for creating super fast, but “oh so awesome,” beveled alphas. Have you ever had…
DIY Valentine’s Day Magnets using Journal Cards
Hi guys!! Valentine’s Day is one of my family’s favorite holidays. I love crafting and creating fun things for my loved ones during this time of the year! I decided to put my journal cards to a new use with…
Make him your boyfriend brownies!
Skip the store-bought candy this Valentine’s Day  and make these homemade brownies straight from the heart. If you already have a significant other or well….want one, try out this recipe for Make Him Your Boyfriend Brownies. A sure hit everyone…
Valentine’s Day Hybrid Cards
Hearts and flowers are two of my favorite scrappy elements to work with in my layout designs but they are also two of my faves when creating cards. I’m going to share how I created a couple of hybrid Valentine’s…
MOC 2017 Spotlight – Take 3
Hello everyone! Â It’s Polly Karen back again. Â Originally I had only planned to do 2 spotlight posts in January to showcase some of the layouts created for the Month of Challenges (MOC), but then when I did my second post…
Well Hello There, February BYOC!
Greetings, Pad Scrappers!! I hope you’re all having a great start to the month of February. Â Thank you to everyone who participated in our January Month of Challenges! Â Kudos to those who tried or succeeded in completing all of the…
February Challenges
Phew! Â Polly Karen here! Â January is over and so the Month of Challenges 5 (MOC5) is drawing to it’s close today. Â All 31 daily challenges have been posted and the deadline to finish completing them all is tonight at…
Reflections from My First MOC
I cannot believe that MOC is over!! I feel like I just started doing the challenges! Despite hanging around The Pad for a while, this was my first year ever participating in MOC with a clear focus on finishing the…
Art Journaling – Gothic Arches
Gothic arches are beautiful, and I love to look at architecture for inspiration. Straight lines meander into curves, squares merge into corners and wrap around circles, with beautiful accents. The art journaling world has gone mad for arches…I love the…
Using Borders
Borders are very versatile and can be used to frame all or part of a layout. Â Borders can be duplicated, erased, resized and rearranged, allowing for a multitude of possibilities for your page design. They can also be used within…