Category: Scrapbooking

Every now and then, my husband comes up with a brilliant idea. His most recent one involved Chica & Jo ordering custom rubber stamps for our image logo and for our URL. I was very skeptical at first thinking it would be prohibitively expensive and difficult to do. I poked around […]

My day-to-day life (both work and personal) depends heavily on Post-it® notes, and I use them for all sorts of reminders. I’ve even taken to carrying them in my car or backpack, because they are so handy for quick notes that I need to leave here or there. The problem with carrying them […]

A good friend of ours, Gretchen Sheridan, has been kind enough to share her card making talents with us and you, our readers. She does a combination of painting, inking, stamping and scrapping to come up with her one-of-a-kind creations. I’ve given a few of her cards to friends and family and […]

Jo and I love to scrapbook, but we admit that sometimes we get in a rut while working on huge projects. Whenever we need a little inspiration and want to have some fun, we organize a Circle Journal.
A Circle Journal is a scrapbook that is made by a circle of your friends. You […]

I used to have a box full of scraps of ribbon and there were so many shoved in there that it became difficult to pick through them to find the color I want. I knew I needed a new solution, but I wanted something portable, easy, and inexpensive.

Sometimes when documenting a big event in a scrapbook, I have more pictures than I can fit in a single layout. When I just can’t whittle the set of pictures down any further, and I still want them all to appear on one layout, I turn to one of my favorite (albeit time-consuming) techniques: […]