Crop Corner

What's a fast way to add a little extra dimension to your scrapbook pages? Here's a tip: It's a quick technique with a funny name that's easy, inexpensive and absolutely indispensable! It's called "direct-to-paper inking" and it's one of my favorite scrapbooking tricks. The name might sound technical, but direct-to-paper inking is simply applying ink directly from a rubber stamp inkpad onto your paper. That's it! I like to use black or brown ink to edge my papers or journaling to add definition and help them stand out from whatever kind of paper I'm placing them on. It's a little thing, but it adds a nice finishing touch to my layout and helps it go from "so-so" to fabulous.