Paper Tuesday: How to make a perfect score WITHOUT a score pad

In a previous post I've talked about score pads that are for helping create perfect creases in your card stock. A score pad though, can run you $20-$30 depending on the brand, what little features it may have to offer and so forth. I figured out a free way of scoring paper.

What you'll need:
Your card stock of choice
A butter knife
A pencil (optional)
A ruler

Take your card stock and figure out where you want your fold. If you want, you can use a pencil to mark your fold line, but it isn't always necessary. Then, take your ruler and place it where you intend to fold your paper. Take your butter knife and move the edge (NOT the serrated edge) along the side of your ruler like you would a pencil. You may need to do this a couple of times for heavier card stock. This will create an indent in your paper. And now, fold. You'll have a perfect fold without those little wrinkles.

New Monday: Some awesome Mother's Day cards for ya

I have some awesome Mother's Day cards to show you. Each of them are just $1.50 and can be found in my Etsy store

Spring-y Mother

Pink and Champagne Mother's Day

Mom

 

Red Silhouette

Progress In the Craft Room #3

I've been trying to build up my inventory so I haven't been able to do any organizing in my room like I was hoping, if anything it's gotten messy again. But while making Mother's Day cards I realized I didn't have anything to put them in to keep the dust off until they sold. So I went hunting for a photo organizer, but those overly priced shoes boxes they call photo organizer's just wouldn't do. I wanted something longer that I could organize all of my greeting cards according to type. So after hitting up three different stores I finally found the perfect box.

I found this at Office Max and it's perfect. It's a DVD movie organizer that snaps together and is pretty sturdy once it's all together.

Paper Tuesday: Metallic Card Stock

Just one of the many styles of envelopes Paper and More supplies

As someone who makes and sells stationery, I buy paper in bulk. It's cheaper, which means I won't have to charge my customers as much than if I just bought a pack from Michael's or Hobby Lobby. So my go-to place for when I'm in need of card stock is Paper and More.

So I had this awesome design concept (which, as usual, looked better on paper than in real life) and I needed a dark gray card stock. So I went to my favorite online paper store and the only card stock I could find that was the perfect shade of gray was metallic. Hmmm... I thought. I purchased the sample pack which included the metallic steel gray card stock along with other sample colors (the metallic champagne is gorg-e-ous) that were very lovely (not a huge fan of the gold though, better to be used as an accent for other projects).

I've seen other so-called "metallic" papers that were cheap or was basically just covered in glitter that went everywhere when you tried to do anything with it. These metallics are top-notch and I absolutely love them. I'll probably use every single one of them in one project or another.

But Paper and More doesn't carry just paper, they carry envelopes, vellum paper, they even have recycled card stock and soooo much more. So if your going to be making your own invitations for your wedding, baby shower or anything paper related for that matter, be sure to check out Paper and More before you go anywhere else!

P.S

Check out their sale section!

New Monday: Changes in the Shop

Life recently has been incredibly stressful and hectic here recently, especially with my recent illness. To make things a little easier I will not be offering custom orders anymore, at least for now. Instead, I will be concentrating on other parts of my inventory, such as stationery accessories, greeting cards and ready-to-ship note card sets. Come fall, I will begin offering custom orders again, and will have some new designs for the upcoming seasons.

Right now I'm working on Mother's Day cards, since that's the next holiday coming up, and those who purchase my Mother's Day cards will receive a coupon code for their Father's Day card (Which I also need to get started on). Also, when you buy a Mother's Day card from my shop, you will receive a coupon code for 15% off your Father's Day card purchase.

I'm also trying to sell locally. There's a Facebook page called Porterville Buy and Sell where members of the community post pictures and posts of things they are selling or looking for. The most popular posts are for holidays so I'm hoping to get some extra revenue by putting a few posts on there. If you sell handmade goods, look for community pages on Facebook that are for selling things, I've made a lot of extra cash selling things I no longer wanted or needed, so now I'm going to try my hand at selling my cards.

Friday's Faves: My Favorites List

If you have an account on Etsy you probably have a favorites list of things you really like but can't buy at the moment. Well I have quite a few of those and here is a small sample.

Navy Blue White Heart Necklace by TheWhirlwind

Bridal Wedding Hair Comb by OOAKjewelz

Vintage Seafoam Green Windmills by curateandlove

Wind Catcher Floral Hair Shoe and Hair Clip by RoyalMenagerie 

Negligee by EmmaHighfield

Vintage Inspired Tea Dress by Mokkafiveoclock

Little Sparrow Necklace by laonato

Soft Leather Ballet Flats by thewhiteribbon

Leather Satchel by goldenponies

Progress In the Craft Room #2

I haven't been able to make any changes to my room yet. So, today, I'd like to share my future plans with you

Check out these DIY shelf organizers. It looks super easy to do and will work perfectly with my narrow shelves that are above my desk.

Find the original post here at Make it and Love it

I'll be adding my own twist however. I'm entertaining the idea of drawer pulls instead of square holes for my boxes. I'm also considering making lids to help keep the dust out. I'm going to use my new Cricut expression to cut out labels from chipboard and paint them with chalk board paint so I don't have to guess what's in what box.

I really want to reorganize the tools I have hanging on the wall. Some of those items will go into the boxes I'll be making since I don't use them that often. Others will go into that top drawer or another nook in my room.

I bought this old piano bench a while back from someone selling it on Facebook for $10. I'm using it store my laptop and cord. I'm going to paint it white and reupholster it. Finding the right fabric for it though as proved challenging.

I'm really excited to see my room transform and I can't wait for my hands to get back to normal so I can get started.

Paper Tuesday: Scrap organization

So you love to make cards, scrapbook, and going to town with your Cricut. But what to do with all those little paper scraps? You don't want to throw them away because that's wasteful and you never know when you might need that particular color in that particular size right? Well here's a way to organize them:

Buy one or a few accordion file organizers and organize your scraps by color. I've already started to do this but I still have a LOT more scraps to tuck away that are currently cramped inside an old popcorn tin that I spray painted. I may need one of those hulking file organizers that you see in offices for all my paper scraps.

New Monday: Bog Update

Blog
You probably noticed last week that my blog was different. It now matches my logo and style much better and I now have a grab button, so if you have been featured on my blog at some point be sure to "grab" it and post it to your website. I'll also be making some changes and updates to the pages.

My Shop

I'm trying to work on designs since I'm still not well enough to do custom orders and it could be a while. Hopefully I'll have some new and wonderful designs to put up once I'm ready to open the shop back up.

Me

Because of my recent illness (which you can read more about here) wreaking havoc on my most valuable and precious limbs, my hands, I can't do a whole a lot. Taking care of Tessa is doable but challenging, I have to keep my hands covered in the shower, while I'm cooking and other every day activities that we take for granite. So, I've had to drop two of my college courses since writing is difficult and eventually I may not be able to walk for a while. But I'm staying positive and I know this will pass and my hands will be back to being useful in no time.