stamping rituals

Hey paper peeps Happy Friyay woot woot! Do you have rituals or routines you do with certain scrapbook supplies? I do sometimes, like with my stamps! 

The first thing I do when I go to use a fresh hot off the press brand spankin new "Happy Little Stamp" is wash it! I just give it a good rinse and dry it off, this helps to get all of the residue from the factory production off of the stamp! (I also heard sometimes people use very fine sand paper to do this but that kinda scares me lol!) 

Secondly, since I want to get a clean crisp stamped image, I like to "break it in" by stamping it a few times onto a scratch piece of paper! This helps me so much, for some reason I get nervous right before I stamp like I'm going to wreck something lol! I'm a dork like that.

Thirdly, I keep a bag of baby wipes by me and I clean off my stamps right away! I use baby wipes for so many things, they are just so convenient! Not sure that's the best way to do it, I'm just cheap and they work great lol! There are also alot of great stamp cleaners out there you can use though if you would rather go that route :)

What are some of your rituals or routines that you do with your papercrafting? I'd love to hear! Any stamping tips that I can't live without?!

Being a bookworm at heart, one of my favorite things to journal on is a good ole fashioned library card! I wanted to have one to use on every project, so I actually just put this super cute library card stamp into my ETSY SHOP! Hop on over and take a look!

Thank you so much for hangin out with me today! Have a happy scrappy weekend!

xoxo Rah

national scrapbooking day

Hey paper peeps! This past Saturday 5/2/20 was National Scrapbooking Day yayy! Can you believe that I've been scrapping for 20 years now?! How did you celebrate, did you make something pretty?! I created something using this darling new digital kit by Make A Pretty Life, not only was it super cute but they were donating some of the proceeds to charity! 

The kit is about the crazy corona virus and all of the weirdness going on lately like the toilet paper shortage, staying home, home school, etc. Since staying home is my favorite thing lol, I created a house shaped accordion mini album! I started off by making a flag pole using a wooden stick and a cut out piece from the ephemera page. I mean a house needs a flag pole right ;) The cute paper I used on the cover is actually a Simple Stories paper from their vintage garden collection!

Before I adhered the page down that I wanted to use for journaling, I ran it through my cute pink typewriter by WRMK! 

The house accordion is a cut file in the Silhouette Design Store, I think I cut it twice and taped them together..

There's a cute rainbow printed page in the kit, so I fussy cut some of those and turned them upside down to make shingles for my roof lol! They look so whimsical and fun I love them! 

Here's a look at my few other pages, the mask is held on by a star brad so you can slide it down to see my son's cute smile! I love interactive pieces! Social distancing is my jam man! It's so weird to see those things on the floor at the grocery store ohmygosh...

I had so much fun making this little book! I love that it showcases just a little touch of our lives right now, I love to remember the little details!

I printed out the kit by uploading it to Office Depot, then I just went and picked it up in the store super easy peasy!

Of course I had to add leaves to my house, these die cut ones were just chillin on my desk so I threw them on there.  I'm obsessed with flowers and leaves heh heh..

Thanks so much for stopping by, stay happy and scrappy!