Stickles and dotted stamp idea

I was playing around with some Stickles and decided to make my own "bling" embellishment-similar to those self-adhesive rhinestone circles. It's pretty darn close! All you need is a basic dotted stamp design and some Stickles.

I used an old 7 gypsies dotted circle stamp because the dot pattern is uniform and makes it easy to apply the Stickles.

I cut a 2 1/4" circle out of some paper to demonstrate.


I centered the stamp over the circle and pressed down. This would be easier to center if using clear stamps.


Take the Stickles and start covering the black dots. It has a thick consistency, so it's very easy to apply.

Once you finish applying the Stickles, the dots look a little weird...raised and pointy. Set aside to dry.
Note: as they dry, the raised dots will go down...but will be slightly raised.


Here it is finished. IRL, it's much more vibrant and sparkly!

scalloped sentiment border punch

I did it...got a regular scalloped border punch! I've been using my threading water border punch exclusively, but there are times when I just want a plain scalloped border...and now I can quit whining, lol. (One of these days I will also do an update on using my Cricut to make a scalloped border...I was able to make a longer border, but it was still too wide.)

Scalloped Sentiment border punch:

here is what the scalloped edge looks like after using the border punch:

The scalloped border punch is very easy to use. In case you missed my post last January...about the Threading Water border punch...here is the tutorial:

Free printable graph/grid paper

I had a site bookmarked that offered free graph paper...but it was so long ago that I think I deleted it! I did another search recently and came across a site called incompetech. This time I decided to actually try it and print out some graph paper. I picked the square graph paper to try and chose the "custom" grid color...and went with a light brown/tan. The directions were super easy to follow!

The pictures below didn't turn out the best, but I put a sheet of kraft cardstock under the graph paper to show that the grid color matches the kraft paper. I can definitely use this graph paper for making journaling spots to use on my scrapbook pages!



There are many styles of graph/grid paper to choose from.... give it a try!