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The Frugal Scrapbooker – Connie Nichol

June 20, 2022 No Comments

Connie Nichol has been our Frugal Scrapbooker since the VERY BEGINNING of our magazine! WOWZERS! We like to call her our ORIGINAL GANGSTER! Each issue Connie shares a frugal tip or trick using inexpensive items that you probably already have hanging around your house. Check out this fabulous layout designed by Connie featuring Q-Tip painting! Connie gathered 4-5 Q-tips together with an elastic band, dabbed them in paint and then dabbed them on her background to create this gorgeous design. LOVE IT!As a final touch, Connie used Zebra Sarasa Pourous pens to add journaling to her layout. These pens are our serious GO TO when it comes to journaling!Connie’s layout was featured in her Frugal Article – Inspired by Bathroom Supplies – that was featured in the Summer issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine – GET YOUR COPY TODAY! Happy Monday Friends! ENTER TO WIN A HUGE PRIZE PACKAGE from our…

In Cards

Repurposing Dictionaries with Connie Nichol

February 18, 2020 1 Comment

The winter issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine has a FABULOUS article written by our Frugal Scrapbooker – Connie Nichol – all about Repurposing Dictionaries. There are cards, art journaling pages, and layouts all featuring a number of different ways to use dictionary pages on your projects. I love it! Here is an example of one of the cards you will find designed by Connie Nichol. Connie’s card features Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Stencils Stampers Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Stamps Ranger Grit-Paste Glue Dots Adhesives Be sure to grab your copy of the winter issue today! CLICK HERE Happy Scrapbooking SUBSCRIBE TODAY! to Creative Scrapbooker Magazine

In Travelers Notebooks

Adding Sewing Patterns to Your Projects

July 14, 2019 1 Comment

Hello everyone, Kim here today with a mixed media blog share! In the summer issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine, Connie Nichol, our frugal scrapbooker, has an article all about using vintage sewing patterns. This featured article shows lots of fun ways to incorporate patterns onto cards and layouts. I thought I would share how I used them in a project! I have done up a 2-page mixed media layout in my Prima Travelers Mixed Media Notebook. This fun little notebook has various types of paper to work on; black & cream mixed media, kraft, cardstock and a heavy vellum. I have adhered some of the tissue paper pattern on the left side of my project and the packaging on the right side using Prima Soft Matte Gel. I choose to paint a thin layer of watered down Mint Impasto over the entire project to tone the red down and ‘push’…

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Recycled Maps

December 3, 2018 3 Comments

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a couple of projects that use recycled maps. Maps and atlases are often free and are so much fun to add to paper crafting projects. There is a whole article on this in the Winter 2018/2019 issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine – be sure to check out a bunch of other ideas using recycled maps. Maps are particularly well suited to travel layouts – the layout below uses a map of Germany I got from the AMA for the page background. I marked our route using embroidery thread and added a postcard and our entrance ticket to the castle. I always save memorabilia when travelling. Supplies: Paper House Productions Germany stickers, Simple Stories wood embellishments, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L photo corners and adhesive. Old maps also make great embellishments! Here’s a card featuring map pinwheels. Supplies: Stampin Up! patterned paper, ink, cardstock, embossing folder…

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Toss Back to Fall 2013

September 24, 2015 No Comments

Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine is one issue away from turning 10 years old!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW time sure flies when you are having fun! These past few months I have been looking through past issues for different features in our 10th year anniversary edition – coming out Dec 01 2015 (DON’T MISS IT) and I came across this Frugal Scrapbooker article written by Connie Nichol for our Fall 2013 issue. It was only two short years ago and I would have to say that I still love the look of puzzle pieces on layouts! This layout also features products from one of our Thank you so much Kaisercraft for your support through out the years! We appreciate it sooooo much!!!!!!! Visit our website CLICK HERE for all the details!!!