I love this kind of project! Adding all the miscellaneous bits of life ( or just one adventure!) into a quick scrappy journal is so much fun. "Smash books" are the brand name from EK Success and K and Co partnering to bring you a ready made type of product for something we used to do on our own with composition notebooks from the office supply and our own stash of papers. Wanna see a EK Smash Book? This is new from CHA but you can also make your own and we will talk about that in a minute. Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFsArr4Z1s and of course those come with nice accessories like a combo pen/glue stick and giant rubber bands (LOVE those tools!) But I honestly prefer to use my own supplies and not have it be so 'off the shelf'. We used to do these same books with $1 composition notebooks and either cover the outside with your own scrapbook papers or paint and rubber stamp the covers. Add in your normal scrapping embellishments too as well as p...

What's YOUR favorite tool ???? (besides scissors and adhesive?) Let us know in the comments below and also leave your google ID or link or email so I can contact you if you win! WHOOhoo! It is tool month on Scrappers challenge! Let's give away a prize! Entries in the comments taken until Sunday night April 10th at midnight usa central time.

April is all about the tools we use in paper crafting! Do we have too many? How do we use the ones we have? Which are your favorites? Do you keep tools and craft items you know you don't care for? Hoarding supplies makes us feel lots of things--It can make you feel the same endorphins that you felt when you shopped. Hoarding can make you feel well-off enough to buy, buy, buy. Hoarding can also make you feel "ready" for the future. Ready and prepared to craft--or to supply a dozen friends to craft alongside you. I get it. But hoarding tools and supplies of any kind also takes up space and clutters your mind. Only keep and use what you love and that you know WORKS 100% of the time for you. April is the month to really go through your tools and see if you have duplicates. Are the tools in good repair? If something is broken, then it is truly a hazard to you and to others who borrow it. I have been there when mis-aligned punches 'explode' sending spring-loaded metal ...