I didn’t have time to write a tutorial this week with the boys here, but here is one from http://cutoutandkeep.net that I love.  You cout these stars out of magazine images, scrapbook paper or whatever you want.  Aren’t they great?  Here is the tutorial.

Have fun!

I like printing out lined paper on nice papers to use in my journal.  Another one I like is called story paper.  It is for putting an image above the writing.  It could be a drawing or something you glue in.

Well, the picture didn’t turn out too well, since you can’t see the borders of the page, but hopefully you get the idea.

Do you love printables as much as I do?  If you know of some cool ones, please share with my readers and me.

This image shows a very wrinkled paper that I glued into my journal.  It was a long time ago so I don’t remember what type of glue I used but it happens with both glue sticks and gel medium.  Those are the glues I most often use with paper.

The other day I found some new glue sticks by Scotch called anti-wrinkle glue sticks.  They don’t glide on as smoothly as the regular glue sticks.  They probably don’t have as much moisture which is why they don’t wrinkle, but you have to push pretty hard to get enough glue.  It does take more of this glue than the regular sticks.

But it does seem to wrinkle less.  Below is a picture of a piece of newsprint I glued onto a journal page.  I used newsprint because thin paper seems to wrinkle the most.  You can see that there is one area on the left that wrinkled but the rest is smooth.

I wouldn’t use this all the time because it takes so much to glue something down.  But I will use it for thin papers that are prone to wrinkling.