Tips and tricks of the trade from CKC

I took a Latest and Greatest Basic Grey class and although the papers and techniques we used were not new to me, Shelby had some great tips.
1)When spacing your elements on your page, lay them upside down so that you can apply adhesive, turn them over and put them down where you want them.
2)When distressing do it in the air. Hold the paper in the middle, chalk or ink around 3 sides and put it down. Do the next piece. When finished then pick up the first one and ink or chalk the final edge. Less likely to get it all over your fingers.
3)When sanding. Put piece on the edge of your work surface and sand there with a coarse sanding block or nail file. To get in the middle of your chipboard letters roll up a piece of sandpaper like a toothpick or use a file specifically designed for the purpose. I bought the Basic Grey Precision file set for that purpose.
4)From the Little Black Dress class Tina taught us that hand sanitizer removes Stazon ink from your fingers. Just clean your hands with a wipe after to get the alchohol off.
5)Stacy Julian, from Simple Scrapbooks fame and author of the Big Picture says we have more photos than we can scrapbook in a lifetime so we have to be selective with those we do scrap.
Instead of getting overwhelmed about how far behind we are getting stop thinking about scrapping chronologically and work on the things that matter most. For instance we could do a book about the people we love or the places we have been.

I know, you are dying to see the photos but my camera batteries are not holding a charge. I will try to get that remedied tomorrow and post photos.