Cardmaking Hacks from my Messy Desk

I love a beautiful craft-room solution as much as the next person, but not every problem needs a specialty product. Crafting systems do not need to be overly precious to be helpful. Here are three normal-person ideas. Swatch your Inks YouTube can make ink swatching feel like a whole separate hobby with specialty stamps, dies, templates, binders, and laminated moon charts blessed by craft fairies. But truly, a scrap of paper and a pen will do. For my ink swatches, I use a tiny “mug of beer” stamp, because apparently even my organizational systems need to be lightly ridiculous. You do not need a specialty swatch stamp, a die, a template, or a binder system unless those things bring you joy. Stamp the ink on a scrap of cardstock, write the color name next to it, and congratulations! You have swatched your inks. Your ink swatches do not need to be beautiful. They need to be useful. They just need to tell you, “This is Atlantis, and that is Salty Ocean, and neither one will work for this…