Quick tip: Hair straighteners

After I'd put my daughter down to sleep last night I managed to get a couple of hours of scrapbooking done. I got two pages finished because I had done most of the background work in advance and all that was needed was for the elements to be arranged and stuck down. This was due in large part to the fact that I now do most of my scrapbooking in batches. A lot of blogs I subscribe to recommend ways to scrap when you only get 15 minutes here or there. Since I had Grace I have taken full advantage of this as and when I get time I do little bits here and there so that I can put together a few pages at a time. I know it's nice to sit and make a page from scratch but at the moment I wouldn't get anything done if I stuck to that method, so this is the way it has to be done. This way I feel a sense of acheivement when the page is finally put together.

So my reason for posting today is to tell you quick tip I used last night. If I am using ribbon on a layout, more often than not the ribbon is a crumpled scrap taken from an old bag or off a piece of packaging. It will therefore need straightening out before it can be stuck on my page. In the past I would get the iron out and flatten it that way but I realised I have a much smaller convenient iron - my straighteners. So here I am straightening out my piece of ribbon and it took just a few minutes - brilliant!