Five Must Haves...According to the Glitz Girls are:



1. Journaling Cards. We can get a bit spazzy with the journaling and the journaling card seems like a gift from above allowing us to handwrite, type, throw on embellishments and even use them as awesome mats and layers within a layout. The entire purpose of scrapbooking (at least back in the beginning before it became more fun than anything else) is to document momentous happenings in our lives and the lives of those we love. Journaling cards make it that much easier to commemorate the good, the wild, the just plain memorable and the everyday before it slips away to make room for the next memory.

2. Frosting...sometimes called Bling is absolutely one of the most fun and usable items available. You can stretch it, loop it, criss cross it or break it. You can use it as an accent or flourish, add it to the page to create lines for journaling, use individual rhinestones from the frosting strip to create bullets for lists. You see where I'm headed with this? The possibilities are endless!

3. Paper. If we didn't have the paper then we'd be making quite a mess with all those journaling cards and frosting strips laid out all over the counter. And when we say paper is a staple we mean lots of paper! All three of us are known for our extensive paper collections! We will solemnly swear that obscene amounts of fabulous paper on hand for any and all projects makes for more fun than any amount of premeditated scrapbook supply purchasing.

4. Ink for distressing! We've got to have the classics of course: brown and black. But we're just as likely to be found inking with turquoise or pink, gold or green. Makes us feel like we're breaking the rules a bit and acting out like the wild and crazy girls we like to think we are! But be careful...it's addicting. Especially if you grab up the Glitz Graph Roller Doodle and give inking a try Roller Doodle style. Mmmmmm. You'll love it!

5. The Corner Rounder (Heavy Duty Corner Rounder if at all possible) is a fantastic staple. There are some of you out there saying this is a luxury, but you are absolutely mistaken! This features prominently in the middle of the desk during Glitz projects. A good corner rounder gets used constantly! Give it a shot and then tell me how often you have to go looking for it...most likely you won't have to because it will be right there in the middle of every project.

Check out the Glitz Blog at www.glitzitnow.blogspot.com and post a comment telling us what your five staples are for scrapping...we 'd hate to think you've discovered some obscure item that should be a basic necessity that we don't yet know about! Don't keep us in the dark any longer!