#2 Sandpaper

Did you know you can sand the edges of your photos, your paper, your letter stickers, your chipboard embellishments? Pretty much anything goes -- it gives the whole layout a distressed feel without using ink (which I still love).

Here is the tip -- use a thick piece of scrap cardstock as a base. Lay the picture/paper down on the scrap cardstock and sand against it -- at the end your scrap piece of cardstock will have been sanded away to almost nothing -- but it was a scrap piece to begin with -- this gives your photos and paper a much more even look with sanding -- and it is lots easier to do!