Notes from the Greenpoint counter
Practical notes about scrapbooking and junk journal supplies, written by the people who stock it.
Working on a small table without losing pieces
Paper craft spreads out. On a Brooklyn kitchen table that has to be clear by dinner, the practical question is how to stop a project becoming an all-or-nothing session that never g
Vintage looks without vintage paper
Genuinely old paper is fragile, acidic and inconsistent. Most vintage-look spreads are made from new stock printed and finished to read as aged, and a few simple techniques close t
Storing stickers and ephemera so you actually use them
Most crafters own more stickers than they use, and the reason is almost always storage. A sheet that has to be dug out of a stack is a sheet that stays unused, and the pile grows b
Adhesives for paper craft: a short honest comparison
There are four adhesives that cover essentially all paper craft, and the difference between them is repositionability, water content and how they age. Buying the wrong one is the u
Building a junk journal from a pile rather than a kit
Junk journalling started as a way of using what was already in a drawer, and the best spreads still look like that. Kits are a useful starting point but the character comes from th
Paper weight, tooth and why a spread buckles
A page that ripples after gluing is almost never the fault of the glue. It is the paper taking up moisture, expanding, and having nowhere to go once the adhesive has grabbed. Choos