Did you know you can clean sticky adhesive off scissor blades with rubbing alcohol and a paper towel? Be careful as you rub the blades though; alcohol in a little cut really hurts.

Use the decorative scissors to cut strips in the piece of paper - leave about an inch uncut at the end, so that you'll have something to hold on to. You want the piece of paper to still be held together when you run it through the crimper - much easier than running each strip through individually. Then crimp the whole sheet, and cut off the inch at the end so that the strips separate. Different types of crimper will produce a different look. Try crumpling the paper into a ball in your hand after crimping it if you want it to look even more crinkled. You can also cut the strips shorter or try longer sheets of paper, depending on the look you're going for.

Probably everyone has at least one pair of decorative scissors that they bought when they first started scrapbookng. Now, these scissors are just sitting in the drawer, begging to be used. Take the decorative scissors of your choice and cut a strip from a piece of scrap paper. Now, using your chalks, you can make chalk borders, frames, etc. Lay the scrap piece of paper down on the layout where you need the border, frame, etc. Then using chalk, start chalking from the scrap piece to the layout. When you pick up the scrap piece of paper, you have the design chalked onto the paper in a pretty boarder.

When using my craft knife, shape cutter, or Coluzzle I find it easier to control the tool if I cut on a glass cutting board.

When scissors begin to show signs of the edges getting dull, try cutting through a sheet of aluminum foil several times to sharpen them up.

When cutting the paper and needing to make the paper into geometrically correct shapes like squares and rectangles turn the paper over and cut with the white side up, this way the non "true" straight lines won't interrupt you cutting your paper into the correct "shape" you need.