This adorable St. Patrick’s Day layouts were created with some fun FREE printable designs. You can download the bear, words, coins, shamrocks and more over on the Craft Direct blog.
-Heather
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Kids and Critters Love Card
Tricia created the adorable scene for this card with a masking technique using stamps from Art Impressions. By stamping her images with Tombow markers, that are water based, she was able to apply water over top with a paint brush … Read More...
4 Favor Bags and Boxes Cut Files
These fun little favor bags and boxes would be perfect to hold Valentine’s Candy, Easter Treats or Party and Wedding favors. There are 4 different styles of digital cuts files to choose from and best of all they are FREE… Read More...
Stamped Sentiments Strips Tip
I love this helpful stamping tip from Katie. She used a stamp positioning tool to stamp an entire set of sentiment stamps onto cardstock at once and then used small rectangle dies to cut each out. This makes for such … Read More...
Stamp and Stenciled Album Cover
Kymona decorated the cover of her 4″ x 8″ scrapbook album with stamps, inks, dies and stencils. I love the bold graphic look with just the black and green. And the gold binding wire works perfectly with that color scheme.… Read More...
Butterfly Card with Metallic Water Coloring
I love the pops of metallics on dark cardstock on this beautiful butterfly card. The stamp was heat embossed with black on dark cardstock and then was water colored using metallic markers and a water brush.
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Numbers Scrapbook Layout
Large numbers make a great accent on a scrapbook page. They could be a birthday, a date, a year a countdown or a list. Jill Keller focused on number for her cheerful Hello Happiness scrapbook page.
Dino Valentine Card
I love all the layers of die cutting and textures on this fun Dino Valentine card from Audrey! This would be a great card for a boy or anyone who loves Dinosaurs.
She’s sharing how she used die cuts and … Read More...
Romantic Cafe’ Themed Mini Album
I love the rich colors, cafe’ style and vintage feel of this romantic mini album from Sampada. She meet her sweetheart in a cafe’ over coffee and created this album around that theme using products from Bob N Betty.
Faux Watercoloring Technique
May Park inked up her solid flower stamps with different Altenew inks and then spritz them with water before stamping on watercolor paper to get this wonderful faux watercolor look. No brush or painting required!
Sticker Subscription Kit
Nowadays there is a subscription service for just about everything you might be into. Cooking, collectables, clothing, pets and of course crafting. It’s so much fun each month to get a box of new crafty goodies to play with! Amy … Read More...
DIY Handmade Card Tutorial – Valentine’s Love Birds Card
This pretty love birds card is perfect for Valentine’s Day. The different shades of pink are so soft and sweet and I love the “tweet heart” pun too.
You can visit the Hero Arts blog for a video tutorial.
-Heather
Valentine’s Day Scrapbook Page
Using one of the Page Maps layouts for February Jana Eubank created this pretty Valentine’s Day layout. I love the mix of pattern papers and the puffy sticker accents she used from Paper Stories.
No Stamp Stamping Love Card
This lovely Valentine was made using various colored ink pads and a wooden heart shape as a stamp to create a distress background. The then the wooden heart shape was used to decorate the card.
Punny Animals Pages
Cute critters and funny puns make for some adorable layouts. I love the cheerful colors on these pages from Rachel, she got her color inspiration from a pillow. It’s a great reminder you can find ideas just about everywhere. She … Read More...
5 Love Coloring Pages
Get into a romantic mood for Valentine’s Day with 5 pretty coloring pages about LOVE. They are FREE to download from Dover Publications.
Click here and then click the number across the page for all 5 pages to color.
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Sewing your Valentines Day Cards
Valentine’s Day is the perfect day for us to get crafty and with these cards we can put together 2 fun hobbies: Card Making and Sewing.
The best thing? You can download the templates to make your own cards with … Read More...
Meant to Be Valentine Card
I created this romantic Valentine card using the Meant to Be stamps and Be Mine Stitched Hearts dies from the new Stampin’ Up Occasions catalog.
I’ve shared a tutorial over on my Youtube channel, you can click here to watch … Read More...
Distress Ink Splatter Page
Add some trendy splatter patterns to the background of your next scrapbook page using Distress Inks. Cathy has made a process video on how she created this fun hybrid scrapbook page.
Mermaid Mirror Stamping
Mirror stamping is a fun way to get more from your stamps by having two images face each other just using the same stamp. But sometimes the results can be imperfect or blurry. Roni discovered she could use her Image’s … Read More...