goes out to Donna H., she’s the winner of this month’s Paper Pumpkin kit giveaway!
-Heather
Winter Church Scene Card
Jill Foster has a wonderful winter church scene card tutorial using a new large rubber stamp from Penny Black. She’ll show you how to add multiple ink colors to one stamp and how to ink up a lovely snowy night … Read More...
Rainbow Wreath Layout
I love the rainbow trend, it’s on everything and can be easily incorporated into almost any craft. This lovely rainbow wreath layout uses different flower dies cut from a rainbow of colors for a pretty scrapbook page.
6 Sea Life Coloring Pages
If you didn’t make it to the beach this summer you can still get a bit of that wonderful feeling with these sea life coloring pages. Dover Publications has 6 great pages you can download, print and color and they’re … Read More...
Garden Journal
This lovely small gardening journal is a great way to enjoy photos of your yard and garden as well as keep track of what you’ve planted each year. I love the use of small stamped images for embellishment and the … Read More...
Artist Trading Coins
I’ve been making Artist Trading Cards for years but now there’s a new fun take called Artist Trading Coins. They’re like ATCs but instead of a 3.5×2.5 rectangle, it’s a 2.5″ circle. So fun! Blank Page Muse has made some … Read More...
Rose Gold Wreaths Printable
These rose gold wreaths with transparent backgrounds can be used to jazz up any of your artistic creations and add a whimsical flair in seconds. Use them to design your own quotes, to use in planners, cover pages, scrapbook pages, … Read More...
Mermaid Peek a Boo Card
I recently reviewed some fabulous products from Whimsy stamps. If you missed those be sure to check out part one and part two.
And I just had to make one more card with the adorable Let’s Be Mermaid … Read More...
To the Moon and Back Layout
Learn how to mix and match different pattern papers and die cuts to make this fun To The Moon and Back layout. I love the little alien inside the spaceship, so cute!
DIY Stamped Make-Up Bag
Customize your make-up bag with your stamps. Follow this easy no-sew project to DIY the bag and then add any stamp design you’d like for a cosmetic bag like no other.
Visit the Buddly Crafts Blog for a tutorial.
-Heather
Shimmer Powder Star Layout
This fun layout was created with Shimmer Powders and water to created colorful watercolored papers. The paper can then be punched, hand or die cut for words and shapes.
Find step by step page directions over on the Hobby Craft … Read More...
Tunnel Cards
Open these cards and inside are fun tunnel scenes. These amazing tunnel cards from Jennifer McGuire have so much depth and dimension! She’s got many ideas for different themes for these wonderful layered cards.
How to Customize Word Art in Photoshop
Word art is a fun way to add text to your digital layouts, the scripted look is really popular right now. This handy tutorial will show you how to customize them by adding an outline to any word art in … Read More...
3D Sketch Book Card
This stunning card from Channin has a 3D sketch book with real pages that actually flip. She’ll show you how to use a masking technique to make one.
Visit the Waffle Flower blog to check out her project video.
-Heather
Wedding Shadow Box
Don’t keep all your layouts in an album, put some out on display. 12″ x12″ shadow boxes and frames are a terrific way to share them around your home or office. This lovely wedding shadow box is a perfect way … Read More...
Mixed Media Sister Layout
Riikka used stamping, stenciling, resist techniques, heat embossing and even molded her own embellishments for this wonderful sister layout. She’s sharing step by step directions over on the Wow Embossing Powder blog.
-Heather
Fall Scarecrow Card with No-Line Coloring
It’s almost time for pumpkins, corn and scarecrows! Fall is almost here so get started creating those fun fall themed cards. This cute scarecrow card was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and a no-line coloring technique, I love the hay bale … Read More...
DIY Wire Embellishments
The Happy Jig is a wire tool you can use to bend wire to make your own custom wire embellishments. Becky Higgins made a cool camera shape for her page layout.
Visit her blog for a closer look.
-Heather
Fall Card with Mottled Foil Background
Terri created her card background using Distress Ink in fall colors, adding small amounts of gold foiling over top for the perfect fall look. She’ll show you how to achieve this mottled foil look over on her blog, Waving My … Read More...
DIY Spiral Notebooks
Learn how to make your own DIY spiral bound notebooks. You can customize your covers and pages for your own personalized note taking. These would also make great scrapbooks or planners too! We-R-Memory-Keepers