When you come back from a trip don’t toss those maps turn them into scrapbook page backgrounds, embellishments, envelopes and photo corners. My tip: spray them with acid free archival spray to prevent acid from transferring later on to photos.… Read More...
Send Birthday Wishes and Puppy Dog Kisses
Imagine Crafts color of the month is Golden Glow. Gold is an excellent choice for July a month filled with bright sunshine and sparkle! In this tutorial, Elina create this sweet birthday card theme with two puppies that are colored … Read More...
Mermaid Printable & Card Tutorial
Follow the call of the ocean with this free mermaid card making download. The 5×7 inch printable is perfect for scrapbook pages or cards. Follow the link for a full tutorial to make the card in the photo above, as … Read More...
Subtle Embossed Card Sentiments
Lydia used alphabet dies with an embossing pad to add subtle embossed sentiments to her cards. The pops of color in the layering stamped flowers adds a nice touch to these elegant cards.
You can find her card tutorial over … Read More...
No Line Coloring with Fade Out Ink
The Ink on 3 Fade Out ink pad takes some of the hassle out of no line coloring. No need to hunt around for light ink pads that might not work, this hybrid ink pad is made specifically for the … Read More...
How To Make Pop Up Slider Cards
These awesome Pop Up Slider card pop up to reveal either sentiment or gift card, how fun are they?! Using stamps and dies from Sunny Studio Jennifer McGuire shares her tutorial for making several styles of these cool cards.
Travel Pocket Pages
Soraya has some great ideas for making journal cards to slip into pockets for a fun travel page. I especially love the use of an old fashioned typewriter for journaling and using an airbrush for the banner. We-R-Memory-Keepers
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How to Use Specialty Die Cutting Pads
When it comes to die cutting the cutting pads you chose are very important. Focusing on their Silicone Rubber, Impression and Crease pads Sizzix has a helpful post and link to a Facebook live video to help eliminate some of … Read More...
“Coloring” Your Stamps with Bleach
This cool bleaching technique is sort of anti-coloring. Stamp your image and then using a paint brush with bleach to “color” inside your image to remove the papers color for a neat white out effect. I’ve done this technique on … Read More...
Pineapple Die Cut
Tropical designs and styles are really trendy right now and I’m seeing Pineapples pop up on everything. Add this fun and fruity die cut to your next scrapbook page with a FREE pineapple cut file from Miss Mandee.
Learn to Make a Tassel
Learn how to make your own tassel using Bakers Twine, it’s perfect for bookmarks or accents on cards or other paper crafting projects. Stephanie added hers to this fun cross stitched bookmark made using dies from My Favorite Things.
Tiger Lily Layering Stamps Cards
Layering stamps give such a realistic look like with this Tiger Lily set from Hero Arts. The flowers just really pop right out. Designer Yana has some color suggestions to use with these stamps on a few different cards.
Big Balloons Scrapbook Page and Card
I love these big, bright and cheerful paper balloons! Lilith went through her pattern paper stach and use some great balloon dies from Winnie and Walter to create a colorful scrapbook page and matching greeting card.
Mr. and Mrs. Wedding Page
Using lots of pattern papers and chipboard elements Norine Hope created this stunning wedding layout.
Find a closer look over at her blog The Velvet Lemon.
-Heather
Looking for more Wedding themed papers, stamps and embellishments? Check these out.
Mitered Frame Paper Ornament
Betty Traciak took a quilting technique and applied it to pattern paper for this pretty mitered frame ornament. Add some stamped images and you’ve got a great embellishment that also works on cards and scrapbook pages too.
She’ll take you … Read More...
Craftroom Tour with Storage Tips
Aleksandra Miheli? is sharing a tour of her amazing craftroom with some helpful storage tips like pretty bins for embellishments and washi tape and pull out drawers for papers.
Visit the Graphics 45 blog for her complete room tour.
-Heather
Embossing with Dies
Kerin Sylvester used a large cutting die with an embossing mat to emboss (instead of cut) this card background and colored the sections with Copic markers for a really lovely card. And a great way to get more from your … Read More...
Mermaid Cards Inspiration
I adore Mermaids! I’m so happy to see so many great mermaid stamps lately. The Greeting Farm has just released a sweet set of tiny mermaids and also a bottle set that makes fun scenes with them. Their design team … Read More...
Customize a Scrapbook Cover with Ink Sprays
Learn how to use ink sprays to add color to the cover of a mini scrapbook album as well as to flowers and strips of fabric for a bright and cheerful custom cover.
Simple Steps to Organizing Years of Photos
It’s is so easy to get behind on scrapbooking all those years of photos! Use these simple steps on how to get several years of photos organized in a way that they will be easy to scrapbook. Don’t let the … Read More...