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It’s Mer-May and I love it! All over the creative web you’ll find art and craft projects featuring mermaids.
Like this lovely card from Iliana Crouse, she combined stamps, dies and stencils with water coloring to make this lovely Mermaid … Read More...
Digital stamps and images don’t have to be used just on cards. Cindy Pointe has a great project idea using digital images for transferring onto wooden items like her pretty note pad holder. So take those digis off the page … Read More...
Kelly Acheson designed this fun card that has a basket weave pattern down the folded edge. She’s got a template you can download and use to make the cuts and shows you how to fold them for this neat pattern. … Read More...
This super sweet Mother’s Day card was designed by Nicole Spohr using stamping, die cutting, Copic marker coloring and inking techniques like direct to paper and two tone stamping. Hop on over to her blog and watch her video tutorial.… Read More...
This wonderful Mother’s Day card was designed by Audrey Pettit using different dies, dry embossing and ribbon inking. She’s sharing her tutorial over on the Ranger Ink blog, click here to check it out.
-Heather
Looking for more “Mother” themed … Read More...
Get more from your sentiment and word stamps by stamping them repeatedly to make a card background. Find some tips and project directions for this idea over on the Capture the Moment blog.
-Heather
Graduation time is approaching and what do new grads want more then money? 🙂 Here’s a cool money holder card die cut file that you can download for FREE from SVG Cuts, click here to download it. Works with … Read More...
By using a die cut that cuts out a thin design outline image and coloring them in with gel pens you can get a super cool stained glass look. Hop over to the Technique Tuesday site and watch a video… Read More...
Flower Power! I love the use of the negative space and positive cut image from the die cut on this cool shaker card. Perfect for the retro hippie flower child in your life. Find directions for making it over on … Read More...
I’m sure like me you’ve got lots of scraps of colored cardstock laying around, right? Well, Jennifer McGuire has some great uses for those scraps. Using a paper shredder she cut out loads of strips and used them for different … Read More...
Learn how to line up and stamp your images and sentiments straight on an angle using a stamp positioning tool. The Happy Scrapper shares this tip while making this fun teacher card, click here to check it out.
-Heather
This card look hand painted but is really stamped! Mayline Jung will show you how to get this wonderful soft look with a no-line stamp technique and coloring with Zig Clean Color markers using pretty Penny Black stamps. Visit her … Read More...
Paper Source, the nation’s premier paperie and gift retailer, is hosting a FREE, in-store DIY Mother’s Day card making event from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, May 6th at all Paper Source locations across the country. Children of … Read More...
Oh my, how sweet is this baby animal card!? Perfect for a baby’s birthday. Kelly Latevola will show you how to mask and ink up a cloud background, how to color the stamped images with Copic markers and how to … Read More...
Lets go back to basics and learn to make a DIY envelope. Using just a square of pattern paper you can us this simple folding technique to make a custom envelope for any card. Visit the Skillshare site for a … Read More...
What a wonderful idea to incorporate braille onto a card! Even if the recipient doesn’t read braille the sentiment is still a wonderful idea and maybe they’ll learn something new by finding out what the phrase means. The raised dots … Read More...
I’m a huge Star Wars fan so I’m in love with this fun card from Pam over at P.S. I Love You! If you don’t have the perfect sentiment stamp you can use most electronic die cutting machines to write … Read More...
Nicole Spohr has directions for making this card with a floral stamped and embossed background with matching raised sentiment, how lovely! By die cutting the word from fun foam and layering the same die cut shaped word from her stamped … Read More...
Becky Roberts has directions for make this adorable woodland themed shadow box frame card. She’ll show you how to cut, score and assemble the box shaped card. It’s so cute, it almost looks like a little story book. You can … Read More...
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-Heather
