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
Download: Graduation Money Holder Card
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...
Technique: Die Cut Stained Glass Look
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...
Project: VW Van Hippie Shaker Card
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...
Projects: Rainbow Card Backgrounds with Cardstock Scraps
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...
Tip: Stamping on an Angle
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
Technique: Spring Scene Card with No-line Stamping Water Color
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...
In Store Event: Make a Mother’s Day Card
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...
Project: Multi Layer Baby Animals Card
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...
Tip: How to Make a Custom Envelope
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...
Project: Card with Braille Sentiment
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...
Project: Star Wars Card
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...
Tutorial: Stamped Card with Raised Sentiment
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...
Project: Shadow Box Frame Card
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...
And the winner is……..
Deborah W.! She’s the winner of the April Paper Pumpkin kit!!
If you didn’t win please check back later, we give away one kit each month to a lucky Craft Gossip reader!
-Heather
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Eastern Palace Suite Collection
I am super excited to bring you a peek of one of the awesome new collections from the soon to be released Stampin’ Up catalog for 2017! The new Eastern Palace Suite collection features the Eastern Beauty photopolymer stamp … Read More...
Download: Nautical Planner Stickers
With summer soon approaching these nautical themed planner sticker will be perfect for those summer months. Print these freebies on sticker paper and add them to your planner or other paper crafting projects like scrapbook pages or cards. There FREE … Read More...
Technique: Stamping with Water
Allison Cope is going to show up how to stamp with water, yup water! Since certain stamping inks react with water she was able to ink up some panels of water color paper, apply water to her stamps and that … Read More...
Reminder : Enter to Win the April Paper Pumpkin Kit
There’s still a little time to enter to win this months Paper Pumpkin giveaway! Click here to go to the original post to enter.
-Heather
Tip: Stamping Realistic Trees
Alexandra got these stamped trees to look so realistic by inking them with different colors of Distress Ink and spritzing them with water before stamping. You could use this technique on lots of other images like flowers too. Visit the … Read More...