Here’s a fun twist on a treat box. Fill a small bottle with sweets and put it inside this cute side hinged box. The Poodles blog has directions for cutting, scoring and folding cardstock and adding pattern paper to make … Read More...
Project: Halloween Pop Up Card
BOO! Send someone some spooky fun this Halloween with a cute ghost pop up card. The Darlene Designs blog has a video tutorial showing you how. I love how she added the ghosts onto an accordion fold inside!
-Heather
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Project: Present Card with Pull Out
What a cool card idea! The sentiment of the card pulls out of the top of this gift box shaped card, how clever! You can find directions on how to make one over on the Art Impressions blog. (scroll … Read More...
Project: Altered Clipboard
Turn a inexpensive clipboard from the dollar store into a trendy place to keep track of your notes with this altered clipboard project from Denise Alloca. She sharing a video tutorial over on the Simply Me blog showing how to … Read More...
Giveaway: 10 Holiday Stamp Sets from Close to My Heart
The folks over at Close to My Heart are generously giving away this super cute Reindeer Bells Holiday stamp set to TEN lucky Craft Gossip winners! Yes, that’s right, 10 readers will each win one stamp set, how awesome is … Read More...
Product Review: A Muse Studio Holiday Catalog
The new A Muse Studio Holiday mini catalog is full of stamps, die cuts and accessories for Fall, Halloween, Winter and Christmas. Inside you’ll find cling mounted rubber stamps and coordinating die cuts of cute kids dressed up for trick … Read More...
Technique: Marbling on Stamps
You can add some depth and texture to your solid design rubber stamps with this marbling technique from Lydia Fiedler. She uses the MISTI tool to help her re-position her stamp to line up with each stamping. You can find … Read More...
Technique: Spooky Background Halloween Card
The cool background on this spooky Halloween card was achieved by apply several different colors of dye ink pad to a nonporous craft mat, spraying water and then placing the cardstock over top for a type of marbling effect. Add … Read More...
Book Review: Stamp Stencil Paint
If you’re looking to take your stamping to a new level and expand your creativity by taking your ideas off paper and onto other items like home decor and fashion accessories with your own customized designs then you should check … Read More...
Technique: Camouflaged Letters Card
Add a unique layer to your cards with this camouflaged letter technique from Power Poppy stamps. Stamp your main image, die cut out letters and then die cut multiples of the same letters, stack and glue them together, adding the … Read More...
And the winner is……….
Paula Carden, you’ve won the Santa and Friends stamp set from A Muse studio! Please respond to my e-mail.
And thanks to everyone who entered!
-Heather
Project: Crackle Heart Ornament Hangers
Instead of carving your love into a tree turn a plain wooden heart shape
into a sweet piece of art to hang. The Ain’t That Artsy Farty blog has directions for using crackle medium, paint and stamping to make these … Read More...
Project: Birthday in a Box
Dawn from Dawn’s Stamping Studio has the most adorable birthday gift idea! She’ll teach you how to cut, score, fold and decorate this fun little box and fill it with a decorated tea light and match book. I love using … Read More...
Giveaway Reminder: A Muse Studio Holiday Stamp Set
Hurry! There’s still a little time to enter to win this adorable holiday stamp set from A Muse Studio! Click here to visit the original post to enter.
-Heather
Project: Fantasy Card
Like fun, fantasy and fairies? Then check out this wonderful card from Crafty Ellen over at the Some Odd Girl stamps blog. She’s got a video tutorial showing you how to make this sort of accordion fold in card with … Read More...
Freebie and Tutorial: Owl Coloring Page
Chameleon Pens has a fun owl detailed coloring page to download for free along with a video tutorial on how to color him using their unique markers. Click here to watch the video and to download your own black and … Read More...
Project: Halloween Scene Card
Here’s a fun Halloween card from Nichol Magouirk, she’s sharing a video showing how to stamp up some cute new Lawn Fawn stamps, how to color them with Zig Clean Color Brush markers and how to make a dark and … Read More...
Product Release: Custom Holiday Stamps from Three Designing Women
This holiday season add a personal touch to your gifts- whether it be favorite wines, beautifully packaged presents, homemade food, or adorable family photos, gifts with a personal touch show love for the special people in your life. Three Designing … Read More... Technique: Cards with a Batik Look
Using stamping embossing resist and direct to paper techniques Heather Nichols made these lovely cards with a Batik style. Check out her blog Pine is Here for more info and lots of beautiful card samples.
-Heather
Giveaway: A Muse Studio Hoilday Stamp Set
This week A Muse Studio has released their brand new holiday catalog full of wonderful stamp sets, dies and accessories for Fall, Halloween, Christmas and Winter. And to help celebrate they are generously giving away one of the adorable new… Read More...