Stencils can be use for some many paper crafting projects and they work perfectly with colored ink sprays. If you don’t have the exact shape you need for your project you can actually make your own using a hot glue … Read More...
Giveaway Reminder: Stampin’ Up Card Kit
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-Heather
Tip: Card with Stitched Flowers
Take a close look at the sweet little flowers on this card, they are actually stitched onto the card! How cute! Kathy Tanner has a tutorial over on the Your Next Stamp blog to show you how sew some cute … Read More...
Project: DIY Mini Coloring Book
Coloring books are all the rage right now but you don’t have to buy one you can make your own. Using a broad black marker and doodle up some of your own pages and bind them together to make a … Read More...
Technique: Mixed Media Art Canvas with Drip Technique
This stunning mixed media art project has so much fun texture. Sue Carrington will show you how to use Gel Medium for this interesting drip technique on a canvas, adding stamped and brightly colored floral images for a wonderful piece … Read More...
Project: Teacher Gift Tag
Welcome your child’s new teacher with a treat inside a little pillow box with apple tag. The Marker Pop blog has a video showing how to color a realistic looking apple using a combination of Copic Markers
and Prisma Colored … Read More...
Technique: Water Color and Salt Technique
Get a cool starry night look for your card backgrounds with this water color and salt technique from Jennifer McGuire. She’s got a video tutorial over on her blog to tell you all about it.
-Heather
Freebie: Floral Coloring Page
This large detailed floral bouquet of flowers coloring page is perfect for those of us adults who love to color! You can download load it for free from Dover Publications. You could even shrink the size and use it for … Read More...
Review and Giveaway: Stampin’ Up Paper Pumpkin Kit for August
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If you’re looking for paper crafting inspiration Paper Pumpkin is here to inspire you and bring creativity to your door each and every month. Paper Pumpkin is a subscription kit brought … Read More...
Freebie: Dragon Digital Stamp
Need to make a card for someone who loves fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter? Then this cute little dragon digital stamp might be just what you need. You can download him for free over … Read More...
Tip: Storing Clear Stamps and Metal Dies
All those stamp sets can be hard to keep track of, right? What do I have and where did I put that set?? The card maker blog has some tips for using binders to hold print out indexes of all … Read More...
Project: Christmas Deer Card
Gina K has a video tutorial to help you get an early start on your holiday cards. She’ll walk you through making this adorable deer card made with techniques like stamping, heat embossing, die cutting and coloring with Copic markers. … Read More...
Tip: Using Paper Scraps
As card makers I’m sure we all have a few or maybe even lots and lots 🙂 of paper scraps. We save them because they are too pretty to throw away and we just know we’ll find a use for … Read More...
Technique: Faux Etched Marble Card
Hop on over to the Ellen Hutson blog and learn how to make a faux etched marble technique on your cards using markers colored directly on the rubber of a large background stamp. Find out all about this cool technique … Read More...
Tip: Alphabet Card
Here’s fantastic tip to stamp up a quick alphabet background. Using clear stamps keep the letter stamps on the carrier sheet, ink them up and stamp them out, no need to remove them and try to line them up on … Read More...
Freebie: Vintage Little Girls Digital Stamp
The TLC Creations blog has an sweet vintage image digital stamp of 2 little girls holding hands, perfect for sister or best friend cards! You can download it for free by clicking here.
-Heather
Finding the right marker for colouring … Read More...
Tips: Stamping with Sentiments
Don’t limit yourself by only stamping sentiments on the insides of your cards. They can used as patterns and backgrounds on the fronts of your cards too. Check out this post on the Hero Arts stamps blog for some sentiment … Read More...
Project: Multiple Technique Shaker Card
This amazing shaker card from Kristina Werner includes lots of great techniques, like sewing, a water color background, no-line coloring technique and a salt technique. Watch her video tutorial and learn all these great tips over on her blog.… Read More...
Tip: Scratch and Sniff Cards
You can add an extra punch to your stamped cards with this fun scratch and sniff idea from the Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps blog. By adding powdered gelatin to clear embossing powder you can make your own scratch and sniff! How … Read More...
Project: Apple Stamping
I can’t believe it’s already time for many kids to go back to school! Greet your child’s new teacher with a wonderful handmade card. You don’t even need a rubber stamp to make one, go to your fridge, grab and … Read More...