Up, Up and away! Hot air balloons are fun images for birthday or Bon Voyage cards. Stampington and Company has a free down loadable hot air balloon template that you can stamp on, stencil on or cover with pretty pattern … Read More...
Project: Sequin Shaker Card
Here’s a fun card idea, a multi tiered shaker card! J J Bolton uses trendy sequins for this colorful a card and keeps them separated with small strips of foam tape behind clear acetate. Find directions for making one here … Read More...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog
Stampin Up has just released their brand new Holiday Catalog. This supplement adds Fall, Winter, Christmas and New Years items to the current Stampin’ Up lineup and will only be available to order for a limited time.
This new … Read More...
Project and Technique: Cupcake Card using Vellum Paper
Vellum paper is a semi transparent paper that gives a pretty soft look when layered on your cards. You can use permanent inks or heat embossing to stamp on vellum. Coloring on the back side of vellum with markers … Read More...
Freebie: Summer Printables
Working on scrapbooking those summer memories or needing to make a quick summer themed card? Grab some fun colorful printables for free from Papercrafts Magazine. Click here and scroll down for several different designs.
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Project: Mixed Media Home Decor
This mixed media altered frame from Tim Holtz is stunning! Tim shares how he used printed tissue papers, stencils, glitter, embellishments and die cuts to make this lovely art piece on top of a plain picture frame. I love how … Read More...
Technique: Stamp Etching
Using a fine tipped marker learn to add depth, shading and dimension to a stamped image with a technique called Stamp Etching. Lydia Fiedler shares her step by step tutorial as well as a video of this cool technique over … Read More...
Project: Halloween Treat Bags and Tags
Don’t just hand out candy for Halloween, add a fun hand made touch by packing those treats into little bags. You can stamp on the bags and add a cute stamped tag too, like these adorable bags made with Mama … Read More...
Project: Halloween Gift Card Holder
Using a gift card holder die cut from chipboard Barbara from Sin City Stamps made this wonderful spooky Halloween Themed card. I love all the dimension she added with the layers of vintage designs and cut out stamped images. If … Read More...
Freebie: Vintage Witch Paper Die Cut
Free SVG Files has a fun vintage witch die cut to download for free in a Zip format that includes the .svg files for use with Sure Cuts A Lot, Make-The-Cut, Silhouette Studio Designer Edition or any other SVG compatible … Read More...
Tutorial: How to Make a Shaker Card
This mermaid card from My Art Lab is simply stunning! The mermaid is stamped behind clear plastic acetate with sequins and glitter trapped behind so it floats around her to make a shaker card. There are so many fun little … Read More...
Project: Stamped Art Canvas
Stamping doesn’t just have to be for cards, use stamps in your mixed media art work as well. Paola from My Whimsical Little World used torn papers, ink sprays, oil pastels, stencils and added a digital stamped image (colored with … Read More...
Freebie: Fox Card Paper Piecing Pattern
What does the fox say? He says “Hello”! Papercrafts Magazine is sharing a free pattern from their Sept issue featuring this adorable fox. Print the pattern onto colored cardstock, cut out and glue together for a cute card, banner or … Read More...
Freebie: Mermaid Image
I LOVE mermaids, I think I own more mermaid stamps then any other theme and of course when I can get a free digital mermaid image then I’m a happy camper! Dover publications is sharing a bunch of large mermaid … Read More...
Projects and Inspiration: Die Cut Your Holiday Paper Crafting Projects
From Aug 18th – the 29th Spellbinders Dies is having a 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop. Visit their blog each day to see new holiday products, ideas, project tutorials, meet their new design team and best of all enter … Read More...
Freebie: Halloween Pattern Papers
Download some free Halloween themed pattern papers from Free Vintage Digital Stamps, you’ll find a cool stripe and all over haunted pattern. The papers are already sixed at 6″x6″ so they are ready to print on your regular sized paper. … Read More...
Technique: Stamped and Watered Colored Holiday Tree Card
The rage over Ink Sprays is still going strong, probably because there is so much you can do with them, from simple splatter backgrounds, to filling in stencil patterns and even using them as water colors. Hero Arts stamps has … Read More...
Project: Card and Notebook Teacher Gift
Learn how to heat emboss your stamps and add some white ink to black cardstock for a fun chalkboard look. The Simon Says Stamp blog has a video tutorial showing this technique using die cuts and stamping to make a … Read More...
Project: Stamped Artist Trading Block
Using a small die shaped box template and covering it with stamped and colored images Michelle from Pinch Your Chic blog made a beautiful bird song themed “artist trading block”. The idea of artist trading cards isn’t new to me … Read More...
Technique: Watercoloring Stamped Images for a Realistic Look
Head over to the W Plus 9 Stamps blog and learn how to turn your stamped images into works of water color art. Using a light colored ink pad to stamp and then coloring over the images with water colors … Read More...