Designer Karolyn Loncon shares two wonderful card projects on the My Favorite Things blog. The first is a fantastic use of dies, she got wonderful texture and pattern by layering an intricately cut floral die cut out of white onto … Read More...
Technique: Custom Envelopes Decorated with Custom Stamps
Don’t send your wonderful hand stamped cards in a plain envelope, make the envelope as pretty as the card! Mark Montano shares how you can make your own large custom stamps using embossing folders and thin sheets of fun foam. … Read More...
Project: Get Well Pop Up Tissue Box
Wanting to cheer up someone who is feeling sick? Make them this sweet pop-up tissue box card. The Scrapping and Stamping in California blog has complete directions for cutting, scoring , folding and assembling this cute card, click here.
-Heather
Tip: Making Custom Stamps using Metal Dies
Do you have any die cuts that you wish were actually stamps instead? Well, guess what, in many cases you can make a stamp from a metal die using thin crafting foam, how cool is that?! The Card Making Connections … Read More...
Happy Easter!
Techniques: 10 Ways to Use Ink Sprays
Ink sprays and mists are so much fun to play with and they are so many techniques you can do with them, they can be used on cards, scrapbook pages, collage art and home decor projects using papers and fabrics.. … Read More...
Project: Birthday Card with a Pull Up
What a fun birthday card! The little girl actually pulls up from underneath the cupcake! Caryn Davies from Glitter Me Silly created this cool card using stamped images and die cuts and she’s posted a video tutorial showing you step … Read More...
Technique: 3 Fun Card Folds
Don’t cut your cardstock in half and then just simply fold it for your card base, add some pizzazz with a unique fold like a gatefold, zigzag or matchbook fold. Cardmaker Magazine had cutting and folding dimensions for all three … Read More...
Freebies: Easter Digital Stamps
The Opal Manor blog has several sweet digital stamps to download for free, including a few that are perfect for Easter like a bunny, egg with bow and a banner. There’s also a cute girl and a sun too. Click … Read More...
Product Review: Chalk Inks from Stampin’ Up
The chalk ink pads made by Color Box and carried by Stampin’ Up are the perfect way to get that popular chalk board look. They pair wonderfully with Stampin’ Up’s Chalk Board paper for making greeting cards, scrapbook pages … Read More...
Project: Easter Treat Box
Roxanne created this cute Easter treat box using papers and stamps from Lawn Fawn. She covered a fry shaped box with pattern paper and added stamped tags, images and words for a fun treat holder but the best thing is … Read More...
Project: Burlap Easter Bag
Die cut paper shapes don’t always have to be applied to cards and scrapbook pages you can also add them to fabric, like with this adorable Easter bag. The Echo Park Paper blog cut out some bunny shapes and applied … Read More...
Project: Easter Diorama Card
The Rubber Cafe blog has directions for making a sweet diorama card for Easter. How fun to open the card and find a fun dimensional scene inside! Use a scoring board for fast scoring and folds or if you don’t … Read More...
Project: Easter Card made with Foam Shapes
Scrapbook Adhesives makes fun pre-cut foam shapes already with adhesive on the backs for quick and easy projects, you can stick them to cards, scrapbook pages or any paper crafting project. You can even flip them over and use the … Read More...
And the Winner is………….
Congrats to Linda Biedermann, you’re the winner of the Stampin’ Up Paper Pumpkin Kit giveaway! Please respond to the e-mail I’ve sent you.
And thanks to everyone who entered. Check back next month, we’ll be giving away the Paper Pumpkin … Read More...
Project: Elephant Shaker Card
How sweet is this elephant card for JJ Bolton? Shakers cards are so much fun to make and I love the twist JJ added by just having one small section of the card be a shaker, so cute! She’s sharing … Read More...
Project: Oreo Cookie Card
YUM! Know someone who loves Oreo cookies? Show them how sweet you think they are with this fun Oreo shaped card. The CardMaker blog will show you how to use round and scalloped paper punches for a clever card that … Read More...
Technique: Floral Watercolor Cards
The Penny Black stamp blog has a beautiful card technique to share using watercolor paints for the background and markers to color directly on the stamp for a great watercolor look. You’ll also learn how to use tape to mask … Read More...
Giveaway Reminder: Stampin’ Up Paper Pumpkin Kit
You still have until the end of Sun March 29 to enter to win a card kit from Stampin’ Up’s Paper Pumpkin.
Click here to go to the original giveaway post to enter to win.
-Heather
Technique: Stenciled Bird Card
The popularity of stencils is still going strong, there are so many things you can do with them, they are inexpensive and easy to store. One technique you can do with stencil is add dimension by using a stencil paste, … Read More...