I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Day!
Find directions for making this sweet Easter card over on my personal blog P is for Paper.
-Heather
Technique: Copic Marker Sunset Card Background
Markers aren’t just for coloring in your stamped images, you can also use them for fun backgrounds like this sunset technique found over at the P.S. I Love You Scrapbooking blog.
-Heather
Technique: Mixed Media Card Background
Catherine Pooler has a video tutorial showing you how to make a really cool background for your cards using trendy products; a stencil, gel medium and ink sprays. Click here to watch.
-Heather
Freebie: Vintage Lamb Printable
The Craft Secrets blog has a sweet spring lamb vintage image to download for free as well as several other vintage Easter printables.
-Heather
Tip: Adding a Shadow Background to Stamped Images
Adding shading and shadows behind, below and around your stamped images can really give them more dimension and help them pop off the paper. The C. C. Designs Stamp blog will show you how to make a pretty dotted background … Read More...
Technique: Faux Glass Stamping Technique
Sharon Jeffs has a video over on the Frantic Stamper Happenings blog showing how to use heat embossing powders to make a faux vintage glass look over stamped images.
-Heather
Freebie: Easter Candy Bag Toppers
Freebies: Bunny Images
Animal Jr. has loads of adorable bunny rabbit images to download for free and use for your spring and Easter paper crafting projects like cards, scrapbook pages and coloring pages for the kids.
-Heather
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Project: House Card
Using die cuts, paints, embossing and stamps the Joyful Daisy blog will show you how to make this cute house card. This would be a great card for someone moving to a new home!
-Heather
Sale: Impress Stamps!
Just a quick note to say Impress Cards and Crafts is having a sale, use code: SALE! to receive 20%, hurry though, sale ends tomorrow April 16th! -Heather
Project: Easter Plant Stakes
Leigh Laurel Studios blog has a tutorial for making some pretty plant stakes for Easter using Gelato sticks for coloring and alphabet stamps for the sentiments.
-Heather
Freebie: Vintage Bunnies Image
The Digital Two For Tuesday blog has an adorable vintage image of a bunny band to download for free. What a cute Easter card this would make!
-Heather
Winners!
Congrats to Kate, you’ve won the Somerset Memories magazine giveaway!
Also, we have a new winner for the Savvy Stamps giveaway, Diane! Our first winner never got back to me so I’ve picked a new winner.
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Project: Mother’s Day Die Cut Card
The Daily Marker blog has a tutorial for making this beautiful Mother’s Day card using layers of die cut butterflies and a detailed die cut background. I love how the shimmer spray used as a nice verdigris touch!
-Heather
Project: Masking Technique Card
Watch a video tutorial over on the Double Stick Heaven Blog showing you how to make this cute balloon animals card (did you get my pun there?:)) . Laura will show you how to use a masking technique to layer … Read More...
Project: Butterfly Acetate Card
The Paper, Ink and Smiles blog has directions for a beautiful butterfly card using acetate. Using ribbon to adhere the acetate to the front is a clever and elegant touch!
-Heather
Did you know Butterflies are deep and powerful … Read More...
Project: Funny Cat Card
OMG, this has got to be one of the cutest and funniest cards I’ve seen in awhile! The K Werner Designs blog has a video tutorial showing how you can make one too.
-Heather
Freebie: Rabbit Clip Art
Cliker has a cute freebie rabbit silhouette clip art to download, perfect for Easter and Spring paper crafting projects!
-Heather
Looking for free digital stamps and SVG files? We love using the Design bundle to download our digital stamps. Make … Read More...
Giveaway Reminder: Somerset Memories Magazine
There’s still time to enter to win the latest issue of Somerset Memories, click here to go to the original post and enter.
-Heather
Project: Shadow Box Card
Brighten someone’s day with a wonderful Spring Showers Shadow Box card, find the tutorial over on Stamping & Scrapbooking in California blog.
-Heather