No, this isn’t how to eat a sandwich made of die cuts 🙂 A “sandwich” is a term used with manual die cutting machines to show you how to layer up the die cutting plates for your particular die cutting … Read More...
Tutorial: Paper Casting with Stamps
Believe it or not these wonderful Holiday tags are made with toilet paper! Seriously 🙂 Place pieces of toilet paper over your stamps (both clear and rubber stamps with work) dampen them, press out the water and you’ve made a … Read More...
Project: Halloween Tags with Glitter Letters
This year add some glitz to your Halloween tags. Heather Nichols will show you how to die cut letters and apply glossy accents and glitter and make your own custom sparkly epoxy letters, perfect for tags, cards and treat bag … Read More...
Freebie: Fall Frame SVG Die Cut File
I’m so happy it’s fall, one of my favorite times of year! This pretty fall leaves frame die cut shape is perfect for fall scrapbook pages, Thanksgiving cards or home décor photo projects, get it for free over at SVG … Read More...
Product Review: A Muse Studio Holiday Catalog Part 2
The brand new A Muse Studio Holiday Catalog is full of wonderful new cling rubber stamps, coordinating dies, papers and embellishments. You’ll find wonderful fall stamps like woodland critters, leaves, arrows and feathers (just right for table décor and fall … Read More...
Freebie: Winter Scene Images
Shrink down this wonderful winter scene and color for a great holiday card or keep it full size for the kids as a coloring page. You can download and print this and several other winter scene images for free from … Read More...
Project: Fall Leaves Card Made with Die Cuts
Don’t these leaves look almost real? Die cut and color some leaves and words for a quick and easy fall card that would be perfect for Thanksgiving. Find a video tutorial with complete instructions over at the My Favorite Things … Read More...
Tip: Drawing Your Own Backgrounds for Stamped Cards
Have a cute stamped image that needs a background or someplace to stand? You can add some simple drawn lines and fill in some color with markers for a sidewalk and bushes. Art by Miran shares how she turned her … Read More...
Technique: Halloween Card with Splatter Background
The Marker Pop blog has a video tutorial showing how to use a Spritzer Tool for a cool splatter background on Halloween cards. Click here to watch.
-Heather
Are you looking for more Halloween Embellishments, papers, and supplies? Check out … Read More...
Project: Black Cat Halloween Canvas Art
Who says Halloween projects have to be black and orange? Try some non traditional colors in your next spooky project like with this funky black cat mixed media collage. This tutorial over at Stampington and Company will show you how … Read More...
Project: Marbled Fall Leaf Card
This pretty fall leaf card is made with a couple of fun techniques like masking a stamped image using masking fluid and marbling the background paper with spray paints. Find complete directions over at Jo-Anns.
-Heather
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Project: Halloween Altered Clock
This amazing assemblage Halloween clock was made by Terry of Terry’s Work in Progress using products from Tim Holtz. She used the empty clock as a base and painted it and a variety of Halloween embellishments
with different paints, gesso, … Read More...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog Part 3
Stampin Up has recently 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...
Freebie: Halloween Digital Stamps
I love the cool and creepy vibe of the Octopode Factory digital stamps (check out their Etsy shop here), many of their images are perfect for Halloween. They have a great collection of freebies on their blog too … Read More...
Project: Fox in the Forest Card
Lawn Fawn stamps is introducing some of their brand new winter and Christmas clear stamp sets and matching die stes like the lovely Joy to the Woods set, perfect for making cute woodland winter scenes. On the Lawn Fawn blog … Read More...
Project: Fall Wreath with Stamped Metal Leaves
Hanging a wreath like this on your front door is sure get oohs and ahhs from your neighbors! Lisa King started with a Styrofoam wreath base, painted and wrapped it in ribbon and added her stunning embellishments like scrapbooking flowers … Read More...
Freebie: Nerdy Cat Digi
Urban Threads offers designs for stitching and sewing but many of those designs can also work well for digital stamping too. They currently have an adorable “nerdy” cat in glasses available to download for free. Make a card for … Read More...
Project: Halloween Candy Wrappers
Grab some left over scraps of pattern paper and ribbon,wrap them around candy bars
, add a simple stamped tag and you’ve got a great Halloween treat with some extra flair. Find more info over on the Inkadinkado stamps site. … Read More...
Technique: Guide and Patterns to Stitch on Cards
Add an extra special touch to your cards by stitching on them. Paper Crafts magazine is sharing several free card patterns that incorporate stitching as well as fabric piecing. There’s also an embroidery guide to teach you lots of different … Read More...
Technique: Coloring on Dry Embossed Paper
Using embossing templates gives your paper a lot of depth and texture and you can add even more by coloring on top of the embossing. Scribbling oil pastels over the embossing and then going over it with water gives your … Read More...