If you’re like me you’ve probably got lots of lovely hand made cards from friends (or that you’ve made your self) that you’ like to look at and enjoy all the time. Instead of stuffing them into a drawer why … Read More...
Project: Travel Card with Ribbon Accent
Karen at Dreaming and Creating shares how she made this lovely travel themed card with instructions for making a pretty gathered ribbon embellishment.
-Heather
Technique: Water Coloring with Alcohol Markers
Here’s a wonderful way to get even more out of your alcohol markers, try water coloring with them. By rubbing the markers on a non porous surface, like glass or plastic you can use a water brush or wet … Read More...
Freebie: Easter Digi
Visit Cuttlebug Cuties and download this adorable little girl and her bunny digital stamp for free.
-Heather
Project: Paper Nest
Claudine Hellmuth has a terrific idea for using up shredded scraps of papers, she turned them into wonderful little paper birds nests! I can picture using all kinds of colorful pattern paper shreds to make some really fun nests for … Read More...
Project: Pretty Paper Pockets
Using paper, ribbons and trims you make one of these beautiful Pennie Pockets. Perfect for holding Easter candy or dried spring flowers. Find directions for making them on the Really Reasonable Ribbon blog.
-Heather
Tutorial: Zip Open Envelope
This is a neat idea I’ve not seen before, the Whiff of Joy stamps blog has directions for making your own zip open envelope. Very cool!
-Heather
Freebie: Boy and His Bunny Digital Stamp
The Cruzines blog has a fun boy holding a bunny digi stamp to download for free, click here to grab it.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital stamps at Design Bundle
Freebie: Spring Phrases Download
Papercrafts magazine had a great digital spring sentiments and images to download for free, click here.
-Heather
Looking for more digital papers to download? Check these out Design Bundles – Digital papers and Digi stamps.
Tutorial: Alphabet Banners for Cards
Combine your alphabet stamps and tiny scraps of paper to make fun tiles and banners for your cards and scrapbook pages. Hero Arts has a video showing you how.
-Heather
Project: Elegant Easter Card
Inkadinkado has directions for making this lovely stamped card for Easter, click here for directions.
-Heather
Freebie: Easter Rabbits and Basket
Click here to download this cute Easter coloring page from Dover Publishing. You could shrink it down a bit and it would be perfect for the front of a card!
-Heather
Inspiration: Jane Austen Stamped Cake
Jane Austen and cake?? Yes, please!! I spotted this amazing Jane Austen themed cake over on Sprinkle Bake, they used black food coloring and Jane themed stamps to make it. Click here for more pics and even the yummy cake … Read More...
Project: Easter Banner
Inky Anitcs has a cute Easter project to make. Using chipboard as a base and adding pretty pattern papers, stamped letters and embellishments on top you can create a fun banner to hang. Click here for an instructional pdf file… Read More...
Freebie: Wearable Bunny Ears
Hippity Hop, the Easter bunny is on his way! Claudine Hellmuth is sharing this free printable, just print, cut, fold and wear.
-Heather
Tutorial: Make a Shamrock Stamp
Punk Projects has a fun tutorial for turning a pencil eraser into a cute little shamrock stamp, click here.
-Heather
A NEW Silhouette Winner
The winner I previously drew to win the Silhouette Portrait never got back to me so now I’m picking a new winner and it is……..Mary Ann Jenkins! Congrats Mary Ann, please respond to my e-mail (I’d hate to have to … Read More...
Quick Project: Folded Paper Post It Note Holder
Freebie: Girl with Bunny Digital Stamp
Bunny hugs! Click here to download a black and white version to color yourself of this cute digital stamp from Penny Blossoms.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital stamps at Design Bundle
Tips: Using Background Stamps
Jenn with Penny Black stamps shares a video tutorial showing how to use large background stamps. She’ll show you what inks work well and how to get a good impression. Then she turned her backgrounds into lovely ATC’s (artist trading … Read More...