Spruce your your Thanksgiving table with some lovely hand made napkin rings. Tikkido shows how to use metal foil and metal stamps for making these pretty rings.
-Heather Looking for Thanksgiving printables? Check these designs out on Etsy.
Technique: Distress Ink Resist
These little cards are so precious! Visit Annie Rose Makes Things and she will show you how to use a stamped embossing reisit technique along with Distress Ink for some pretty mini cards.
-Heather
Freebie: Box and Envelope Template Maker
Here’s is an amazing and very handy on-line tool from Ideogram. Simply type in the dimensions for an envelope or box and it will make a template for you, just print it out. How cool is that?!
-Heather
Project: Witches Hat Party Favor
These little paper witches hat are simply adorable! And there’s even a surprise inside, a piece of candy! Find out how to make these cute party favors using A Muse Studio stamps and cardstocks over at the eighteen25 blog.… Read More...
Freebie: 10 Fonts
Visit Scrap N Fonts and download 10 great fonts for free. Hurry they are only free for a limited time!
-Heather
Looking for more fonts? Check these out at Fontbundles.com
Project: Paper Covered Dress Form
Think Pink! The Hampton Arts blog has a great girly project for you. Cover a small dress-form shape with stamped or pattern paper for a pretty home decor item for a desk or shelf. This would also be a nice … Read More...
Tutorial: Gold Leafing with Stamps
This beautiful gold leaf technique is so perfect for stamps of fall leaves or trees! Find directions on how to use gold leaf with your stamp images over on the Blockheads website.
-Heather
Project: Halloween Hanging Star
Visit Jeanette Lynton’s blog and find a video tutorial for making this fun Halloween Star decoration. There is also free down-loadable template for cutting out the paper that fits onto the chipboard star shape from Close To My Heart.… Read More...
Project: Halloween ATC
Claudine’s Art Corner has direction for making this spooky Halloween ATC (artist trading card). She shares how to use lots of different Tim Hots products like Distress Ink , paint daubers, stamps, metal tape and more.
-Heather
Tips: Stamping Technique Tag
There are so many different stamping techniques out there is can be hard to keep track of them all. The Hero Arts blog has a terrific idea called a Technique Tag, you make a sample for the front of the … Read More...
Freebie: Pumpkins Digital Stamp
Tips: How to Get Published
My friend Ben Ashby is the force behind a wonderful magazine called FOLK. I was thrilled to have one of my collage art pieces published in their Fall issue last year. Ben has just posted a blog article for tips … Read More...
Project: Washer Necklace
I love seeing ordinary house hold objects turned into fun arts and crafts! Take this necklace for instance, it’s made from hardware store washers! Find out how to add Alcohol Inks (you could also stamp on them with Staz- On … Read More...
Project: Stamped Silk Scarf
The Dreaming and Creating blog has directions for sewing and stamping a lovely silk scarf and matching gift tag. What a wonderful gift idea! Click here for directions.
-Heather
Giveaway Reminder: SMASH
There still time, until 10/7 o enter to win a fantastic prize package of SMASH products from K and Company. Click here to visit the original post to enter.
-Heather
Project: Narwhal Card
Visit my personal blog P is for Paper and I’ll show you how to turn a whale stamp into a Narwhal to make this cute card.
-Heather
Project: Gingerbread Advent Calander
It’s not too early to start working on (or at least thinking about working on ;)) holiday craft projects. Find directions for turning stamps and a box die cut into an adorable gingerbread house advent calender over on the Paper, … Read More...
Creepy-Crawly Spider Crafts for Halloween Spider Tote tutorial
We all know if you have raised boys that they are creepy about their trick or treat bags. I think this one will be acceptable for boys and girls alike. The plain canvas bags can be bought in most craft … Read More...
Technique: How to Water-color Stamped Images
Using water-color paints with your stamped images can make you feel like a real artist, even if you’re not 🙂 Kira from Oops, I Craft My Pants (which has got to be one of the best blog names ever!) has … Read More...
Project: Girly Card
Nicole Magouirk has a step by step video tutorial on the Simon Says Stamp blog for making this adorable girly card. Perfect for a teens b-day!
-Heather
Finding the right marker for colouring skin can be exceptionally hard, with 36 … Read More...