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Join Suzanne Dean for a very informative video on how to use the Copic colorless blender pen, she’s got some really great tips and ideas! Did you know you can erase your mistakes with this pen?? … Read More...
Project and Freebie: Stamped Alice Coasters
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Visit the Blockheads blog for directions on how to make these fun stamped Alice in Wonderland themed coasters along with free down loadable book pages, they make great backgrounds! Click here for tutorial and downloads.
-Heather
Project: Stamped Acetate Pocket Card
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Join Shari Carroll on the Hero Arts blog for a fun video tutorial and learn how to make this lovely stamped acetate pocket card. Click here for the video.
-Heather
Technique: Embossing Metal with Cuttlebug
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Visit the Blockheads blog to learn how to emboss metal sheets in your Cuttlebug. You can make some really stunning card embellishments and frames, very cool! Click here for the tutorial.
-Heather
Technique: Creating a Digital Background Paper
Don’t have the perfect paper for your stamped card? Don’t worry, visit Hero Arts and let Lucy Abrams show you how to make your own digital background papers. She printed both the blue and green polka dot papers for her … Read More...
Project: Stamped Envelope Book
Making your own small books can be so much fun! Join Lisa Spangler on the Hero Arts blog to learn how to make this lovely stamped envelope book. Perfect for keeping track of notes, receipts, small photos, etc. Click here… Read More...
Project: Stamped Stationery Set
Join Michelle Wooderson on her blog Mish Mash and she’ll show you how to make this really lovely stamped stationery set, click here for her instructions.
-Heather
Tutorial: Book Easel Card
Visit Valita’s Designs and Fresh Folds blog for instructions on how to make one of these lovely book easel cards.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps to download check out these designs we found on Etsy.
Looking for free digital … Read More...
Trend: Using Cork in Your Stamping Projects
I’ve been noticing that cork is a really hot trend to add to stamped project recently. Here’s a few of fun examples.
From Dawn McVey’s blog Rasberry Suite , some sweet tips and ideas for incorporating cork into your stamping … Read More...
Project: Shaker Flowers
How pretty are these shaker blooms by Jody Morrow?? Visit her cleverly named Confessions of a Ribbon Addict blog for her step by step directions on how to make these fun flowers.
-Heather
Freebie and Carving Techniques: Bird Cage Carved Stamp
Vanessa Spencer shares her free bird cage digital download, perfect for using as a digital stamp or to use as a transfer for carving your own stamp. Click here to download. And then click here for her stamp carving and … Read More...
Project: Grungeboard Bracelet
Beat Johns shares a step by step and video tutorial on how to make this super cool bracelet using Tim Holt’s Grundgeboard, how fun is that?! Click here to learn how to make one for yourself, or wouldn’t this be … Read More...
Technique: Encaustic Backgrounds
Visit Splicoast and let Birgit Edblom shows you how to make fantastic encaustic (melted wax) backgrounds, perfect for cards or even to make artwork to hang on your wall. Click here for her step by step tutorial and video.
-Heather
Project: Graduation Money Card
Click here to visit the Hero Arts blog and learn how to make this wonderful graduation money card.
-Heather
Looking for more Graduation themed papers, stamps and embellishments? Check these out on Scrapbook.com
Tutorial: Ribbon Flower
Visit my own personal blog P is for Paper and I’ll show you how to make this pretty little flower using stitched ribbon. They make perfect embellishments for any stamped card or scrapbook page. Click here for the instructions.
-Heather
Technique: Masking Your Stamps
Join Julie Koerber for Flourishes stamps and learn how to “mask” your stamps. Masking is a cool way of “layering” your stamps to make a dimensional picture with out alot of cutting and actual layering of paper. Click here to … Read More...
Tutorial: Rolled Paper Flower
Join Joanne Basile on the Splitcoast Stampers site for her step by step tutorial and video on how to make these fun rolled paper flowers. They make a perfect accent to any card or scrapbook layout! Click here for the … Read More...
Tip: Storing Unmounted Stamps
Our loyal reader Gracie shares with us some really helpful tips on storing your unmounted rubber stamps, click here to visit her blog.
Thanks Gracie!
-Heather
Project: Stamped Awareness Support Pin
Outlines Rubber Stamps has instructions on how to make this pretty stamped and bejeweled awareness support pin, click here for instructions.
-Heather
Technique: Looped Ribbon Accent for Cards
Join Nichole Heady for a video tutorial on how to make this pretty looped ribbon accent for your stamped cards. Click here for the video.
-Heather