Learn how to make this shabby chic frayed flower from the Maize Hutton blog. Click here to go to the tutorial.
Tutorial | Polaroid Frame
Freebies: Pop Ups
No stamping in this one but I think a lot of us cardmakers love to make pop up cards so I thought I’d share this great site I came across. Artist Robert Sabuda shares loads of free and simple pop … Read More...
Tutorial | Snack Tray
Sandy Ang shows how you can create a customised snack tray from a sheet of 12×12 scrapbook paper and corrugated cardboard. Click here to go to the tutorial.
Project: Stamped People Banner
Tutorial | Paper Doily
Lorajean of Lorajean’s Magazine shares this neat technique for making a paper doily. You can use these for gift wrapping as shown above, but also on scrapbooking projects. Click here to go to the tutorial.
Tutorial | Boy-themed Catch All
Sandy Ang shows how she used a staggered mini album to create a rocket themed catch-all for a little boy. The catch-all is meant to hold items like school papers and invitations. Click here to go to the tutorial.
Tutorial | Altered Metal Embellishments
Spice up your older embellishments with this tutorial from Mel Designs. These were once primary coloured metal grommets! Click here to go to the tutorial.
Tutorial | Paper Roses
Athena Nagel from The Stuff of Success shares her method for making paper roses. A simple craft that even your kids can make! Click here to go to the tutorial.
Tips & Tricks | Scrapbook Page Display
Kelly Hedgespeth of Simply Kelly Designs shares her solution for displaying scrapbook pages. This nifty system can also be used for kids’ artwork! Click here to see more.
Cutting Clay with a Cricut
Jenny over at CraftTestDummies (love that name!) called my attention to what she was up to with clay and a Cricut ! Turns out she has a cute tutorial for using your die cut machine with baked clay sheets. You … Read More...
Tutorial | Masking Tape Flowers
Pooi from the American Crafts Contributing Design Team shares this tutorial for making paper flowers using decorative masking tapes.
Click here to go to the tutorial.
Giveaway | 1 Spot in Learn Something New Every Day
Melissa Stinson aka the scrappyjedi, is giving away one spot in Shimelle Laine’s online class ” Learn Something New Every Day”. Entries close Saturday August 27th 2011 at midnight CST. Click here to go to the giveaway.
New Release: Cricut and Close To My Heart
Two of my favorite paper crafting companies have teamed up, Close to My Heart and Cricut! The brand new Art Philosophy Cricut Collection includes three CTMH stamp sets that coordinate with images from the cartridge. Plus CTMH has included lots … Read More...
Freebie: Girl Digital Stamp
My Sugar Paper has a sweet girl digi stamp for free on their blog, click here to download.
-Heather
Finding the right marker for colouring skin can be exceptionally hard, with 36 different skin color shades, these skin-toned markers … Read More...
Review & Giveaway | Bubblewriting Idea Book
Jill at a Matter of Memories has posted a review of the book How to be the Best Bubblewriter in the World Ever by Linda Scott. The book addresses hand lettering techniques and is great for scrapbookers or the … Read More...
Tutorial | Masks and Stencils from Die Cuts
Melissa Thiesse from Bursts of Creativity shares how you can use your die cutting system to create masks and stencils to use with paint and other media. She shows a similar method using punches too!. Click here to go to … Read More...
Tutorial | Basic Photo Editing
This tutorial over at A Piece of Lisa, shows how you can do some basic photo editing using Photoshop. Click here to go to the tutorial.
Online Workshop | Über*Media PanPastels
Nathalie Kalbach of Nathalie’s Studio has launched a new series of online workshops called Über*Media. The first in the series of workshops is PanPastels. More info from Nathalie:
… Read More...The course is six weeks long and the first five
Tutorial | Altered Metal Flowers
Mel from Mel Designs shows how she made some older embellishments new again. She turned plain metal flowers into these shabby chic prize ribbon embellishments. Click here to go to the tutorial.