Here’s a cool technique for getting a soft blended look coloring your stamped images, use crayons and skidd oil, the All These Things I Love blog has all the details.
-Heather
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Here’s a cool technique for getting a soft blended look coloring your stamped images, use crayons and skidd oil, the All These Things I Love blog has all the details.
-Heather
Use your Silhouette machine and these instructions from Maritza to make these faux wax seals from cardstock. What a great idea! These would look nice on a scrapbook page or card for sure.
You can make a lovely flower embellishment for your cards or any paper crafting project by die cutting layers of tulle. Find a video tutorial over on the Papercrafts Connection blog. What a pretty feminine embellishment that makes!
-Heather
Head on over to Pixels and Glue to see some great ideas from Dana for using up your scraps. She cut mini-envelopes out, then embellished them to use for cards, minis and scrapbook pages. You can use a die-cutting machine … Read More...
I’m am super excited to bring you a peek at the latest catalog products from Stampin’ Up!
This new catalog is chocked full of wonderful new products for card making, scrapbooking, home décor and parties! Including tons of … Read More...
Give a new graduate a gift card in style using this free cut file from Pitter & Glink. Bethany designed it to have this clever cut out of a graduation cap to show the gift card design. She shares … Read More...
The Great Impressions blog shows how to make a neat background using painters tape to stamp with, find out more on their blog.
-Heather
This is a really cool technique I’ve not seen before, using sanded water color pencil “shavings” to make a distressed and vintage looking background for your stamped cards. Find step by step directions and a video tutorial for this technique … Read More...
Beth from Scraps of Five shares these free printable journaling cards and embellishments for Project Life. She shows the Project Life page she used them for to document her son’s tenth birthday.
Looking for Project life Supplies? Check these … Read More...
I chose to feature Winter Love by steffinchenb because of the soft wintery mood evoked in her layout by the supplies she used.
Tidbits about Steffka:
How long have you been scrapping?
I have been scrapbooking since 2006. I wanted … Read More...
Why give someone a plain flat card when you can give them a fun dimensional sentiment flower? The Bits of Paper blog has many different designs for layering a 3-d die cut paper flower over a round die cut sentiment. … Read More...
Linda Lucas has a video tutorial here over on the Spellbinders Dies blog showing how to making this lovely stamped and die cut label card.
-Heather
If you are plagued with photos that are too dark, or underexposed, Autumn Baldwin has an easy fix. She explains how to use Photoshop Elements to brighten these photos, so that they are useable after all.
If you love photographing everything, chances are you have tons of random or extra photos on your hard drive or sitting in boxes. This tutorial from Passion Shake shows how you can out them to good use by making photo … Read More...
Heather Greenwood has compiled all her tutorials showing Gelato techniques into one post for readers’ convenience. This is a great resource if you’re looking for different ways to use this medium. Included are tutorials for painting with gelatos, and using … Read More...
Maritza Lisa explains the steps for making mini notebooks with the Silhouette Machine. She used the electronic die cutter and software to design and cut out the covers and pages for her notebooks. Once assembled, she embellished the cover … Read More...
Nicole at Reaves, Party of Four came up with a great system for documenting her daughter losing her baby teeth. She explains her Project Life process, and includes freebies for the tooth chart and the cut file for the … Read More...
If you’re looking to have fun with your digital photos, or create photos with a twist, check out this tutorial at Submarines and Sewing Machines. She shows the steps in PicMonkey to combine two photos to create something new and … Read More...
Tiare at Tiare Smith Designs, put Faber Castell gelatos head to head with water soluble oil pastels. She compared them on both untreated and treated paper, and used a variety of techniques for the comparison. Which one do you … Read More...
Add an interesting touch to any card or scrapbooking layout with a stamped clay embellishment. Creating Keepsakes has all the details.
-Heather