This wonderful My Little Star layout from Missy has loads of layers, pattern and texture. She’ll show you how she used stamping, embossing, inking, die cutting, ink splatter and more to make it.
Bold Lettering
Using stamped patterns and large alphabet dies Nichol created some wonderful bold lettering. I love the use of smaller word stamps to complete the phrases and sayings. She used her sentiments on cards but these would be perfect for scrapbook … Read More...
Hybrid Scrapbook Page
With a combination of printing, stamping and die cutting Cathy Z. created this hybrid page layout when her beloved car protected her family in an accident. She’s sharing a video tutorial over on her blog.
One Color Card – Blue Animal Parade
Kristina challenged herself to make a card using just one color, no easy feat! She chose blue and water colored up a delightful animal parade card. I never would have thought of blue animals but it totally works, doesn’t it?!… Read More...
Quick Shaped Shaker Cards
There are several ways to make shakers cards. One easy way to purchase premade shapes like these cool shapes from Jillibean Soup. They co-ordinate with stamp and die cut sets making for quick and easy shakers. Plus they come in … Read More...
Rainbow Ombre’ Cards
Angela used tiny stamps and rainbow ink pads to make these fun Rainbow Ombre’ card backgrounds. She made it simple by leaving the clear stamps on the carrier sheet and ink them with a stamping platform, much faster then stamping … Read More...
Pet Sympathy Card
Let someone know you’re thinking about them after the loss of a pet with a sweet sympathy card. I made this card with stamps and dies from Whimsy stamps. You can click here to watch my Youtube tutorial or … Read More...
12 New Colors Of Distress Oxide Inks
Distress Ink from Tim Holtz and Ranger have probably been the most popular inks I’ve seen in a long time. It’s no surprise since they are so versatile and work with so many different stamping and mixed media techniques and … Read More...
Trendy Flamingo Card
Flamingos must be the “it” animal this summer, I see them popping up everywhere. I’ve seen lots of fun stamp sets with cute punny saying with them too. Laura Bassen used the Let’s Flamingle stamp set from Pink Fresh Studio … Read More...
Card with Stained Glass Look
Saundra got the look of stained glass by stamping and heat embossing her image in white on vellum and using her Copic markers to color. I love the color combo of the pop of pink with the muted gray and … Read More...
Cat and Ice Cream Card
What’s better than cats and ice cream? Not much! I love this kitty card with the giant stack of ice cream, so sweet! I also love cat and dog stamps that can be colored to match any breed or type … Read More...
Die Cutting with Patterned Papers
Add some quick and easy pattern, color and texture to your die cutting by using patterned papers. It’s also a great way to use up some of your paper scraps!
Norine shares some lovely flower cards with this idea over … Read More...
Turtle Card with Matching Gift Tag
These turtle stamps from Studio Katia are so cute! Laura used them to make a fun card with a matching gift tag. I love how to she used a stencil with glitter paste for bubbles on her background.
Product Review: Whimsy Stamps
I recently got the chance to try out some stamps from a wonderful company called Whimsy Stamps. They carry photo-polymer clear stamps, rubber on cling mount stamps, digital stamps, stencils, metal dies and pattern papers. Whimsy has … Read More...
Craft Room Tour
I love to see young people getting into crafting and especially guys. Simon Hurley is a talented young crafter who posts loads of amazing paper crafting tutorials and projects on his blog and Youtube. And his craft room is more … Read More...
Ink Smooshing Technique
Channin added some wonderful foliage to a large tree stamp using an ink smooshing technique. By placing Distress Ink and water on acetate she was able to control her color and placement for a great realistic look. This idea would … Read More...
Card Sketches and Color Inspiration
Feeling a little stampers block, stuck on how to start your next card? Each month Papertrey Ink posts card sketches and color combo inspirations to help jump start your creativity.
Click here to see their latest collection of inspiration.
-Heather… Read More...
31 Holidays in August (an excuse to stamp)
Looking for an excuse to get creative and make a card? Try some of these “holidays” and make and mail something fun and different to a friend. Like did you know today is the day the US dollar bill was … Read More...
Rainbow Stamping with Ink Cubes
Ink cubes, which are just small ink pads, make it easier to ink small stamps or selective areas. Gina used a pretty rainbow selection of cubes to add different colors to multiple words using a stamp positioning tool and also … Read More...
Food and Drink Birthday Booklet
Inspired by the theme Food and Drink Kath stamped up this fun little booklet. She’ll show you how she inked watercolor paper, added her stamped images and stencil designs and put together her little birthday book.