I’m so excited that Halloween will be here soon. Halloween cards are some of my favorite to make! Nichol Spohr made this awesome witches hat card painting the hats with metallic water colors, adding distress text around the edges and … Read More...
Technique: Faux Stained Glass Stamping
Dina Kowal got a super cool stained glass look by stamping over her image with a mosaic patterned stamp (she also provides a printable pattern if you don’t have the right stamp design), colored the sections and then layered embossed … Read More...
Technique: Image Transfer for a DIY Card Background
If you don’t have exactly the right background designs for your card you can use a printed pattern with a transfer technique. Kristina Werner shows how she made this honeycomb background with a pencil transfer for this adorable stamped bee … Read More...
Project: Caution Clown ( “It” Inspired ? ) Halloween Mixed Media
I’m so excited about the new “It” movie coming out. I grew up reading Stephen King
and loved the TV mini series for It (except of course for the horrible infamous creature reveal but we won’t talk about that :)) … Read More...
Project: Halloween Card with Distress Ink Coloring and Backgrounds
Amy Rysavy used Distress Ink not only for a fun splatter and water color look backgrounds on these cards but she also used them to water color her stamped images. Hop on over to her blog, Prairie Paper and Ink … Read More...
Tip: Using Spring Stamps for Fall
I love seeing stampers think outside the box and use stamps for occasions they maybe weren’t intended for. Like this great fall foliage card from Nina-Marie. She used some spring floral stamps and by changing the ink colors and adding … Read More...
Project: Christmas Wreath Card with Sentiment Masking
Sometimes you’d like to stamp a lot of words or sentiments on a card but they might not fit or they may look jumbled together so Clare Prezzia has an easy solution. She used washi tape to mask off just … Read More...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog 2017
I love this time of year, many of the stamping companies are releasing their new lines for the holidays. And I’m super excited about the brand new Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog! Inside you’ll find page after page of amazing … Read More...
Project: Forest Animals Thanksgiving Feast Card
These super cute forest critters are gathered together for a wonderful Thanksgiving Feast. This adorable card was designed by Nicol Spohr using some new stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn. She’s got a video tutorial showing how she put it … Read More...
Project: Realistic Snow Scene Stamped Card
This stunning snowy scene card look almost like a photograph, it’s so realistic! Jill Foster designed this card for Penny Black stamps and will walk you through all the steps she used to make it, from coloring a large … Read More...
Technique: Faux Metal Die Cuts
These die cut shapes look like metal right? Well, they actually started out as plain white cardstock! Wow! Betsy Veldman has an amazing technique for turning plain old cardstock into an iron looking metal (perfect for a 6th anniversary) using … Read More...
Project: Halloween Owls Card
These adorable little owls are all ready for Halloween! And you can get ready for Halloween too by making this fun card with stamped pattern paper background and stamped and die cut owls from Sunny Studio. You’ll find a video … Read More...
Project: Embossed Peony Card
Using rose gold embossing powder and coloring the flower stamps with water colors Effie Cho designed this stunning peony floral card. I love the embossed on vellum butterflies, they add such a sweet touch to this elegant card. You can … Read More...
Product Review: 5 x 7 Fab File Craft Room Storage
The Medium 5″ x 7″ Fab File organizer from Totally Tiffany is perfect for storing and organizing smaller flat craft items. Just like all the sizes of Fab Files it’s made from sturdy clear plastic, it has a flap … Read More...
Techniques: Pumpkin Cards Multiple Masking Techniques
Jennifer McGuire shares several different masking techniques using dies, masking paper and Post It tape to make a few different pumpkin cards, perfect for Fall, Thanksgiving or Halloween. I love the layered pumpkin stamps she used and I love this … Read More...
Technique: Dry Embossing with Stencils
I love embossing folders, they add such a nice textured look to cards. But did you know there are other easy ways to get that same look? Debby Hughes will show you how to get the dry embossed look but … Read More...
Project: Watermelon Wreath Card
Nikibee has a great idea to turn a single watermelon slice stamp into a watermelon wreath design. Using a masking technique and coloring with Copic markers she’ll show you how to put it all together. Click here to visit her … Read More...
Project: Easy Stamped and Die Cut Holiday Gift Tags
Spellbinders has an easy way to turn a stamp with coordinating die cut into a fun double sided gift tag for the holidays. Of course this idea would work for another celebrations too that you’ve got stamps and dies for … Read More...
Project: Murder of Crows Mixed Media Art
I love crows and Halloween so I’m in love with this mixed media “Murder of Crows” artwork from Maura Hibbitts! Using stencils, stamps and paints she designed this awesome canvas project. I particularly love how she stamped her images on … Read More...
Giveaway and Review: Paper Pumpkin Kit for August 2017
If you’re looking for paper crafting inspiration Paper Pumpkin is here to inspire you and bring creativity to your door each and every month. Paper Pumpkin is a subscription kit brought to you by the folks at Stampin’ Up.… Read More...