These Summer months are perfect for bringing in bring colors to your crafting, and these 8 cards are no exception. Tie in a little of this “Summer fever” to your card making and maybe use one of these beautiful stamped … Read More...
Tutorial: Coloring Stamps with Water Color Markers
Water color markers are a super hot trend in stamping right now! You can get the control of a marker but use water to blend and shade for a softer look. The Your Next Stamp blog has a video tutorial … Read More...
Project: Pet Sympathy Cards
It’s always so difficult to lose a pet. When someone loses their best furry friend let them know you are thinking of them with a heartfelt card. The Cut at Home blog has a tutorial for making either a cat … Read More...
Project: Intricate Die Cut Card
Yana Smakula is sharing a video tutorial for making this stunning card she made using a combination of die cutting and embossing using several different large background and label dies from Spellbinders . You can watch the video tutorial here … Read More...
Tips: Water Coloring 101
One beautiful way to add color to your stamped images is by water coloring. I think using water colors adds such an artistic look to your cards and really makes you feel like a real artist too 🙂 There are … Read More...
Giveaway Reminder: Stampin’ Up Paper Pumpkin Kit
There’s still a couple more day left to enter to win the Paper Pumpkin card kit for June from Stampin’ Up. Click here to go to the original post to enter.
-Heather
Product Release: Distress Ink Accessories
Tim Holtz’s line ofDistress Ink are so fun to work, he’s got amazing colors in stamping ink pads, ink sprays, paints, markers and more, all with a formula that reacts with water so you can do all types of … Read More...
Tips and Freebie: Stamping Tips Notebook
Have you ever gone to a class, watched a tutorial video online or just played around and tried a new stamping technique and wondered “How am I going to remember how to do this?” Heather Nichols has a great solution, … Read More...
Review and Giveaway: Stampin’ Up June Paper Pumpkin Kit
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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 … Read More...
Video | Stamp Organization
Join Christina Thomas as she takes you on a tour of her stamp storage system. She provides links for purchasing the items she uses, and explains her storage and categorization system for all sizes of stamps. See it all in … Read More...
Project: Ice Cream Cards
Cool off this hot summer with a yummy ice cream themed card. These cards from Yana Smakula have fun and fresh trendy colors, glitter and lots of layers. And I love the punny saying! 🙂 She’s sharing a video tutorial … Read More...
Project: Floral Faux Postage Card
Create this lovely faux postage card using dies and stamps from Memory Box and by water coloring on water color paper, click here for directions on their website.
-Heather
Project: Hello Card
This sweet card features lots of layers of pattern papers, die cut shapes and a cute stamp from C C Designs. You can find a video how to for making it over on their blog, click here to watch.
-Heather
Inspiration and Freebies: Father’s Day Cards
Father’s Day is fast approaching and the Crafty Secrets blog is sharing a bunch of cool card, gift bag and scrapbook page ideas for Dad. They even have a couple of freebies to help you with your own projects, you … Read More...
Project: Stamped Mixed Media Bag
This interesting mixed media project, a draw string bag filled with message stones, incorporates adding stamping on several different surfaces, silk, felt and stones. Penny will give you tips for stamping and coloring directly on silk and how to fuse … Read More...
Tip: Combining Digital Stamps
Do you have several digital stamps that you’d like to combine together into one scene? You don’t have to print, cut and layer them you can do it all on your computer. The Some Odd Girl stamp blog has directions … Read More...
Projects: 2 Matching Cards with 2 Matching Tags
The Scraps of Life blog has not one but four projects to share using pattern papers from Graphics 45. You’ll find complete directions for making 2 very detailed cards, an easel card and a shutter fold card as well as … Read More...
Project: Stamped Leggings
Leggings are so comfy but not always cute, so why not dress up a plain pair with a little stamping? The Elizabeth Made This blog has directions for using the edge of an eraser as a stamp to add a … Read More...
Review: Stampin Up Catalog 2015 Part 2
I’m back to share more new products from the brand new Stampin’ Up catalog! This catalog is full of wonderful ideas for card making, scrapbooking and parties! There are loads and loads of new stamps in wood mount, … Read More...
Project: Altered Cigar Box for Father’s Day
Transform an old cigar box into a fantastic keepsake box for Dad for Father’s Day. The Scrapbook Flair blog will show you how to cover the box with pattern papers and scrapbooking embellishments, click here to find out more.
-Heather… Read More...