I recently got the chance to try out some cool brand new products from Imagine Crafts. These products work perfectly with all types of rubber stamping, mixed media, jewelry, home decor and collage art projects.
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Freebie: Mini Paper Crafting Idea Magazine
Echo Park Paper has a free mini on-line magazine you can download with spring themed projects that include 3 scrapbook layouts, 5 greeting card and 5 altered projects. Click here to add it to your cart (it’s still free:)) and … Read More...
Card Making Project: Cards with Ombre’ Inks
Hero Arts has recently release some beautiful new Ombre’ Ink pads. These pretty pads will give a gradient color perfect for backgrounds or on solid stamped images. You can find several card ideas using these ink over on their blog … Read More...
Project: Card with Distress Ink or Faux Bleach Technique
The Altenew stamps blog is sharing a card with a cool stamping technique using Distress Ink . Since these inks react with water you can create an inked background on your cardstock, spray water onto a clear stamp and press … Read More...
Technique: Cards Accented with Die Cuts and a Resit Technique
Designer Karolyn Loncon shares two wonderful card projects on the My Favorite Things blog. The first is a fantastic use of dies, she got wonderful texture and pattern by layering an intricately cut floral die cut out of white onto … Read More...
Technique: Custom Envelopes Decorated with Custom Stamps
Don’t send your wonderful hand stamped cards in a plain envelope, make the envelope as pretty as the card! Mark Montano shares how you can make your own large custom stamps using embossing folders and thin sheets of fun foam. … Read More...
Tip: Making Custom Stamps using Metal Dies
Do you have any die cuts that you wish were actually stamps instead? Well, guess what, in many cases you can make a stamp from a metal die using thin crafting foam, how cool is that?! The Card Making Connections … Read More...
Project: Birthday Card with a Pull Up
What a fun birthday card! The little girl actually pulls up from underneath the cupcake! Caryn Davies from Glitter Me Silly created this cool card using stamped images and die cuts and she’s posted a video tutorial showing you step … Read More...
Technique: 3 Fun Card Folds
Don’t cut your cardstock in half and then just simply fold it for your card base, add some pizzazz with a unique fold like a gatefold, zigzag or matchbook fold. Cardmaker Magazine had cutting and folding dimensions for all three … Read More...
Freebies: Easter Digital Stamps
The Opal Manor blog has several sweet digital stamps to download for free, including a few that are perfect for Easter like a bunny, egg with bow and a banner. There’s also a cute girl and a sun too. Click … Read More...
Product Review: Chalk Inks from Stampin’ Up
The chalk ink pads made by Color Box and carried by Stampin’ Up are the perfect way to get that popular chalk board look. They pair wonderfully with Stampin’ Up’s Chalk Board paper for making greeting cards, scrapbook pages … Read More...
Project: Easter Treat Box
Roxanne created this cute Easter treat box using papers and stamps from Lawn Fawn. She covered a fry shaped box with pattern paper and added stamped tags, images and words for a fun treat holder but the best thing is … Read More...
Project: Easter Diorama Card
The Rubber Cafe blog has directions for making a sweet diorama card for Easter. How fun to open the card and find a fun dimensional scene inside! Use a scoring board for fast scoring and folds or if you don’t … Read More...
Project: Elephant Shaker Card
How sweet is this elephant card for JJ Bolton? Shakers cards are so much fun to make and I love the twist JJ added by just having one small section of the card be a shaker, so cute! She’s sharing … Read More...
Technique: Floral Watercolor Cards
The Penny Black stamp blog has a beautiful card technique to share using watercolor paints for the background and markers to color directly on the stamp for a great watercolor look. You’ll also learn how to use tape to mask … Read More...
Project: Altered Notepad Holder
Marie Browning has a fun project for spring, she covered a plain wooden note pad holder with pattern papers and added some pretty stamped flowers for a great addition to anyone’s desk. Visit her blog for directions.
-Heather
Project: Shaker Jar
I’ve seen lots and lots of stamped shaker cards but I’ve never seen a stamped shaker jar! What a cute and clever idea! This fun twist on a ship in a bottle comes from Fun Stampers Journey and if you … Read More...
Project: Cute Skunk Card
Give someone a lift with this sweet card! The Me and Minime blog has a video tutorial showing you how to stencil and cloud background and how to color the cute skunk stamp using water color pencils, click here to … Read More...
Inspiration Saturdays Week 4
This week’s inspiration piece is another sewing project. I loved this quilted tote, especially those hexagons! I went through my stash and found a patterned paper with a hexagon pattern, which made things simpler. You could also cut out hexagon … Read More...
Freebie: On-Line Paper Crafting Magazine
Each month the folks over at American Crafts publish an on-line mini magazine call Cut and Paste filled with cards, 3-d projects and scrapbook pages that you can view for free. The March issues had floral scrapbook pages, pretty packaging … Read More...