It’s sometimes a challenge to make masculine cards, isn’t it? For Valentine’s Day you probably don’t want to send your guy a card covered in flowers, unless he loves to garden, so try themes like sports, the outdoors or hobbies, … Read More...
Project: Valentine’s Day Home Décor Blocks
Make yourself a pretty Valentine’s Day home décor project using wooden blocks, pattern paper, stickers and some embellishments. Echo Park shows how to paint up some blocks and add die cut paper letters for a quick and easy holiday themed … Read More...
Card Making Technique: Fragmented Background Card
This fragmented background technique is so easy. Grab a pencil and a ruler and draw some intersecting line on your paper, fill the shapes in with the coloring medium of your choice (like markers, inks, paints, watercolors or pencils), combine … Read More...
Project: Altered Bird
Did you ever walk though the craft store and see all those unfinished wood and paper mache shapes and wonder what to do with them? Try covering them with patterned papers and stamped accents like Anne Harada did. Visit her … Read More...
Project: I AM GROOT Card
I admit it, I am a huge comic book geek and love all related movies, TV shows and merchandise! So I flipped when I saw this amazing I am Groot card inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy. Jennifer Ingle cleverly … Read More...
Project: Valentine Home Décor Canvas
All you need is love! Whip up a quick canvas project to decorate your home or give as a gift this Valentine’s Day using pattern paper, die cuts and a photo. Find out more over on the Echo Park Paper … Read More...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Occasions and Sale-A-Bration
I’m so excited to share with you another review for Stampin’ Up! Right now Stampin’ Up has two fabulous catalogs, the first is their Occasions catalog and is a supplement to the regular yearly catalog adding wonderful products for … Read More...
Technique: Water Coloring with Markers
There are several different ways to color your stamped images using water based markers. You can color like normal directly with the marker or use a wet on wet technique, adding water to the paper first then adding the color … Read More...
Project: Butterfly Tag
This stunning tag features lovely butterflies that were stamped over a background of splattered alcohol inks that were then cut out and layered, they look like they could fly off the paper! Find more info on making this tag over … Read More...
Project: Love Potion Valentine Card
I love the use of all different types of products on this fabulous Love Potion #9 card! From modeling film to alcohol inks to stamping, spray inks and more, this mixed media card has it all. Find out how Shari … Read More...
Freebie: Wedding Doodle Designs
These downloads from My Grafico are perfect for wedding, Valentine or anniversary cards. They are available here as a FREE download and come in PNG or JPEG formats.
-Heather
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Project: Mail Card
You’ve got mail! Wendy McGaffy used die cuts and foam tape to add an extra layer of dimension to this adorable card. I love how the pattern paper she used mimics the colors of an air mail stamp! Find her … Read More...
Tip: Stencil Storage
As paper crafters I think we all deal with issues of storage and organization, don’t we? Like any other tool stencils can be hard to keep track of, you want to find them quickly and easily and keep them from … Read More...
Project: Valentine Photo Cube
Product Release: CHA Show Product Previews
I love this time of year because all the stamping, scrapbooking and paper craft companies all release loads of great new products for the new year! Many of these companies show off their new stuff at the CHA show and … Read More...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up!
I’m so excited to share with you my latest review for Stampin’ Up! Right now Stampin’ Up has two fabulous catalogs, the first is their Occasions catalog and is a supplement to the regular yearly catalog adding wonderful products … Read More...
Project: Valentine Shaker Card
Show someone how much you love them this Valentine’s Day with a special shaker card. Using stamps and die cuts from My Favorite Things Nichol Magouirk shares a video tutorial for making this adorable card, she also includes links to … Read More...
Project and New Release: Monogram Cards
Add a personalized touch to your greeting cards with a combination of monogram letters. You can send cards with your monogram or how about make a set of cards as a gift for a bride with her new initials? Hero … Read More...
Tip: Organizing Embossing Folders
If you’re like me you’ve got loads of plastic embossing folders and maybe also like me you have a hard time keeping track of and storing all those folders as well. Just like Shaunte over at Crafts Unleashed I tried … Read More...
Tip: Stamped Date in a Snowflake Shape
Here’s a cool and clever way to add a date to a scrapbook page, card or calendar, stamp out date stamps in a snowflake pattern. The Echo Park Paper blog has all the details.
-Heather
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