I love using my Silhouette Portrait die cutting machine for cool projects like vinyl decor. The vinyl cuts really easily in the Silhouette, simply cut your shape and use the pick tool to help weed out all the … Read More...
Tutorial: Paper Tape Dress Card
Tutorial: Paper Quilled Flower
Elaine, our lucky winner of the Epic 6 die cutting machine giveaway from a while back has posted a lovely card she made using a pretty letterpress design along with a quilled paper flower. She shares how to make the … Read More...
Freebie: Camera and Bird Digi
“Watch the birdie!” Birdie Brown has this adorable camera with bird digital stamp to download for free. Hurry though, it’s only free during April!
-Heather
Freebie: House Digital Stamp
The Alley Way has this cute house digi stamp to download free, click here to grab it.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital stamps at Design Bundle
Tip: Clouds with Copics
The sun is shining, the clouds are out so it’s the perfect time to incorporate that into your stamping! Tracy’s Stamping Corner will show you how to make pretty fluffy clouds with Copic Markers.
-Heather
Project: Stamped Barrette
This lovely hair barrette looks like porcelain but it’s actual stamped shrink plastic! Amazing! Visit The Bright Side of Life for directions on making one of these to wear yourself.
-Heather
Technique: Coloring Images on Kraft Cardstock
Hop on over to the My Favorite Things site and learn how to shade and layer color on your stamped images using Prismacolor Pencils (my personal fave) on kraft cardstock. Coloring on this tan type of cardstock instead of plain … Read More...
Project: Graduation Coupon Book
Here’s a fun booklet to send away to college with a recent grad. Inky Anitcs stamps has a pdf tutorial to download showing how to make this fun graduation coupon/certificate booklet, with cute ideas like redeem for laundry service, home … Read More...
Freebie: Online Idea Book
Echo Park paper has a new idea booklet to download for free. You’ll find 6 cards, 11 scrapbook pages and 4 altered projects all celebrating family, click here to download. Note, you’ll need to to “check out” but … Read More...
Project: Hybrid Stamped Journal Page
Hybrid stamping is a fairly new term that simply means combining regular stamps with digi images. Shari Carroll created this beautiful mixed media journal page using paints, inks , traditional stamps and Hero Arts printable digital stamps. I love her … Read More...
Product Review: A Muse Studio
Last week a received the brand new A Muse Studio Catalog and Inspiration Guide. It’s fulled with wonderful stamping and scrapbooking products including loads of new stuff like 31 new stamp sets, 11 matching dies (so you can die … Read More...
Technique: Stamping with Recycled Materials
Renee at Bolton House shares how to make some interesting stamped backgrounds for Artist Trading Cards (ATC’s) using various materials like bubble wrap (very cool!) for a fun ATC accordion booklet.
-Heather
Technique: Embossed Foil
Here’s a cool idea I’ve not seen before, embossing on strips of metal foil tape. Mama Dini will show you how. I have lots of this tape for soldering jewelry, I’ll have to give this cool idea a try.… Read More...
Tip: Partial Die Cutting
How adorable is this little lion gift tag!? The Lawn Fawn blog will show you how to use co-ordinating stamps and dies with a partial die cutting technique to make a cute tag that opens.
-Heather
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Technique: Burlap Stamping
Sometimes you don’t need a stamp to stamp with. Barbara with Explore, Dream, Discover has a very clever stamping tool, she used burlap fabric to stamp with, how innovative! Using Gelatos color sticks on the burlap and a little water … Read More...
Tutorial: Tattered Paper Flower Accent
Danielle at Fat Cat Stamper is sharing how to make a cool tattered flower embellishment from pattern paper, die cuts and ink stains. Click here for her how to.
-Heather
Tip: Change the Color of Paper
If you have a pattern paper that isn’t exactly the color you want sometimes you can change that. Pamela from Reflections of My Art and Soul shows how you can use a direct to paper technique and color your paper … Read More...
Tutorial | Upcycle Old Pre-inked Stampers
Here’s a clever idea from Tempest Ahoy. If you have just a few acrylic stamps and don’t want to invest in acrylic blocks, maybe you can do like she did and upcycle some older pre-inked stamps to use them. She … Read More...
Freebie: House Digital Stamp
This heartwarming Home on a Hill digi stamp is available from Crudoodle’s for free, click here to download it.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital stamps at Design Bundle