Kathy used opaque watercolors to color up this lovely digital floral stamp from Jane’s Doodles. In order to apply her stamp to the watercolor paper she used a tracing method and then water colored. The results are very bold and … Read More...
Toner Sheet Page Embellishments
Unity Toner Card Fronts are pre-printed sheets that can be used with foil to create shiny metallic papers for greeting cards. But Suzanna fussy cut them out and used them for embellishments on a scrapbook layout. What a great way … Read More...
10 Quilling Videos
With hundreds of quilling
videos posted online, it’s hard for those who are new to the craft to know where to start. All Things Paper has narrowed the options to ten favorites that not only are ideal for beginners, but … Read More...
Add Pretty Flourishes to Your Handwriting
I know many of us don’t like our own handwriting but it can really add a special personal touch to include our own writing in our scrapbooks. If you’d like to step up your handwriting game try adding some swirls … Read More...
Hot Air Balloon Card
Mindy Eggen got a bright and bold watercolor look on her Hot Air Balloon Card by using Karin Brushmarkers to color her stamped image. Those colors really pop against her pretty ink blending background. by HoneyBee Stamps
Metallic Gels for Stenciling
The Metallix Gel from Deco Foil will add sparkle, shine, color and texture to your cards and paper crafting projects. They work beautifully with stencils as Catherine Pooler shares on her blog with several different stenciling ideas and techniques. And … Read More...
Into to Nuvo Watercolor Pencils
The look of watercolor is still really trendy in stamping, it’s an easy way to add an artistic flair to your card making. Watercolor Pencils are one way to add watercolor to your stamped images and I find pencils to … Read More...
Mirror Stamping with a Media Mat
Mirror Image Stamping is a fun technique that allows you to stamp the reverse of an image. This makes for fun card where your images can face each other or you can add a reflection. The silicone Media Mat from … Read More...
Circus Family Layout with Flocking
The title and theme of this layout from Suzanna is just hilarious, I think all families can be compared to a circus at one time or another :). I love how she added flocking to her monkey and lions mane, … Read More...
Using Background Stamps as a Focal
Background stamps are of course perfect for create backgrounds for your cards but Jaycee has taken it a step further by using them as focal images. He’s stretched the new Pinkfresh Studio
background stamps by fussy and die cutting out … Read More...
Vinyl Heat Transfer Album Cover
Create your own beautiful custom album covers by applying vinyl heat transfer designs. Close to My Heart has recently released their new Heat Transfer Vinyl that can be cut with an electronic die cutting machine and applied to many different … Read More...
DIY Punch and Die Bunny Rabbits
Cindy Lynn looked at a leaf die and thought “That looks like bunny ears” and then grabbed a balloon shaped punch for the body and created some adorable bunny rabbits for Easter. How clever is that?! The little pom pom … Read More...
Focus on Background Stamps
Pink Fresh Studio has just released a bunch of beautiful new large background stamps. These cling mounted rubber stamps give you the freedom to create your own custom pattern papers for your card backgrounds. Laura used two to design for … Read More...
Stitched Strips Layout
Terhi added loads of color and texture to the background of this layout by tearing and stitching down strips of pattern papers. This is a wonderful way to use up scraps! She also fussy cut flowers and leaves from coordinating … Read More...
Layout with 3D Butterflies
Nathalie stamped and heat embossed on vellum to create some amazing 3D butterflies for her layout. The see through vellum adds such a soft touch and they add so much dimension to the page, they look like they are ready … Read More...
Scrapbook Yourself
Do you find that you’re always the one behind the camera and not usually in the photos? When scrapbooking don’t forget to include yourself, after all it is your scrapbook. Tiffany has some great tips to get more of you … Read More...
Using a Stencil Two Ways
Cathy has a great tip for stretching your stencils. She used a heart pattern stencil in the traditional way, adding ink over top, but she also used a rubber mat and ran it through her die cutting machine over cardstock … Read More...
You Are Loved Layout
Sanna has an amazing balance of “white space” on this “You are Loved” Layout. With a busy pattern paper, the photo, title and most of the embellishments concentrated at the top of her page and a more simple paper at … Read More...
Food Layout with Stamps
As someone who both makes cards and scrapbooks I love seeing ideas incorporating stamping with scrapbooking. Khristina used fruit stamps and stamping ink pads to create the background and some embellishments for her colorful ice cream layout. She sharing her … Read More...