On January 18th 2012 Nicole Magourik will be hosting a Webinar on how to take better photos of your paper crafting projects. If you’re looking for tips on lighting, props, camera settings and more be sure to click here and sign up and join in.

-Heather

Creative e-Courses is currently offering a free on-line class with Claudine Hellmuth. Using her beautiful Creative Layers stamps you’ll learn to make a pretty accordion book. Click here to download.

-Heather

Gear up for the holiday with a new video from Close to My Heart. This new video has ideas for stenciling with your stamps, tips for circle punching, chipboard ornaments and more. Click here to watch the video.

-Heather

(image by Stampavie)

Click here to download the latest issue of Stampavie Creations, the FREE online stamping magazine. It’s got lots of lovely stamped cards, projects and techniques.

-Heather

(image by Close To My Heart)

Visit Close to My Heart for another informative stamping and scrapbooking video featuring techniques for masking sentiment stamps, making your own paper embellishments with a circle punch, clear card tips and much more. Click here to view the video.

-Heather

image by Fabulously Artsy

Join Tresa Black aka The Stamp Goddess on her Fabulously Artsy You Tube channel for a five part on-line class where she will show you step by step how to make the inside and outside of this lovely mini scrapbook using a 5 ring chipboard binder from Close To My Heart. She uses lots of stamping in this fun project! Click here for part one of the videos. Or you can also find the videos (and other great ideas) here on her wonderful website.

-Heather

image by katzelbows

Do you live in the NY city area and are looking to take a cool stamping or mixed media class? If so check out Rachel at her blog katzelbow, for info on her monthly classes, they meet the third Sunday of each month. Rachel is a copic and Ranger certified instructor and teaches a different set of projects or techniques each month.

-Heather

image by Cloth Paper Scissors

If you’re looking to expand your stamping and paper crafts into mixed media art you might want to check out Cloth Paper Scissors new format for their workshops, previously only available on DVD’s they are now offering several mixed media workshops for download, it’s instant and it’s cheaper than the DVD so that’s always a nice bonus! Click here to see all their titles, DVD’s and downloads.

-Heather

image by Stamping School

Ever wonder how a guy makes his own greeting card, with power tools of course!! You have to see this hilarious video from Stamping School,  it’s so funny!! And you might be asking what is Stamping School? Well, it’s an online video tutorial website dedicated to stamping, you can join for only $35 a year and have access to their entire video library 24/7 and 8 new videos are posted monthly, click here for more info.

-Heather

image by Colleen Shaan and My Creative Classroom

Are you looking to learn a fun new technique or idea or maybe you’re new to stamping and cardmaking and need a place to start? Well make a visit to My Creative Classroom, they offer on-line classes in all sorts of paper arts including scrapbooking, card making, die cutting machines, copic markers, rubber stamping, mixed media and more. They even offer a free course to try it out just for signing up for their newsletter.

-Heather

image by Mel's Own Place

Here’s a fun, quick and easy project from Mel’s Own Place , use dimensional paint to make your own small stamps! How clever!

-Heather

image by Close To My Heart