Tip: Stencil Card Background

Beate at the Fresh and Fun blog has a neat way to make your stencils pop, she inked up the arrows for a background and them traced them with a thin black marker. I love the cool modern look!

-Heather…

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Project: Accordion Card

This adorable bear card has a surprise, untie the ribbon and the bear pulls up on an accordion fold card, how cute!! Find step by step directions over at the Lili of the Valley stamps site.

Project: Accordion Card

-Heather…

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Project: Reuse Wooden Stamp Blocks

If you’ve unmounted your stamp from their blocks (or maybe never mounted them in the first place) you might be wondering what to do with those unused wooden blocks. The Tricky Tip Tuesday blog (say that three times fast :) ) has …

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tips;:copic clouds

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…

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tip: 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 …

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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 mixing …

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Tip: stamping with recycled material

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.

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-Heather…

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tip: partal 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 spritz …

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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…

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Project: Flip Out Card

Stephanie from The Stamps of Life is sharing videos from one of her recent classes for FREE , showing you how to use stamps, dies and pattern papers for a lovely flip out card. Click here to watch.

-Heather…

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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 …

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Project: Accordion Fold Book

I love the romantic look of this handmade accordion book, reminds me of Jane Austen!  Alexandra from Art Scrap and More created this beautiful book using paper, stamps, fabric and a few embellishments. What a lovely way to display photos!…

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Tutorial: Journal Art Page

Would you like to start making art journal pages or collages but your finding staring at the blank page is just too intimidating? Where do you start? Renee Bolton shares a terrific post on her blog with a step by step …

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acrylicsheet

Tyra from Craft Swag picked up a large acrylic sheet at the hardware store for less then $2 dollars and found some great ways to use it in her paper crafting. These sheets are perfect for mounting large clear or …

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