This uber cool card made from a paper bag comes from DebNeerman. I love the colors and the use of hard metals and soft flowers, it’s a wonderful combination and a great way to recycle!

-Heather

Pop on over to the Hero Arts website where Shari Carroll has a video and step by step instructions for making this lovely window card.

And while you’re there you might also want to check out the three brand new catalogs from Hero Arts, Spring, Basic Grey and Studio Calico.

-Heather

What could be better than buying cute new digital stamps and helping a wonderful charity at the same time? Well nothing, so why don’t you pop on over to Jelly Park and pick up an adorable stamp to help benefit Little Havens children’s hospice. All proceeds from the sale of these special stamps goes to raise funds for this wonderful charity.

-Heather

Dover Publications is offering 11 vintage Valentine downloads for free, lots of funny, cute and romantic images. Click here to start and then click through the sample numbers across the top of the page for the rest of the images.

-Heather

Kenny K digital stamps says their new release includes “12 cool, cute, sassy & sexy images for women’s and men’s cards, depicting a variety of occupations, such as policeman/woman, firefighter, handyman, doctor, teacher, etc.”

These really are some fun and cool images! Check them all here at their website.

   Samples from Heidy and Janette.

-Heather

The Daily Marker blog shares a great tutorial video for using a blender pen and markers for a beautiful soft watercolor effect for your stamped images. Click here to watch.

-Heather

Find instructions for making this lovely card with a stamped floral background and pretty shrink plastic butterflies over on the Ranger website.

-Heather

This stamped work of art is simply amazing! Karen Motz made this terrific piece with stamps, pattern papers, felt and die cuts. See more of this inspiring work over on her blog Paper Playhouse.

-Heather

 Squigglefly has a couple of newer free digi stamps on their site, a pretty frame and a great breast cancer ribbon, I love the “fight like a girl” quote! You can download them here for free.

-Heather

The Rubber Cafe has a cool video tutorial for their Scrap Happy glue. It’s a tacky liquid glue that can be used for loads of different application in paper crafting. This video shows how to make giant glue dots for fabric rossette embellishments and also how to use the glue with your rubber stamps and glitter for the look of embossing with no heat required. Click here to watch.

-Heather

These little box are so sweet and perfect for Valentine’s Day candy or any small gift. Sarah over at THinkING STAMPS shares how to use paper, a scoring board and some die cuts for these cute window boxes.

-Heather

How lovely are these metal leaves and flower? Tammy Tutterow took plain metal embellishments and added color and shine by melting embossing powers on them, cool huh? Or should I say hot? Click here to find out how she did it.

-Heather

I love Maya Road for ribbons and trims and they are now expanding their stamp line too! A sneak peek from this weekends CHA reveals nine new stamp sets with themes like frames, butterflies, birds backgrounds and vintage images.

-Heather

Did you know Ninja’s fly kites and build snowmen? No, of course not because they are too fast for you too see These images are SO much fun! Kendra Young of Ninja BOM has a fun and funny ninja for each month. These are meant for embroidery but they would make great digital stamps too. I can see a whole cute calendar of ninjas…….. Find links to each ninja on her Flickr page and also on her blog.

-Heather

PoC, pop of color. I keep hearing this term pop up a lot , especially in fashion and now in stamping. Making a black and white card and adding a bold dash of color makes it very visually interesting. Catherine Pooler uses stamping, die cutting and embossing for a fun birthday with a splash of red. Click to watch her video tutorial.

-Heather