Tip: Embossing on Buttons

Dress up those plain old buttons with some stamping and heat embossing, Your Next Stamp will show you how.

-Heather…

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Tips: Cutting Detailed Dies

I’m seeing more and more intricate and detailed dies for paper crafting and sometimes it can be a little hard to get a perfect cut with them. Christine at Card Maker Connections has several useful tips like using wax paper under the die for …

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Freebie: Handy Dad Digital Stamp

This handy man digi stamp is perfect for Father’s Day cards. Make one for your handy dad with this freebie from Birdie Brown. Hurry it’s only free the month of May!

-Heather…

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Giveaway: Silhouette Portrait Die Cutting Machine

Seriously?!  Here we go again! We are giving away yet another Silhouette Portrait electronic die cutting machine to one lucky Craft Gossip reader!! The folks at Silhouette are beyond generous! This machine will die cut shapes from paper, cardstock, fabric, vinyl …

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Product Review and Discount: Silhouette Chipboard

Silhouette now has chipboard! Yes, you read that right, Silhouette has chipboard that you can die cut in their machines, how awesome is that?

For my projects I decided to make some fun little jewelry pins. I die …

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Technique: Stamp Doodling

Does anyone else sit and doddle like I do? If I’ve got a pen and paper in front of me you’ll see me drawing little flowers, stars and spirals, I can’t help myself. If you also like to doodle here’s a …

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Techniaue: stamp with distress paints

Wow, these cards are real works of art! Jill Foster used Distress Paints from Tim Holtz  instead of stamping ink directly on her rubber stamps to get this fabulous effect. Find out more on her blog Inspired By.

-Heather…

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Project: Summer Swimsuit Card

I am so glad that spring is finally here and before you know it summer will be too. Get ready for it with this cute swimsuit girl card from Elizabeth Allan’s Art Studio. She’s got step by step directions for

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etsy shop: stamp cow

I came across a cute little stamp store on Etsy called Stamp Cow, they have fun bold designs like crowns, ornate frames and scrolls but I personally love all the social media stamps like Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest and more. Click here

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http://www.freeprettythingsforyou.com/2013/03/adorable-altered-art-shabby-dolls-vintage-clip-art/

Pretty Things has this fun free digital paper doll that you can add different digital backgrounds to and dress her anyway you want.

-Heather…

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Project: Twine Wrapped Frame Card

Twine has been and still is a trendy item to use on your cards. By wrapping twine around a frame May, from Mayholic in Crafts, made a neat display card. I love the tiny clothes pins to hold the images.…

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technique: resist with dies

Here’s another cool way to use your die cuts that I can’t resist, use them as a resist for a card background. The All in an Inch blog has details on how to do this technique along with a lots …

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Freebies: Sentiments

There are lots of card making opportunities coming up like graduations and Mother’s and Father’s Day so Paper Crafts has you covered with a bunch a free sentiments, click here to download them.

-Heather…

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project: paper bits collage

I love seeing how people utilize there scraps of pattern papers. I, like many of you, have so many little pretty pieces I had to throw away! The My Mind’s Eye blog has a terrific idea for using some of …

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detailz-dies-thanks-card_1

The Lifestyle Crafts blog has a really cool idea for using detailed die cuts, use them as a stencil instead of a die cut. Using a pen you can trace the design instead of cut it out, how clever!

technique: stenciling with dies

-Heather…

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