Learn how to make snowy, winter scene backgrounds using colored pencils , baby oil and a blending make-up sponge. Bibi Cameron has a tutorial over on her blog, click here to check it out.
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Project: Stamped Halloween Jewelry
Make some quick and easy Halloween jewelry by adding stamped and colored images into purchased jewelry components
. Fun Stampers Journey has a new line of lockets, chains and cuffs perfect for adding your own customized stamped images, photos or … Read More ...
Project: Witches Hat Halloween Card with Metallic Touches
I’m so excited that Halloween will be here soon. Halloween cards are some of my favorite to make! Nichol Spohr made this awesome witches hat card painting the hats with metallic water colors, adding distress text around the edges and … Read More ...
Technique: Faux Stained Glass Stamping
Dina Kowal got a super cool stained glass look by stamping over her image with a mosaic patterned stamp (she also provides a printable pattern if you don’t have the right stamp design), colored the sections and then layered embossed … Read More ...
Download: Fall Leaves Doily Cut File
I love how delicate this pretty Fall leaves doily die cut is. It reminds me of a hand cut paper snowflake but for fall. It would be perfect for cards, a scrapbook page or a home decor project. And it’s … Read More ...
Project: Die Cut Leaves and Acorns Thank You Card
By die cutting from cardstock and glitter paper and combing and layering the shapes together you can make a lovely fall leaves and acorn card. I love the combination of matte and sparkle papers together! You’ll find a video tutorial … Read More ...
Technique: Image Transfer for a DIY Card Background
If you don’t have exactly the right background designs for your card you can use a printed pattern with a transfer technique. Kristina Werner shows how she made this honeycomb background with a pencil transfer for this adorable stamped bee … Read More ...
Project: Caution Clown ( “It” Inspired ? ) Halloween Mixed Media
I’m so excited about the new “It” movie coming out. I grew up reading Stephen King
and loved the TV mini series for It (except of course for the horrible infamous creature reveal but we won’t talk about that :)) … Read More ...
Project: Halloween Card with Distress Ink Coloring and Backgrounds
Amy Rysavy used Distress Ink not only for a fun splatter and water color look backgrounds on these cards but she also used them to water color her stamped images. Hop on over to her blog, Prairie Paper and Ink … Read More ...
Tip: Using Spring Stamps for Fall
I love seeing stampers think outside the box and use stamps for occasions they maybe weren’t intended for. Like this great fall foliage card from Nina-Marie. She used some spring floral stamps and by changing the ink colors and adding … Read More ...
Project: Christmas Wreath Card with Sentiment Masking
Sometimes you’d like to stamp a lot of words or sentiments on a card but they might not fit or they may look jumbled together so Clare Prezzia has an easy solution. She used washi tape to mask off just … Read More ...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog 2017
I love this time of year, many of the stamping companies are releasing their new lines for the holidays. And I’m super excited about the brand new Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog! Inside you’ll find page after page of amazing … Read More ...
Project: Forest Animals Thanksgiving Feast Card
These super cute forest critters are gathered together for a wonderful Thanksgiving Feast. This adorable card was designed by Nicol Spohr using some new stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn. She’s got a video tutorial showing how she put it … Read More ...
Project: Realistic Snow Scene Stamped Card
This stunning snowy scene card look almost like a photograph, it’s so realistic! Jill Foster designed this card for Penny Black stamps and will walk you through all the steps she used to make it, from coloring a large stamp … Read More ...
Technique: Faux Metal Die Cuts
These die cut shapes look like metal right? Well, they actually started out as plain white cardstock! Wow! Betsy Veldman has an amazing technique for turning plain old cardstock into an iron looking metal (perfect for a 6th anniversary) … Read More ...