Gina K. has a video tutorial on her blog showing how to make this beautiful orchid card for Mother’s Day. She’ll show you how to heat emboss with clear powder and color the stamped image with markers for a pretty … Read More ...
Project and Freebie: Beach Lamp
Susanne Rose has a stunning home decor project she made over on her blog. She designed a Sihouette Studio die cut file for the lamp and decorated it with die cut shapes and stamped images for a wonderful beach themed … Read More ...
Freebie: Pillow Box
Elizabeth from Paper Pass Times has dimensions and direction for making a large pillow box from a 12″ x 12″ piece of cardstock. She decorated her box with gardening themed stamps and filled it seed packets and gardening gloves. … Read More ...
Technique: Stenciled Brick Background
Over at the Eclectic Paperie blog Kim will show you how to make an realistic looking brick background using stencils, embossing paste and paint. This makes the perfect backdrop for stamped images like she used on her beautiful mixed media … Read More ...
Project: Mixed Media Tag
Cheryl used a combination of rubber stamps, paints, die cuts, tissue paper, ink, rub-ons and more for this lovely mixed media tag project. She shares step step directions for making it over on her blog Cheryl’s Paper Artz.
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Technique: Texture Stamping
Here’s an amazing way to get depth and texture with your rubber stamps. Allison stamped her flourish background stamp with gesso and then applied ink and glitter sprays over top for this fantastic technique. Find her tutorial over on The … Read More ...
Technique: Mono-printing with Stencils
Lee-Anne Cross is sharing a cool technique to get a mono-printed look using stencils. She uses Distress Ink applied over the stencil and then spritzed with water to make her colorful cards. Visit the Splitcoast Stampers site for step by … Read More ...
Freebie: Teacher’s Gift Printable
Say thank you to your child’s favorite teacher with this sweet ruler candy bar wrapper. You can even customize it with their name! Artist Claudine Hellmuth is offering this as a free download, click here to print it.
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Technique: Water Color with Markers over Heat Embossed Stamping
The Ellen Hudson Classroom blog has a video tutorial that will show you some water color and blending techniques using markers over heat embossed stamped images. This gives such a wonderful dreamy soft look! Click here to check it out.… Read More ...
Freebies: Seed Pack Card
The Power Poppy stamps blog is sharing several freebies for making this pretty seed packet shaped card. You can download a Silhouette seed packet shaped file for the base of the card as well as digital stamps for the front … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Key Chain
Carry your stamped art work with you wherever you go on a fun stamped key chain. These also make great little gifts! Find directions over on the Inky Paws blog.
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Technique: Gilded Relief Card
This beautiful card looks like raised metal instead of paper! Mama Dini’s Stamperia has directions of using layers of black gesso, paints and metallic medium over intricately cut die cut paper shapes for this lovely gilded relief technique. Click for … Read More ...
Techniques: Stamped Tags with Tim Holtz Products
Each month Tim Holtz shares a different tag with lots of different paper crafting products, ideas and techniques. This month his tag is all about srping flowers. Using Distress Ink Markers Tim will show you a couple of different techniques, … Read More ...
Tutorial: Scrunched Paper Flower Embellishments
Becca with Amazing Paper Grace is sharing a tutorial on how she makes these lovely scrunched paper flowers. Using water and ink sprays with simple paper punched flower shapes you can make a wonderful dimensional accent for your stamped cards. … Read More ...
Techniques: Card with Inlaid Die Cuts and Water Coloring
The Simon Says blog has a video from Andrea Walford, she’ll teach you how to make a card with a cool inlaid die cut technique with a water color background using Twinkling H2O’s. Click here to watch.
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