The Altenew stamps blog is sharing a card with a cool stamping technique using Distress Ink . Since these inks react with water you can create an inked background on your cardstock, spray water onto a clear stamp and … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Jewelry Pendant
Asia Kings is sharing a stunning piece of jewelry on her blog. She used rubber stamps to decorate a pendant bezel to make this necklace that anyone would love to show off and wear. Click here to visit her … Read More ...
Technique: Cards Accented with Die Cuts and a Resit Technique
Designer Karolyn Loncon shares two wonderful card projects on the My Favorite Things blog. The first is a fantastic use of dies, she got wonderful texture and pattern by layering an intricately cut floral die cut out of white onto … Read More ...
Technique: Custom Envelopes Decorated with Custom Stamps
Don’t send your wonderful hand stamped cards in a plain envelope, make the envelope as pretty as the card! Mark Montano shares how you can make your own large custom stamps using embossing folders and thin sheets of fun foam. … Read More ...
Project: Get Well Pop Up Tissue Box
Wanting to cheer up someone who is feeling sick? Make them this sweet pop-up tissue box card. The Scrapping and Stamping in California blog has complete directions for cutting, scoring , folding and assembling this cute card, click here.
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Tip: Making Custom Stamps using Metal Dies
Do you have any die cuts that you wish were actually stamps instead? Well, guess what, in many cases you can make a stamp from a metal die using thin crafting foam, how cool is that?! The Card Making Connections … Read More ...
Happy Easter!
Happy Spring and Happy Easter!
Card made by me with stamps and papers from Stampin’ Up.
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Techniques: 10 Ways to Use Ink Sprays
Ink sprays and mists are so much fun to play with and they are so many techniques you can do with them, they can be used on cards, scrapbook pages, collage art and home decor projects using papers and fabrics.. … Read More ...
Project: Birthday Card with a Pull Up
What a fun birthday card! The little girl actually pulls up from underneath the cupcake! Caryn Davies from Glitter Me Silly created this cool card using stamped images and die cuts and she’s posted a video tutorial showing you step … Read More ...
Technique: 3 Fun Card Folds
Don’t cut your cardstock in half and then just simply fold it for your card base, add some pizzazz with a unique fold like a gatefold, zigzag or matchbook fold. Cardmaker Magazine had cutting and folding dimensions for all three … Read More ...
Freebies: Easter Digital Stamps
The Opal Manor blog has several sweet digital stamps to download for free, including a few that are perfect for Easter like a bunny, egg with bow and a banner. There’s also a cute girl and a sun too. Click … Read More ...
Product Review: Chalk Inks from Stampin’ Up
The chalk ink pads made by Color Box and carried by Stampin’ Up are the perfect way to get that popular chalk board look. They pair wonderfully with Stampin’ Up’s Chalk Board paper for making greeting cards, scrapbook pages … Read More ...
Project: Easter Treat Box
Roxanne created this cute Easter treat box using papers and stamps from Lawn Fawn. She covered a fry shaped box with pattern paper and added stamped tags, images and words for a fun treat holder but the best thing is … Read More ...
Project: Burlap Easter Bag
Die cut paper shapes don’t always have to be applied to cards and scrapbook pages you can also add them to fabric, like with this adorable Easter bag. The Echo Park Paper blog cut out some bunny shapes and applied … Read More ...
Project: Easter Diorama Card
The Rubber Cafe blog has directions for making a sweet diorama card for Easter. How fun to open the card and find a fun dimensional scene inside! Use a scoring board for fast scoring and folds or if you don’t … Read More ...