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You can make a lovely flower embellishment for your cards or any paper crafting project by die cutting layers of tulle. Find a video tutorial over on the Papercrafts Connection blog. What a pretty feminine embellishment that makes!
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The Creativity is Contagious blog has directions for making this beautiful stamped mixed media canvas. I love the use of dolls hair, it add such a realistic touch!
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Make a sweet and sparkly little gift box in the shape of a baby food jar, perfect to hold a small baby gift or for a treat bag at a shower. Find directions over on the Layers of Ink blog.… Read More ...
I’m am super excited to bring you a peek at the latest catalog products from Stampin’ Up
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This new catalog is chocked full of wonderful new products for card making, scrapbooking, home décor and parties! Including tons of new … Read More ...
Use a stencil and Pan Pastels for a soft water background, a great look to go with a lovely mermaid stamp or any ocean themed card. Find directions over at the Bombshell stamps blog.
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Find start to finish directions for using clear stamps, die cuts and Hybrid Inks to make this fun fishy card from My Favorite Things stamps. I love the cute pun sentiment!
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The Land Of Nod blog has an image of a vintage man to download for free to use in your paper crafting projects. He would be great on a Father’s Day card, I adore his huge mustache!
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The Great Impressions blog shows how to make a neat background using painters tape to stamp with, find out more on their blog.
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This cool 3-d paper piecing technique from Some Odd Girl stamps adds some depth and dimension by layering cut out piecing of your stamped images, find a video tutorial here on their blog.
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Head to the store and go shopping in style while also being more green with a pretty reusable stamped canvas tote bag. Find directions over on the Clearsnap Ink blog.
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Here’s a quick and easy way to make a background look for a cards that looks like water using Distress Ink perfect for summer, beach and nautical themes. The Clips-N-Cuts blog has a video tutorial to show you how.
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This is a really cool technique I’ve not seen before, using sanded water color pencil “shavings” to make a distressed and vintage looking background for your stamped cards. Find step by step directions and a video tutorial for this technique … Read More ...
Cutting foam craft sheets you can make yourself a cool abstract background stamp, find out more over at Mellissa Samuels blog.
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With school coming to a close be sure to thank those wonderful teachers in your kids lives. A gift card is a great thank you especially if it comes in a fun hand made gift card holder. Find directions for … Read More ...
Why give someone a plain flat card when you can give them a fun dimensional sentiment flower? The Bits of Paper blog has many different designs for layering a 3-d die cut paper flower over a round die cut sentiment. … Read More ...
