There’s a fun new stamping blog called Lily Pad Cards, it’s got lots of great challenges, ideas, inspiration, tutorial videos and more. Like this one from Vicky, who shares a video for a quick and cute party card. Check out … Read More ...
Technique: Adding Dimension to Stamps
Christine over at the Flourishes blog shares how she adds a lot of depth and dimension to her stamped images by stamping multiples, cutting and layering with foam tape. The results are so realistic!
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Project: Stamped Door Hanger
Stamp a cute door hanger for your child’s room. Stephanie Klauck shares her how to at the Paper Mill Store site.
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Technique: Spray Masking
Paper sprays, such as Glimmmer Mist, are super popular right now, they make great backgrounds for cards and scrapbook pages. Stencils are a traditional way to use masks but Michelle at the Pink Paislee blog used what she had … Read More ...
Project: Butterfly Card
Stop by the Spellbinders blog and Holly will show you how she made this stunning butterfly card using Spellbinders dies and stamps from Flourish.
-Heather
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Freebies: Dingbats
Dingbat fonts can be nice additions to your digital image library. The Typography blog shares 46 great dingbat fonts that are all free to download. With butterflies, military, animals, swirls, corners and much more, there’s a dingbat here for everyone. … Read More ...
New Release: Purple Onion Stamps
Purple Onion stamps has some super duper cute new stamps from designer Stephanie Ackerman, pretty flowers, birds, banners and more. Click here to see all the new stamp designs and then be sure to check out their blog for loads … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Wedding
Planning a wedding? Consider making more than just your own invites. Yyou can stamp your own place cards, favor boxes, save the date cards and everything will coordinate beautifully. Find instructions here at the Inkadinkado site.
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New Release: My Favorite Things Stamps
My Favorite Things has just released loads of great new stamps and dies, with images of cute kids, vintage hot air balloons, typewriter and more. And best of all several of the stamps and dies are co-ordinating, so need to … Read More ...
Freebie: Stamping Magazine
Click here to download a pdf of the May issue of Stampavie on-line magazine for free. It’s got lots of ideas, projects and inspirations using Stampavie stamps.
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Freebie: Vintage Cars
Click here to download a bunch of wonderful vintage car images for free from Dover Publishing.
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Tutorial: Make Your Own Foam Stamps
Using fun foam and cardboard, Emily from Saltwater Kids made her own stamps and stamped a bread bag to gift her homemade bread in. This would be a great kids craft! Click here to find out how she made her … Read More ...
Project: Tissue Tape Flower
Visit Tim Holtz’s blog and learn some cool techniques to do with his Tissue Tape, including inking and a video on how to make this pretty flower embellishment.
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Technique: Colored Pencils
Shari Carroll shares a great video over on the Hero Arts site, learn how to get gorgeous shading results by colored your stamped images with colored pencils . Click here for her video tutorial.
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Tips for Using Shrink Plastic
Shrink Plastic is a versatile and enjoyable crafting material that can be used to create a wide range of DIY projects. Whether you’re looking to make scrapbooking embellishments, unique jewelry pieces, stylish home decor items, fun kids’ crafts, or intricate … Read More ...