Whether you are brand new to stamping or a pro stuck in a technique rut these 11 techniques from Close to My Heart are timeless and perfect to pull out of your repertoire again and again. Some of my favorites … Read More ...
Autumn Blessings Card
Mindy used new products from Taylored Expressions to create this beautiful Autumn Blessings Card. She created her background cutting a large background die from orange cardstock and adding orange and brown ink blending around the edges. For the leaves she … Read More ...
Create a Wood Panel Card Background
Woodgrain texture adds the perfect rustic touch to cards and can be achieved with stamping, die cutting, embossing or just simply buying pattern paper. I love this look for fall, winter and holiday card designs like this one from Yoonsun. … Read More ...
DIY Paper Pumpkin Treat Bags
How sweet are this little Pumpkin Treat Bags!? Birgit is sharing step by step how to cut and fold the base of the bag, how to create the pumpkin with scalloped dies and dry embossing and then decorated it with … Read More ...
Hoot Owl Stamped Card
Tina Smith used new stamps from Newton’s Nook to create this adorable Hoot Owl Card. Notice how she created her cloud background inside the die cut frame but added the branch and owl outside and over top of the frame, … Read More ...
Embossing with Foiling Plates
Hot foil plates are used to add metallic foil in different designs and patterns to your cards and projects. But Angela had the idea to use them with out foil for a dry embossing technique. She combined both ideas to … Read More ...
Interactive Halloween Wreath Card
Who says Halloween has to be dark and spooky all the time? I love the non-traditional pastel colors on this amazing Halloween Wreath Card from Mona Toth. This card includes a fun interactive element, the spiders actually move and swing … Read More ...
Slimline Halloween Bats Card
I love the dark spooky feel of this Halloween card from Yana Smakula! The slimline card design gave her lots of room to create a flurry of flying bats using a stencil over an ink blended and shimmer sprayed background. … Read More ...
Magical Halloween Picture Changer Card
Marine used several different stamps sets from Sunny Studio and dies from Lawn Fawn to create this amazing Picture Changer Card for Halloween. When you pull the tap at the top of this interactive design the mouse in the center … Read More ...
Thanksgiving Fox Card
This little fox is sleeping in the pumpkin patch during a windy day on this lovely Thanksgiving Scene Card. Silvia used stamps, dies and stencils from Trinity Stamps to create this design. I love all the movement she created with … Read More ...
Christmas Tree Truck Pop Up Card
This truck is ready to bring all the festive feel of the season to everyone on your holiday card list this year! Wil used dies from i-Crafter to create this amazing Pop Up Card featuring a red pick up truck … Read More ...
2 Autumn Harvest Wagon Cards
Bibi Cameron used some wonderful new dies from Spellbinders to create these two Autumn Harvest Wagon Cards. She used Distress Inks to ink blend shading onto the die cut colored cardstock shapes for added shading and dimension. These rustic wagons … Read More ...
Pumpkin Spice Gnome Card
This sweet card from Lynnea combines two big trends, Pumpkin Spice and Gnomes, into one adorable design. I love the copper glitter stenciled frame around the gnome and isn’t the sentiment so cute? She used stamps and dies from Miss … Read More ...
6 Butterfly Coloring Pages
Keep a little bit of summer around in the cooler fall months with some beautiful Butterfly Coloring Pages. Dover Publications is offering 6 different butterfly and floral coloring pages that you can download, print and color for FREE.
How to Add Shading to Solid Stamps
Solid stamps, meaning a stamp that is not an outline but stamps out in a solid color, can sometimes look a little flat so shading can help give those images more dimension and realism. Lydia stamped up some beautiful solid … Read More ...