By combining a striped stamp and a floral one and using a resist technique Shirley with Impression Obsessions shares how to make a pretty distress background. She also shares directions for making the entire lovely card too. Click here for … Read More ...
Project: Cupcake Liner Card
Here’s a cool twist on using a cupcake liner, how about turning it into a card embellishment? Hop on over to the Simon Says blog for a video tutorial on how to make this fun and festive card.
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Freebie: Stampmaker Download
If you have a Stampmaker machine from Photocentric you can use these free negative images from Teresa Collins to make some great clear stamps for Graduation and Weddings.
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Project: Floral Card using Pan Pastels
Maria McGuire shares a card on Donna Downey’s blog using Donna’s lovely poppy stamps and coloring them with Pan Pastels. I love how she even used them to color the canvas banner pieces too. I *really* want to give these … Read More ...
Project: Card Holder Envelope
Magenta stamps has a detailed tutorial for making an accordion style card holder. This neat envelope would make a perfect gift filled with hand stamped cards!
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Technique and New Product: Coloring with Aquamarkers
Cindy with Flourishes has a great video tutorial showing how to use the new Aquamarkers. These markers are a water based pigment ink for a vibrant color and they are also acid free and light fast (meaning no fading). Click … Read More ...
Project: Vintage Floral Card
I love the rustic vintage look of this card! Ann Schach shares step by step instructions as well as a video tutorial on how to stamp and emboss a lovely card like this one. Click here to visit her blog … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stamped Cookies
Stamping AND cookies, seriously, what could be better!? The Lovely Cupboard has a recipe for yummy shortbread cookies and directions for adding a special personal touch by stamping the cookies too. I’m getting hungry just looking at them……
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Technique: Stamp and Watercolor on Canvas
Julia Stainton has a nice tutorial over on the Ellen Hutson’s blog using stamps and watercolors on canvas. This technique looks like a true work of art! Click here for more info.
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New Release: Purple Onion Stamps
Purple Onion stamps has just released the most adorable new line of images from designer Stacey Yacula called The Sweetest Day. With cute bunnies, a funky frog, a tweet bird and the cutest snail you’ve ever seen, these are truely … Read More ...
Blog Hop: Digistamps4Joy
Digistamps4Joy is under new ownership and they’re celebrating with a hop.
Here’s what Margy has to say: “The South African Digistamps4Joy company is under new management! We have a new blog, website, shop, and CDAC group! Come and see all … Read More ...
Inspiration and Tutorial: Book Card for Mother’s Day
Lisa from Wishcraft shares the stunning book card she’s made for Mother’s Day. For the base she followed a tutorial from I Wanna Build a Memory, which can be found here.
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Project: Floss Flower
The Pixie Cottage has directions for using Scrappers Floss (which is made from paper , holds it’s shape and is a great substitute for embroidery floss ) to make a pretty flowers for card embellishments.
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Technique: Enlarge a Stamped Image
Kathy from the Daily Marker wanted a large version of the mushroom stamp she has so her little gnome would have a big house to live in, so clever girl that she is, she used her projector to enlarge the … Read More ...
Tips: Using the New Distress Markers
I’ve seen a lot of buzz on-line lately about the new Distress Markers from Tim Holtz and Ranger. I love the idea that they work with water just like Distress Inks do and that they color match the ink … Read More ...