One of our readers recently posted this stunning stamped collage on our Craft Gossip flickr group and I wanted to share it with you all. Visit her blog Matz Monkey Farm for more information on her creative process and to … Read More ...
New Release: Lasting Impressions Brass Stencils
It’s not too late to make a handmade card for Valentine’s Day, and using brass stencils to dry emboss your cardstock can add alot of texture and interests to your cards. Click here to view all the latest stencils from … Read More ...
Freebie: Card Sketches
Visit The Sweet Shop blog every Saturday for a new card sketch. Sketches are great jumping off points if you’re stuck for a design layout for your cards, try turning them on their sides for a completely different look. The … Read More ...
Working Together: Dies and Stamps
The Waltzing Mouse (love that name!:)) carries lots of cute clear stamps but the coolest stamp sets they carry are stamps that are made to fit inside some of the most popular sizes and shapes of Spellbinders dies, how cool is that? … Read More ...
New Release: Purple Onion Stamps
Purple Onion stamps has just released some great new logo stamps. Click here to see all the new designs and then visit their blog for lots of inspiring ideas using them.
-Heather… Read More ...
Happy Groundhogs Day!!
To celebrate Groundhogs Day I’ve searched around and found some cute groundhog stamps to share.
From Shirley’s Two Girls (card by Stamp, Paper and Ink):
From Stamps by Impression:
From Kritters in the Mailbox:
Inspiration: Valentine’s Day Tags
Awhile ago I shared with you a link to Tim Holtz’ blog and his wonderful instructions for his 12 Tags of Christmas. Well Linda Ledbetter has taken those ideas and techniques and made her own 12 Tags of Valentine’s Day … Read More ...
Projects and Techniques: 100 Days of Ideas with Hero Arts Stamps
Join Hero Arts for a whopping 100 days in a row of wonderful stamping ideas! Each day they will have a different project with a link to complete instructions, tips and shopping links for each idea. Click here to visit
… Read More ... Tip: Paper Scrap Cards
Whether they are stored in boxes, bags, files or folders as paper crafters we all have tons and tons of scraps of paper. It’s so hard to throw away a scrap of that pretty or hard to find paper, we … Read More ...
Loads of Stamping Techniques
Craft Stew has a wonderful section of links to 60 different stamping techniques from all over the web including home decor projects, fabric, jewelry and stamp carving tutorials too. Sorting through all these great links is a great way to … Read More ...
Project: Mini Tag Valentine Book
Isn’t this Mini Tag Valentine Book totally divine? It was made by Melissa Phillips for the Emma’s Paperie blog and she shares the instructions for it here so you can make your very own.
-Heather… Read More ...
Freebies: Templates and Download from Papertrey Ink
Nicole Heady of Papertrey Ink has always been very generous by sharing lots of free templates and downloads and now she’s made it super easy to find them all by listing them in one convenient spot, how nice! Click here… Read More ...
Project: Magnetic Calendar
It’s time to start thinking about Calendars and making one for yourself or for someone else is always a great project to do while your bundled up indoors. Here’s a great magnetic calendar project on the Stampington and Company website, … Read More ...
Downloadable Calendar for a Great Cause
Each year A-Muse rubber stamps designs down loadable calendar pages for a wonderful cause, for a minimum donation of only $4 you can choose from several different calendar sizes and layouts. Visit the A-Muse blog for more information and scroll … Read More ...
Inspiration and Technique: Paper Piecing with Digital Stamps
Check out this fantastic card from the Creative Candy blog, she used a digital stamp image from Scrap N Fonts and turned into a paper pieced card, how totally clever is that? Visit the Creative Candy blog for more info.… Read More ...