This pretty pocket booklet is perfect for tucking in photos, ticket stubs, notes and more. Dar’s Crafty Creations shares how to make the covers and pockets for this sweet little book. I love the sewing theme she used but the … Read More ...
Project: Monogram Gift Card Holder
This elegant Monogram card has a pocket inside to hold a gift card and would be perfect to make for a pair of newlyweds! Find directions for making it over on the Inkadinkado website.
-Heather
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Project: Destiny Card
Linda over at Catered Crop shares how she made this pretty Destiny card, I adore the open chicken wire die cut, very cool and trendy right now!
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Project: Mixed Media Canvas
May Flaum made this wonderful artwork by adding layers and layers of metal trinkets, chipboard, stickers and more to a canvas. She painted everything with white gesso
and then added colored paints, inks, sprays and stamps on top for this … Read More ...
Technique: Color Washed Background
Say “Hello” to my little friend! The Fat Cat Stampers had directions for making a bright color washed swipe background, perfect for summer tags, cards and scrapbook pages.
-Heather
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Technique: Coloring Stamps with Distress Ink Pads
Annie Rose sure makes pretty cards! And over on Annie Rose Makes Things she’ll show you how to color in your stamped images using Distress Ink and a Blender Pen
for a soft watercolor look.
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Project: Shrink Plastic Jewelry
These little stamped jewelry pieces are totally adorable! Using digital stamps and printable shrink plastic the Some Odd Girl stamps blog will show you how to make some cuteness you can wear.
-Heather
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Tip: Embossing on Buttons
Dress up those plain old buttons with some stamping and heat embossing, Your Next Stamp will show you how.
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Technique: Stamp Doodling
Does anyone else sit and doddle like I do? If I’ve got a pen and paper in front of me you’ll see me drawing little flowers, stars and spirals, I can’t help myself. If you also like to doodle here’s … Read More ...
Project: Summer Swimsuit Card
I am so glad that spring is finally here and before you know it summer will be too. Get ready for it with this cute swimsuit girl card from Elizabeth Allan’s Art Studio. She’s got step by step directions for … Read More ...
Project: Twine Wrapped Frame Card
Twine has been and still is a trendy item to use on your cards. By wrapping twine around a frame May, from Mayholic in Crafts, made a neat display card. I love the tiny clothes pins to hold the … Read More ...
Technique: Masking with Dies
Here’s another cool way to use your die cuts that I can’t resist, use them as a resist for a card background. The All in an Inch blog has details on how to do this technique along with a lots … Read More ...
Project: Paper Bits Collage
I love seeing how people utilize there scraps of pattern papers. I, like many of you, have so many little pretty pieces I had to throw away! The My Mind’s Eye blog has a terrific idea for using some of … Read More ...
Technique: Stenciling with Die Cuts
The Lifestyle Crafts blog has a really cool idea for using detailed die cuts, use them as a stencil instead of a die cut. Using a pen you can trace the design instead of cut it out, how clever!
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Project: Shaker Card
I love shaker cards with cute little bits of stuff that move around when you shake the a card. The Lawn Fawn blog has a video tutorial for making a mason jar shaker card. The little lighting bugs remind me … Read More ...