Amy Rysavy designed this cool and colorful card using lots a splashes of water color over an embossed stamped image. She’s got a video tutorial for this technique over on her blog Prairie Ink and Paper, click here to watch.… Read More ...
Tips: Foiling with Adhesives
Foiling is a popular way to add some terrific metallic shimmer and shine to any paper crafting project. There are machines, adhesives and foil sheets that can help you get this trendy look. Tombo has some great ideas for using … Read More ...
Tip: Sewing Over Stamped Images
If you know how to make simple stitches and french knots you can add some amazing accents to your stamped images. This wonderful mixed media project was made by stamping and painting on canvas and then adding some easy sewing … Read More ...
Review: Epson XP-830 Small in One Printer
As a paper crafter I find I frequently use my printer for lots of different projects, like printing photos and digital stamps, playing with cool fonts for card sentiments, using print and cut images along with my electronic die cutting … Read More ...
Freebie: Easter Bunny Digital Stamp
You can use this cute Bunny digi stamp for cards, scrapbook pages and tag this Spring and Easter. Hop on over to About Home to get the full image.
-Heather
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Tips: Fixing Heat Embossing Mistakes
Yana Smakula has a video tutorial on Hero Art showing how to make this lovely inked and heat embossed card plus she shares a couple of really helpful tips to fix mistakes that can happen when you heat emboss. Click … Read More ...
Tip: Stamping on Feathers
I thought in all my years of stamping I’d seen just about anything and everything you can think of stamped on but he’s a new one and it gorgeous! Julie actually stamped on a feather! How cool is that? She … Read More ...
Project: Water Color Eggs Easter Card
This bright and cheery Easter card sure has some pretty water colored eggs. Punch, die cut or cut some egg shapes from cardstock and use water color pencils to add a lovely splash of color to them. For complete direction … Read More ...
Technique: Sponged Stamping
If you’d like to add more then one color to a solid image stamp try this easy sponging technique. You can blend and get gradient colors by adding inks one at a time to your stamp with a sponge. Click … Read More ...
Project: Clay Jewelry with Metal Stamps
Usually metal stamps are used for stamping into metal but Sahana has a great idea to use these tiny little stamp designs on clay. She’s got a tutorial on her blog showing how to cut and stamp the clay, add … Read More ...
Project: Stitched Chick Die Cut Card
There are several different brands of dies on the market that are made to cut fabric and felt for sewing together cute little plushies but you can also use them with paper and sew them onto cards or make shaker … Read More ...
Technique: Overlapping Striped Stamped Card Background
Using just a long a single solid stripe stamp Jennifer McGuire created this lovely overlapping background pattern with different ink colors. The possibilities with this idea are endless, change the color combos, use different widths of stamps, only cover part … Read More ...
Technique: No Line Stamping with Water Coloring
No Line Stamping is a cool technique that uses a light colored ink pad to stamp your image and then when you color the images with bright or dark colors the stamped lines disappear and it almost gives the look … Read More ...
Project: Floral Bouquet Window Card
This amazing window card was designed by Sharon Harnist. The front of the card has an X cut window opening that opens up to reveal the message inside. Sharon has directions for die cutting the flowers, coloring them with markers … Read More ...
Tips: Adding Stamping to Your Scrapbook Pages
Over on the Hero Arts bog guest artist Kathleen Graumuller shares some wonderful ideas on how to incorporate stamping onto your scrapbook pages. Stamps can be used to make great borders, all over backgrounds, tiny accents and focal images on … Read More ...