Make yourself some unique jewelry using aluminum metal flashing, found at the hardware store. Shelley (aka the Stamptramp) used it with a dog tag shaped die to cut out the perfect base for a pendant. She used a cool double … Read More ...
Project: Vintage Style Door Hanger
Add an elegant touch to the entrance of any room with this vintage inspired door hanger. Visit The Rubber Cafe blog for a video tutorial showing how to combine stamps, die cut shapes, pattern papers, ribbon and embellishments with a … Read More ...
Technique: Glitter Covered Card
Why add just a touch of glitter to your cards when you can take it to the max and cover the entire card with glitter? The Paper Truffles blog has a video tutorial showing how to stamp your card and … Read More ...
Stamping Technique: Shimmery Butterfly
Ellen Taylor created this stunning butterfly by adding fantasy film behind a die cut butterfly shape. This add such a lovely shimmery touch! Visit her blog The Serendipitous Stamper for all the details.
-Heather
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Project: Mother’s Day Card
Show Mom how much she means to you this year with a hand made card. Using a combination of stencils and rubber stamps Michael Trent made this bright and cheerful Mother’s Day card. You can visit his blog World of … Read More ...
Tutorial: Pinwheel Fold Card
Add a fun twist to your cards with this pinwheel fold. Dawn Olchefske has step by step directions and a video tutorial showing how to cut, score and fold this cool card design. Visit Splitcoast Stampers for all the details.… Read More ...
Project: Mother’s Day Card
Gina K. has a video tutorial on her blog showing how to make this beautiful orchid card for Mother’s Day. She’ll show you how to heat emboss with clear powder and color the stamped image with markers for a pretty … Read More ...
Project and Freebie: Beach Lamp
Susanne Rose has a stunning home decor project she made over on her blog. She designed a Sihouette Studio die cut file for the lamp and decorated it with die cut shapes and stamped images for a wonderful beach themed … Read More ...
Technique: Stenciled Brick Background
Over at the Eclectic Paperie blog Kim will show you how to make an realistic looking brick background using stencils, embossing paste and paint. This makes the perfect backdrop for stamped images like she used on her beautiful mixed media … Read More ...
Project: Mixed Media Tag
Cheryl used a combination of rubber stamps, paints, die cuts, tissue paper, ink, rub-ons and more for this lovely mixed media tag project. She shares step step directions for making it over on her blog Cheryl’s Paper Artz.
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Technique: Texture Stamping
Here’s an amazing way to get depth and texture with your rubber stamps. Allison stamped her flourish background stamp with gesso and then applied ink and glitter sprays over top for this fantastic technique. Find her tutorial over on The … Read More ...
Technique: Mono-printing with Stencils
Lee-Anne Cross is sharing a cool technique to get a mono-printed look using stencils. She uses Distress Ink applied over the stencil and then spritzed with water to make her colorful cards. Visit the Splitcoast Stampers site for step by … Read More ...
Technique: Water Color with Markers over Heat Embossed Stamping
The Ellen Hudson Classroom blog has a video tutorial that will show you some water color and blending techniques using markers over heat embossed stamped images. This gives such a wonderful dreamy soft look! Click here to check it out.… Read More ...
Technique: Gilded Relief Card
This beautiful card looks like raised metal instead of paper! Mama Dini’s Stamperia has directions of using layers of black gesso, paints and metallic medium over intricately cut die cut paper shapes for this lovely gilded relief technique. Click for … Read More ...
Techniques: Stamped Tags with Tim Holtz Products
Each month Tim Holtz shares a different tag with lots of different paper crafting products, ideas and techniques. This month his tag is all about srping flowers. Using Distress Ink Markers Tim will show you a couple of different techniques, … Read More ...