There are some really lovely intricate metal dies on the market but sometimes it can be hard to get all those little details to cut out cleanly. Lori Craig at Splitcoast Stampers shares her tips, like using wax paper when … Read More ...
Technique: Layered Stamps Card
The Spectrum Noir blog shares how to make a lovely layered image card. By stamping the same stamped image on different papers and cutting them out and layering them together you’ll get a wonderful card with lots of dimension and … Read More ...
Tip: Storing Unmounted Rubber Stamps
Un-mounted and cling mounted stamps can help save you not only money (because they are less expensive) but they can also save you lots of space in your craft room since they don’t have those big bulky wood blocks but … Read More ...
Product Review: A Muse Studio Holiday Catalog
The brand new A Muse Studio Holiday Catalog is full of wonderful new cling rubber stamps, coordinating dies, papers and embellishments. You’ll find wonderful fall stamps like woodland critters, leaves, arrows and feathers (just right for table décor and fall … Read More ...
Design Team Call: Imagine Crafts
Imagine Crafts is looking for members to join their design team. From their blog:
IMAGINE Crafts is proud to announce its Call for Artists In Residence for 2015! We’re looking for artists and designers who can inspire our customers and … Read More ...
Project: Santa Panda Holiday Card with Snowy Background Technique
Make a holiday card with lots of glitz and glimmer using Goosebumps and Shimmer Spritz products from Imagine Crafts. Isha Gupta shares her directions for making this cute Santa Panda card with a shimmery, snowy background. He also has fun … Read More ...
Project: Bottle Brush Tree Christmas Holiday Card
I’ve seen several stamp companies with bottle brush tree designs for the holidays, I guess that vintage look is going to be very trendy this year!
Hero Arts has a fun bottle brush stamp and is sharing step by step … Read More ...
Technique: Stamped Watercolor Look with Markers
This stunning pink peony flower card doesn’t even look like it’s stamped but it actually is! Stamping on water color paper using water soluble markers (like the Tim Holtz Distress Ink markers
) instead of ink pads you can go … Read More ...
Technique: Coloring Blue Hair for a Fantasy Themed Card
Sometimes you might have a stamp of a fairy, mermaid, witch or other fantasy girl and you don’t want her to have “normal” colored hair so why not try coloring her hair blue for a really unique look. Yani at … Read More ...
Stampin’ Up Review : Holiday Catalog Part 2
Stampin Up has just released their brand new Holiday Catalog. This supplement adds Fall, Winter, Christmas and New Years items to the current Stampin’ Up lineup and will only be available to order for a limited time.
This new … Read More ...
Free Class: Birthday Cards
Craftsy is a great place to learn new crafting techniques, they offer on-line classes for many different crafts like jewelry, photography, quilting, cake decoration and paper arts too. They offer paid classes but also free mini class as well. Each … Read More ...
Project: Halloween Mummy Card
Stop over at the Simon Says blog for direction to make this adorable Halloween card using Mama Elephant stamps and dies, how cute is that little mummy? You’ll find a detailed video tutorial with several stamping techniques like “second generation” … Read More ...
Tip: Handwriting on Cards
If you don’t have the perfect saying or sentiment to add to a card why not write it yourself? I know many of us, myself included, don’t particularly like our own handwriting but with a little practice and the right … Read More ...
Technique: Water Color Card Using Re-Inkers
The tiny bottles of ink used to refill a dried up ink pad can be use for more then just re-inking those pads, they can also be mixed with water and used as watercolors. The Paperfections blog shares how to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Felt Flower Card Embellishment
Metal die cuts are just for paper, you can also use them cut fabric , thin sheets of metal, felt thin chipboard and lots more. Using a pretty little flower and leaf die cut Betsy Veldman made a pretty little … Read More ...