For the last four weeks Blockheads has been sharing different techniques combining stamping and Studio Paints from Claudine Helmuth. Each week features three projects with that technique, a basic card, an advanced card and a wall tile. The weekly pdf … Read More ...
Technique: Chalk Background
Karen McAlpine made an interesting background for her card using mesh, Versamark ink and chalks, very cool! She also used chalks to color this pretty Romeo and Juliet stamp image as well. You can find more details over on her … Read More ...
Project: Card and Candy Box in One
This is such a sweet idea, it’s a card and candy box all in one! Find directions for cutting and folding this clever card box using a scoring board over at the BEADZ blog. It’s not too late to make … Read More ...
Project: Valentine Window Card
Pop on over to the Hero Arts website where Shari Carroll has a video and step by step instructions for making this lovely window card.
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Tip and Technique: How to Use a Blender Pen
The Daily Marker blog shares a great tutorial video for using a blender pen and markers for a beautiful soft watercolor effect for your stamped images. Click here to watch.
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Project: Stamped Shrink Plastic Embellishments
Find instructions for making this lovely card with a stamped floral background and pretty shrink plastic butterflies over on the Ranger website.
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Review: Scrap Happy Glue
The Rubber Cafe has a cool video tutorial for their Scrap Happy glue. It’s a tacky liquid glue that can be used for loads of different application in paper crafting. This video shows how to make giant glue dots for … Read More ...
Technique: Emboss Metal Embellishments
How lovely are these metal leaves and flower? Tammy Tutterow took plain metal embellishments and added color and shine by melting embossing powers on them, cool huh? Or should I say hot? 🙂 Click here to find out how she … Read More ...
Project: PoC Birthday Card
PoC, pop of color. I keep hearing this term pop up a lot , especially in fashion and now in stamping. Making a black and white card and adding a bold dash of color makes it very visually interesting. Catherine … Read More ...
Technique: Stamped Grid Card
Julie Korber made this pretty in pink floral card by stamping overtop cardstock that had grid lines dry embossed on it with a scoring board. This makes for a really cool tile looking effect! See more about her project on … Read More ...
Technique: Stamp Outside a Die Cut
Believe it or not the circle and the lamppost shown on this card are from one continuous piece of cardstock. Cool, huh? Visit the Blockheads website to find out how to achieve this “stamping outside the box” effect.
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Project: Swan Card
This card from Theresa Momber is simply lovely! She used mirror image stamping and a sponged background to create this beauty, find step by step instructions here on her blog Crafting the Web.
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Technique: Ghost Stamping
No it’s not time for Halloween just yet 🙂 But Betsy Veldman has a really neat technique to share called Ghost Stamping. Using masking and second generation stamping she shows how to make a single layer card that has loads … Read More ...
Technique: Stamping on Clay
Tha gals over at Paper Craft Connections share tips and ideas for stamping on clay and making some lovely ornaments.
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Sneak Peek: Stamp2Cut from Tim Holtz
Tim Holtz has teamed up with the Sizzix Eclipse electronic die cutting machine for his latest line to debut soon at CHA called Stamp2Cut. With this amazing new system you’ll be able to use the machine to die cut around … Read More ...