Learn how to use your paper crafting supplies, like pattern paper, stamps, embellishments and dies to wrap lovely gifts anyone would enjoy receiving. Rebecca Luminarias shares her tips over on the Capture the Moment blog. Click here for her detailed … Read More ...
Tip: Die Cutting Felt
Felt shapes add a wonderful soft touch to any card or project. And using your metal dies you can cut out your own felt shapes and embellishments. Combine them with embossing, stamping or paper die cutting for lovely card designs. … Read More ...
Tip: 5 Different Techniques for Foiling
Adding foil to your cards adds a wonderful metallic shine. There are many different technique you can use to add foiling like adhesive sheets and transfer medium, some ideas require a foiling or laminating machine but some don’t. Nina-Marie has … Read More ...
Tip: Sentiment Stamped Card Background
Get more from your sentiment and word stamps by stamping them repeatedly to make a card background. Find some tips and project directions for this idea over on the Capture the Moment blog.
-Heather
… Read More ...Projects: Rainbow Card Backgrounds with Cardstock Scraps
I’m sure like me you’ve got lots of scraps of colored cardstock laying around, right? Well, Jennifer McGuire has some great uses for those scraps. Using a paper shredder she cut out loads of strips and used them for different … Read More ...
Tip: Stamping on an Angle
Learn how to line up and stamp your images and sentiments straight on an angle using a stamp positioning tool. The Happy Scrapper shares this tip while making this fun teacher card, click here to check it out.
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… Read More ...Technique: Spring Scene Card with No-line Stamping Water Color
This card look hand painted but is really stamped! Mayline Jung will show you how to get this wonderful soft look with a no-line stamp technique and coloring with Zig Clean Color markers using pretty Penny Black stamps. Visit her … Read More ...
Tip: How to Make a Custom Envelope
Lets go back to basics and learn to make a DIY envelope. Using just a square of pattern paper you can us this simple folding technique to make a custom envelope for any card. Visit the Skillshare site for a … Read More ...
Project: Card with Braille Sentiment
What a wonderful idea to incorporate braille onto a card! Even if the recipient doesn’t read braille the sentiment is still a wonderful idea and maybe they’ll learn something new by finding out what the phrase means. The raised dots … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stamped Card with Raised Sentiment
Nicole Spohr has directions for making this card with a floral stamped and embossed background with matching raised sentiment, how lovely! By die cutting the word from fun foam and layering the same die cut shaped word from her stamped … Read More ...
Technique: Stamping with Water
Allison Cope is going to show up how to stamp with water, yup water! Since certain stamping inks react with water she was able to ink up some panels of water color paper, apply water to her stamps and that … Read More ...
Tip: Stamping Realistic Trees
Alexandra got these stamped trees to look so realistic by inking them with different colors of Distress Ink and spritzing them with water before stamping. You could use this technique on lots of other images like flowers too. Visit the … Read More ...
Inspiration: 13 Cards Made with Punches
In the last few years with die cutting becoming so popular I think sometimes we forgot about how awesome punches are. Before dies it’s pretty much all we had to make shapes from paper (unless your good at hand cutting). … Read More ...
Project and Tip: 3D Dimensional Flower Cards
Using large floral stamps and coordinating dies from Hero Arts Yana Smakula made some stunning 3D Dimensional Flower Cards. She’s got a video over on the Hero Arts blog showing how to use these products.
But my tip is you … Read More ...
Trend: Jars!!
Jars are really trendy right now, whether it’s real canning jars or images of jars they are every where in the crafting world right now. There are lots of jar stamps right now and there are so many fun way … Read More ...