Designer Sandy Allnock has a video for making a fun pull tab slider card. In her video she’ll show you step by step how to cut and assemble the card. As well as some tips on water coloring and putting … Read More ...
Project: Treat Bag with a Window
You can find direction on how to add a die cut see though window to a gift bag over on the Rain Puddle Blog. Add some stamped images and a fun Pom-Pom made from bakers twine to finish it … Read More ...
Tutorial: Realistic Coloring for a Bunny Stamp
Marika is an expert at coloring stamped images for a realistic look. For this adorable bunny rabbit she combined Copic markers and Colored Pencils for an amazing look. It looks like you could reach out and pet the bunnies fur! … Read More ...
Tip and Project: How to Lighten Ink Pad Colors (Seahorse Card)
Yana Smakula has a great tip on how to get more from your dye based stamping ink pads, by using a white ink with the colored ink she gets a lighter version of the original color. This technique works really … Read More ...
Technique: Multi Coloring Foiling with Stamps
The very popular look of foiling can be achieved in a couple of different ways, there are machines and there are also foil sheets you use with sticky heat embossing and stamps. With the second technique you can get multi … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Shoes
Ever heard the phrase if it doesn’t move stamp on it? Well, here’s a fantastic stamping project that does move (when you wear them) and you can stamp on it, it’s shoes! This clever idea from Jen Matott can be … Read More ...
Tutorial: Vintage Water Color Card
Take your water coloring into a different direction by using sepia and other vintage tones. Hether Telford has step by step direction and a video tutorial showing how to get this antique look on your stamped cards. Use vintage style … Read More ...
Freebie: Cross Stitched Card Patterns
There are several die cuts and embossing folders on the market that are made for stitching and sewing. Marianne Designs is sharing 4 pretty cross stitch patterns so you can sew up some sweet cards. Grab a needle and some … Read More ...
Project: Grad Gift Card Holders
Cindy Shuster has directions for making 2 different gift card holder cards along with instructions for making a tassel from twine, perfect for making Graduation cards. Visit her blog Nutmeg Creations for all the details.
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Project: Rainbow Panda Card
Visit the W Plus 9 stamps blog and learn how to use Zig Clean Color markers to make a pretty rainbow background. I love the adorable panda on this card too! Check out Kelly Latevola’s video tutorial on their blog.… Read More ...
Project: Stamped Elephant T-Shirt
Here’s a great way to get more use out of your stamps, turn a boring ol’ t-shirt into a wearable piece of art! Using large stamps, stencils and lovely bright fabric paints The Pampered Stamper designed this fun colorful shirt. … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Flexible Embellishment
Decorating Mason jars is a really hot trend and here’s a really fun way to use your stamps to make flexible embellishments for jars, glasses, dishes or any round slick surface. Joyce Erb used Glossy Gel media mixed with paint … Read More ...
Project and Technique: Wild Flower Garden Handmade Card
This stunning wild flower card has so much depth. Mary Prasad got this look by using Ink Potion No. 9 solution over paper and then stamping the flowers using markers colored directly on stamps, this along with second generation stamping … Read More ...
Project: Tree Swing Stamped Canvas
This wonderful mixed media canvas project was designed by Vicky at Clips N’ Cuts. She used large rubber stamps, paints, gesso, stencils, beads, paper and more for this lovely art piece. She’s sharing a step by step video tutorial of … Read More ...
Tip: Striped Stamping
Jennifer McGuire has a fun tip for adding strips to your stamped images. By inking up a solid stamp with a light ink and then stamping directly on the stamp with a large striped stamp (also called a “kissing” technique) … Read More ...