Dirty stamps can muddy your ink, make a mess when stored and in the case of clear stamps can stop them from clinging to your clear stamping blocks. The Some Odd Girl blog has some quick and easy tips for … Read More ...
Tutorial: Make Your Own Custom Stencils
You can create your own stencils with stencil material (or thin plastic acetate sheets) and die cuts and punches just like Alma did for this lovely star card. She’s sharing a tutorial over on the Cat’s Pajamas Stamps blog making … Read More ...
Technique: Letterpress Note Cards with Dies
Letterpressing is a very old technique and it reminds me a bit of reversed embossing. Usually, you need special machines to do traditional letter press but you can achieve a very similar look by embossing die cut letters and images … Read More ...
Technique: Foiling Digital Stamps
Foiling is super trendy and hot right now! There are machines, glues and tools for foiling as well as pre-foiled papers and embellishments. So there are many different way to achieve a foiled look. You can even foil your digital … Read More ...
Freebie and Techniques: Stamping Technique Cards
Have you ever seen a cool stamping technique on-line or been to a card class and then later thought, how do I do that again? 🙂 Well Technique Cards are a great way to keep track of those “how to” … Read More ...
Inspiration and Technique: Fresh Ideas from a Young Stamper
I love guys who stamp, I love teens who stamp so I’m in love with Simon Hurley! 🙂 I recently stumbled across his awesome blog thinking what cute cards were on the blog and then got a present surprise to … Read More ...
Project: Scribble Style Holiday Cards
You can find complete directions for making these 3 Holiday cards over on Vintage Muse Designs. Using products from Tim Holtz, with different watercolor backgrounds using Distress Ink and adding scribble die cuts over top Bobbi made these fun cards … Read More ...
Technique: Gold Stenciled Background
Using stencils on paper crafting projects is still going strong and you can use them to add a lovely metallic shine to your projects with a gold metallic texture paste. And using it on darker colored cardstock really makes the … Read More ...
Freebie and Technique: Coloring Pages with Markers
Tombo is one of the leaders in markers, their brush markers are perfect for coloring in your stamped images but also to use to color on coloring pages. Tombo is sharing FOUR stunning nature inspired coloring pages for free along … Read More ...
Project: Fall Fox Card with Bleach Technique
This sweet fox card is perfect for fall, with the embossed forest tree background, the touch of burlap and the cute curled up fox. The fox was stamped onto red cardstock and heat embossed and then some of the color … Read More ...
Project: Die Cut Shaped Treat Boxes
Here’s fun idea for a treat holder. You can turn any large die cut shape into a treat box with this easy tutorial from Ashley. Die cut two same size shapes, one for front and the other for the back … Read More ...
Tip: Curving Clear Stamps
Here’s a quick tip for getting more use from your clear stamps. If you have a long straight image or sentiment stamp you can actually bend or curve the image when you apply it to your clear block to make … Read More ...
Tutorial: Cheers! Monster Card
This cute monster is ready to drink up some brew (or maybe brewskies?) Learn how to mask out a stamped scene with this cute little guy and a trio of drinks using a stamp positioner tool. The Just One More … Read More ...
Technique: Stitching on Paper
You can add a lovely textured background to your cards with stitching, add stamped images, dies or embellishments on top for a stunning card. Julia Stainton shares some tips for sewing on paper using a sewing machine over on her … Read More ...
Freebie and Tips: Coloring Pink Hair on Stamped Images
If you’ve got a stamp of a fantasy girl like a mermaid or a fairy it’s fun to give them non traditional hair coloring, like pink. The Greeting Farm blog has a color combo using Copic Markers for pink hair … Read More ...