Technique Tuesday will teach you how to use a piercing template to create lovely backgrounds for your cards.
-Heather
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Technique Tuesday will teach you how to use a piercing template to create lovely backgrounds for your cards.
-Heather
… Read More ...I love all the different materials you can emboss with embossing folders, from paper to metal sheets, acetate and more. And here’s another fun thing to emboss, napkins! The Lifestyle Crafts blog shows you how to dress up plain napkins … Read More ...
The chalkboard look is really trendy right now! Find out how to get this hot look using your stamps over on the Stampendous blog.
-Heather
… Read More ...Laura at Make Life Lovely has a great way to use your stamping supplies to preserve your child’s hand print.
-Heather
… Read More ...The Verve Stamps blog has a great video showing how to align matching dies and stamps. Lots of companies are adding dies to go with their stamp images so you don’t need to cut them out, simply die cut them.… Read More ...
The background on this lovely card is dry embossed with an embossing folder but Vicki at Wizards Hangout took it one step further and added ink to the folder for a colored background “behind” the embossing. Visit her … Read More ...
Claudine’s Art Corner has a product review for the new Genius Platforms, this system for die cutting machines is magnetic so your thin metal dies will stay in place and not move around! For more tips on how to use … Read More ...
Say “Hello” to my little friend! The Fat Cat Stampers had directions for making a bright color washed swipe background, perfect for summer tags, cards and scrapbook pages.
-Heather
Looking for more Christmas Gnomes? Check these free DIY tutorials out … Read More ...
Annie Rose sure makes pretty cards! And over on Annie Rose Makes Things she’ll show you how to color in your stamped images using Distress Ink and a Blender Pen for a soft watercolor look.
-Heather
… Read More ...Dress up those plain old buttons with some stamping and heat embossing, Your Next Stamp will show you how.
-Heather
… Read More ...I’m seeing more and more intricate and detailed dies for paper crafting and sometimes it can be a little hard to get a perfect cut with them. Christine at Card Maker Connections has several useful tips like using wax paper … Read More ...
Wow, these cards are real works of art! Jill Foster used Distress Paints from Tim Holtz instead of stamping ink directly on her rubber stamps to get this fabulous effect. Find out more on her blog Inspired By.
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Here’s another cool way to use your die cuts that I can’t resist, use them as a resist for a card background. The All in an Inch blog has details on how to do this technique along with a lots … Read More ...
The Lifestyle Crafts blog has a really cool idea for using detailed die cuts, use them as a stencil instead of a die cut. Using a pen you can trace the design instead of cut it out, how clever!
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Lots of stamp companies are now offering matching dies to go with their stamp images so you don’t have to cut around it out, just die cut it. The My Favorite Things blog has another way to use these same … Read More ...