W Plus 9 Designs shares a video tutorial for making this winter branch card. I love the “faux snow” using Glossy Accents and glitter, it makes the perfect sparkly touch!
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Tip: Coloring with Distress Inks
Elizabeth Allan shares some great tips about coloring your stamped images with Rangers Distress Inks on glossy paper. The big pow of color she got is really beautiful!
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Project: Four-Sided Stamped Ornaments
Learn how to diecut and stamp some cute 4- sided holiday ornaments for your tree. Instructions and tips are on the Blockheads Blog.
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Project: Stamped Tote Bag
Looking for a cute tote bag to take your books to the library or carry home your groceries? Why not stamp one! Find instructions for this cute tote bag over at the Stampington and Co. site.
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Technique: Embossed and Brayer Background
Betsy Veldman teaches how to add a big pop of color to your dry embossed paper images using stamping ink and a brayer. Watch her technique video over on the Capture the Moment blog.
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Freebie: Online Papercrafting Magazine
The fall issue of the free on-line magazine Scrapbook and Cards Today is now available. It’s chocked full of great paper crafting tips, ideas, projects and more. Including directions for this fun turkey card from Nicole Magouirk. Click here to … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Pendants
You can make your own cool custom stamped jewelry by trapping your stamped image behind glazes in a varity of different settings. When Creativity Knocks shares some how to, tips and different styles for making your own pendants, click here… Read More ...
Tip: Box for Thick Cards
Have you ever made a wonderful card, lots of great embellishments and thick layers and then think “Now, how in the world will this fit in an envelope?” Leslie over at Running with Scissors solved this problem by making her … Read More ...
Tip: Stamped Overlays
The Stampavie blog shares a simple idea for making your own overlays. Don’t buy them, stamp your own 🙂
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Tip: How to Shade with Markers
Using markers to color your stamp images is still all the rage. Here’s a great how to tutorial from Mama Dini’s Stamperia for getting the perfect shading using your markers.
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Technique: Tone on Tone Stamped Background
It’s not too early to start thinking about holiday cards. Lily Pad Cards shares an instructional video for making this lovely ornament card, the tone on tone background technique using Distress Ink and water is so cool! Click here … Read More ...
Project: Howling Wolf Card
This card would be perfecrt for a Twilight fan (only a few short weeks until Breaking Dawn pt 1!! 🙂 ). Visit Zindorf’s blog to learn how to use stamps, punches, inks and a brayer to create this wonderful card.… Read More ...
Tip: Stamp a Halloween Scene
Fantstshares step by step how to mask, stamp and color a cool Halloween graveyard scene.
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Are you looking for more Halloween Embellishments, papers, and supplies? Check out these printable designs we found on Etsy and these fun Halloween … Read More ...
Project: Snowman Circles Christmas Card
I love using stamps for ideas other than what they were intended for, it helps you got a lot more mileage from your stamps to think outside the box. This cute snowman card from Shari Carroll for Hero Arts is … Read More ...
Exclusive Review: Inkadinkado Stamp-a-Story Stamps
This is the last week of our month with Inkadinkado stamps. And today I’ve got another chance to share an exclusive look at brand new, not yet released stamps! Stop back by on Wednesday for our last big prize package … Read More ...