Visit the Ball Point Bliss blog and let Juliet Arrighi show you how to turn punched and stamped circles into a lovely folded flower card.
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Technique: Fabric Stamping
Stamping on fabric is fun, easy, not too messy 🙂 and can add a lot of pop to any fabric project. Visit Elizabeth Allen’s Art Studio blog for a nice instructional video on how to stamp on fabric.
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Technique: Stamping on Washi Tape
Visit the Hambly Screen Prints blog and learn how to stamp on washi tape to add cool texture and design to your cards.
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Inspiration: Stamped Canvas
I’m in love with this mixed media stamped and painted canvas from Jess at the Whimsical Butterfly blog! She combined paints, stamps from The Greeting Farm and markers to make this wonderful canvas. Find more info here on her blog… Read More ...
Technique: Embossing with Wood
I always look at clever paper crafting ideas and say to myself “Now why couldn’t I have thought of that?” 🙂 Here’s one of those ideas, using a thin wooden embellishment to emboss with instead of an embossing folder, how … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Plant Pot Cake
Believe it or not these are not potted plants, they are cakes! Find out how to make this wonderful stamped plant pots with cake inside over at the Witticisms blog. She even made a stamped card to go along … Read More ...
Tip: Smooch Inks
Visit Catherine Pooler’s blog for a quick video tutorial showing how to use Smooch Ink to add shimmer to your stamped images for a pretty floral card.
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Technique: Adding Dimension to Stamps
Christine over at the Flourishes blog shares how she adds a lot of depth and dimension to her stamped images by stamping multiples, cutting and layering with foam tape. The results are so realistic!
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Technique: Spray Masking
Paper sprays, such as Glimmmer Mist, are super popular right now, they make great backgrounds for cards and scrapbook pages. Stencils are a traditional way to use masks but Michelle at the Pink Paislee blog used what she had … Read More ...
Project: Tissue Tape Flower
Visit Tim Holtz’s blog and learn some cool techniques to do with his Tissue Tape, including inking and a video on how to make this pretty flower embellishment.
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Technique: Colored Pencils
Shari Carroll shares a great video over on the Hero Arts site, learn how to get gorgeous shading results by colored your stamped images with colored pencils . Click here for her video tutorial.
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Tips for Using Shrink Plastic
Shrink Plastic is a versatile and enjoyable crafting material that can be used to create a wide range of DIY projects. Whether you’re looking to make scrapbooking embellishments, unique jewelry pieces, stylish home decor items, fun kids’ crafts, or … Read More ...
Technique: Impress Embossing
Bees are very trendy right now! Visit the Paper, Scissors and Superheros blog and learn how to make these stunning embossed silver bees by pressing the stamp into the melted embossing powder.
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Tip: Creative Use for Stamps
It’s fun to use a stamp in a way in really wasn’t intended for. For example Kelly Marie from Lawn Fawn shares a creative video using a snowflake stamp to make a doily image, very clever! Click here for the … Read More ...
Tip: Coloring with Different Mediums
Coloring your stamped images with different mediums will give you different results, chalks are soft and pastel, markers are bold and bright…Nichol Magouirk made the same card three times but used different mediums to color each one. She used Design … Read More ...