Hero Arts has recently release some beautiful new Ombre’ Ink pads. These pretty pads will give a gradient color perfect for backgrounds or on solid stamped images. You can find several card ideas using these ink over on their blog … Read More ...
Project: Balloon Card with Blending and Masking Techniques
Visit the Amy Doodle of it All blog and watch Amy’s video tutorial for make this fun balloon card. She’ll show you how to color and blend with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and also how to mask off the main … Read More ...
Project: Card with Distress Ink or Faux Bleach Technique
The Altenew stamps blog is sharing a card with a cool stamping technique using Distress Ink . Since these inks react with water you can create an inked background on your cardstock, spray water onto a clear stamp and press … Read More ...
Technique: Cards Accented with Die Cuts and a Resit Technique
Designer Karolyn Loncon shares two wonderful card projects on the My Favorite Things blog. The first is a fantastic use of dies, she got wonderful texture and pattern by layering an intricately cut floral die cut out of white onto … Read More ...
Technique: Custom Envelopes Decorated with Custom Stamps
Don’t send your wonderful hand stamped cards in a plain envelope, make the envelope as pretty as the card! Mark Montano shares how you can make your own large custom stamps using embossing folders and thin sheets of fun foam. … Read More ...
Project: Get Well Pop Up Tissue Box
Wanting to cheer up someone who is feeling sick? Make them this sweet pop-up tissue box card. The Scrapping and Stamping in California blog has complete directions for cutting, scoring , folding and assembling this cute card, click here.
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Tip: Making Custom Stamps using Metal Dies
Do you have any die cuts that you wish were actually stamps instead? Well, guess what, in many cases you can make a stamp from a metal die using thin crafting foam, how cool is that?! The Card Making Connections … Read More ...
Techniques: 10 Ways to Use Ink Sprays
Ink sprays and mists are so much fun to play with and they are so many techniques you can do with them, they can be used on cards, scrapbook pages, collage art and home decor projects using papers and fabrics.. … Read More ...
Project: Birthday Card with a Pull Up
What a fun birthday card! The little girl actually pulls up from underneath the cupcake! Caryn Davies from Glitter Me Silly created this cool card using stamped images and die cuts and she’s posted a video tutorial showing you step … Read More ...
Product Review: Chalk Inks from Stampin’ Up
The chalk ink pads made by Color Box and carried by Stampin’ Up are the perfect way to get that popular chalk board look. They pair wonderfully with Stampin’ Up’s Chalk Board paper for making greeting cards, scrapbook pages … Read More ...
Project: Easter Treat Box
Roxanne created this cute Easter treat box using papers and stamps from Lawn Fawn. She covered a fry shaped box with pattern paper and added stamped tags, images and words for a fun treat holder but the best thing is … Read More ...
Project: Burlap Easter Bag
Die cut paper shapes don’t always have to be applied to cards and scrapbook pages you can also add them to fabric, like with this adorable Easter bag. The Echo Park Paper blog cut out some bunny shapes and applied … Read More ...
Project: Easter Diorama Card
The Rubber Cafe blog has directions for making a sweet diorama card for Easter. How fun to open the card and find a fun dimensional scene inside! Use a scoring board for fast scoring and folds or if you don’t … Read More ...
And the Winner is………….
Congrats to Linda Biedermann, you’re the winner of the Stampin’ Up Paper Pumpkin Kit giveaway! Please respond to the e-mail I’ve sent you.
And thanks to everyone who entered. Check back next month, we’ll be giving away the Paper Pumpkin … Read More ...
Project: Elephant Shaker Card
How sweet is this elephant card for JJ Bolton? Shakers cards are so much fun to make and I love the twist JJ added by just having one small section of the card be a shaker, so cute! She’s sharing … Read More ...