I’m sure some of you might wonder why here on the Stamping blog I post so many free coloring pages. There are several reasons, one being if you stamps and make cards you probably love to color like I do, … Read More ...
12 Fruity Handmade Card Ideas using Stamps and Dies
This sunny yellow lemon card from Mindy uses stamps and dies from Gina K. She used different ink pad colors to add shading to the stamped lemons and leaves. Watch her video tutorial on the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog. … Read More ...
12+ FREE Summer Fruits and Drinks Digital Stamps
If you’re working on Summertime greeting cards, scrapbook layouts or planner pages you need to download this fun and fruity set of digital stamps! There’s 12 large and several small summer fruits, drinks and sweets images in a hand drawn … Read More ...
12 Red, White and Blue Card Ideas
Joy used dies to create a pretty jar full of greenery, flowers and small American flags. Notice how she used vellum for the jar to give a semi-transparent look. And I love the addition of light teal blue instead of … Read More ...
12 Handmade In the Garden Card Ideas with Stamps and Dies
Rachel used a beautiful garden trellis die with bricks below to draw the eye into the garden scene with birds and daffodils. She added color to her dies with markers. Find a video tutorial for this card over on the … Read More ...
Add Color to Stencil Paste for Beautiful Card Backgrounds
Stenciling paste is fun way to add texture to your cards and other paper crafting projects, simply spread over a stencil, lift the stencil (clean it with water) and let dry. Most stenciling paste is white which can sometimes be … Read More ...
12 Handmade Tropical Card Ideas
This card features pretty pink Whimsy Stamps die cut Hibiscus flowers and blue leaves in tie dye patterns created with Distress Inks. There’s also a gold embossed sentiment and gold sparkly dot accents for shine too. I spotted this card … Read More ...
Interactive Sub Shop Card for Dad
Let Dad know how truly special he is with an over the top card for Father’s Day or for a birthday. Grace has used stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn to create this amazing interactive Sub Shop card. The front … Read More ...
12 Handmade Nautical Card Ideas (Great for Masculine Cards!)
This stunning porthole card has wooden texture from an embossing folder, gold brads for rivets and silver cardstock for the die cut anchor that all give great shine and texture to the design. I came across this idea in the … Read More ...
Create 5 Different Cards with One Butterfly Embossing Folder
If you’re not familiar with embossing folders they are a plastic folder that you place cardstock inside and run through a die cutting machine that creates raised embossed designs. The Fantasy Butterflies embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp has beautiful … Read More ...
10 More Handmade Card Ideas for Father’s Day
If you’re Dad loves the ocean check out this amazing sea turtle Dad and child card from Andrea. She colored the stamped turtles with Copic markers and created her ocean background with inking, splatter, and glaze through a stencil. Learn … Read More ...
Free Build a Sentiment Digital Stamp Set
Finding the perfect sentiment for a card design is the cherry on the cake, it’s the finishing touch. I like to add a sentiment on the front of the card and another inside so I’m usually adding two to each … Read More ...
12 Handmade Wedding Card Ideas
This lovely card from Nicki uses a dry embossing folder to create the raised design, she used ink pads to add some color. Learn more about this design and see 5 other cards with the same folder over on the … Read More ...
12 Handmade Father’s Day Card Ideas
Jennifer created a gorgeous outdoor scene of a Father Bear and his child with a heart warming sentiment using stamps colored with Copic Markers. I adore her hand drawn background! Visit the My Favorite Things blog for a closer look.… Read More ...
How to Make Faux Wax Seals
Wax seals have been having a moment lately. I know they’ve been around for hundreds of years and have bursts of popularity from Harry Potter (his Hogwarts letter was sealed with red wax) and again when vintage and mixed media … Read More ...