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Suzanne shares how she made her mixed media card background using torn pattern papers, paint and string. Along with this sweet fairy image from Some Odd Girl it makes the perfect Springtime card.
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Several companies have dies that cut tiny rows of holes to incorporate cross stitching on your paper crafting projects. They made great additions to cards, book marks, tags and scrapbook pages. Marianne designs is sharing some FREE Easter themed cross … Read More ...
Large shaped dies are perfect for making fun shaped cards. Ilina used a large butterfly die from Hero Arts to cut out her card base, adding some lovely stamped flowers in white embossing which really pop on the dark cardstock.… Read More ...
Up your doodling game with this pretty technique from Norine. She stamped out some layered flower and leaves in different colors of ink and then added her own hand drawing around the images for a really wonderful artist look. This … Read More ...
Succulents like cactus and aloe are really trendy designs right now. Even if you don’t have a green thumb they are easy to care for but if you still can’t grow the real thing these coloring pages won’t die on … Read More ...
If you’re looking for paper crafting inspiration Paper Pumpkin is here to inspire you and bring creativity to your door each and every month. Paper Pumpkin is a subscription kit brought to you by the folks at Stampin’ Up.… Read More ...
Paper Crafter Magazine has a whopping 53 different Spring and Easter themed digital stamps from Tattered Lace that you can download for FREE! WOW! Note: you will need to register to download them.
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I love how cheerful this Springtime botanical card from Bobbi Smith is. She die cut a bunch of leaves and flowers from white cardstock and then used a water brush and Distress Oxide Inks to color her die cut shapes. … Read More ...
Sometimes solid stamped image can look a bit flat. Nichol has some great tips on adding shading, shadow and depth to solid stamps by using colored pencils. I think this really gives them a much more realistic look.
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I find masculine cards can sometimes be tricky to create, I have so many flowers and cute animals stamps and those might not work for every guy. Amber used some bold triangle stamps with dark ink colors and filled them … Read More ...
This cute card is double the interactive fun. It’s a shaker card and also when you press the button the terrarium jar lights up. How cool! Kelly shares how she used lights from Chibitronics to create it.
These Hippos look like they are ready to head out on a fun tropical vacation. Using some current trends like inking, stenciling and Nuvo Drops Allison created this pretty travel card.
These colorful cards created by Carly were made using a marbling technique with alcohol inks. The backgrounds are the star so some simple die-cutting and sentiment is all that is needed to finish these off. Honey Bee
I find it challenging to create cards using only dies so I was really inspired by Jung Ahsang. She created three amazing cards with no stamping, using some of the Die D-lite dies from Spellbinders . All her extra touches … Read More ...
Therese Calvird decided to use two artists that she admires and use there style to inspire her bird cards. I love her Andy Warhol card, the look is instantly recognizable as Andy but with her own spin on it. She’s … Read More ...
