Nothing says summer like pinwheels. This super fun interactive card has movable pinwheels shaped from textured plastic. Visit the Imagine Crafts blog for project directions.
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Tip: Using Stamps for Stitching
Wow, how amazing is this pincushion? And yes, this post does have to with stamping 🙂 Tammy Tutterow will show you how she uses her stamps for stitching designs. What a great way to get more from your stamps! Visit … Read More ...
Tip: Reverse Stamping
Flip your stamps! Do you have a stamp you’d like the reverse of? It’s fun to have the same image facing each other so they can do things like talk or kiss each other. Ardyth with SugarPea Stamps will show … Read More ...
Project: Sentiment Shaker Card
There are so many cool sentiments dies out right now and there are lots of techniques you can do with them, they don’t have to just be a plain die cut image. Linda from A Happy Scramper used her sentiment … Read More ...
Tip: Make Your Own Garden Gate Shape with Dies
I love this clever garden gate card, so sweet! Amy Sheffer used a couple of different dies, a stitched arch shape and some strips to put together this custom shaped garden gate. She’ll show you how she put it together … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Galaxy Rock Painting
I love finding stamping projects that are not cards, stamping on something you’re not expecting. And wow, way to think off the card with these awesome rocks! These fun galaxy rocks were painted, stenciled and stamped by Libby Hickson. Wouldn’t … Read More ...
Technique: Partial Die Cutting for Combined Stamps
Do you have two stamped images you’d like to use together and you don’t want to cut them out but you do have dies for both images? Therese Calvird had that problem, the ice cream cone and truck are not … Read More ...
Project: Winter Trees Easy Shaker Card
In my recent preview of some new products from the 2017 Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog (click here if you missed it) I made a fun shaker card and thought I’d upload a video tutorial showing how I made … Read More ...
Tips: Water Coloring Flower Stamps
To make this bright and cheerful floral card May Park shares some great tips for water coloring your flower stamped images along with a masking technique for overlapping images. Visit her blog Mayholic Deisgns for a video tutorial.
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Technique: Embossed Ribbon
I love adding ribbon to my cards, it always adds a nice touch of texture. And this cool technique from Dina Kowal adds even more texture to ribbon with embossing. By using embossing folders that would normally emboss paper she’ll … Read More ...
Project: Unicorn Sun Burst Card
Along with mermaids I’m also loving the unicorn card craze going on! Bring on the fantasy! Ilina Crouse made this fabulous unicorn card with different ink colors on a large sun burst stamp from Concord and 9th for the background. … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Starry Sky Silhouette Cards
Wow these starry night sky card background are amazing! Using techniques like ink blending, ink sprays and paint splatter Nichol Spohr will show you how she made these Night Sky Silhouette cards. Visit her blog for a video tutorial.
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Printable: Coloring Page Book Marks
Two of my favorite things to do are read and color. Especially in the summer when it’s too hot to do much outside. If you love these things too here’s the perfect DIY project, printable book marks with the look … Read More ...
Tip: Easier Card Layouts with Press N Seal
If you want to layer a bunch of stamped, punched or die cut images on your card front it can be super frustrating laying them all out just how you want and then having to flip or move them to … Read More ...
Tip: Hippo Card with Altered Stamp Image
Designer Jane Allen came up with a super clever idea for this card. She altered a hippo stamp by turning his feet into hands and using those along with the hippo’s head making it so the hippo could peek over … Read More ...