Have a cute stamped image that needs a background or someplace to stand? You can add some simple drawn lines and fill in some color with markers for a sidewalk and bushes. Art by Miran shares how she turned her … Read More ...
Technique: Halloween Card with Splatter Background
The Marker Pop blog has a video tutorial showing how to use a Spritzer Tool for a cool splatter background on Halloween cards. Click here to watch.
-Heather
Are you looking for more Halloween Embellishments, papers, and supplies? Check out … Read More ...
Project: Black Cat Halloween Canvas Art
Who says Halloween projects have to be black and orange? Try some non traditional colors in your next spooky project like with this funky black cat mixed media collage. This tutorial over at Stampington and Company will show you how … Read More ...
Project: Marbled Fall Leaf Card
This pretty fall leaf card is made with a couple of fun techniques like masking a stamped image using masking fluid and marbling the background paper with spray paints. Find complete directions over at Jo-Anns.
-Heather
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Project: Halloween Altered Clock
This amazing assemblage Halloween clock was made by Terry of Terry’s Work in Progress using products from Tim Holtz. She used the empty clock as a base and painted it and a variety of Halloween embellishments
with different paints, gesso, … Read More ...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Holiday Catalog Part 3
Stampin Up has recently released their brand new Holiday Catalog. This supplement adds Fall, Winter, Christmas and New Years items to the current Stampin’ Up lineup and will only be available to order for a limited time.
This new … Read More ...
Freebie: Halloween Digital Stamps
I love the cool and creepy vibe of the Octopode Factory digital stamps (check out their Etsy shop here), many of their images are perfect for Halloween. They have a great collection of freebies on their blog too … Read More ...
Project: Fox in the Forest Card
Lawn Fawn stamps is introducing some of their brand new winter and Christmas clear stamp sets and matching die stes like the lovely Joy to the Woods set, perfect for making cute woodland winter scenes. On the Lawn Fawn blog … Read More ...
Project: Fall Wreath with Stamped Metal Leaves
Hanging a wreath like this on your front door is sure get oohs and ahhs from your neighbors! Lisa King started with a Styrofoam wreath base, painted and wrapped it in ribbon and added her stunning embellishments like scrapbooking flowers … Read More ...
Freebie: Nerdy Cat Digi
Urban Threads offers designs for stitching and sewing but many of those designs can also work well for digital stamping too. They currently have an adorable “nerdy” cat in glasses available to download for free. Make a card for … Read More ...
Project: Halloween Candy Wrappers
Grab some left over scraps of pattern paper and ribbon,wrap them around candy bars
, add a simple stamped tag and you’ve got a great Halloween treat with some extra flair. Find more info over on the Inkadinkado stamps site. … Read More ...
Technique: Guide and Patterns to Stitch on Cards
Add an extra special touch to your cards by stitching on them. Paper Crafts magazine is sharing several free card patterns that incorporate stitching as well as fabric piecing. There’s also an embroidery guide to teach you lots of different … Read More ...
Technique: Coloring on Dry Embossed Paper
Using embossing templates gives your paper a lot of depth and texture and you can add even more by coloring on top of the embossing. Scribbling oil pastels over the embossing and then going over it with water gives your … Read More ...
Tip: How to Cut Detailed Die Cuts
There are some really lovely intricate metal dies on the market but sometimes it can be hard to get all those little details to cut out cleanly. Lori Craig at Splitcoast Stampers shares her tips, like using wax paper when … Read More ...
Technique: Layered Stamps Card
The Spectrum Noir blog shares how to make a lovely layered image card. By stamping the same stamped image on different papers and cutting them out and layering them together you’ll get a wonderful card with lots of dimension and … Read More ...