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8 Ways to Color Stamps

October 8, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

8 Ways to Color Stamps

There are many ways to add color to your stamping. There are markers, pencils, ink pads, embossing powders and more. If you’re new to stamping or a seasoned stamper looking to get out of your “go to” coloring mediums check … Read More ...

Wide Washi Tape Cards

October 6, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Wide Washi Tape Cards

Altenew has just released some beautiful rolls of wide Washi Tape. These tapes make great card backgrounds or sections can be cut away for smaller images. I love the trendy galaxy tape! Vicky Papaioannou  created 5 cards with these … Read More ...

Replace the “O” Holiday Cards

October 4, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Replace the "O" Holiday Cards

These adorable Christmas cards from Sara Torzullo use a Reindeer or Santa face to replace the “o” in holiday words like Joy and Noel. Any stamp or die cut with a roundish shape would work for this cute idea.

Find … Read More ...

Apple Shaped Card

October 4, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Apple Shaped Card

This card idea is so clever, it uses a stencil to make a shaped card. Marleen used an apple stencil to make this cute apple shaped card. There are so many large stencil shapes that would be perfect to turn … Read More ...

Cards with Just Stamps and Inks

October 3, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Cards with Just Stamps and Inks

Back in the day when I started stamping it was mostly just rubber stamps, ink pads and cardstock. Not a lot of layers, no die cutting, no Copics (gasp!), just simple but still cute of course. Kristina Werner goes … Read More ...

Shutter Gatefold Fall Card

October 2, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Shudder Gatefold Fall Card

This amazing Shutter Gatefold card has an aperture inside the opens when the card is opened to reveal a sentiment. How cool is that? Mary Deatherage has step by step photo and video instruction for making one.

Shudder Gatefold Fall Card

Visit Splitcoast Stampers … Read More ...

How to Add Color to Stencil Paste

October 1, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Make Your Own Colored Stencil Paste

Simon Hurley has a great tip for getting customized color for your stencil paste. Using Nuvo Glimmer Paste and mixing it with Distress Ink her got not only great color but sparkle and shine with glitter. He’s sharing a video … Read More ...

White Line Stamping Technique

October 1, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

White Line Stamping Technique

Instead of using black ink to stamp with get a more subtle look using white ink instead. Mindy Baxter stamped her images with clear ink, colored them with Copic Markers and then stamped over again using white ink using a … Read More ...

3 Heather Ellis Digital Stamps

September 30, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

3 Heather Ellis Digital Stamps

Heather Ellis, the designer of the adorable Pure Innocence stamps has offered 3 FREE digital stamp downloads over on Craft Stash. There’s a cute boy bundled up for winter, a sweet girl with flowers and a bear with a drink.… Read More ...

Inspiration: Apples

September 29, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Card Inspiration: Apples

This is the best time of year for apples. Of course they are great for eating but they are also a great inspiration for paper crafting. Autumn, harvest, back to school, teachers, Halloween and Fall festival cards and scrapbook pages … Read More ...

Fall Tree Die Cuts Card

September 29, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Fall Tree Die Cuts Card

Kittie used small applicators and ink pads to color the die cut leaves and birds on this stunning fall tree card. The movement she achieved with the falling leaves and flying birds is amazing. And I love how she got … Read More ...

Washi Tape Christmas Card

September 28, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Washi Tape Christmas Card

Sarah created this lovely Christmas card by laying out strips of different patterns of washi tape. So pretty but so easy. It reminds me of a vintage Christmas quilt.

You can find her card directions over on the Hobby … Read More ...

5 Fall One Layer Cards

September 23, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

5 Fall One Layer Cards

One layers cards mean they don’t have lots of layers of cardstock, dimension or embellishments but that doesn’t mean they have to be boring.  Yana has 6 one layer cards with Fall themes that are quick and easy and … Read More ...

Halloween Cards with Texture

September 22, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Halloween Cards with Texture

These Halloween cards featuring dies from Spellbinders have lots of great textures on them. Using items like sequins, burlap and glitter cardstock Justine added some great texture to these fun cards.

 

Halloween Cards with Texture

 

-Heather

Are you looking for more Halloween Embellishments,  papers,… Read More ...

Frankenstein’s Monster Cards

September 22, 2018 by Heather Holbrook

Frankenstein's Monster Cards

Amy R will show you how to get a nice dark smudged look around your Halloween images by using Oxide Inks. It’s prefect for backgrounds and adding some aging to the edges of papers. These Frankenstein’s Monster cards are … Read More ...

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