I’m so excited about the brand new Stampin’ Up 2017 catalog! It’s loaded with tons of new stamps, pattern papers, dies, inks, embellishments and more. Inside you’ll find wood, clear and cling stamps for many occasions with themes like … Read More ...
Project: Father’s Day Accordion Card
Tell Dad he’s the worlds best this Father’s Day with this awesome Accordion Fold Card. Use stamping and scrapbooking elements to add personalized memories and photos. Visit Close to My Heart for a video tutorial.
-Heather
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Download: Hipster Rabbits Images for Father’s Day
Got a cool trendy Dad? This wonderful Hipster Rabbits download includes color or black and white images to make a awesome home decor projects and/or cards for Father’s Day. Click here to visit Designs By Miss Mandee to download for … Read More ...
Technique and Project: Star Wars Card with Water Color Galaxy Background
Yulis has an awesome tutorial water coloring a galaxy background for a fun Star Wars inspired card. Check out her tutorial over on the Magnolia with Heart blog.
-Heather… Read More ...
Project: Vintage Baby Shower Invitation
This precious vintage style baby shower invite uses stamps, papers and embellishments from Graphic 45. Aneta Matuszewska has a video tutorial showing how to make it along with photo inspiration of stunning baby album over on the Graphic 45 blog, … Read More ...
Tips and Tutorials: Die Cut Felt Animal Cards
Oh my gosh, how cute are these? I love using materials other then paper on my cards. Felt adds a nice look and feel but can be bulky or hard to adhere to cards but Jennifer McGuire has some great … Read More ...
Techniques: 5 Different Cards with One Stamp Set
When you plunk down your hard earned money on a stamp set you want to know you’re going to get a lot of use out of it., right? So having lots of ideas and techniques you can use on just … Read More ...
Tips: Get Great Result with Multi Layer Stamps
Loads of stamp companies have some amazing multi layered stamp sets where you stamp images over top of each other in different colors and the results are very realistic dimensional images. But lining them up can sometimes be challenging so … Read More ...
Download: Summer Pattern Papers
You can download this wonderful summer themed set of pattern papers to use on cards or scrapbook pages for FREE over at Free Pretty Things for You, click here.
-Heather
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Technique: DIY Card Embellishments with a Glue Gun
This is such a clever idea for making your own custom card accents. By using a glue gun you can write or draw designs and color them with yourStaz- On inks. How cool! Find out how to make your … Read More ...
Technique: Embossing Colored with Copics
Jen Carter achieved this bright and cheerful look by using Copics markers to color over top of a white heat embossed stamped sentiment. What a great and simple idea to add multiple colors to word stamps. Hop on over to … Read More ...
Projects: Pirate Boy and Girl Birthday Cards
A pirate’s life for me! With the Pirate’s of the Caribbean movie coming out pirates are once again popping up everywhere. These adorable girl and boy pirate themed cards are perfect for any young one’s birthday. Find directions for making … Read More ...
Tip: 5 Different Techniques for Foiling
Adding foil to your cards adds a wonderful metallic shine. There are many different technique you can use to add foiling like adhesive sheets and transfer medium, some ideas require a foiling or laminating machine but some don’t. Nina-Marie has … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Stamping With Stencils
There are so many things you can do with stencils but did you know you can also stamp with them? This clever idea comes from Jess over on Hero Arts. She inked up her stencils with Distress Ink , spritzed … Read More ...
Technique: Basket Weave Edged Card
Kelly Acheson designed this fun card that has a basket weave pattern down the folded edge. She’s got a template you can download and use to make the cuts and shows you how to fold them for this neat pattern. … Read More ...