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Technique: Easy Water Background for Cards

May 29, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Technique: Easy Water Background for Cards

Here’s a quick and easy way to make a background look for a cards that looks like water using Distress Ink perfect for summer, beach and nautical themes. The Clips-N-Cuts blog has a video tutorial to show you how.

-Heather… Read More ...

Project: DIY Background Stamp from Foam

May 27, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Project: DIY Background Stamp from Foam

Cutting foam craft sheets you can make yourself a cool abstract background stamp, find out more over at Mellissa Samuels blog.

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Project: Owl Card

May 26, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Project: Owl Card

Hoot Hoot Horray! I love the sentiment on this fun card from The Fabulously Artsy blog, find directions there for making this fun owl stamped card.

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Freebie: Father’s Day Digital Stamp

May 24, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Freebie: Father's Day Digital Stamp

The Dearie Dolls blog has a sweet digi stamp to download for free for Father’s Day.

-Heather

Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital stamps at Design Bundle… Read More ...

Project: Fancy Die Cut Card

May 23, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Project: Fancy Die Cut Card

Linda Lucas has a video tutorial here over on the Spellbinders  Dies blog showing how to making this lovely stamped and die cut label card.

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Technique: Water Color Background Card

May 22, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Technique: Water Color Background Card

This week Lawn Fawn stamps has been introducing several brand new clear stamp sets and dies. Their new Chit Chat set has loads of fun word bubbles, perfect to add a sentiment to most any card. Visit the Lawn Fawn … Read More ...

Technique: Stamped Clay Accent

May 20, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Technique: Stamped Clay Accent

Add an interesting touch to any card or scrapbooking layout with a stamped clay embellishment. Creating Keepsakes has all the details.

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Techinque: Colored Pencils on Kraft Paper

May 17, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Techinque: Colored Pencils on Kraft Paper

Using bright colored pencils to color in your stamped images on kraft colored cardstock can give you a really cheerful pop of color on your cards. Find more about this technique over on the Hero Arts stamps site.

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Tip: Painting on Embossing Folders

May 16, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Tip: Painting on Embossing Folders

Get more from your embossing folders by adding paint to them before embossing. You’ll have color as well as texture for a quick card background. Find a video and step by step tutorial from Audrie Magno-Gordon over on Splitcoast Stampers.… Read More ...

Project: Metallic Shimmer Card

May 15, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Project: Metallic Shimmer Card

The Lily Bean Paperie blog has directions for making a stunning shimmer card by stamping and embossing with metallic embossing powders and adding sequins (which are super trendy right now!).

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Technique: Stenciled Glitter Paste for a Card Background

May 12, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

technique: glitter paste stencil card

Find directions for making this beautiful card over on the Taylored Expressions blog. You’ll learn how to die cut a stencil and use glitter paste for a fun background technique.

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Happy Mother’s Day!

May 11, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Happy Mother's Day!

I want to wish all the Mom’s out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! And to my Mom…….love you, you are the bees knees!

 

This card was made by me with stamps from A Muse Studio, I stamped the beeskeep … Read More ...

Project: Pop Up Owl Card

May 11, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Project: Pop Up Owl Card

Hoot, hoot! How cute is the owl pop up card?! Darlene Designs has a video to teach you how to make one for yourself.

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Technique: Stamped Card w/ a Stained Glass Look

May 10, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Technique: Stamped Card w/ a Stained Glass Look

Imagine Crafts will show you how to get a stunning stained glass look on your cards using rubber stamps and irRESISTible Pico Embellisher. This cool product is a fine line writer for things like doodling, writing text, outlining or filling … Read More ...

Freebie: Spring Elements Die Cuts

May 9, 2014 by Heather Holbrook

Freebie: Spring Elements Die CutsSVG Cuts has three lovely spring themed die cuts, a flower, butterfly and frame, to download for free and use with your electronic die cutting machine.

-Heather

 

Did you know Butterflies are deep and powerful representations of life. Many … Read More ...

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