Vellum paper is a semi transparent paper that gives a pretty soft look when layered on your cards. You can use permanent inks or heat embossing to stamp on vellum. Coloring on the back side of vellum with markers … Read More ...
Project: Card and Notebook Teacher Gift
Learn how to heat emboss your stamps and add some white ink to black cardstock for a fun chalkboard look. The Simon Says Stamp blog has a video tutorial showing this technique using die cuts and stamping to make a … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Book Mark
Keep your place in a book with a cool stamped book mark. Renee Zarate used stamping resist techniques and stencils to make this fun place holder.
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Project: Mixed Media Bird Card
Imagine Crafts has a tutorial for making this wonderful mixed media bird card using stamping, heat embossing, stencils with Creative Medium and micro beads.
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Project: Mixed Media Door Hanger
Recycle some cardboard packaging with some stamping, heat embossing and metal embellishments for a lovely home décor door hanger. Find directions over on the Rainbow Crafty Kari blog. I love how she totally changes the look of her embellishments … Read More ...
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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Tutorial: Tag with Many Papercrafting Techniques
This lovely tag from Tammy Tutterow has loads of different techniques like resist, getting faux metal solder look with embossing, dying ribbon and more. Visit her blog for her detailed tutorial and learn some cool ideas!
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Technique: Faux Metal Card Accent
Heat embossing powders onto die cuts for a cool faux metal card embellishment. Hero Arts has a video tutorial to show you how.
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Technique: Faux Glass Stamping Technique
Sharon Jeffs has a video over on the Frantic Stamper Happenings blog showing how to use heat embossing powders to make a faux vintage glass look over stamped images.
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Technique: Coloring Stamped Embossing
The Hemidemisemiquaver Design Blog has a video tutorial showing how to color white heat embossed stamped images using markers. This is a great way to add texture and color without having to use a bunch of different colored embossing powder… Read More ...
Tutorial: Card with Mutiple Stamping Techniques
The Lawnscaping Challenge blog has two cool techniques to share, how to add multiple color to a stamp using q-tips and how to add color to embossing paste using embossing powder. Lots of neat ideas in this one card!
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Project: Stamped Vellum Thank You Card
The Paper Crafters Library blog has directions for making this sweet stamped and embossed vellum card, I love the added stitching!
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Card Making Technique: Colorful Stamped Fall Leaves
Here’s a wonderful way to make the perfect background paper for fall cards or scrapbook layoust. Heat emboss your stamped leaves and then use watercolors for a bright pop of color, the embossing with help resist the paint so your … Read More ...
Techniques: Stamped Tags
Find some tags, tags and more tags with tons of terrific stamping techniques like resist, embossing, using spray mists and more over on the Hampton Arts blog.
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Technique: Enameling on Paper
This is such an uber cool effect! Neil from Neelz Expressionz shares his mixed media enameling technique using dry and heat embossing and paint on paper. Wow, it looks like metal doesn’t it?
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