Add some woodsy rustic charm to your Christmas tree or holiday packages with these stamped and embossed wooden circles
, they make great gift tags or tree ornaments! Find more about this quick and easy project over on the A … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stamped and Embossed Gift Wrap
There’s no need to buy wrapping paper if you’ve got rubber stamps! Purchase some inexpensive brown butcher paper and stamp away. You can also add some dimension by heat embossing the images. This paper used Distress Ink for even more … Read More ...
Project: Fall Leaves Embossed Cards
Using embossing folders and Distress Ink Sharon Harnist made these two beautiful falling leaves cards. You can find directions and more info over at the Taylored Expressions blog.
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Product Review: Stampin’ Up Holiday Part 3
I am back with one last look at some of the new products available from Stampin Up in their new Holiday Mini Catalog. If you missed my first review click here to check it out and my second review can … Read More ...
Card Making Project: Embossed Snowflake Christmas Card
The Embellished Dreams blog has a lovely holiday card with a watercolor look made using a resist technique with heat embossing and Distress Ink pads. I love the tip of taping your cardstock down with blue painters tape so your … Read More ...
Technique: Faux Tile Card
Here’s a neat technique for getting your stamped cards to look like ceramic tiles. Cut your stamped image into equal squares and cover the cardstock with clear embossing ink and clear embossing power, heat and repeat this a few times … Read More ...
Technique: Cards with a Batik Look
Using stamping embossing resist and direct to paper techniques Heather Nichols made these lovely cards with a Batik style. Check out her blog Pine is Here for more info and lots of beautiful card samples.
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Technique: Masking Over a Stamped Sentiment
Find out how to stamp out a sentiment (or image) and still add a stamped background over it by using a masking technique. Details can be found over on the Lost in Paper blog.
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Project: Christmas Deer Card
Gina K has a video tutorial to help you get an early start on your holiday cards. She’ll walk you through making this adorable deer card made with techniques like stamping, heat embossing, die cutting and coloring with Copic markers. … Read More ...
Project: Christmas in July Gift Tags
Are you working on holiday projects for Christmas in July? Grab your heat tool and some gold embossing powder and stamp up some elegant white and gold holiday gift tags. You can keep these for yourself or package them up … Read More ...
Tip: Custom Card Borders
You can make your own cool custom borders for your cards and scrapbook pages using rubber stamps and punches. Laurie Wilson is sharing a video tutorial over on Capture the Moment showing you how. I also love her tip of … Read More ...
Tip: Heat Embossing with Stencils
I love how card designers just keep coming up with new techniques for using stencils! This pretty card was made by heat embossing with a stencil instead of a rubber stamp and then color was added to the non embossed … Read More ...
Tips: 9 Card Making Tips All Card Makers Need to Know
The Craftsy blog has a great posts with 9 tips every card maker should know. These handy “hacks” can save you money and make your card making quicker and easier. You’ll find tips on making custom colored clear rhinestones and … Read More ...
Technique: Layered Embossing
Hero Arts stamps has some really cool new stamps that have multiple layers you stamp on top of one another to get an almost 3-D effect. Jennifer McGuire has taken it to the next level by heat embossing each stamped … Read More ...
Project: Embossing Powder Card
Embossing powders don’t have to be heated over top of stamped images you can use them on die cut shapes and for wonderful card backgrounds. The Frilly and Funky blog will show you how to make some colorful cards using … Read More ...