May Flaum made this wonderful artwork by adding layers and layers of metal trinkets, chipboard, stickers and more to a canvas. She painted everything with white gesso
and then added colored paints, inks, sprays and stamps on top for this … Read More ...
Freebie: Wishing Well Digital Stamp
Download this cute Wishing Well digi stamp for free from the ScrapHappy Paper Crafter.
-Heather
Looking for free digital stamps and SVG files? We love using the Design bundle to download our digital stamps. Make sure you check out … Read More ...
Technique: Color Washed Background
Say “Hello” to my little friend! The Fat Cat Stampers had directions for making a bright color washed swipe background, perfect for summer tags, cards and scrapbook pages.
-Heather
Looking for more Christmas Gnomes? Check these free DIY tutorials out … Read More ...
Technique: Coloring Stamps with Distress Ink Pads
Annie Rose sure makes pretty cards! And over on Annie Rose Makes Things she’ll show you how to color in your stamped images using Distress Ink and a Blender Pen
for a soft watercolor look.
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Project: Shrink Plastic Jewelry
These little stamped jewelry pieces are totally adorable! Using digital stamps and printable shrink plastic the Some Odd Girl stamps blog will show you how to make some cuteness you can wear.
-Heather
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Tip: Embossing on Buttons
Dress up those plain old buttons with some stamping and heat embossing, Your Next Stamp will show you how.
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Tips: Cutting Detailed Dies
I’m seeing more and more intricate and detailed dies for paper crafting and sometimes it can be a little hard to get a perfect cut with them. Christine at Card Maker Connections has several useful tips like using wax paper … Read More ...
Technique: Stamp Doodling
Does anyone else sit and doddle like I do? If I’ve got a pen and paper in front of me you’ll see me drawing little flowers, stars and spirals, I can’t help myself. If you also like to doodle here’s … Read More ...
Technique: Stamping with Distress Paint
Wow, these cards are real works of art! Jill Foster used Distress Paints from Tim Holtz instead of stamping ink directly on her rubber stamps to get this fabulous effect. Find out more on her blog Inspired By.
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Project: Summer Swimsuit Card
I am so glad that spring is finally here and before you know it summer will be too. Get ready for it with this cute swimsuit girl card from Elizabeth Allan’s Art Studio. She’s got step by step directions for … Read More ...
Freebie: Alterable Paper Doll
Pretty Things has this fun free digital paper doll that you can add different digital backgrounds to and dress her anyway you want.
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Project: Twine Wrapped Frame Card
Twine has been and still is a trendy item to use on your cards. By wrapping twine around a frame May, from Mayholic in Crafts, made a neat display card. I love the tiny clothes pins to hold the … Read More ...
Technique: Masking with Dies
Here’s another cool way to use your die cuts that I can’t resist, use them as a resist for a card background. The All in an Inch blog has details on how to do this technique along with a lots … Read More ...
Freebies: Sentiments
There are lots of card making opportunities coming up like graduations and Mother’s and Father’s Day so Paper Crafts has you covered with a bunch a free sentiments, click here to download them.
-Heather
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Project: Paper Bits Collage
I love seeing how people utilize there scraps of pattern papers. I, like many of you, have so many little pretty pieces I had to throw away! The My Mind’s Eye blog has a terrific idea for using some of … Read More ...