Digital stamps and images don’t have to be used just on cards. Cindy Pointe has a great project idea using digital images for transferring onto wooden items like her pretty note pad holder. So take those digis off the page … 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 ...
Project: Die Cut Mother’s Day Card
This wonderful Mother’s Day card was designed by Audrey Pettit using different dies, dry embossing and ribbon inking. She’s sharing her tutorial over on the Ranger Ink blog, click here to check it out.
-Heather
Looking for more “Mother” themed … Read More ...
Tip: Sentiment Stamped Card Background
Get more from your sentiment and word stamps by stamping them repeatedly to make a card background. Find some tips and project directions for this idea over on the Capture the Moment blog.
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Technique: Die Cut Stained Glass Look
By using a die cut that cuts out a thin design outline image and coloring them in with gel pens you can get a super cool stained glass look. Hop over to the Technique Tuesday site and watch a video… Read More ...
Projects: Rainbow Card Backgrounds with Cardstock Scraps
I’m sure like me you’ve got lots of scraps of colored cardstock laying around, right? Well, Jennifer McGuire has some great uses for those scraps. Using a paper shredder she cut out loads of strips and used them for different … Read More ...
Project: Card with Braille Sentiment
What a wonderful idea to incorporate braille onto a card! Even if the recipient doesn’t read braille the sentiment is still a wonderful idea and maybe they’ll learn something new by finding out what the phrase means. The raised dots … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stamped Card with Raised Sentiment
Nicole Spohr has directions for making this card with a floral stamped and embossed background with matching raised sentiment, how lovely! By die cutting the word from fun foam and layering the same die cut shaped word from her stamped … Read More ...
Technique: Stamping with Water
Allison Cope is going to show up how to stamp with water, yup water! Since certain stamping inks react with water she was able to ink up some panels of water color paper, apply water to her stamps and that … Read More ...
Inspiration: 13 Cards Made with Punches
In the last few years with die cutting becoming so popular I think sometimes we forgot about how awesome punches are. Before dies it’s pretty much all we had to make shapes from paper (unless your good at hand cutting). … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Water Colored Stencil Card Background
Combining two hot trends in paper crafting, stencils and water coloring Betsy Veldman made the background for this lovely card. She finished off with a sentiment embossed on vellum
and some stamped flowers. You can find a video tutorial for … Read More ...
Tip: Adding Shading to Stamps
You can add shading to a solid stamp but inking the image with a light shade of ink and then re-inking just a section of the stamp in a slightly darker tone of ink. Ardyth used this technique on the … Read More ...
Project: Easter Bunny Pull Tab Slider Card
This sweet Easter card has a tab that you pull and a bunny comes up out of the grass, how cute is that?! You can find a video tutorial with complete directions for this pull tab slider card over on … Read More ...
Project: Kitty Cat Birthday Card
Combining cute cat stamps and die cuts Stephanie made this adorable kitty birthday card. Hop on over to The Stamps of Life site and watch her tutorial video.
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Tip: Multi Uses for Striped Background Stamp
I love a stamp that I feel like I can get a lot of use out of! Many large background stamps are like this, like a striped background for instance. The Sugar Pea Stamps blog has 4 different card ideas … Read More ...