     | | newsletter signup | store directory | bulletin board | calendar | surveys | shop online | coupons | digital designers | Holiday Gift Tags -- Article These projects are for beginner and intermediate paper crafters. As you are busy preparing for the holidays, you may want to take a break, relax a little, and make a stack of gift tags to attach to all the presents you have made or bought for friends and family.
Thanksgiving Cards Made Easy -- Article These projects are for beginning and intermediate stampers. Thanksgiving is a time to gather together, give thanks for our blessings, and feast on wonderful foods. It is also a time to dazzle family and friends with your creative skills as you make and send cards to celebrate one of our nation’s favorite holidays.
Gatefold Cards -- Article These projects are for beginning and intermediate paper crafters. With Halloween looming at the end of the month, October can be pretty scary. Let us not forget that it is also a month of hope – the hope of a cure for breast cancer.
Breast Cancer Awareness Cards -- Article This article contains projects for the beginner stamper. These cards use basic stamping techniques and some basic embellishments to create cards that urge the reader to remember their exams as well as those who have dealt with this disease.
Party Invitations for Summer Fun -- Article These projects are for intermediate stampers. Summertime calls for outdoor parties—on your deck, by the pool, in your garden, or even at your community’s clubhouse or park. Planning a party means making invitations, too. You will find four examples featured in this article. Each style can be easily adapted to another theme with a quick switch of background papers or stamped images.
An Early Start on Holiday Cards -- Article These projects are for beginning and intermediate stampers. It may be easier said than done, but with five full months to work on holiday cards, you can be ready to mail beautiful handmade cards on the first of December.
Wedding Wishes -- Article These projects are for beginner paper crafters. Weddings are very special occasions. That shouldn’t stop us from making wedding cards that are just as special. The paper crafting and scrapbooking supplies you already have on hand can be enhanced by a bit of ribbon or lace from your local fabric store. Lace, especially, is a beautiful added touch of elegance for a wedding card.
Spring is Popping Out All Over -- Article For intermediate paper crafters, these spring cards use foam tape and other techniques to create dimensional pieces that POP! I love cards that have dimension, embellishments, or anything that pops off of the flat background. There are a number of ways to accomplish this, but this article will concentrate on watercoloring techniques and adhesives that can create these effects on your spring cards.
Keep Your World Clean by Stamping Green -- Article This article contains projects for beginner paper crafters. The top comment I hear from new paper crafters and rubber stampers is always some variation of “I can’t afford this hobby!” Paper, stamps, inks, embellishments . . . it all adds up and there seems to be more and more must-have items coming out every week! In honor of Earth Day, I thought it would be fun to scout around the house for random items that could be incorporated into my card-making to help soothe my wallet as well as recyclable items that are otherwise headed for the trash.
The Joy of Paper Punches -- Article Punches are a wonderful time saver, and I am a huge fan. Punch different sizes of circles, squares and ovals, and you have perfect layers in a snap. Instead of poring through bins of die cuts, create your own customized shapes by combining your punched images. You can find punches in every shape and size. There is a punch for everything!
With One Die-Cut -- Article These projects are for intermediate stampers. The Sizzix Primitive Hearts Die-Cutter cuts a perfect heart every time. The die cuts were the primary focus of each project described in the following paragraphs. If there is one thing I learned from preparing the samples, it is to never underestimate the power and versatility of a simple heart.
|    |
 Copyright A-Z Media Group, Inc. Scrapbooking.com, a monthly scrapbooking publication which is a division of the A-Z Media Group |
