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Alcohol Lifting Ink from Tim Holtz

Alcohol Lifting Ink from Tim Holtz

If you’ve ever wanted to play around with YUPO paper and alcohol inks, this is the video lesson for you. Alcohol Lifting Ink and YUPO Paper Tim Holtz goes through different techniques on how to use the alcohol lifting ink with YUPO paper and alcohol inks. He...

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DIY Matchbox and Template

DIY Matchbox and Template

Make your adorable matchboxes in two different styles. Be sure to scour your stash for some fun papers to make these cute matchboxes. Ready to be stuffed with a little gift or small card or both, these will delight anyone who receives one. Here are the instructions...

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Too frightful Halloween Card

Too frightful Halloween Card

Send this Frightfully Wonderful Card for Halloween. Love the colors and the shading on this Halloween Card. Using Silhouette software “Tombstone” shape for the card itself with a little tweaking. The haunted house shape is terrific and love the dotted edge...

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Fabulous Fall Color

Fabulous Fall Color

Fast and easy stamped fall leaves. Use your ink pads, sponges and a few other supplies to replicate beautiful fall colors. Make small leaves and have them “drop” down the side of your page. Use in a card like this one or punch holes in big ones and use as...

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Dull Paper Cutter no More

Dull Paper Cutter no More

Tired of your paper getting a shredded edge? No clean cuts and having to do one piece at a time? Learn how to sharpen your own paper cutter and get back that nice clean edge you’ve been missing. You can do it in just 4 easy steps. Here are three of the steps to...

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Sweater Weather Cards

Sweater Weather Cards

Learn how to align die-cuts for awesome projects. Grab your die-cuts and make some wonderful cards for fall. Here are 4 steps in the process. There are 7 steps all together. Step 1:  Die-cut approximately 22 diamonds from 4 to 6 different patterned papers.  I chose...

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Camping Card and Background

Camping Card and Background

Learn how to make an awesome background on any page.   The amazing color blending on this camping card looks incredible. Think it took hours of applying and careful blending techniques? Think again. All you need is a couple of ink pads and a brayer. In this step...

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Wonderful Art Bookmarks

Wonderful Art Bookmarks

These bookmarks get 5 stars. Using a few supplies, some blank bookmarks ( or make your own out of card stock) you can transform plain paper into these beauties. The instructions go through using different types of pencils to draw the designs, color and then wash to...

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Join the Lollipop Guild

Join the Lollipop Guild

Grab a punch and make these in no time at all. Here’s another fast and easy card that you can make in two shakes of a monkey’s tail (my mom used to say that…don’t know where she got the monkey but, you don’t ask that kind of thing as a...

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Birds Celebrate Card

Birds Celebrate Card

Get all your birds lined up in a row for this cute card. These birds are quick and easy to do, thank goodness. It should take you no time at all to make up a batch of these for future use. Just think….. birthday’s, anniversary, celebrations, and just...

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(Video) Organize Your Stamps and Dies

(Video) Organize Your Stamps and Dies

Be able to find anything you have in a flash with this system. Trying to keep your stamps and dies together? Can’t find the ones you want? Has the cat batted them across the room and now they’ve scooted under the table? Bending down to retrieve things is a...

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(Video) Working with Colored Pencils

(Video) Working with Colored Pencils

Stamping and colored pencils go very well together. Take a look at this stamped image. It has been colored in with pencils. Take a moment and watch this video that teaches some easy ways to add beautiful artistic color to your pages. All handmade by you. Using colors...

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