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Learn to Make a Dressed Up Gift Box

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By Tracy Fear

Hello Friends! Tracy here and today I am delighted to share this tutorial that helps you make gift giving even more spectacular by creating a custom gift box using your stamps and inks!

In today’s video tutorial I am sharing how I used some plain tissue paper and a Dollar Store box along with stamps and inks and a little paint to dress up a gift box!

Tracy

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 Minutes to 90 Minutes

Art Supplies

Stamping Platform
Glue
Fan brush
Your choice of stamps
Ephemera of your choice
Tissue paper
Empty gift box
Stencil
Stencil Brush

Imagine Products

• VersaFine Clair in Twilight
• VersaFine Clair in Periwinkle
• VersaFine Clair in Monarch
• VersaFine Clair in Nocturne
• Brilliance in Starlight Silver

Other Products Used

• Assorted Stamps from Lavinia Stamps
• Stencil from Lavinia Stamps
• 120lb paper in white
• Generic White Tissue Paper
• Misti tool
• PVA Adhesive

ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTS THAT CAN BE USED TO RECREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR

Any Inks

To learn how to create your own dressed up box click here!

Let’s Make a Holiday Card!

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By Anna Escalada York

It’s July, so bring on the holiday cards! I personally love non-traditional colored holiday cards and so created one in pink, blue and purple.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 1.0 hour

Directions:

Step 1:
Stamp a large snowflake stamp on watercolor paper with Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Step 2:
Watercolor smoosh the watercolor panel with alternating layers of Lilac Pansies Fireworks! Craft Spray and Champagne Delicata Ink mixed with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray on scrap acetate.

Step 3:
Ink blend a combination of Champagne Delicata Ink and

Step 4:
Stamp the sentiment on a small scrap of watercolor paper with more of the Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair ink. Heat emboss with more clear embossing powder. Trim the sentiment down to the desired size with scissors. Then press the edges of the sentiment strip into the remaining mix of colors from step 2’s watercolor smooshing to color the edges.

Steps 5 and 6:

Press the Gold Sheer Shimmer Stix Dauber Top onto another piece of scrap acetate to create a liquid gold medium. Watercolor the gold liquid inside the snowflake to make it shiny. Watercolor smoosh the remaining gold watercolor onto the card panel.

After everything dried, die cut the watercolor panel with the second-largest die from an A2-sized nesting die set and a piece of blue metallic cardstock with the largest die from the same

A2-sized die set. Glue both die cut layers together. Attach the sentiment with foam tape. Glue sequins around the snowflake. Finally, glue the whole thing onto an A2-sized white cardbase.

Art Supplies

Imagine
• Delicata ink – Champagne
• Fireworks! – Lilac Posies
• Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray – Sparkle
• Sheer Shimmer Stix Dauber Top – Gold
• VersaFine Clair ink – Baby Pink
• VersaFine Clair ink – Warm Breeze
• Sponge dauber

Other
• Altenew – foam tape
• Crafty Meraki – embellishments – Meraki Sparkle Prismatic Blue
• Idea-ology and Tim Holtz – 6 x 9 cardstock – blue (from the Metallic Colors collection)
• Pink and Main – die set – Notched Corners
• Scrapbook.com – stencil – String Lights
• A2-sized white card base
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Watercolor paper
• Thin paint brush
• Die cutting machine
• Scissors
• Glue

Summertime Vibes-Greetings from my Happy Place Card

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By Katy Ingram

Hello Friends! Katy here with another quick project for you. Today’s card is a fun summertime vibes card, but as always you can use this design for what ever you need!

I did a little ink blending to create my background and used some silhouette stamps to create my scene. Check out the video below for all the details.

Skill: Beginner
Time: 15 minutes

Art Supplies

Imagine Products
• VersaFine Clair – Bali Blue
• VersaFine Clair – Cheerful
• VersaFine Clair – Baby Pink
• VersaFine Clair – Nocturne
• Tear It! Tape

Other Products Used

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• White Card Stock https://ldli.co/e/5y69gpx
• Kat Scrappiness Postage Die https://ldli.co/e/5y69gpx
• Blending Brush https://ldli.co/e/5y69gpx
• Palm Tree Stamps https://ldli.co/e/5y69gpx
• Hero Arts Beach Stamps https://ldli.co/e/5y69gpx

Fabric Covered Frames for Your Junk Journal

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By Tracy Fear

Hello Friends! Tracy here and today I am delighted to share this little frame tutorial perfect to fit into your junk journals or any other type of journal!

In today’s video tutorial I am sharing how I used stamps on muslin fabric to create a fun frame project! We will make one together, I will make 2 off camera, and at the end I will show you how I incorporated all three into my junk journal. Be careful, my friends, making these is addictive!

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 Minutes to 90 Minutes

Art Supplies
Stamping Platform
Glue
Brush (I use silicone)
Your choice of stamps
Ephemera of your choice
Muslin Fabric-pressed

Imagine Products

Other Products Used

  • Assorted Stamps from Stamper’s Anonymous and Tim Holtz
  • Muslin Fabric-coffee died and natural dies
  • Technique Junkies Statue of Liberty Stamp
  • Various dies
  • 120lb paper in white, Kraft, and pink
  • Misti tool
  • PVA Adhesive

ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTS THAT CAN BE USED TO RECREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR

  • Any Pigment Inks
  • Heavy cardstock instead of fabric

To learn how to make this little frame, click here!

Stamped Sunshine: Create a Coastal Summer Card with VersaFine Clair

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By Ceal Pritchett

Hello crafty friends. It’s Ceal, here.  Today I am sharing a beachy card using some summer colors. When I think beach, I think lighthouses because the beach we go to has one on it.

Skill level: Intermediate to advanced
Time: An hour or more

Directions:

Gather your supplies. You will need a beach themed stamp, stencil and dies. Several colors of inks. Post-it notes or masking paper and a fine liner pen.

Step 1:

Die cut the postage stamp panel. This must be cut first with this particular set because you line up the stitched lines.

Step 2:

Place the stencil over the panel, lining up the stitched part, I circled it so you could see what I am referencing. Mask off other areas of the card so you don’t get ink on it. Ink blend green ink for the grass.  Remove and clean the stencil

Step 3:

Mask off the grass and ink blend blue for the ocean. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 4:

Mask off the ocean. Ink blend brown for the sand, remove and clean the stencil.

Step 5:

Mask off the bottom portion of the stencil. Ink blend Yellow for the sun rays. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 6:

Ink blend red for the lighthouse. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 7:

Be sure to mask off portions of the card that may get inky. Place the stencil down where the sun is in the white space that was left after blending the sunrays. Ink blend orange in the circle and also at the base of the sunrays. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 8: (optional)

This step s totally optional but I like the way it grounds the lighthouse. Place stencil back over the lighthouse and use a fine liner pen to trace the stripes.

Step 9:

Stamp the greeting in blue and the 25 cents in black.  Not pictured in this photo but you will need to die cut the flower and add it to the corner as shown in the finished card.

Craft Supplies:

Imagine Products

VersaFine Clair:
Strawberry, Summertime, Cheerful, Grass Green, Blue Belle, Bali Blue, Sand Dune and Nocturne

Other products

Seaside Post Stamp set – Concord & 9th
Seaside Stencil – Concord & 9th
Seaside dies – Concord & 9th
Fine Liner Pen

Make an Easy Rustic Patriotic Card

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By Tracy Fear

Hello Friends! Tracy here and today I am excited to share this rustic and patriotic card with just 4 inks!
In today’s video tutorial I am sharing how I created this card using a masking technique, some stamping, and some stenciling!
Tracy

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 Minutes to 1 hour

Art Supplies
Imagine Products

Other Products Used

  • Trinity Stamps Superstar 6×6 Stencil Set
  • Trinity Stamps Out of this World Stamp Set
  • Technique Junkies Statue of Liberty Stamp
  • Technique Junkies God Bless the USA
  • Generic Kraft card stock and card base
  • Red textured cardstock
  • Blue textured cardstock
  • White glitter cardstock
  • Misti and Mini Misti Tools
  • Cylindrical acrylic stamping tool
  • Cricut Transfer Tape (for the mask)
  • PVA Adhesive
  • Stamping Platform
  • Sticky Mat

ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTS THAT CAN BE USED TO RECREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR

  • Any Pigment Inks
  • Any Dye-based Inks

To learn how to make this patriotic card, click here!