Cut a piece of cardstock in circles. Crumple the cardstock in your hand. Flatten and sand lightly, Layer circles to create a flower. Adhere the flower together with a brad in the centre.
Do not be afraid to sand the edges of your photos for a distressed look.
On the backside of a piece of Core'dinations ColorCore cardstock, place your stencil. Using a stylus, trace the images onto the cardstock to create a raised edge on the front side. Flip it over and slightly sand the raised images to reveal the flourishes.
When setting a shaped eyelet, such as a flower or a tree, the front side may bulge and distort the intended image. To solve this problem, flatten the front of the eyelet with a gently tap of the hammer once it has been set.
Use a square punch to punch out elements from your photos and then pop dot them on your page for a window like accent.
After having taken a photo on each day during the month of October I decided to lay out the photos like the calendar month. The 1st of the month of Oct. fell on a Thurs. so my first photo is placed on what would be Thurs. on the real calendar. All other photos follow after.
Tear back the top piece of a box of cardboard revealing the corrugated inside. Apply acrylic paint generously. Stamp firmly onto cardstock for a unique look.
Cover an old piece of puzzle with patterned paper for the perfect accent for your next project.
With all the clear stamps out there, a lot of them have a black image underneath them. When designing your cards and you can't decide if the image will work or not, lay the black image where you want it. It will show you how it looks & you won't ruin your card by stamping it permanently. As well, if you stamp doesn't come with this black image, or you are using a woodmount stamp, you can stamp the image on acetate and have a preview as well.
If you are sending something in the mail that you do not want damaged, instead of marking it 'fragile' or 'handle with care', write clearly and in multiple places : PHOTOS. Postal workers are more inclined to ignore all the other warnings, but they care about damaging family photos and are more likely to handle them gently.
Storage of embossing powders is important. It only takes a 75 watt bulb to cure powder so don't store your powder in any area that would get hotter than 75 degrees. For example if you bought your powder on a very hot day and kept it in the trunk of your car while you went to have a long lunch etc you probably have sunk the powder.
Here's a trick in cleaning your nails if you got ink under them from cleaning your stamps. Put some toothpaste on a nail brush or a cheap toothbrush and scrub under your fingernails. If toothpaste will clean the enamel on your teeth it makes sense it will clean your nails. Try it, it works.
Here's a trick to make your own dew drops like those from Robin's Nest. Use a hot glue gun to squeeze a tiny drop of glue onto a hot glue pad (silicone mat or Teflon sheet). Let cool and then put in a baggie with a few drops of alcohol ink to colour the glue.
For Copic Marker users, have you ever accidently had the colour go outside your stamped image when you are colouring. We all know that you can push your colour back inside your line with your blender pen if you only had a small amount outside the line. Well there is another hint that Brenda gave me that she heard from one of our customers (Sylvia). You can hide that little mistake by using the white copic paint and a very tiny brush. Simply brush very little of the white paint over your mistake. You can take it from me, it works great. On the same subject when I showed another customer, Susan, how I went outside the line with the red marker, she gave me a great tip. Susan told me when she colours, she never goes right to the line with her colouring just to avoid that mistake. She colours almost to the line and then blends it out to the line. Haven't tried that yet but it sounds pretty logical.
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