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DIY Fringed Cards

It’s time for some fringe! Tassels and fringe are both really popular right now, so my latest project for the Tombow USA blog are some easy paper fringe cards you can DIY!

Grab the full tutorial on the Tombow blog here.

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DIY Repeated Stamp Pattern | Tombow + Lawn Fawn…

Hey y’all! Today those of us on the Tombow Design Team are teaming up with Lawn Fawn’s Design Team to show you some awesome ways to use Tombow and Lawn Fawn products! Lawn Fawn makes the cutest stamps so they pair up perfectly with Dual Brush Pens!

You may have landed on my post from Lynnette’s blog, but if not, start at the beginning of the hop here.

At the bottom of my post, you’ll find the lineup for the rest of the hop – make sure you check out everyone’s awesome projects! And don’t forget to visit the Tombow blog to enter to win some fantastic prizes from Tombow and Lawn Fawn! Happy hopping!

I’m sharing with you how to use stamps to create a fun repeated design, perfect for cards!

Supplies:

Aloha Clear Stamps
Duh-Nuh Clear Stamps
Dual Brush Pens
MONO Adhesive+ Permanent
Foam Tabs
Acrylic Stamp Block
White Cardstock
Black Permanent Ink
Misc. Card Making Embellishments

Step 1. Cut your cardstock to fit on your card.

Step 2. Start with your largest stamp design and stamp it randomly around your cardstock using permanent black ink.
I stamped the pineapple and the shark around on my cardstock.

Step 3. Next take your smaller stamps and fill in the areas between the larger stamped design.
You can make it a little more full like my shark card or leave a little more white space like my pineapple card.

For my pineapple card I actually used some of the bubbles from the Duh-nuh stamp set!

Step 4. Next color in your stamped design using Dual Brush Pens! For tips on coloring in stamped designs with these markers, check out this post.

Step 5. Adhere your new patterned paper design onto your card front!

I also added a few more paper embellishments to the front. I also stamped a shark onto a separate piece of cardstock, cut him out and adhered him with foam tabs so that he has a 3D effect!

Your next stop in the blog hop is Lizzy, and here is the full blog hop lineup:

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Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have fun stamping patterns!

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How To Blend Tombow Dual Brush Pens

Hey y’all, I have a mew tutorial up on the Tombow blog today!
This week those of us on the Tombow design team are creating projects showing ways to use the Tombow Blending Palette, so I’m showing you how to use the blending palette 2 different ways to easily blend Dual Brush Pens.

Get the full tutorial here.

*I am an affiliate for Tombow. This post might include some affiliate links. If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you.

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My Card Making Preparations

Today’s post is for my fellow paper crafters!

I always like to have a stash of handmade cards, so that whenever I need a thank you or hello card I can just grab one and put it in the mail.

However with the new year approaching I decided I needed to update my card stash and restock it. I’m nearly out of hello cards (I use those most) and some of my older cards I don’t really love.

Time to make new cards!

I like to make a supply of card bases, so that whenever I am in the mood to make a card I have a card base already at the right size (3.5″x5.5″) that I can just grab and then embellish.

Sometimes they’re out of patterned paper, but this time around I decided to stock up on solid cardstock card bases. So I grabbed paper in every color of the rainbow and cut/folded them into cards.

The cardstock is colored on both sides, so to make it easier for writing on the inside, I usually add some white paper. 3×5″ blank index cards work perfect for this!

So, that’s how I prep my cards, how do you do it?

This time around I didn’t use any patterned papers and created some fun stamped cards instead.

Also, I have found the easiest way to make glitter dots ever!
Tombow makes a product called Adhesive Dots, which are double sided permanent adhesive dots. I’ve found that you can use them as embellishments as well as adhesive. Just stick them on your page, remove the liner and sprinkle glitter over top!

The dots already come in bright colors, so I actually just sprinkled clear/white glitter over them.

Do you make your cards ahead of time and have a stash like me? Or do you make them on an as-needed basis?

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Free Printable- Watercolor Christmas Designs for Cards and Scrapbooks!

As a part of my 30 Days of Christmas Cards challenge, I wanted to designs some free printables for you guys to download and use!

Even if you’re not joining me in my challenge, if you’re making any Christmas cards this year than these would be fun designs to add. Or, try adding them in your art journal or December Daily album!

They’re super simple printables. I did one sheet of pretty watercolor designs, inspired by evergreens and winter. I also designed 8 different “project life” style pocket cards.

Download them below:

Since designing them this past weekend, I’ve been incorporating some of the elements into my daily Christmas cards.

That last card above, I didn’t bother cutting out the designs. I just cut the whole page down to 4″x5.25″ to fit on my card.

So, will you be using these on any Christmas cards? If you do, I’d love to see pictures! Share links below, or use the hashtag #30daysofchristmascards or #punkprojects

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30 Days of Christmas Cards Inspiration

I am making a Christmas card a day in November. If you missed the announcement earlier this week, You can go here to learn more.

To get inspired for Christmas, I created a pinterest board full of pretty, handmade Christmas cards! You can see it here-

Christmas Cards Pinterest Board.

I’ll be using the hashtags #30daysofchristmascards and #punkprojects to share my cards on instagram and twitter.

I’d love to see your handmade Christmas cards if you want to join in!

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Easy Faux Watercolor Look using Markers

You all know that I love watercolors (okay, so I love most mediums… shhhh!). They are not only vibrant and colorful, but also so fun to work with. They have a certain style to them that is fun and artsy.

What if you don’t have any watercolors, but want the look? I’ve got a solution for you!

DIY Faux Watercolor Coloring.

For this technique you’ll need water based markers. What I used, and recommend, are Tombow’s Dual Brush Pens. I used the set of secondary colors and they blended really nicely.

I used this technique to color in the stamped house below. If you want to see how then just keep reading. 🙂

Supplies: Water Based Markers, Craft Mat or Palette, Paint Brush, Water

1. Stamp your image onto watercolor paper. This is optional, but if you’re coloring a stamped image like me, go ahead and stamp it. 🙂
If you’re wondering, this house stamp is by Paper Wings Productions.

2. Color with one of your markers onto a craft mat. It doesn’t have to be a craft mat, but you need a non stick surface that the ink won’t stick to. Try a craft mat, freezer paper, a palette, or an acrylic block.

3. Dip your paintbrush in a small dish of water to moisten it, then rub it over the ink to pick it up.

4. Use your paint brush and color in your image, as you would with normal watercolors.

5. Repeat steps 2-4 with multiple colors!

I like how this technique gives the image an actual painted look, as opposed to a marker look.

What do you think? Is this something you’ve done?

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30 Days of Christmas Cards

Alright guys, I have almost (the month isn’t quite over!) successfully completed 30 days of watercolors this month. It’s been really fun and I’ve realized just how much I love doing monthly challenges like this.

30 days of watercolors, 30 days of lists, etc. They’re fun, and creating every day is a great habit!

So next month, November 2015, I am declaring it “30 Days of Cards“.

Or more specifically, 30 Days of Christmas Cards.

I always make my own Christmas cards. I love the personal touch and, also, I just like to make cards and play with paper and ink.

I’ll be making one Christmas card a day in November. Since it’s card making, I’m not going to limit myself to any prompts besides just the Christmas theme.

If you want a fun challenge, I’d love for you to join me!

You don’t have to do Christmas cards if you don’t want to. You can just do hello or birthday cards, or if you don’t celebrate Christmas, just do holiday cards in general.

I’ll be using the hashtags #30daysofchristmascards and #punkprojects to share my cards on instagram and twitter. I’ll be checking in with my progress a few times here on the blog as well.

Do you hand make your Christmas cards?

Will you be joining in?

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Paint + Paper

Hey guys, Happy Wednesday!

I’ve been testing out a new blog feature here on the blog, Art Journal Wednesdays. The problem is that I don’t always have new pages to share, so I’m renaming this feature to “Paint + Paper” and I plan to share my art journal pages, scrapbooks, project life pages and card. That way it’s more open, and I can share things other than JUST art journal pages.

I feel like I never share just layouts or cards anymore, so I’m excited for this feature. Today I’m sharing a little of everything.

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To start off,here are some art journal pages I made recently (for the Get Messy Art Journal Challenge).

I actually printed out a poem onto patterned paper and then outlined a few words I wanted to stand out and painted over the rest. It’s a fun technique.

You can do it with journaling, a poem, a book page or newspaper, etc. Make up crazy stories by using random words, or try and make sense.

For this next page, I made a list of “things I love”. The background is made from embossed washi tape (you’ll see a post on that soon!!), with a bit of gelatos and stitching.

This last art journal page is pretty simple, just a painted background with doodles and a quote I love.

I make and send a lot of cards so I’m always making extra hello and thank you cards. Here’s one I made recently using some new supplies I got.

I don’t do weekly project life spread, but I do use pocket page protectors for some photos and events and work them into my scrapbooks.

Do you do any paper crafts or art journaling?

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PWP January Challenge

Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Today is the start of a new challenge over on the Paper Wings Productions blog and the challenge theme is “Winter”.

Here is my card for the challenge:
I used the home tweet home stamp set, holiday tags stamp set, build a scene stamp set, and the hanging stars stamp set on this card, then colored my scene with copic and spectrum noir markers.

It’s sort of become a personal goal/challenge to see how many different scenes I can create with this adorable house stamp. So far I’ve done Halloween, Fall, Christmas and this winter scene. I seriously love this house stamp.

Holiday Tags Clear Stamp Set

Home Tweet Home

Build A Scene Clear Stamp Set

Hanging Stars Clear Stamp Set

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To enter the challenge, hop on over to the Paper Wings blog here.

Have you ever loved a stamp so much that you use it over and over?