New Dreamerland Crafts Stamps: Box Train Express

*please scroll down as we have two posts for you today* Ok, so I have to tell you about this absolutely fantastic new stamp company called Dreamerland Crafts.  These stamps are in the style of Japanese Anime.    I don’t know how many of you are familiar with this style, but as soon as I saw …

Club 52: Week 9 – Creating a Flat Wash and Creating layers using a Flat Wash

Today I wanted to share with you all the techniques we are doing this week for Club 52 (which you can read about here) and Paper Crafter’s Library members. This week’s Club 52 features the technique of creating a flat wash.  This is a beautiful and versatile technique, and is designed to create a perfectly smooth …

Club 52 week 6: Splattering Techniques with Watercolors and Die based Re-inkers and Inks.

Today I wanted to share with you all the techniques we did for week 6 (last week) of Club 52 (which you can read about here) and Paper Crafter’s Library members. This week I’m working on  splattering techniques  featuring dye-based re-inkers or watercolor paints.  This technique is based on watercolor painting techniques and is a fun way to …

Club 52 Week 4: Striated Background Technique

Today I wanted to share with you all the techniques we are doing this week for Club 52 (which you can read about here) and Paper Crafter’s Library members. This week I’m finishing off our four weeks with Direct To Paper techniques (DTP) featuring dye-based inks, and then for the next number of weeks we are …

Club 52 Week 3 Techniques

Where has this week gone?  Today I wanted to share with you pictures of the Week 3 techniques we introduced in Club 52 (which you can read about here). This week I’m continuing on with Direct To Paper techniques (DTP) featuring dye-based inks.  This is the third week now that we’ve been doing DTP techniques, …

Club 52 Week 2 Techniques and the Winners of the Club 52 Give-away!

Wow! Thank you so much to all of you who entered the Club 52 Technique Club Give-away!  At the end of this post I will be announcing the 5 lucky winners! Before that though, I wanted to give you a quick peek of the Week 2 technique released last Friday – which I call the Blended …

Sweets for the Sweet

  Today’s card was designed with sweet lovers in mind! This card is glossy, and sparkly, and has such a fun pattern to set off this whole design. The candies have a thick glossy coating to simulate the hard candy of the lollipop.  This coating was achieved with lots of layers of UTEE, and this of course …

Pool Party Invite

I wanted to create some cool invites using one of the newer cartridges called Pack Your Bags.  I love the images on this Cricut Cartridge, they are perfect for both summer and vacationing!  This card uses the image found on page 55.  This cute coconut drink is the perfect image to conjure up visions of …

Simple Bookbinding for Journals

  I am so excited to share today’s project!  What is it?  Well it is a handmade book in which I bound my own pages.  Now you first question may be, why would you make your own book?  Well for starters, I can never find a book with the papers I like!  I like doing …

Make a Splash Birthday Card

We’ve recently been making some BIG changes to our video content on Paper Crafter’s Library.  One of the changes is to create themed projects – with the theme changing every 1-2 weeks (maybe longer) depending on how many ideas we have for a given theme ( we are doing a bunch of other types of …