If you’re anything like me, you spend half the time you’re drinking your Arizona Tea admiring the can. However, cutting up aluminum cans is kind of like dancing on razor wire barefoot. It is a dumb idea and you’re going to get cut. I drink a lot of this tea in its pretty green and […]
If you’re anything like me, when you see a technique that is a bit toxic, but really cool looking, you start trying to think about ways to recreate the technique in a safer manner. So, When I saw spray painted backgrounds using stencils, I started brainstorming what else I could use and came up with […]
Sometimes, ideas for projects come from the oddest places. Here is where this Tuesday’s technique came from:
To make a spatter paint background, you’ll need an area where you can be messy. I used a big cardboard box base to protect things, but a gust of wind still blew paint back on the steps. You’ll also […]
You can’t tell I’ve had a lot of quality kid time this week, right? I mean, all of this kid related art doesn’t make it seem obvious or anything. Well, even if I wasn’t hunting for ways to entertain a bunch of little guys this week, I think I’d have to show this adorable tutorial […]
Since I posted a piece with a textured background yesterday, this textured background post by Cyndi from Layers Upon Layers caught my eye. She has a detailed how to for several different backgrounds. One uses foil, one uses masking tape and the other uses cardboard.
I also wanted to remind you of the textured background […]
I saw this technique in a past issue of Somerset Studio (Nov 2007 - Georgia Gibbons Altered Book). Cut horizontal lines into an old book page or other piece of ephemera using your craft knife. I made wavy lines and stopped them about 1/2 inch from the edges of the paper. Then, cut strips of […]
You have some deeply etched rubber stamps and no stamp pad? No problem. Just grab a crayon or a charcoal pencil, your stamps and some lightweight paper and make rubbings of them. Of course, the image won’t be reversed the way a stamped image is, so this doesn’t work for word stamps. Place your stamp […]
scan0004
Originally uploaded by StampingMad
I’ve been working on backgrounds inspired by Traci Bautista this week. I wasn’t terribly fond of using paper towels as she recommends, so I went with decorative papers that held up when they were wet. I also followed her directions for experimenting […]
paper patchwork quilt
Originally uploaded by StampingMad
I know I’ve talked about paper patchwork quilt pieces before, but this is just about backgrounds. If you are like me and you make 9×12 backgrounds that are cut down for different ATC and fat book projects, then you have […]
The other day, I came across a tip to make glass glitter from unwanted glass ornaments. (I can’t remember which blog I read it on to give credit, but what a great, money saving idea.) Anyway, I took a bunch of red balls that were faded and scratched and stuck them in a bag to […]
A Child Chosen
A Creative Journal
All Holiday Cafe
Babylune
Baking Delights
Behind The Vines
Blog Fabulous
Brew Ha-Ha
Busy Family Meals
Career and Kids
Chocolate Bytes
Cooking Gadgets
Dating Dames
Declutter It
Foodie Obsessed
GenBetween
Hankering for Yarn
Inside Fatherhood
Inside Motherhood
Jewelry and Beading
Junk Creation
Keeping the Castle
Kettle and Cup
Layers Upon Layers
Macro Cats
Mad Cropper
Marriage Actually
Mom Gadget
Mother Earth's Garden
MyCrimeSpace
Noodles and Rice
Offbeat Homes
One Book Two Book
Our One Heart
Parenting Tweens & Teens
Parents Behaving Badly
Play Library
Psycho for Love
Quilting and Patchwork
Robust Cooking
She Knows Parties
Simply Thrifty
Solo Mother
StampingMad
Supernanny Rules
Tangled Thread
The Food Bowl
Thrifty Mommy
Toolbelt Tips
Tree Hugging Family
Unplugged Living
Widows Quest
Recent Comments