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Tryday Friday: How to Use a Brayer to Make Painted Clouds
Hey crafty friends! Have you been loving the Easy Breezy Spring collection from Fun Stampers Journey? Today let’s look at an absolutely darling card featuring the Loads of Love stamp set. Along the way, we’ll teach you a simple mixed media technique for adding puffy painted clouds to the background of your cards. To begin the background, add Beach Ball and Cool Pool acrylic paint onto a non-porous surface – like an acrylic sheet or a large clear block. (We used more Beach Ball and just a little Cool Pool.) Use a brayer to blend and spread the paint across the clear block. Then roll the brayer over a card-size…
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How to Celebrate Community Heroes With Handmade Treats
Hello crafty friends! Nicole here, excited to be guest blogging today on the FSJ blog – something I haven’t done since 2014! It’s Memorial Day Weekend – the official start of summer, for most a 3-day weekend (yes!) and most importantly, a time to reflect and honor those who have sacrificed so much for us to enjoy the freedoms and privileges that we as Americans enjoy. In that spirit, I can think of no better time to share with you a bit more about a recent activity that Reagan and I did, and to challenge you to do the same. Many of you have already seen glimmers of this during our…
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Sending You Loads of Love with Handmade Cards
Most of us don’t get too excited about laundry. The pile on the bathroom floor. The basket-full that needs to be folded. The mystery of the ONE missing sock. Can you relate? But crafting up some laundry? I think we can all get behind that one. Send loads of love to your girlfriend who’s knee-deep in cloth diapers and desperately needs encouragement. Or maybe a thank you note to your mom for all the loads of your laundry she did as you were growing up. Today, let’s take a look at three sweet cards featuring the Loads of Love Stamps and coordinating die set, from the Easy Breezy collection. FSJ’s…
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Easy Breezy Spring Launches Today!
We are so excited to celebrate the release of the Easy Breezy Spring collection from Fun Stampers Journey, and we’re ready to PARTY with you! Will you join us for project demos, giveaways, product bundles, special guests and lots of FUN?! If you missed the live launch party, have no fear! The party continues and you can access the whole thing on our YouTube channel. Click here for a direct link to the video! Let’s take a look at a fun new project featuring a stamp set from the Easy Breezy Spring collection. It’s the Cute Boots stamp set! A little bit of watercolor and some Journey Glaze brings this…
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How to Make a One-Sheet 3-Pocket Mini Card
Hello crafty friends! We have such a fun project to share with you today. But first, let’s take a look back at a project we shared earlier this year. One of our best-loved recent projects was the one sheet 3-pocket card that Nicole shared during our Follow Your Heart live event. With one sheet of 12×12 cardstock, Nicole taught us how to use the FSJ Scoring Board to make a darling accordion-folded card with pockets to fit gift cards, notes, photos and more. Here’s a reminder of that project -we’ll link up the tutorial at the end of this post. Since we all love that project, we couldn’t help but…
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You’re Invited to the Easy Breezy Spring Launch Party!
Hello crafty friends! Have you heard the news? We’re having a party! And we want YOU to be there! On April 26, from 3-5pm (Pacific time) we’ll be celebrating the release of our newest collection, called Easy Breezy Spring. The live party will be hosted on YouTube and we’ll show off the new products with specially priced bundles, we’ll share demos and projects, plus giveaways and so much fun! But the party doesn’t even stop there… In addition to the live party, we are offering an Easy Breezy Spring Project Kit. This kit contains brand new product, plus color instructions and pre-kitted pieces to make four fabulous handmade cards. In…
