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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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Double Embossing | TryDay Friday
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, we share a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? This week Creative Director Kim Kesti is sharing with us a super cool double embossing technique. Not only is the card so super cute, but we loved how certain elements really pop. If you’d like to watch on our YouTube channel, you can see the video right here. Make sure you leave Kim a comment and let her know how much you enjoyed her technique & card and appreciate her sharing fun ideas with all of us. Isn’t that just adorable?…
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Fresh & Beautiful Die Cutting | TryDay Friday
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, we share a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? This week Creative Director Kim Kesti is using some old favorites, some leaf dies with our True Color Fusion Ink pads. Not only are the results stunning but it’s such a good way to use dies you might not always reach for AND experiment with color palettes. If you’d like to watch on our YouTube channel, you can see the video right here. Make sure you leave Kim a comment and let her know how much you enjoyed her technique &…
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Buffalo Check Stencil + Card | TryDay Friday
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, we share a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? This week Training Manager Lynn Leusch is using a classic product, our Buffalo Check Stencil! This fun stencil feels so on trend right now, as the Buffalo Check pattern is everywhere. If you’d like to watch on our YouTube channel, you can see the video right here. Make sure you leave Lynn a comment and let her know how much you enjoyed her projects and appreciate her sharing fun ideas with all of us. Isn’t that just a gorgeous and oh…
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Gifts In A Jar | TryDay Friday
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, we share a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? This week concept designer Shannon Smith is putting together a FABULOUS idea! If you saw the video, we know that you think this idea is as clever as we do. If you’d like to watch on our YouTube channel, you can see the video right here. Make sure you leave Shannon a comment and let her know how much you enjoyed her projects and appreciate her sharing fun ideas with all of us. Do you ever need a little something to…
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5 Handmade Gifts and Treat Bags for Christmas
Do you love to give handmade gifts and goodies at Christmastime? As crafters, we love to find ways to add homemade touches to our gift bags and boxes, and we love to make gifts and treats for those we love. Let’s look at 5 different ways to craft up Christmas gifts, plus darling ways to package them. They would be so fun to have on hand for unexpected gifts you might need. Tic Tac Toe This one is genius and perfect for Thanksgiving or any other gathering. Simply use our Dowel Stands [painted with Black Licorice and Whip Cream Acrylic Paint] to create a Tic Tac Toe Board! That’s right, the…
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Heat Embossing Beautiful Metallics | TryDay Friday
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, our concept designer Shannon Smith shares a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? This week Shannon is trying something new even for her! If you saw the video tutorial, we think that you may have already tried this combo since it’s so pretty. If you’d like to watch on our YouTube channel, you can see the video right here. Make sure you leave Shannon a comment and let her know how much you enjoyed her projects and appreciate her sharing a fun project with all of us. I don’t even…
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Make a Summer Shaker Card with Watercolor Seashells
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our FSJ Facebook page, and our YouTube channel we share a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? If you’d like to watch on our YouTube channel, you can see the video right here. WOW! There is SO MUCH BEAUTY right here in one card. Not only that – there are no less than four great techniques we know that are sure to excite you. So, let’s take a look at how all of them come together to create this one card. To create a beautiful background for the shaker portion of the…
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Back to School DIY Teacher Gifts
This week on our Facebook page, we are having so much fun with back to school projects and today we’ll show you how to make the teachers in your life feel extra special. You can see the video right here. Love it? Want to see more? Let’s do just that. Seriously! Aren’t these little guys adorable? One of the coolest things about the Colorful Friends tape is that you can build your own little person. You can match a friend or child with these fun and various pieces. The first step to creating the clips is to build the person on the Whip Cream cardstock. Then, you will trim around…
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Make Dimensional Christmas Projects with the Christmas Sprig
You know how we love our Try Day Friday series! Each Friday afternoon on our Facebook page, our concept designer Shannon Smith shares a new technique with you LIVE. Isn’t that so fun? This week Shannon is in the Christmas spirit and shared a beautiful project we think you will love! You can see the video right here. Make sure you leave Shannon a comment and let her know how much you enjoyed her projects and appreciate her sharing a fun project with all of us. Don’t you just love this project? It’s dimensional and beautiful and could be used as an ornament or as holiday decor. Heck, you could…
