Hello, STAMPfriends! Today, we are exploring how to use our small-format papers to make a massive impact on full-sized card designs. The talented Maria is here with three stunning cards featuring our brand-new spring-themed ATC packs: Color Me Spring and Retro Femme!

Let’s see how Maria worked her magic:

Who says grunge can't be gorgeous? Maria is here to show us that a little "grit" goes a long way! 🙌 Using the textures of the Analog Grunge collage paper pack, she has created three cards that perfectly blend industrial patterns with whimsical design. 🏗️✨

By pairing these edgy papers with STAMPlorations dies and stamps, Maria has created a look that is modern, bold, and totally unique. Let’s take a look.

Sleek Lines & Skinny Sentiments 📏🖤

If you thought our new collage papers were just for card backgrounds, Maria Fischer is here to blow your mind! This week, Maria dove into the Analog Grunge pack—the third installment in The Artistic Crafter’s Collage Paper Anthology, Vol. 1—and the results are nothing short of spectacular.

I'm back again this month still talking about scrap strips. This time I took some scrap paper I'd used when swiping ink pads directly onto my ink swatches. In the past I'd always stamped a solid image onto my swatches but I've decided I like the color swiped onto the swatch so I've been updating them. I have a lot of inks. A lot. All that yummy color? I just had to make something with the prettiness.


STEP 1

Well friends, I have a luxury problem. I get to move my crafting from my basement laundry room to DD's old bedroom. Woohoo! Daylight! But let me tell you, I am totally overwhelmed. How to make it perfect? And boy do I need to purge.

So when I find myself unable to deal with the ginormity (is that a word?) of it all, I submerge myself in little projects. One of which was tackling my bucket of scrap strips. You know the ones you cut off the bottom of a card or a background you made or a piece of PP. I had a blast just adhering those strips to a piece of scrap paper then decided to do some fun die cutting with them. Speaking of fun, have you ever listened to Carissa W. podcast? She's full of cardmaking tips and reminds us to have fun in the craft room too ;) Let's get to my card, shall we?

Happy New Year, STAMP friends!

Here we go with another 365 day trip around the sun. Sure hope this year might bring a little more hope for all of us. Speaking of which, I "hope" you're not sick of Christmas just yet. Putting decorations away I just can't bring myself to trash beautiful received Christmas cards, can you? Today I'm sharing an idea for recycling them and letting their beautiful artwork shine on a handmade Christmas card that you can send next Christmas. Interested? I've made a few. Here's one.

Hello STAMP friends! Hope you're not sick of me and my ephemera yet. It's just such fun to let the cute pieces do the heavy lifting while you just add a little here and there. Ready for some super CAS versions? First I must apologize, the card pictured is not the card made in the tutorial. I ran out of good natural light for photos. But the concept is totally the same. Please come by my blog  for the rest of the lineup - I had 8 pieces of ephemera to use up ;) So this tutorial covers the production line approach to making these clean and simple cards. Shall we get to it?

Hello STAMP friends! Do you make your own Christmas cards to send? If so maybe you're already done making them, but if not I've got a super easy way to create a Christmas card with a fun factor. And to do some recycling ;) Let's get to it.

Hello STAMP friends! How are you enjoying the newest addition to the STAMP family - Paper Goods, specifically Ephemera? I tried the spotlight technique with one of the ATCs for today's post. Let's take a look.

Hello STAMP friends! I'm back today with with two more cards made with my masterboard I created with Flexi Templates. I hope you saw my last Spotlight where I created the masterboard and then made two cards with half of it. Today I'm sharing the other two cards.

Hello STAMP friends! I'm back today with another idea for using your Flexi Templates. I hope you saw my Tuesday inspiration posts in April for ways to use them. Today I created a masterboard with the oval templates and was able to then create four cards out of it. Here are two cards. Let's have a look.

Hello STAMP friends! I recently got some Flexi Templates designed by my teamie Monika and I'd like to share some fun I had with them with you today in my Spotlight project. There are so many things you can do with them (check out my Tuesday inspiration posts this month for more ideas). Today I created a one layer card with lots of interest using the oval templates. Take a look.

Hello there STAMP friends! I have an idea for you if you'd like to stretch your stash a bit. Do you have one of those cool cover plate dies which impresses an image into a piece of cardstock? I was inspired by Elisabeth's cool card and created a similar look.

Hello there STAMP friends! Back with another tutorial for you. Today I'm sharing an idea for those of you who like to make super CAS cards. Something to think about if you want to take it up a notch ;)

Howdy STAMP friends! Hope 2021 has started off well for you. I have a project for you today that's going to take you, not kidding, hours. BUT... it's a super fun way to spend a couple hours. Plus you can use up some of your paper scraps! Meet my flower bouquet.