Category: Cards
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CTMH Alcohol-Based Markers
Ribbon and Background Mat Colored With CTMH Ruby Set of Markers Recently, Close to My Heart changed their marker formula from dye-based to alcohol-based inks. The new markers are sold in sets of twos, with one lighter and one darker. For this card, I used the new Ruby color. Self-Adhesive Pearls Colored With Markers With…
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Polished Stone Technique – CTMH Inks
CTMH Thanks Stamped with CTMH Black Archival Ink Background Technique Week continues with a third variation of the Polished Stone Technique. Here is a video recap of the different materials and a quick demonstration of the technique using cotton balls and CTMH reinkers: The reason why glossy paper works well for this technique is that…
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Polished Stone Technique With Copic Markers
CTMH Stamps: Treasure Life and Rosy Regards Thank you for visiting! Yesterday’s post was also about the Polished Stone Technique. The main star was Adirondack’s alcohol inks, which offer spectacular results. Today’s post is another way to do this easy technique, but with other supplies. Many of which are likely to be on hand. I…
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Polished Stone – Adirondack Style
Magenta Young Girl Reading Stamp This week is all about background techniques. The first one has been around for years. The Ranger Ink/ Adirondack Alcohol Ink people made it famous, though. It is easy to do and no two are alike. The supplies are minimal and it offers quick results. Later this week, I will…
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Clean Up My Desk Card #3 – Mailable Cards Week
Last week I mailed 8 cards at the post office. Because of my love of layering, 7 of the 8 needed extra postage. Hence, the Mailable-Card-Week, self-challenge I am engaged in this week! Cards can still be very nice without requiring more than regular postage. 🙂 This card uses some leftover snowflakes cut using the…
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Clean Up My Desk Card #2 – Mailable Cards Week
5 1/2″ by 4 1/4″ Standard Size Card The clean up continues! There were several different diecuts leftover from when I was playing with the Artiste Cricut cartridge. These were all made with the Avonlea paper, which is too pretty to throw away! So they made it onto this simple, mailable card. CTMH Colonial White…
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Clean Up My Desk Card – Mailable Cards Week
After working on a few projects, I end up with several usable pieces of stuff that did not make it into the original project. I prefer to work at a clean desk and try to tidy up after each big project. Sometimes I am in a bit of a hurry and a little pile of…
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It's Your Day Double Stamp Set
To celebrate National Stamping Month in September, CTMH is bringing back the popular double stamp set promotion! You can get the exclusive, new My Acrylix® It’s Your Day double stamp set for just $5 when you place a minimum order of $35 in full retail products from August 15 through September 30, 2012. You’ll love…
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10 Minute Card – Suitable for Mailing Sympathy Card
Butterfly is Negative Cut From Cricut Artiste Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a very quick card. Unfortunately, sympathy cards usually fall into that category for me. I would love to be able to send an ‘over-the-top’ card to everyone who receives a card from me, but realistically that is not always possible.…
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Two-Step Stamping
CTMH Rosy Regards Stamp Set One great way to get depth in stamped images is by using different colors on the same shape. This can be accomplished with a variety of techniques, but the easiest and fastest is probably two-step stamping. Here is a short video demonstrating how to do this. Supplies are all CTMH:…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 