Crafts Unleashed

Core’Dinations Cardstock Roses

Below is a post that appeared on CoreDinations.com, a great blog that is chock-full of cardstock projects like scrapbook pages, cards, and more. We asked (nicely) if we could share this tutorial with you on how to make beautiful roses from paper. After all, flowers are so on-trend and Core’Dinations paper is the BEST!

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Technique: How To Use An Eyelet Kit

The basics of using an eyelet kit.

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Technique: Watercolor Resist

I love stamping and I love watercolors… it’s so soothing to blend those translucent colors on my paper! So today, I’m going to show you how to use stamping and clear embossing powder as a “resist” to make some lovely (and easy) greeting cards.
(Note: in traditional watercolor painting, wax, oil, or a liquid gum is [...]

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Craft Technique: 3-D Designs Using a Brass Stencil

How to use a brass stencil as a 3-D template.

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Paper Crafting: Adding Pizazz to Stamped Images

Stamping is so much fun and the treasures you can create from stamped images are wonderful.  There are so many techniques you can do with rubber stamps and today I want to focus on one of the easiest techniques which is what I call the coloring book technique.  Basically you stamp your image and color [...]

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Technique: Paper Craft layering

As a paper crafter I use a lot of dimension in my work.  Not that I do not like flat, but for me there is something about the look and feel of something that pops up that I cannot resist.  Layering and dimension is interesting to look at and to touch.  I have to admit [...]

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