Papercraft Essentials Thursday!

Wahoo! Look at me with my issue of Papercraft Essentials before it went on sale! Yay! Ok so I woke up this morning super-pumped and motivated, so I'm sorry if I get too over excited! But I am excited 'coz issue 121 of Papercraft Essentials is in the shops today and I've already got my issue so I can share with you…

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Get The Look – Watercolour Using Ink Pads

Welcome back to my Get The Look series. We had some fun in February's Get The Gold Look and you can find those posts here. This week I wanted to try digging into another on-trend look and that is the Watercolour look. But before we go rooting around for our watercolour paints or rushing out to buy some, why don't we try…

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Get The Look – Gilding Flakes

We have all been going mad for that gold look, gold has been everywhere, it's been raining gold! OK, perhaps not, but it is proving to be the desirable look for the season, so I have the final Get The Look in my Gold series, well at least for the time being, and it is a little exploration into that stock favourite…

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Get The Look – Gold Leafing Pens

Last week I was getting that totally on-trend gold look with transfer foils after the release of the new Heidi Swap Minc Foil Applicator*. But there are other ways to add some metallic glitz and glamour to your projects, so this week I thought I would show you how to get the look with leafing pens. [*Just so you know there are affiliate…

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Blitsy Tutorial Time: Turn Your Notebooks Designer Gold

Hey, you know that I've gone a bit gold crazy right? Well take a peak at this quick makeover idea for your notebook covers: The full tutorial is over on the Blitsy* Discover blog. I've used a Krylon Gold Leafing pen which you can often find on sale over at Blitsy* so keep your eye out! If you want some more gold…

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Get The Look – Gold Transfer Foil

I'm sure that you have noticed that gold is super on trend this season for papercraft projects and with the release of Heidi Swapps' foiling machine, Minc Foil Applicator, at the CHA in January you can't help but have noticed that foiling techniques and gold foiled products are starting to pop up everywhere. [*Just so you know there are affiliate links in…

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New Paperbabe August Stamp Release

Fancy a bit of a sneaky peek at some of the new August release stamps from Paperbabe Stamps*? I think you will like these! Kim Costello has designed some stunning Japanese-inspired stamps this month for Paperbabe Stamps. There are some beautiful MayLeeDee stamps, which you can get as digis or clear stamps. Then there is the gorgeous Oriental Zen stamp set with its…

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