Posted on December 29, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
A gal from Oriental Stamp Art asked me how I photograph my cards and artwork, she was curious about the handmade setup I had. Well I thought I would share it with everyone here on my blog. To kill a couple of birds with one stone I decided to use the card I made with [...]
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Posted on December 25, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
Just popping in quickly to wish you all a merry Christmas. this is my last Christmas card this year and it used stamps from About Art Accents:
Have a wonderful day and till next time happy crafting!
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Posted on December 15, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
…but in a good way! I had a chance to play in my studio this morning with my new pile of “rubbah” from About Art Accents (I so needed to get inky) and I got 2 challenges done! The first is this weeks sketch over at 2s4u:
I know the simple sketch would showcase the beauty [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
Have you ever used your water based markers to stamp? It is easy, quick and fun and look how elegant:
I used stamps from About Art Accents for both of these cards. The Deer image is from this plate and I simply colored the rubber with my Tombow markers, breathed on the rubber to moisten the [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
I love to use flocking and my favorite way to adhere it is by using double-sided adhesive, On this card I stamped the Santa twice, colored the face on one and pressed the other onto a sheet of Scor-Tape. I cut apart the hat, fluff and beard then pulled the backing off the tape and [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
Here is a fun technique! Paper marblizing! All you need is a pan of water and some oil based paint. Look what you can make
I used the sketch over at Oriental stamp art and Geisha stamps from About Art Accents to make this simple card, it only took a few minutes (that rarely happens folks, [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
I was thrilled to find out that the Oriental Art Stamp Challenge was Haiku this week, I looked at websites trying to find a poem to use and none fit the bill so I wrote my own. I’m not a poet but I do like the way my card turned out:
I used leftover plastic packaging [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
Just a quick post today. Here is a card I made using the sketch over at Oriental Stamp Art. The stamps are by About Art Accents.
Thanks for stopping by, till next time happy crafting!
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Posted on September 25, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
Each week the folks over at Oriental stamp Art post a sketch and challenge their members to complete it. I don’t always get it done but today I found some time to make these:
On this card I flipped the sketch:
On this card I rotated the sketch:
And I made this from the scraps!
I used lovely Asian [...]
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Posted on September 8, 2009 by thefrugalcrafter
This week over ar Oriental Stamp art they challenged us to make a geisha themed card, as soon as I read the challenge I wanted to make this:
I spotted some pretty holographic tissue paper at the dollar tree and it reminded me that I bout some a year ago(and never used it, oh the shame!) [...]
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