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The Best Names for Your DIY and Craft Blog

The Best Names for Your DIY and Craft Blog

One of the hardest things to decide is the name of your DIY and Craft Blog. After all, you would hate to rebrand later (trust me, it’s a lot of work). You want it to reflect upon you and your passion. It can’t be too long. It can’t be too complicated. Oh, and it can’t […] Read more…

How to Start a DIY and Craft Blog

how to start a diy and craft blog

You’ve looked at tons of pins on Pinterest, scoured images on Instagram, watched the tutorial videos on YouTube. You glance over at your craft table and think “hey, I can do it too.” I can start a DIY and Craft blog. After all you make great projects and you just want to share them. And […] Read more…

Creating Your Own Pattern With Stamps – Feminine Tribal Card

Stamp companies are getting more and more creative. I love when they come out with a stamp design that you can use to make your pattern. Here, I used a triangle set and masked off part of the triangles to make my own pattern design. For pattern stamping, I definitely recommend getting a stamp tool […] Read more…

Background Stamp Rustic Wedding Card on Kraft Paper

kraft rustic wedding card

A lot of my friends are getting married soon so I thought I would have some wedding cards on stock. One of my friends is having a vintage-y rustic wedding so I thought a lace card on kraft cardstock would be perfect. I used this awesome lace background stamp. I inked the stamp in versamark […] Read more…

Easy Galaxy Card With Distress Inks

Galaxies are all the rage in the arts and crafts world. They’re also much easier to create than you think. I create the galaxy for this card using distress inks. I blended the colors first in random spots. I used the mini blending tool to blend here and with those, you have to remember to […] Read more…