Tutorials - stamping and cardmaking

I've been wowed by some of the tutorials taking place on blogs this week - I had to share some of them with you!

Deanne shows you how to make sure your images line up in her straight stick trick, while Laura describes how to make a gorgeous card using cleverly upcycled card (from a cereal box - but you would never guess!).  They are both well worth a visit for the information they share.

And - oh my word! - there are three links, here, which show you how to make an animated gif from a digi stamp.  I love these, because they are so very different to everything else on my radar at the moment!

Art Politics Life has- very cleverly, I think - made three of my images into animated gifs.  My cat in a an arched window stamp comes to life here with PhotoShop.

cat in arched window digistamp - follow the link above to see this image animated!

And then, look at my birds dancing! How cute do they look?  And here you can make a gif with glitter and/or crumpled paper!  Brilliant!

Just in case you are tempted by any of these tutorials, you can buy all the stamps featured in Handmade Harbour's online shop - your digi stamps are instantly downloadable, so even if you want to do a little crafting at midnight, you can.

Free Supplies for Tutorials!

I'm excited to be getting together with Totally Tutorials to offer some free digital stamps in exchange for tutorials!

Basically, this is how it works:

• you apply to get your freebies
• I send you the stamps of your choice if you are selected (I've no idea how many people will be interested so there has to be a cut-off point!)
• you blog about how to make whatever you made (or do another kind of tute, like how to use Promarkers, or use digi stamps)
• you send your blog link to Totally Tutorials and me

Are you interested?  Excellent! So here it all is in a bit more detail:

• You'll get five free digital stamps of your choice (you don't need to use them all in your tutorial)
• I'll choose up to five people to receive the stamps, which will be sent to you by email
• You can be based anywhere in the world and you have until 9th July 2013 to apply.  I'll let you know within 3 days of the closing date if you're successful and you'll receive your stamps as soon as possible after that.
• I'd like you to be able to post your tutorial within two to three weeks of receiving your stamps - ideally on your blog, but if you don't have a blog you can still join in by posting on Craftster, Instructables or Cutoutandkeep
• You need to let both me and Kym at Totally Tutorials know once you have posted your tutorial

Still interested?  Email me: wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk telling me a bit about why you'd like me to choose you, what you'd make and which stamps you'd like to have.

There's more info about the Exchange Program on the Totally Tutorials blog.  If you are interested in applying, pop over to check the details.

PS: You can check out my digital stamps on the Handmade Harbour website.