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🌿 From Seeds to Masterpieces: How the Garden Method Grows Your Creativity
By The Sunshine Stamper 🌸 Welcome to the Garden! If you’ve ever sat down to craft and felt overwhelmed by choices, papers, inks, stamps, dies, embellishments you’re not alone! Many papercrafters struggle to balance inspiration with organization. The Garden Method of Paper Crafting is my favorite way to bring both joy and flow back into… Continue reading
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Growing GinaK Poinsettias in my Crafty Garden
It’s growing close to that time of year, and I have been feeling the Holiday Crafting feelings! I started a new crafty “harvest” by using the Garden Method to create a batch of beautiful Poinsettias made from a GinaK stamp set. My set up to use stencils to color in batches is fairly simple. I… Continue reading
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Growing Sentiments in my Crafty Garden
This week, I planted some crafty seeds to grow my Christmas card garden. Using the garden method, I batch created sentiments to use on my Christmas cards this year. I have a few better press sets that work really well with the garden method because they press and die cut an entire set of sentiments… Continue reading
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Friendship and the Garden Method
I am so very lucky to have very supportive and kind friends in my life- and those friends I met through paper crafting events! While discussing how I was thinking about building content around my method of paper crafting, one of my besties, Kristin, drew up this cute visualization of what I had been talking… Continue reading
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Harvesting Cards with the Garden Method
Over the weekend, I used the Garden Method of Paper Crafting to create a large harvest of cardmaking elements with a Halloween theme. Tonight, I sat down with my trays of pre-made goodies and spent some time assembling cards. since I had already done the hard work of ink blending, diecutting, and stamping sentiments, this… Continue reading
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Introducing the Garden Method of Paper Crafting
Over the years, I have developed my own method of paper crafting that works pretty darn well for me and I have dubbed it the “Garden Method of Paper Crafting.” For those that know me, that is pretty ironic because I am not a gardener and my house is where flowers come to die a… Continue reading
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AECP- Class 1 All About Layering 3, Lesson 1
I am taking this course as part of the Altenew Educator Certification Program. If you are interested in doing this class yourself, you can sign up for FREE here: https://altenew.com/collections/free-crafting-101-layering-classes/products/all-about-layering-class-bundle-1 Please note, I am not an affiliate and do not profit in any form if you click the product links I have included. I am… Continue reading
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My thoughts on the Altenew Educator Certification Program
Earlier this month, I received the exciting news that I had been accepted into the Altenew AECP. I am always looking for ways to improve my crafting skills and want to teach classes, so I am really looking forward to what I will learn in this program. Program link: https://altenew.com/pages/altenew-educator-certification-program-1 I will say I did… Continue reading
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Blooming Blooms Challenge
I made this card using the Billowing Peonies stamp set from Altenew. The stamps are big and bold and just beautiful. I used watercolor paint to color them in, and then followed up with a layer of metallic shimmer. I think I was a bit too heavy-handed with the shimmer to be honest. I fussy… Continue reading
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April 2025 Altenew Inspiration Challenge
I thought the color palette for this month’s challenge was very pretty. The Altenew blog post can be found here: https://blog.altenew.com/april-2025-inspiration-challenge-pretty-in-pink-handmade-cards/ I used my build-a-flower dies to cut the floral pieces in white and then I ink blended them to the colors I was looking for. Then I layered the finished flowers and glued them… Continue reading
