Author Archives: Jennifer Gallacher

Sewing Pattern Dimensional Flower

Welcome back to another Inspiration Station blog post. In today’s tutorial, we’re going to be using a vintage sewing pattern to create a dimensional flower. To create the project, you’ll need the following items: a printed sewing pattern (the darker and more “used” the better), buttons, die cut leaves, and either wet adhesive or a […]

 

Inspiration Station: Hello There Card

Welcome back to another “Inspiration Station” post in which I share a few ideas for dressing up your projects. In this week’s tutorial, we’re going to layer paper and a sticker to create an embossed embroidery hoop embellishment. Here’s a look at what we’re going to create: To create the embossed layers to this sticker, […]

Inspiration Station: Creating Felt Embellishments

Love You Layout by Jen Gallacher for the Weekly Scrapper blog hosted by the Scrapbook Expo

For this week’s Inspiration Station, I wanted to create some felt embellishments inspired by the felt flowers you can see on this completed layout: The flowers I used on my project were stickers I found in my scrapbooking stash, but I loved them so much that I wanted to use them as inspiration for building […]

Inspiration Station: Reason to Celebrate Layout Process Video

A Reason to Celebrate Layout by Jen Gallacher for the Weekly Scrapper blog hosted by the Scrapbook Expo

  Welcome back to another “Inspiration Station!” This week I’m sharing a scrapbooking process video with you. A scrapbooking process video shows you how to create a layout start-to-finish. This particular layout features three different stamping techniques. Here’s a look at the layout we’ll be creating: You can watch the video HERE on our Youtube […]

Always Painted Embroidery Hoop Frame

When I was young I had an extreme passion for embroidery and cross stitching. Since that time my love for crafts has moved from sewing to paper crafting, but I still have many of my sewing tools from former days. As I thought about what home décor project I wanted to share with you today, I […]

Inspiration Station: Decorative Tape Life is Better Card

I am always looking for creative layers for my cards. Sometimes that means stamping. Sometimes that means patterned paper. But today I wanted to use a supply that I have a great deal of, and that is decorative tape (also known as Washi Tape). This versatile embellishment can be used for many things, but for […]

Inspiration Station: Everyday Life Layout

Welcome back to Inspiration Station! For this layout I wanted to incorporate several stamps that I love. One technique that is especially fun when stamping is to stamp on punched or die cut shapes. One particular technique I’d like to share with you is using a punch to “half punch” a stamped shape. To complete […]