If I had a good old fashioned Rolodex file sitting on my crafting desk, this is what it would contain – all the fun, good stuff I've found over the years. It's a mixed bag of sites that are great for finding inspiration, shopping, selling, organizing . . . well, you get the idea.
Business Tools
- Selling Your Crafts – Etsy
Challenge Sites
- Card Patterns** Saturday sketch challenges
- Card Positioning Sketches** Sunday sketch challenges
- CardVarks** theme challenges on the 5th and 20th
- Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge*
- Color Throwdown*
- Colour Q Challenge* (winners become guest designers)
- Cute Card Thursday**
- Crazy 4 Challenges** Saturday challanges
- Cupcake Craft Challenges**
- Cupcake Inspiration Challanges**
- Dare You to Digi Stamp* Friday challenges, must use digital stamp
- Digital Tuesday Challenge** must use a digital element
- Embellish Magazine**
- Fab's Big Christmas Cards Challenge
- Fourth Friday Fun Challenge**
- Friday Sketches**
- I {heart} 2 Stamp**
- Just Us Girls* Saturday challenge
- Just Magnolia** must use Magnolia stamps
- Mojo Monday**
- Moxie Fab World** from Paper Crafts magazines
- Our Creative Corner**
- Pals Paper Arts** (mostly Stampin' Up!)
- Paper Craft Planet Challenges & Swaps Forum
- Penny Black Challenge** (must use Penny Black stamps)
- Play Date Cafe** Wednesday color challenge
- The Pink Elephant Challenge**
- Quixotic Challenges** (Wednesday)
- Saturday Spotlight**
- Shirley's 2 Girls Twisted Thursday, Must use Shirley's2Girls digital stamps
- Splitcoast Stampers Challenge Forums
- So Shelli.com Creative Challange (Stampin' Up!)
- Soul Scrappers Challenges Forum
- Sketch Saturday**
- Stamptacular Sunday Challenge**
- Sunday Sketch & Stamp** (every other Sunday)
- Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge*
- The Sweetest Thing Sunday sketch challanges
- Three Clovers Thursday Challenge*
Want more? Check out Scrapworld – Scrap2day side bar, where she has tons of challenges listed by days of the week – awesome!
*Challenge sites that include inspirational samples
**Challenge sites that offer occasional prizes and samples/tutorials
Charities
These sites accept card donations
Copic Markers
For tutorials, a list of bloggers who use Copics, vendors, message boards, challenges, and all good things Copic, you can go to Copic Topics.
Devine Design
Color Combinations
Patterns/Templates
- JersGirl Free Templates
- My Stampedia
- Red Castle
- Scor-pal
- Splitcoast Stampers
- Stampington & Company
- two peas in a bucket
Digital Stamps
- Angel's Landing
- Heather Ellis Digi Stamp Characters
- Mo's Digital Pencil
- Shirley's 2 Girls
- Squigglefly
- Whimsey Doodles
These are just my favs. Want more? Here's another list (some free) Resource List of Digital Images
Digital Scrapbooking
Organization
General Storage Suggestions
- Nancy Riley's iStamp
- Paula Pascaul's Crafty Storage
Ink Pad storage
Paper, etc., Storage
Photography & Photo Editing
Poems and Quotes
- Brainy Quote
- Choice Quotations
- Little Sayings
- Quote Garden
- QuoteLand
- Stampers' Versalog
- ThinkExist
- two peas in a bucket
Shopping
Alterable items
- BagWorks (clothes)
- Just 4 Fun Crafts
- Stamp on This Vippies (small calendars)
- All That Scraps
Central Texas Local Scrapbook Stores
- Austin, Memory Depot
- Corsicana, Scrappin' Good Time
- Lakeway (near Austin), Scrapology
- San Antonio, Scrapbook 911
- Solado, Stamp Solado
- Temple, Scrappily Ever After
- Waxahachie, The Crafty Scrapper
Coasters
- American Coasters. Call them at 1-888-423-8628 (the medium-weight blank coasters aren't on the website).
- Stamp on This
Displays for Cards
General Paper/Stamp Supplies
- 7 Kids College Fund (great Copic deals)
- All That Scraps
- Creative Images Stamps
- Denami Design
- Eclectic paperie
- Ellen Hutson, LLC
- More than Ink
- Paper Garden Projects
- Skipping Stones Designs (fun acrylic stamps)
- Stamping Scrapping (Copics, Magnolia Stamps, Neenah paper, Nestabilities . . . )
- Stampin' Up!
- Want more? Here's a list at Splitcoast Stampers of stamping/scrapping web stores listed from A to Z.
Product Reviews
Tins/Bottles
Stamping Communities
- Card of the Week (Paper Craft Planet)
- Play Date Cafe
- SNR Card Universe
- Soul Scrappers (mostly Stampin' Up!)
- Splitcoast Stampers
- Spotted Canary
- two peas in a bucket
Talented Texans
- Janet's Jems – Great site for tea bag folding and iris folding inspiration
- My Town Papers – Scrapbook papers with local themes
- Texana Designs – Texas themed rubber stamps
Techniques
General
- Inspirational Tips, Techniques & Tutorials
- Kim Stamps
- Learn2Stamp
- My Stampedia
- Rubber Road Adventures
- Splitcoast Stampers
- Stampin' Up!
- Stamping School
- Technique Junkies (Pat Stamps)
Techniques – Basket Weaving with Paper
Techniques – Pencil (PrismaColor)
Techniques – Wire Wrapping/Beading
Web Tools
- Avatars – Bless This Chick
- Blog Banner – See Watermark
Blog Tips -
Custom Images -
Domain Registering – Go Daddy
FavIcon – Favicon from Pics
Fonts -
Image Hosting -
RGB Stampin' Up! Colors -
Social Bookmarking – del.icio.us
Signature Lines – My Live Signature
Please contact me or e-mail me (cateredcrop@gmail.com) if you would like to suggest a site or notice a bad link. Enjoy.
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