Father’s Day is coming up so be sure to make that special dad a special card. Sometime masculine card ideas can sometimes be difficult but Altenew has gathered over 25 different ideas to get you inspired. From traditional themes like … Read More ...
Rainbow Foil Cards
Nina-Marie created some super fun and festive cards with rainbow foil, stencils and paste. Rainbow colors and foiling are really trendy right now and are perfect for celebrations like birthdays and graduations.
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Interactive Pool Float Card
Torico created this fun interactive card where the girl on the float moves around, it actually looks like she’s floating in the pool! So cool! She used a technique she learned from Jennifer McGuire and shares a link to that … Read More ...
Round Shaped Wreath Card
Yana thought this wreath stamp from Pretty Pink Posh was perfect for a round shaped card and I couldn’t agree more! She used dual sided colored pencils for her coloring which makes for easy color blending. I love shaped cards, … Read More ...
Watercolor Lighthouse Card with New Inks
The Hero Hues Reactive Ink Pads from Hero Arts react with water so there all sorts of fun techniques you can do with them. Emily smeared the ink pads onto a non-porous surface and used a wet paint brush to … Read More ...
Custom Graduation Card
Cathy Z has the terrific idea to use alphabet dies for the school initials to create a custom design for a graduation card. You can use the letters of the school they graduated from or are heading off to. I … Read More ...
Daisy Cards – 2 Stamp 5 Ways
Suzy used the same large Gerber Daisy background stamp from Simon Says Stamp to create 5 different cards. By changing her color scheme, her coloring mediums and sometimes using heat embossing she really got great variations. I love the bold … Read More ...
Floral Cards with Background Texture
May Park used embossing paste with a stencil and some splattering to create the wonderful textures on her mixed media cards. I love how she used gray instead of green for her flower stems, it helps the pretty colors of … Read More ...
Foiling and Watercolor Card
Yana combined two popular techniques, foiling and watercolor into one gorgeous card! Did you know foiling works as a resist (yeah, I didn’t either :)) but it does so just like with heat embossing it will repel water based products, … Read More ...
Textured Cupcake Card
This yummy cupcake card from Lydia looks good enough to eat! She created her realistic frosting with texture paste using Re-Inkers to color it. This is a great way to get a custom color for your paste!
Swinging Fairy Card
How lovely is this fairy card from Teresa? I love the gold on the black and the best thing about this card is it’s interactive, the fairy swings back and forth! How cool is that?! She used a brad for … Read More ...
How to Add Stitching to Stamped Cards
How much fun is the added stitching on this cute barnyard card? Carly stamped in images in a light ink for no-line coloring (so the ink doesn’t take away from the sewing) and then used a poking tool around her … Read More ...
How to Watercolor with Brusho Powders
Brusho watercolor powders are a quick and easy way to add a pretty watercolor look to your cards. Gaylynn used them for her colorful card over top heat embossing for a resist technique. I love how she white embossing powder… Read More ...
DIY Glitter Card Sentiment
Who wouldn’t love to get this adorable monkey card for their birthday? I love how Heather Hoffman created her own glitter sentiment. She die cut a word from cardstock to create a stencil, then ink blended over the stencil to … Read More ...
Roses Card with No-Line Coloring
Laura Studio Katia shares how she used a no-line coloring technique with watercolors for this stunning roses card. I love her tips about changing brush sizes for coloring in different areas and how she blends out her light and dark … Read More ...