I love the beautiful gradation of color with the bright pops of colorful hearts on this pretty Valentine card from Mindy Eggen. She’ll show you how to do a tone on tone ink blending technique using stencils over on her … Read More ...
Tip: Altering Your Stamps
Get more from your stamps by altering them. You can mask off sections or only ink certain parts and get a new look from your images. Elaine removed the horns from the Stamping Bella Capricorn girl stamp and used her … Read More ...
Project: Metallic Valentine Card with 3D Mini Heart Embellishment
This pretty shiny Valentine card was made with several die cut shapes from adhesive metallic craft sheets with several die cut hearts turned into a 3D element in the center. You can find a tutorial for making this card over … Read More ...
Project: Shaker Card with Colored Pencils and Gamsol
How sweet is this elephant shaker card? I love the soft blended colors that Nichol Spohr got by using Polychromos colored pencils and Gamsol (a type blending solution) to color the stamps from Mama Elephant. She’ll tell you about … Read More ...
Tips for Working with Vellum
Vellum adds such a nice soft touch to cards. But since it’s transparent it can be a little difficult to figure out how to adhere it. Laurie Schmidlin has some great tips on her blog like sewing down vellum or … Read More ...
Stamping Technique: Flick Technique with Colored Pencils
Janette Kausen colored this stunning flower bouquet stamp from Hero Arts using colored pencils and a flick technique. I’ve seen artist use this technique with Copic Markers but it works beautifully with pencils too. This style of coloring can add … Read More ...
Tips: Stenciled Card Backgrounds
Justine Hovey has some wonderful cards that feature a bold stamped silhouette over top of stenciled backgrounds using stencils from Stencil Girl. She used ink and two different pastes with her stencils, check out her card tutorial video over on … Read More ...
Inspiration: Unicorn Gift Bag
Debi Adams share her ideas for using Spellbinders die in unique ways to make an amazing Unicorn Gift Bag. As well as other party favor ideas for a very magical party. Visit the Spellbinders blog for her tips.
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Tips: Monochromatic Winter Card
Andrea Gomoll has some tips for a quick water colored winter stamped design using monochromatic blues. She’ll show you how she colored with liquid water colors and also an easy and fun background using Q-tips. Visit her blog Cre8tive Cre8tions … Read More ...
Download and Tips: Valentine’s Day Stitched Cards
My Favorite Things has a really cool die that allows you to add stitched designs to your cards. You can make your own or they offer many simple patterns that you can download for free and follow, including 12 new … Read More ...
Tips: Coloring with Sharpie Markers
Now a days so many people are using alcohol markers for coloring its easy to forget all the “classic” markers we’ve bought over the years. Kathy from the Daily Marker has some great tips for shading, layering and blending Sharpie … Read More ...
Technique: Water Coloring with Ink Pad Refills
This card makes me ready for spring! Arjita colored this beautiful rose image with Memento ink pad Re-Inkers , using them like water colors. She also used a no-line stamping technique to get a more realistic look. She’ll show you … Read More ...
Tip: Make a Rainbow Ink Pad with Ink Cubes
I love getting inks in those tiny cubes, it’s less expensive to get loads more colors and they take up less storage space. Jennifer McGuire has some tips for using these tiny ink pads like making your own rainbow ink … Read More ...
5 Tips for Crafting with Freezer Paper
Freezer paper is great in the kitchen but you can also use it in your craft room. Nina Marie shares 5 useful tips like using freezer paper to protect your work surface, using it for stamping and masking techniques, as … Read More ...
Tutorial: Make a Gift Bag from an Envelope
Bianca has directions on how to score, fold and cut a long business sized envelope and turn it into a small cute gift bag covered in stamped images. Visit the Stempeleinmaleins blog for her tutorial and several decorating ideas from … Read More ...