I love the pops of metallics on dark cardstock on this beautiful butterfly card. The stamp was heat embossed with black on dark cardstock and then was water colored using metallic markers and a water brush.
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Dino Valentine Card
I love all the layers of die cutting and textures on this fun Dino Valentine card from Audrey! This would be a great card for a boy or anyone who loves Dinosaurs.
She’s sharing how she used die cuts and … Read More ...
Faux Watercoloring Technique
May Park inked up her solid flower stamps with different Altenew inks and then spritz them with water before stamping on watercolor paper to get this wonderful faux watercolor look. No brush or painting required!
DIY Handmade Card Tutorial – Valentine’s Love Birds Card
This pretty love birds card is perfect for Valentine’s Day. The different shades of pink are so soft and sweet and I love the “tweet heart” pun too.
You can visit the Hero Arts blog for a video tutorial.
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No Stamp Stamping Love Card
This lovely Valentine was made using various colored ink pads and a wooden heart shape as a stamp to create a distress background. The then the wooden heart shape was used to decorate the card.
5 Love Coloring Pages
Get into a romantic mood for Valentine’s Day with 5 pretty coloring pages about LOVE. They are FREE to download from Dover Publications.
Click here and then click the number across the page for all 5 pages to color.
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Meant to Be Valentine Card
I created this romantic Valentine card using the Meant to Be stamps and Be Mine Stitched Hearts dies from the new Stampin’ Up Occasions catalog.
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Mermaid Mirror Stamping
Mirror stamping is a fun way to get more from your stamps by having two images face each other just using the same stamp. But sometimes the results can be imperfect or blurry. Roni discovered she could use her Image’s … Read More ...
Mixed Media Gelli Printed Tags
Andrea used paints on a Gelliplate printing block to create some wonderful backgrounds on these mixed media tags. I like the simple stenciling and bits of paper she added. These would pretty on cards, in planners or on scrapbook pages.… Read More ...
Elephant Valentine Card
Kelly Latevola used lots of popular trends like white heat embossing, ink blending and stencilling to make this super sweet elephant card. These new products from Neat and Tangled she used are so cute!
DIY Thank You Stamps with Mint
If you’d like to create your own custom DIY stamps for any occasion the Mint
system from Silhouette is perfect. Using your computer you can create or purchase images and then “print” your own stamps. These Floral Thank You cards … Read More ...
Large Unicorn Valentine
What’s better than a unicorn Valentine? A giant sparkly Unicorn Valentine! Michaels has a printable template for the Unicorn to cut from glitter cardstock and also the sentiment to print for an easy but awesome large Valentine’s Day card.
Paper Gift Bag with Chopstick Closure
Tanja created this sweet gift bag from some pattern cardstock and sealed it closed with a chopstick. She’s got a cutting and folding template over on the Stempeleinmaleins blog where you’ll also find more samples from their design team.
Classroom Valentines Cut Files
These hearts with envelopes dies can be decorated with stamps, glitter and stickers and are perfect for classroom Valentines. Best of all they are FREE!
Click here to download the digital cut files from SVG Cuts.
-Heather
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One Swan Stamp Used Three Ways On Handmade Cards
From subtle to pastel to bold Yana used this lovely swan stamp from Hero Arts in 3 completely different ways for very different looks. I love seeing the versatility you can get from just one image using various techniques.
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