This pretty pocket card base is made from just a 1/2 sheet of cardstock with just a couple of folds and a decorative die on the edge. Make a square flat card to slide inside and you’ve got a wonderful … Read More ...
Tip: Quick Water Color Card Backgrounds
Looking to add a quick and easy but very colorful background to your cards? Trying using a wide flat brush and some liquid water colors, the perfect look for spring and summer cards! Learn more about this tip over on … Read More ...
Project: Gardening Bunny Card
Don’t put away those rabbit stamps yet, they make perfect spring and gardening cards. I love the cheery mix of pattern papers on this sweet card from Christiana! Hop on over to her blog for a card making video.
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Tip: How to Edit a Digital Stamp
If you’ve got a rubber stamp that you want to only stamp part of you can cut the stamp apart, mask off sections or only ink certain parts but what if you’ve got a digital stamp you want to only … Read More ...
Project: Animated Duck Card
The new animated stamps from Motion Crafts are so amazing and so much fun. These cool stamps are used with grids that slide over top to make the stamps appear to move. Vicky from Clips-n-Cuts has a video tutorial showing … Read More ...
Project: Bunny Baby Card
Now that Easter is over don’t put those bunny rabbit stamps away just yet. They are perfect for any spring time card, Mother’s Day and also great for saying congats on a new baby too. Like this adorable card from … Read More ...
Techniques: Multiple Ways to Use Distress Resist Sprays
Simon Hurley has a fantastic video showing many different ways to use Distress Resist Sprays
with stencils, stamping, die cutting and more with lots of helpful tips too. Visit his blog Inklipse and check out the video tutorial.
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Card Making Project: Woodland Tea Party Scene Card
How fun is this Woodland Tea Party scene card? It’s very “Alice in Wonderland” and I love it! Michelle Short will show you how to make a scene card with an ink blended background and lots of dimension with die … Read More ...
Project: Washi Tape Sun Catchers
I love Washi tape, it’s so versatile, it can dress up and decorate almost anything. I’m constantly in awe of designers who keep coming up with new and innovative ways to use it. Like these beautiful Sun Catchers from Nina-Marie … Read More ...
Inspiration and Freebies: Cross Stitched Easter Tag Patterns
Many years ago before I got into stamping my favorite craft was cross stitching. I still love the look but don’t really have the time to devote to large projects. So I’m crazy about the idea of adding small cross … Read More ...
Project: Wobble Easter Bunnies Card
I love all the bright Spring colors and the bunnies hiding in the greenery on this Easter card from Yana Smakula. She used stamps and dies from Simon Says Stamp to make it and added a fun surprise, two of … Read More ...
Tip: Using Small Stamps for Card Backgrounds
On many stamp sets there are always those tiny stamps that I usually don’t use because I just don’t know what to do with them. Jennifer McGuire has a great tip she calls Fill In Stamping, using those small stamps … Read More ...
Coloring Technique: Fuzzy Bunnies Card
It’s amazing how much realistic texture and “fuzz” Sandy Allnock achieved on these 2 adorable bunny stamps! She colored them first with Copic markers but them added the fuzz with an HB pencil (similar to a regular #2). She’s got … Read More ...
Tip: Turn Flowers Stamps into a Floral Bouquet
If you’re like me you probably have quite a few (or quite a lot :)) of flower stamp sets. I love them! Amanda has a great idea using some floral sets, she turned them into a flower bouquet for a … Read More ...
Technique: Stamping Off
This Stamping Off technique also called Second Generation Stamping is a great way to get more from your ink pads. By inking up your stamp, stamping it onto scrap paper and then stamping it again (without re-inking) you’ll get a … Read More ...