These smaller sized Valentine cards still pack a big punch with loads of glitter and cute animals. Ashley Abelson will show you how she used glitter paper behind an open heart background die and colored pencils for her stamped images … 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: Bold Color on Black Valentine Card
Wow, the bold pop of color on the black background of this card from Heather Telford is just stunning! She heat embossed her stamp on black cardstock with gold embossing powder and colored it with pearlescent water colors. Visit the … 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 ...
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 ...
Project: Diorama Cards
How sweet are these diorama cards? Dawn from W Plus 9 has measurements and cutting, scoring and folding directions and even a template for how to make your own diorama cards. They even fold flat for mailing. Visit the W … Read More ...
Tip: Die Cut Shapes from Large Stamps
Get more from your larger stamped images by only using small portions of them. Like in this card Kajcyika used a heart shaped die to cut out smaller pieces of a large border stamp, it really gives a bold look … Read More ...
Projects: New Valentine Release from Penny Black Stamps
Jill Foster has made some amazing cards using the latest Love and Roses stamp and die collection release from Penny Black. For the card shown she combines a stamp of a sweet older couple with come city dies to create … Read More ...
Project: Peek a Boo Flip Card
Know someone who loves to bake? Make them an adorable baking themed Peek a Boo flip card. Channin has directions on scoring, folding, die cutting and stamping up this fun card. Visit the Waffle Flower blog for her video tutorial.… Read More ...
Project: Simple Winter Themed Valentine’s Cards
Kelly made these adorable Valentine’s for her child class, keeping them pretty simple with one layer, a blended Distress Ink background and Copic Marker coloring with just two color shades. I love that she incorporated a winter theme as for … 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 ...
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 ...
Trend: 4 Ways to Use Sequins on Cards
Sequins are the “it” embellishment for card making right now. They add a nice sparkle to most any card and there are so many cool ways to use them. Put them inside a shaker card, scatter them around the front … Read More ...
Project: Hug Day Valentine Card
Send someone a hug in an envelope this Valentine’s Day with a sweet hand made card. I love the addition of stitching on this adorable Kitty card from Peet Roeven. She’s sharing photo project directions for making it over on … Read More ...