Ink blending is a popular and fun way to add color to cardstock. It’s perfect for creating card backgrounds but you can also use this technique to color your stamps too. Mona Toth heat embossed her stamped images with … Read More ...
Nautical Pop Up Box Card
Crêté Angélique used products from Graphic 45 to create this wonderful Nautical Pop Up Box Card. It’s a perfect masculine card or for anyone who loves the sea. She’s sharing a template and step by step, cutting, folding and assembly … Read More ...
Coloring Stamps with Pastel Chalks
Tina used pastel chalks to add lots of pretty color to the butterflies on her card. She got a terrific tip to get a bold stamped outline when using chalks, she first stamps, then colors with the chalks and then … Read More ...
How to Use Dies to Create Stencils – Mushroom Card
Lydia used her metal dies to create her own stencils for the background on this Magical Mushroom Card. She then used the die cut shapes, colored with watercolors, over top of the stenciled background for a cool card design. This … Read More ...
Floral Card with Inked Shading Technique
Simon Hurley has a quick and easy way to add color and shading to your stamps with a fun inking technique. He adds multiple ink colors all at once to a solid stamp, with darker ink colors
towards to outside … Read More ...
Card Making – Gate Fold Peaches Card
This sweet birthday card is sure to put a smile on anyone’s face! Connie used stamps and pattern papers from Stampin’ Up to create this yummy Gatefold Card covered in peaches. She sharing directions for folding and stamping over on … Read More ...
Pink Carnation Birthday Card using Layering Stamps
Shauna has some terrific tips on getting the perfect placement with layering stamps. By using a stamp positioning tool and a die cut panel to place the pieces in you can easily layer up different colors of ink on each … Read More ...
Stenciled Floral Card
Lynnea used stencils from LDRS to create this stunning Floral Card. The main images are from a layering stencil set that allows you to ink each section a different color for a very realistic look. The background is a single … Read More ...
Fairy Forest Glen Card
Joy combined several different stamps and die set from Lawn Fawn to create this amazing Fairy Forest Glen Card. I love her mix of pink, purple and teal colors, adding touches of glitter, it’s perfect for any fairy home! She’s … Read More ...
Versatile Stencil Card Backgrounds
I love having large stamps or stencils that are very versatile and will work to create backgrounds on lots of different styles of cards, I feel like a I really get my moneys worth out of them. Vicky is using … Read More ...
Pelican Slimline Birthday Card
I love the rainbow splashes of color all over this fun slimline Pelican Birthday Card from Lynn! She used Zig Clean Color Markers with a blender pen to watercolor her stamped images. And for the background she ink blended her … Read More ...
3 Frog Cards from 1 Kit
Kathy used the cute Toadally Unfrogettable Card Making Kit from Simon Says Stamp to create 3 adorable frog cards. From a simple card with pattern paper, to a fun shaker card she’s showing what’s included and how versatile this kit … Read More ...
Ice Cream Slimline Card with Pop Up
This fun Ice Cream Slimline card from Karen looks so yummy! She used stamped pattern paper to create her delicious “flavors” (no coloring needed) and inside the card is a fun little surprise, part of the sentiment is a pop … Read More ...
3 Ways to *Not* Color in Stamps
If you’re needing to make a quick card or don’t feel very confidant in your coloring skills there are simple ways to add color using stamps without actually coloring them in the traditional way. Kristina is sharing 3 different ways, … Read More ...
Flamingo Paradise Card Tutorial
Shauna used products from Papertrey Ink to create this stunning Flamingo Paradise card. The large cluster of colorful stamped and die cut flowers are the perfect balance to the bright pink flamingo that she ink blended. And the white oval … Read More ...