Svetlana used the new Tonic Studio 
Shimmer Powders over a stencil to create this lovely card background. These powders react with water for a cool watercolor effect. The vellum flowers she added over top really help to soften the bold … Read More ...
Altered Art Record
Got some old records laying around but don’t have a turntable anymore? Turn those albums into some fun altered art home decor. Angela used an old 45 and some fun rocker girl stamps from Some Odd Girl to create this … Read More ...
Outer Space Treat Bags
Tya created her own stickers using a print and cut method with her Silhouette electronic die cutting machine and sticker paper for these fun Outer Space themed gift bags. She added pattern paper and the stickers on some cute bags … Read More ...
Floral Card with Faux Watercolor Technique
Using more new stamps from the brand new Stampin Up catalog I created this pretty floral card with the Beautiful Friendship stamps. I did a faux watercolor technique using different ink pads colors spritzed with water on the solid stamps. … Read More ...
Stampin’ Up Annual Catalog Review
The brand new annual catalog from Stampin’ Up is now available! Inside you’ll find lots and lots of clear and rubber mounted stamp sets, many with coordinating dies, pattern paper collections, all inclusive card making kits, embellishments… Read More ...
Puppy Surprise Slider Card
The oh so cute puppy dog on this card slides up to reveal a surprise underneath, a hidden gift card! Stephanie created this fun Slider Surprise Card with new dies from My Favorite Things. I love how she lightly inked … Read More ...
Rainbow Foil Cards
Nina-Marie created some super fun and festive cards with rainbow foil, stencils and paste. Rainbow colors and foiling are really trendy right now and are perfect for celebrations like birthdays and graduations.
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Watercolor Lighthouse Card with New Inks
The Hero Hues Reactive Ink Pads from Hero Arts react with water so there all sorts of fun techniques you can do with them. Emily smeared the ink pads onto a non-porous surface and used a wet paint brush to … Read More ...
Floral Cards with Background Texture
May Park used embossing paste with a stencil and some splattering to create the wonderful textures on her mixed media cards. I love how she used gray instead of green for her flower stems, it helps the pretty colors of … Read More ...
Foiling and Watercolor Card
Yana combined two popular techniques, foiling and watercolor into one gorgeous card! Did you know foiling works as a resist (yeah, I didn’t either :)) but it does so just like with heat embossing it will repel water based products, … Read More ...
Textured Cupcake Card
This yummy cupcake card from Lydia looks good enough to eat! She created her realistic frosting with texture paste using Re-Inkers to color it. This is a great way to get a custom color for your paste!
Review: Hello Sweetums Stamps
Today I am super excited to bring you a look at a newer stamp company called Hello Sweetums. I recently came across their Instagram and fell in love with their totally adorable stamps, dies and stencils. They are … Read More ...
DIY Glitter Card Sentiment
Who wouldn’t love to get this adorable monkey card for their birthday? I love how Heather Hoffman created her own glitter sentiment. She die cut a word from cardstock to create a stencil, then ink blended over the stencil to … Read More ...
Roses Card with No-Line Coloring
Laura Studio Katia shares how she used a no-line coloring technique with watercolors for this stunning roses card. I love her tips about changing brush sizes for coloring in different areas and how she blends out her light and dark … Read More ...
Rainbow Birthday Card
This bright rainbow of colors and balloons is sure to make anyones birthday super happy! Angelica used Crystal Glaze to add dimension and shine to her balloons and thin strips of pattern papers in rainbow colors for her border (that’s … Read More ...