If you’re looking for paper crafting inspiration Paper Pumpkin is here to inspire you and bring creativity to your door each and every month. Paper Pumpkin is a subscription kit brought to you by the folks at Stampin’ Up.… Read More ...
Marbling Card Technique
These colorful cards created by Carly were made using a marbling technique with alcohol inks. The backgrounds are the star so some simple die-cutting and sentiment is all that is needed to finish these off. Honey Bee
Artist Style Inspiration
Therese Calvird decided to use two artists that she admires and use there style to inspire her bird cards. I love her Andy Warhol card, the look is instantly recognizable as Andy but with her own spin on it. She’s … Read More ...
5 Different Stamped Card Backgrounds
Yana Smakula has stamped 5 wonderful card backgrounds without using large background stamps. I love the idea of using smaller stamps to create designs and patterns for card backgrounds, it’s a great way to get more from your stamped images. … Read More ...
James Burke Stamps
Artist James Burke has created several stamp sets to be used as a base to create your own imaginative designs. His clear stamp sets include fun and funky girls, guys and flowers that can be used alone or mixed together. … Read More ...
Get the Foiled Look with No Heat!
Deco Foil Metallix Gel from Therm O Web comes in 6 colors and adds a fantastic metallic shine to your paper crafting projects without heat! These gels work perfectly with stencils, apply with the stencil pal and let dry for … Read More ...
How to Watercolor Die Cuts
Nina Marie added some amazing color to her die cut images using watercolors. The splatters and specks she added seem to be stars or fireflies and are perfect for this evening scene card.
Learn a little more about how she … Read More ...
Peacock Feather Card
Kyriakos creates a beautiful design with a couple different stamping techniques using VersaColor inks, embossing powders and a frame created with a mold. It is simple and stunning!
Visit the Imagine Crafts blog for directions.
-Heather
… Read More ...Spring Pig with Chicks Card
Using new stamps from Hello Bluebird I created this Spring card with a pig, I thought it would be fun to have him surrounded by hatching chicks. I also tried out one of the new Tri-Color markers from Spectrum Noir… Read More ...
Easter Card with Die Cuts
Jeanne Jachna used a combination of ink blending, stenciling and watercolor for her card background on this sweet Easter card. All the fun die cuts she used are new from Poppy Stamps. She’s sharing how she put it all together … Read More ...
Marshmallow Easter Bunny Cards
These pastel little bunnies look good enough to eat! Taylor VanBruggen used some yummy new dies and stamps from Taylored Expressions to create fun marshmallow bunny cards for Easter. I love her tip about using a stamp positioning tool to … Read More ...
Pop Up Oval Frame Card
Shelly Hickox used some fun new pop up oval frame and border dies from Karen Burniston to make this amazing bird card. I love the vintage style and the quote from William Blake is perfect!
How to Watercolor a Vintage Rabbits Card
Sandy Allnock has some terrific tips on using watercolor pencils to color some vintage style bunny stamps. She used drawing paper instead of watercolor paper for a smoother look and has more tips like adding shadows and mixing colors.
Charlotte’s Web Inspired Card
I love card making challenges, it’s nice to have an idea to give your creativity a jump start. The Lawnfawnatics blog has challenges using products from Lawn Fawn and this time around is one of my faves, make a card … Read More ...
Rose and Trellis Card
This lovely detailed die makes the perfect trellis background for the layered roses on this pretty card from Mona Toth. I love her tip of applying her cardstock to an adhesive sheet before die cutting, it makes the design like … Read More ...