I love the new Fable Friends stamp set from Stampin’ Up! It has the cutest spring animals, perfect for Easter, baby and friendship cards. I made this Squirrel Friend Card with the sweet squirrel stamp from the set using … Read More ...
Distress Inks 5 Ways
Distress Ink pads are great for ink blending, watercolor, backgrounds, adding color, direct stamping, smooshing and more. Jessica Frost-Ballas shares 5 different ways you can use Distress Inks on your cards.
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Watercolor Resist Cards
How lovely are these card by Thi Lam? By stamping and embossing the floral and leaf stamps in clear ink and powder she was able to watercolor over top her images and the embossing resisted the color. So pretty! Mama … Read More ...
Kids and Critters Love Card
Tricia created the adorable scene for this card with a masking technique using stamps from Art Impressions. By stamping her images with Tombow markers, that are water based, she was able to apply water over top with a paint brush … Read More ...
Butterfly Card with Metallic Water Coloring
I love the pops of metallics on dark cardstock on this beautiful butterfly card. The stamp was heat embossed with black on dark cardstock and then was water colored using metallic markers and a water brush.
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Dino Valentine Card
I love all the layers of die cutting and textures on this fun Dino Valentine card from Audrey! This would be a great card for a boy or anyone who loves Dinosaurs.
She’s sharing how she used die cuts and … Read More ...
Faux Watercoloring Technique
May Park inked up her solid flower stamps with different Altenew inks and then spritz them with water before stamping on watercolor paper to get this wonderful faux watercolor look. No brush or painting required!
DIY Handmade Card Tutorial – Valentine’s Love Birds Card
This pretty love birds card is perfect for Valentine’s Day. The different shades of pink are so soft and sweet and I love the “tweet heart” pun too.
You can visit the Hero Arts blog for a video tutorial.
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No Stamp Stamping Love Card
Meant to Be Valentine Card
I created this romantic Valentine card using the Meant to Be stamps and Be Mine Stitched Hearts dies from the new Stampin’ Up Occasions catalog.
I’ve shared a tutorial over on my Youtube channel, you can click here to watch … Read More ...
Mermaid Mirror Stamping
Mirror stamping is a fun way to get more from your stamps by having two images face each other just using the same stamp. But sometimes the results can be imperfect or blurry. Roni discovered she could use her Image’s … Read More ...
Mixed Media Gelli Printed Tags
Andrea used paints on a Gelliplate printing block to create some wonderful backgrounds on these mixed media tags. I like the simple stenciling and bits of paper she added. These would pretty on cards, in planners or on scrapbook pages.… Read More ...
Elephant Valentine Card
Kelly Latevola used lots of popular trends like white heat embossing, ink blending and stencilling to make this super sweet elephant card. These new products from Neat and Tangled she used are so cute!
DIY Thank You Stamps with Mint
If you’d like to create your own custom DIY stamps for any occasion the Mint system from Silhouette is perfect. Using your computer you can create or purchase images and then “print” your own stamps. These Floral Thank You cards … Read More ...
Large Unicorn Valentine
What’s better than a unicorn Valentine? A giant sparkly Unicorn Valentine! Michaels has a printable template for the Unicorn to cut from glitter cardstock and also the sentiment to print for an easy but awesome large Valentine’s Day card.