Lydia added a pretty spotlight of color in the center of her floral card using vellum. By stamping on one side of the vellum and coloring on the backside with colored pencils she achieved a soft blended look with out … Read More ...
Ultimate Stamping Hacks with Simon Hurley
Get the ultimate ink blending, stamping, stenciling and watercoloring tutorial from teenage card making phenom Simon Hurley, Ranger Ink’s newest signature designer!
Explore his fantastic new line of products, Simon Hurley create. and get expert tips and tricks from the … Read More ...
Vintage Strawberry Tag
I love the sweet old fashioned look of this Strawberry Tag from Anna-Karin. She stamped the strawberries and flowers directly onto pattern papers that have a vintage look and then colored in the images with colored pencils. It really gives … Read More ...
Removing Color with Bleach on Cards
How pretty are the flowers on this lovely card from Lisa? The amazing thing about them is she didn’t really color them, she actually removed color! After stenciling a background and stamping the images all onto red cardstock she used … Read More ...
Three Card Techniques Using One Stamp Set
Using a lovely Peony stamp set from Recollections I designed 3 cards, each with a different technique. I’ll show you how to ink blend over a mask, how to do an ink smooshing technique and how to color with colored … Read More ...
Coffee Cup Pup Card
I love the look of colored pencil on kraft cardstock! The colors really pop and stand out, it has a really artistic quality about it. Jackie used the sweet Pup in a Cup stamp set from Not 2 Shappy for … Read More ...
Slimline Father’s Day Card
I love Tall, Slimline card designs, they give you so much room to work with! I used this style on a fun Woodland Animals Card for Father’s Day. I’ll show you how to enhance and accent your alcohol marker … Read More ...
Beautiful Bouquet Card
Daria used flower stamps from Neat and Tangled for this beautiful Bouquet card. I love how she embossed her images in white and left them uncolored on the Kraft card base but colored them on the white. It’s the perfect … Read More ...
Thank You Card for Medical Staff
Last week I shared a link to some free digital stamp downloads from My Favorite Things that are perfect for creating cards to say Thank You to medical staff. They are only free until 4/30/20 so hurry and get them.… Read More ...
Card Making Tutorial Colored Pencils on Dark Cardstock
Nichol Spohr used some large Asian inspired background stamps from Hero Arts to create these beautiful cards. She heat embossed them in gold on darker cardstock and used polychromos colored pencils to color in the images, which makes them really … Read More ...
Fairy Door Card
I’ve been seeing a lot of paper crafters “shopping their stash” lately, meaning they use items they already own to create something new instead of going shopping. I thought this was a fantastic idea and so I shopped my own … Read More ...
Gnome Love Card
Gnomes are all the rage right now so Elaine created this super sweet Gnomes in Love card. She used colored pencils to color in the stamped images from Stamping Bella and is sharing her coloring tutorial over on their blog.… Read More ...
Reindeer Couple Card
Sandy Allnock used a masking technique to bring this cute reindeer couple closer together on the front of her cards. She also used different techniques for falling snow so it can be snowing a lot or just a little in … Read More ...
Elf Card
How adorable is this Christmas Elf card from Torico? Her coloring is always so amazing and this little guy is no exception. If you’d like to pick up some coloring tips from her she’s sharing a speed coloring video using … Read More ...
Thankful Fall Card
The images on this wonderful Fall Thank You Card from Courtney really pop! She used white heat embossing and Polychromos colored pencils on Kraft colored cardstock to help them stand out. I love the subtle white leaf background she added … Read More ...