I used some brand new products from Stampin’ Up to create this fun Underwater Porthole Card. I love using a slimline style for cards when I feel like I could use come extra room to set the scene. Using dies … Read More ...
Quick and Easy Pet Cards
Sometimes you just need a quick and easy card and one way to do that is by using pattern papers. For these cute Cat and Dog cards I used the new Playful Pets Papers from Stampin’ Up. Yup, that’s right, … Read More ...
How to Ink Blend on an Embossing Folder
Embossing folders add great texture to your cards but you can also use them to add color as well. I used ink pads and a blender brush to add a blue sky to the starry background on my Unicorn Card. … Read More ...
Dry Embossing with Ink for Card Backgrounds
How lovely are these butterfly cards from Gaylynn? She applied ink to embossing folders to create her pretty card backgrounds. The big butterflies from Unity Stamps she added over top add a bold colorful touch to finish off her cards.… Read More ...
Using a Stencil Two Ways
Cathy has a great tip for stretching your stencils. She used a heart pattern stencil in the traditional way, adding ink over top, but she also used a rubber mat and ran it through her die cutting machine over cardstock … Read More ...
How to Emboss with a Stencil
There are so many cool techniques you can do with stencils but did you know you can emboss with them? Using a rubber emboss mat you can turn your plastic stencils into embossing plates. Cool, right? Dina shares a how … Read More ...
1 Background Die 3 Ways
The new Folk Art background die from Sizzix is really versatile and can be used as the entire focus of card with just some added sentiments. Over on their blog they’ve got three ways to use it, ink blending, embossing … Read More ...
Ink Blending Over Embossing
Using the pretty new Blender Brushes from Taylored Expressions Noriko created this stunning card. She dry embossed her cardstock with an embossing folder and then used different ink pads and the brushes to ink over top to create a wonderful … Read More ...
Add a Subtle Handmade Card Background w/ Embossing
Try adding a soft subtle background to your cards with dry embossing. This gives some texture to the card but with a clean look. Michelle Short will show you how easy it is to do this technique using a metal … Read More ...
Debossed No Line Coloring Technique
Instead of using a stamped image for her lovely water colored card Dina used a die with an embossing mat in her die cutting machine to deboss the image and then used that as a guide to add her coloring. … Read More ...
Hair Clip Embossed with 3D Printed Stamp
Kelly Wayment use the Silhouette Alta 3D printer to print her own stamp and used it to create her own embossed leather hair clip. I never would have thought to create my own stamps with a 3D printer, such an … Read More ...
Subtle Embossing Around Stamps
Instead of using the coordinating die cut to cut out this stamped strawberry image Virginia used it to add a subtle line of embossing around it.
Find more info on this idea over on her blog Yes, Virginia.
-Heather
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Cut and Emboss Folders
Spellbinders has new amazing folders that cut and emboss at the same time in one pass through your die cutting machine, how cool is that!? Nichol Spohr added an additional element to them by adding ink to the folders for … Read More ...
Subtle Embossed Card Sentiments
Lydia used alphabet dies with an embossing pad to add subtle embossed sentiments to her cards. The pops of color in the layering stamped flowers adds a nice touch to these elegant cards.
You can find her card tutorial over … Read More ...
Embossing with Dies
Kerin Sylvester used a large cutting die with an embossing mat to emboss (instead of cut) this card background and colored the sections with Copic markers for a really lovely card. And a great way to get more from your … Read More ...