Vicky used the brand new Heart Garland background stamp from Simon Says Stamp 3 different ways to create 3 different cards for Valentine’s Day. Each card has different die cut and stamped sentiments. She’s sharing a video on her blog … Read More ...
Card Making – Stenciled Birthday Card
Stenciling is a great way to add some pizzazz to your card backgrounds. Ilina used several colors of ink pads with blending brushes over her stencil for a colorful birthday card background. I love the bright Neon colors from Hero … Read More ...
Colorful Striped Holiday Cards
Who says you can’t use the trendy rainbow style on Holiday cards? Laura sure did on these beautiful striped Christmas cards. Sticking with pinks, reds and greens she added colorful stripes of cardstock on her card backgrounds and they off … Read More ...
Using Water Reactive Inks 3 Ways
Using Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir I created this fun winter Yeti Card. These versatile inks can be used for lots of different stamping and coloring techniques. If you missed my review on them last week be sure to … Read More ...
Ink Techniques Autumn Card
Yana combined some cool ink and stamping techniques on this wonderful Autumn Card. She first heat embossed her images in white, ink blended over top in fall colors, then wiped away the excess ink for a resist technique and then … Read More ...
Fall Squirrels Card
Christy used new stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to create this fun Fall scene card. Those squirrels are having so much fun jumping in a pile a leaves! I love how she used ink blending on her tree, ground … Read More ...
Autumn Leaves Thanks You Card
Shari ink blended white cardstock with fall colors and then die cut the paper with leaf shapes for this wonderful Autumn Thank You Card. Her leaves look very realistic and the touches of gold splatter and copper words add an … Read More ...
3 Retro Christmas Cards You Can Make At Home
Do you love a kitschy 50’s retro look? I sure do, especially when it comes to holidays. Hero Arts is embracing this cool retro style with their latest kit and add-ons with stamps, papers, glitter, die cuts and more for … Read More ...
Halloween Trick or Treaters Card
The current small die of the month from Spellbinders had lots of pieces to mix and match to create some fun trick-or-treaters, you can make a ghost, a devil or skeleton. Vicky create this cute card using the dies adding … Read More ...
Distress Oxide Pumpkin Card
Distress Ink from Tim Holtz are so versatile, you can stamp with them, ink backgrounds and also stencil with them. Kristina Werner got an amazing look for this Halloween Card by using Distress Oxide Inks on black cardstock. The look … Read More ...
Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend Marker Review
I’m really excited to share with you the Tri-Blend alcohol based markers from Spectrum Noir. I love using alcohol markers for their smooth artistic look but sometimes I have trouble choosing the correct mix of colors to get a … Read More ...
Alien Pull Tab Card
When you pull the tab on this fun card from Therese the little dog gets beamed up into the alien space ship, I love interactive cards like this! She’ll show you how easy it is to use any thin channel, … Read More ...
Halloween Scene Slim Card
Mindy used new stamps from My Favorite Things to create this fun Halloween card. The long slim card style leaves lots of room to set the scene. I love the cute critters all dressed up and the haunted house in … Read More ...
How to Ink Blend On Colored Cardstock
Ink blending has been really popular for awhile now in card making but I almost always see this technique done on white cardstock. Carrisa has switched it up a bit and done it on colored cardstock, using inks lighter than … Read More ...
Review: Harmony Opaque Pigment Ink Pads by Spectrum Noir
I recently got a chance to try some of the brand new Harmony Opaque Pigment Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir. These ink pads come in 36 beautiful colors, in the same shades as their other Harmony Ink Pads … Read More ...