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Create a stunning and vibrant galaxy themed background in your Dina Wakley MEdia Journal Blue Edition with this tutorial by Carisa Zglobicki. Use new Dina Wakley MEdia Gloss Sprays paired with her stamp sets to help create a visual focal … Read More ...
Lindsay has a bunch of fun mixed media techniques using stencils to create cards using supplies like acrylic paint, watercolor powders and micron pens over the stencils. I love all the color, depth and texture on these designs!
Focus on the Good with this beautiful floral tag by Paula Cheney by using the new Tim Holtz Distress® Speckled Egg Embossing Glaze, Ink, and Paint. Paula is back over the Ranger ink and sharing her step by step tutorial… Read More ...
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 ...
Nicole used Versacolor inks with several different techniques to make this lovely floral card. She used them for stenciling, coloring in her stamped images, traditional stamping and splattering. What a great way to show so many uses with just one … Read More ...
Distress Ink Oxide Sprays from Tim Holtz
By using a paintbrush and paint and painting short stripes you can create some simple but effective card backgrounds. Using different paints like watercolor or gouache will give you different looks. Debby explored this idea and created several different cards … Read More ...
Cindi had the wonderful idea for her butterfly cards of die cutting their wings from tissue paper! This really added lots of dimension and a real flutter to them. And since tissue comes in some many different colors and patterns … Read More ...
Kristina Werner used new stamps from Colorado Craft Company to create this stunning clear Tri-Fold Card. The top panel is clear acetate with a gold embossed bee on vellum, the panel underneath was created with an ink blended resist technique.… Read More ...
A good background stamp can be just the thing to complete the design on your card and the more versatile the better. The design team over at Darkroom Door used one of their Abstract Stamps to create twelve different projects … Read More ...
Know someone who could use a little lift and some encouragement right now? This stunning mixed media card from Gaylynn is perfect. She colored her stamped image in watercolor, adding trending splatters and ink blending to the background. I love … Read More ...
Using supplies like Distress Ink, pastes, ink spray, metal embellishments, paper doll images and more Shari Carroll created these amazing mixed media cards. I love how she created her backgrounds at the same time from one sheet of paper, just … Read More ...
Gold gilding flakes can add an amazing touch of metallic shimmer and elegance to your cards. Echo used them two different ways on this lovely Bee Card. She adhered them to tape for a golden border between her papers and … Read More ...
Add some sparkle, shine and fuzzy texture to baby cards using glitter and flocking. Andrea used glitter gel over an ink blended background for some shiny stars and added die cut fluffy clouds with flocking. On the other card she … Read More ...
Jenny used paints and alcohol ink to create rustic backgrounds for her Mixed Media ATCs (artist trading cards). She then stamped and die cut letter from her bases and then adhered die cut shapes that she stamped and inked over … Read More ...
