I love the beautiful gradation of color with the bright pops of colorful hearts on this pretty Valentine card from Mindy Eggen. She’ll show you how to do a tone on tone ink blending technique using stencils over on her … Read More ...
Projects: Otter Valentine Cards
The blue ink blended background gives the perfect hit of water behind these adorable otter stamps. Christy will show you how to make the background and color the otters with Copics over on her blog, Christy Gets Crafty, click here … Read More ...
Project: Game of Thrones ATC’s
Do we really have another year to wait for more episodes of Game of Thrones? How will we get by? Well, one way is to make fun projects like these awesome ATC’s (artist trading cards) using Game of Thrones inspired … Read More ...
Projects: Glitter Hearts and Animals Smaller Valentines
These smaller sized Valentine cards still pack a big punch with loads of glitter and cute animals. Ashley Abelson will show you how she used glitter paper behind an open heart background die and colored pencils for her stamped images … Read More ...
Project: Valentine Cherubs Card
Jessie Banks combined her coloring mediums on this sweet cherub card for Valentine’s Day. She used water colors for the cloud background and Copic Markers for the stamped images. Visit her blog for a tutorial video.
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Tip: Altering Your Stamps
Get more from your stamps by altering them. You can mask off sections or only ink certain parts and get a new look from your images. Elaine removed the horns from the Stamping Bella Capricorn girl stamp and used her … Read More ...
Project: Water Colored Unicorns Card
I have loved Unicorns since I was little and am so excited to see them make such a huge come back! Using the cute new Unicorn stamp from Stampin’ Ups Magical Day stamp set I’ve filmed a card tutorial showing … Read More ...
Project: Bobble Head Animal Valentine Card
These adorable bobble head cards will be sure to wobble there way into someone’s heart this Valentine’s Day. Anita Mulcahey made 4 different cute animal bobble cards using product from Lori Whitlock , I especially love the hippo! Visit Lori’s … Read More ...
Project: Metallic Valentine Card with 3D Mini Heart Embellishment
This pretty shiny Valentine card was made with several die cut shapes from adhesive metallic craft sheets with several die cut hearts turned into a 3D element in the center. You can find a tutorial for making this card over … Read More ...
Project: Valentine Card Deck with Box
This fun handmade deck of cards with box would be a great little gift to pass out on Valentine’s Day. Made using the We R Memory Keepers Square punch board, cardstock and some stamps, it’s a fun way to give … Read More ...
Project: Bold Color on Black Valentine Card
Wow, the bold pop of color on the black background of this card from Heather Telford is just stunning! She heat embossed her stamp on black cardstock with gold embossing powder and colored it with pearlescent water colors. Visit the … Read More ...
Project: Candy Dispenser
This candy dispenser would be so fun for Valentine’s Day or just to brighten someone’s day. France Martin will show you how to turn a piece of pattern paper into this cute little box. You’ll find her template and complete … Read More ...
Project: Shaker Card with Colored Pencils and Gamsol
How sweet is this elephant shaker card? I love the soft blended colors that Nichol Spohr got by using Polychromos colored pencils and Gamsol (a type blending solution) to color the stamps from Mama Elephant. She’ll tell you about … Read More ...
Tips for Working with Vellum
Vellum adds such a nice soft touch to cards. But since it’s transparent it can be a little difficult to figure out how to adhere it. Laurie Schmidlin has some great tips on her blog like sewing down vellum or … Read More ...
Stamping Technique: Flick Technique with Colored Pencils
Janette Kausen colored this stunning flower bouquet stamp from Hero Arts using colored pencils and a flick technique. I’ve seen artist use this technique with Copic Markers but it works beautifully with pencils too. This style of coloring can add … Read More ...