The cute little snorkeling bear pops up out of the water in this adorable pull tab card. How cute! Learn how to use some fun new stamps from Waffle Flower to make this card. Designer Yainea has a video tutorial … Read More ...
Project: Rainbow Borders Card
Border stamps don’t just have to be for borders, you can make large background patterns or they can be the focal point of your card. Like in this colorful card from Kristina Werner. She used rainbow colored inks for her … Read More ...
Project: 3D Lion Spinner Card
I’ve made spinner cards but never one like this that pops up inside. It’s so cute and fun and interactive! You can find complete step by step directions from Sadia Minichini for making one over on the Some Odd Girl … Read More ...
Projects: Three Interactive Cards
There are loads of stamps and dies out now to make super fun interactive cards. Card that move, roll, tear, open, images that wiggle, slide and light up. But sometimes it might be hard to tell the card recipient what … Read More ...
Technique: Paper Molding
Doesn’t this rose look like a tiny carved sculpture? It’s actually paper! Learn how to mold and shape sections of stamped images on cardstock for this amazing Paper Molding technique. Deb Valder shares her instructions over on Splitcoast Stampers.
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Project: Realistic Iris Card
May Park will show you how she used a no-line stamping technique and water colors to get this beautifully realistic looking Iris card. I love her tip of taping down your water color paper to preventing it from warping while … Read More ...
Project: Honey Bear and Bees Shaker Card
I made this fun Bear and Bee shaker card recently using adorable new stamps from the A Little Wild set from Stampin’ Up. I’ll show you how to add a little window shaker panel on the front of a … Read More ...
Projects: MERMAIDS! 9 Stamped Card Ideas
If you read this blog at all you probably know how obsessed I am with mermaids and I’m so happy how popular they are right now! Sandy Allnock has 3 new adorable mermaid scene cards to share and she also … Read More ...
Tip: Coloring the Negative Space on a Stamp
Instead of coloring the stamped leaf images Debby Hughes painted the “negative” background space making the image really pop. This works really well with floral and botanical images and is a great way to get more use and a unique … Read More ...
Project: Hydrangea Vellum Overlay Card
This beautiful hydrangea card has a dark colored stamped image on the bottom layer but the top layer of heat embossed vellum laid over top softens the colors and makes it really elegant. Find directions for making this vellum overlay … Read More ...
Tip: Altering a Stamp with Masking
Kathy had a pretty sunflower stamp with one flower but she wanted more then one so she used a masking technique to add another stamped flower, bees and butterflies and also added her own drawn stems to make one seamless … Read More ...
Technique: Faux No Line Coloring Pineapple Card
How fresh and cool is this cute summery card? Using a pale beige ink Amy R stamped and colored up some fun pineapple stamps using a marker and water color technique and ended up getting this fun faux no-line coloring … Read More ...
Technique: Wet on Wet Watercolor Stamping
How lovely is this floral card? Sandy Allnock gets an amazing soft and painterly look with her wet on wet water color stamping technique. Visit her blog for a video tutorial.
-Heather
… Read More ...Project: Baby Card with Hinged Letters
Help someone celebrate the arrival of a sweet little one with this wonderful baby card. Kittie will show you how to partially die cut hinged letters for the front. I love how she stamped the animals on the pattern paper, … Read More ...
Technique: Coloring on Vellum with Copic Markers
I love the soft look that vellumpaper adds to a card. There’s so much you can do with vellum, stamp on it, heat emboss it, die cut it and many coloring mediums work well with it too, like Copic … Read More ...