In this card tutorial Tammy Tutterow will show you how to water down acrylic paints to paint a background and stamped images on water color paper for a lovely spring flower card. You can also use the same watered down … Read More ...
Tip: Coloring Cat Stamps
The Stampendous stamps blog has a video tutorial showing you how to color a cat stamp so that it looks like your own cat (or a friends cat). Fran Seiford uses colored pencils and acrylic paints to color in the … Read More ...
Project: Watercolor Envelopes
We spend so much time making beautiful cards to give to our loved ones why put them into a plain old boring envelope? Kristina Werner will show you not only how to make a lovely personalized envelope using Distress Ink … Read More ...
Technique: Stamped Color Blocking
If you want to add colorful blocks to your scrapbook pages or cards with out layers of paper you can mask off areas using sticky notes, add inks directly to the paper and then stamp and remove the sticky note … Read More ...
Project: Large Die Cut Card with Watercolor Background
Large open work die cuts make for a really lovely card, you can lay them over pattern papers, stamped backgrounds or like this card from Jenny Griffiths you can paint a gradated watercolor background, she’ll show you how over on … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Mixed Media Canvas
Over on the Paper Artsy blog you can learn several different techniques for making a fun stamped art canvas. Like using a stamp to create a stencil and painting a stamped image on a book page. Click here for complete … Read More ...
Project: Fairy Card
Visit the Craft Barn for a tutorial from Neil Walker and learn to make a beautiful fairy card with a watercolor background using Distress Ink and markers. I love the dimension of the punched out butterflies! Click here for the … Read More ...
Project: Window Blinds Card
It’s always so much fun to make a card that pops up or moves. This cute card features window blinds that pull up, how much fun for the recipient to find the surprise hidden behind them! You can find directions … Read More ...
Project: Winter Tree Cards
We’re getting the first really large snowfall here in KY, these lovely cards are very much what it looks like outside my windows right now. Miranda will teach you how to make a mottled background that is perfect to stamp … Read More ...
Project: Glitter Scene Card
Oh how this card makes me long for winter to be over and summer to hurry up and get here! This wonderful card is full of glitz and glamour and was made by die cutting adhesive sheets and filling in … Read More ...
Tips and Project: Tag Using Liquid Pearls
Add loads of shine and shimmer to your die cuts, stamped images, stencils and dry embossing by using a product called Liquid Pearls. Liquid Pearls come in little squeeze bottles with a fine tip and can be applied to many … Read More ...
Tips: Getting More from Digital Stamps
Sure, you can download, print and color your digital stamps but there’s also so much more you can do with them! How about re-size them for mama and baby images, print them on pattern papers for paper piecing or merge … Read More ...
Project: Altered Bottle
Sometimes I finish something and it was in such a pretty bottle I hate the idea of tossing it in the recycling bin but I never know what to do with empty bottles. Here’s a wonderful “message in a bottle” … Read More ...
Tutorial: Carve Your Own Rubber Stamps
If you can’t find just the right rubber stamp for your project you can always make your own. Small plastic erasers are inexpensive and a good size for carving. The Hello Little Home blog has directions on how to carve … Read More ...
Projects: Inexpensive Valentines
Shelley Hickox stumbled upon some great finds at the Dollar Store, blank cards and envelopes, heart rhinestones, ribbon roses and more and got the idea to make some inexpensive (but really pretty) Valentine’s Day cards using just dollar store finds … Read More ...