The Rubber Cafe blog has directions for making a sweet diorama card for Easter. How fun to open the card and find a fun dimensional scene inside! Use a scoring board for fast scoring and folds or if you don’t … Read More ...
Project: Elephant Shaker Card
How sweet is this elephant card for JJ Bolton? Shakers cards are so much fun to make and I love the twist JJ added by just having one small section of the card be a shaker, so cute! She’s sharing … Read More ...
Technique: Floral Watercolor Cards
The Penny Black stamp blog has a beautiful card technique to share using watercolor paints for the background and markers to color directly on the stamp for a great watercolor look. You’ll also learn how to use tape to mask … Read More ...
Technique: Stenciled Bird Card
The popularity of stencils is still going strong, there are so many things you can do with them, they are inexpensive and easy to store. One technique you can do with stencil is add dimension by using a stencil paste, … Read More ...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Chalkboard Banner
Want to add a fun decoration to a party or looking to add something pretty to your wall, how about a festive banner? And even better the words on this banner can be changed for the seasons or the occasion … Read More ...
Project: Embossed Striped Card
Yana from Clean and Simple Die Cutting has a video tutorial showing how to make this pretty embossed card. She started out with plain white cardstock and used washi tape to mask off stripes and added ink using a blending … Read More ...
Technique: White Washed Card
Jocelyn from Red Balloon Cards has a tutorial showing how she made this lovely floral card. For the background she stamped her flowers using brightly colored ink pads but then she painted over them with watered down white paint for … Read More ...
Technique: Easter Card with Salt Technique
If your looking for a new background technique for your card making give this salt technique a try. Spray a colored Ink Spritz onto cardstock, sprinkle on salt, which will absorb the ink color and make a cool pattern, let … Read More ...
Technique: Using Copic Markers on Kraft Paper
Kraft paper is a nice alternative for card making, stamping and coloring then white or cream cardstock and can give you a totally different look, I think it has a more vintage feel. The Copic Marker Europe blog has tips … Read More ...
Project: Embossed Easter Card
Heather from Parker and Molly is sharing a video tutorial making this sweet Easter card. She heat embossed her stamped image and colored it in using a water color technique using Distress Ink , click here to learn all about … Read More ...
Project: Die Cut Easter Card
Here’s a sweet Easter card made with die cuts from Poppy Stamps. Liquid Pearls was used to add pattern and dimension to the eggs. Like Ilona Zbieg did with this card one of my favorite things to do when using … Read More ...
Technique: Stencil Masking
Good day sunshine! Stencil are so popular, they are inexpensive and work great with all your other paper crafting items. And they are so many different techniques you can do with stencils. Jennifer McGuire will teach you a masking technique … Read More ...
Card Technique: Stained Glass Look
Sandy Allnock achieved this beautiful stained glass look by repeatly stamping and heat embossing a butterfly stamp, coloring it with markers and spritzing it with water and then covering the entire panel with a layer of clear embossing. This is … Read More ...
Project: Collage Art Bird House
I’m in love with this amazing mixed media bird house project! The Layers of Ink blog has step by step photos to show you how to alter a plain wooden bird house using paints, inks, showing how to add color … Read More ...
Project: Upcycled Gardening Tool
Terry from Terry’s Work in Progress had an old rusty gardening tool sitting around and by covering it with crackle paint and adding stamped images she totally transformed an old bulb planter into a work of art. This is recycling … Read More ...