I wasn’t quite ready to put away my Easter stamps just yet so I decided to make this fun birthday card using the Somebunny stamps from My Favorite Things. I love using stamps that might traditionally be used for … Read More ...
Painting and Stamping with Distress Oxide Sprays
Richele used Distress Ink Sprays from Ranger and Tim Holtz to both watercolor her stamped images and stamp the background on these cool botanical cards. I love the loose artsy style of these cards.
Hello Easter Card
I made this cute Easter Frame card using stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird. One of the bunnies is a Halloween stamp I altered.
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DIY Pattern Paper for an Easter Card
Larissa created her own pretty pattern paper for this sweet Easter Bunnies card. She used layering plaid stencils with distress inks and then on the last layer used stencil gel for a nice metallic touch. She’s sharing a step by … Read More ...
Tissue Box Pop Up Card
Tell someone you hope they feel better soon with a fun pop up tissue box card. Silkie is sharing step by step cutting, scoring and folding directions for making one over on the Stempeleinmaleins blog. And the design team also … Read More ...
Floral and Burlap Gift Bags
These pretty soft floral tags work so nicely with the burlap bags in this packaging idea from Rebecca. I love the lace and ribbon ties too! These would be perfect favor bags at a rustic wedding. She sharing how she … Read More ...
Submarine Bear Card
“We all live in a Yellow Submarine!” This adorable card from Cristena looks like your looking out of a porthole into the ocean with the little submarine behind acete and the fishes swimming by. I love the little water droplets … Read More ...
Stamped Mermaid Journal
Lisa Hoel created this lovely mermaid journal with stamps found at Top Flight. She used a journal die for the inside, covered it with matboard and decorated the pages and cover with paints and stamps.
Polaroid Easter Card
I made this fun Polaroid Easter card with the Peeking Easter Friends stamps from Gerda Steiner Designs and Selfie Frames dies from Lawn Fawn. I colored the images with colored pencils on colored cardstock, blending it Gamsol solution.
Mixed Media Journal Page
Carisa used a variety of mediums including a gell press, paint, ink, art crayons and stamps to create this wonderful mixed media journal page. I love the trendy burlap background with washi tape, it makes for terrific texture.
Mixed Media Fairy Card
Suzanne shares how she made her mixed media card background using torn pattern papers, paint and string. Along with this sweet fairy image from Some Odd Girl it makes the perfect Springtime card.
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Pen and Ink Card Technique
Up your doodling game with this pretty technique from Norine. She stamped out some layered flower and leaves in different colors of ink and then added her own hand drawing around the images for a really wonderful artist look. This … Read More ...
How to Add Shading to Solid Stamps
Sometimes solid stamped image can look a bit flat. Nichol has some great tips on adding shading, shadow and depth to solid stamps by using colored pencils. I think this really gives them a much more realistic look.
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Geometric Masculine Card
I find masculine cards can sometimes be tricky to create, I have so many flowers and cute animals stamps and those might not work for every guy. Amber used some bold triangle stamps with dark ink colors and filled them … Read More ...
Light Up Shaker Card
This cute card is double the interactive fun. It’s a shaker card and also when you press the button the terrarium jar lights up. How cool! Kelly shares how she used lights from Chibitronics to create it.