Amy used Distress Ink Spray Stains to create a variety of stunning card backgrounds using different techniques. She used them as sprays, as a “watercolor” to paint with, with stencils, used them on dry and wet papers and more. These … Read More ...
Teacher and Grad Cards
Taylored Expressions has a brand new line of stamps and dies perfect for creating Thank You cards for Teachers and Congrats cards for Graduations. Emily used them along with some stencils for a couple of fun card designs. I love … Read More ...
Succulent Birthday Card
Succulents and cactus are still really trendy design images. Galina used cute cactus stamps from Studio Katia for this sweet little birthday card, I love the little flower blooms she added! She also used lots of green inks over a … Read More ...
Stenciled Mother’s Day Cards
Laura used stencils from Pretty Pink Posh to create 2 sweet cards for Mother’s Day. These stencils have tiny flowers or leaves on each one which makes it easy to color them separately. Laura used distress ink pads and blending … Read More ...
Spring Showers Card
Tell someone how much they brighten your day with this sweet Spring Showers Card from Tasha. She used dies to create her own circle and raindrop stencils for an ink blended spotlight background on her card. The cute stamps are … Read More ...
Tips for Choosing Ink Blending Tools
When it comes to ink blending and stenciling it can be hard to know what the best tools to use are. There are tools with bristles, tools with foam, different sizes, shapes and brands. And also the type of paper … Read More ...
Floral 50th Birthday Card
The beautiful Pink Roses on this birthday card from Therese have so much depth and dimension to them! She used layering stencils and ink pads to color all the layers and then stamped the outline and the result is a … Read More ...
Birthday Floral Easel Card
I think Easel Cards are going to be trendy this year, I’m seeing lots of them popping up (pun intended :)). And for good reason, these cards are easy to create, fold flat for mailing and are fun to display. … Read More ...
Flower Bouquet Jar Cards
Taylor used some new stencils along with stamps from Taylored Expressions to create two beautiful Floral Bouquets in Jar Cards. These stencils are great for adding borders, backgrounds and masking techniques on your cards.
Stenciled Rainbow Floral Card
Amy R. used Distress Inks and a pretty flower stencil from Simon Says to create this beautiful rainbow colored Floral Card. After inking she sprayed water to get a faux watercolor look and then added some splatter and large sentiment … Read More ...
Clean and Simple Hello Card
Want to send someone a quick note just to say “Hi”? This clean and simple card design is just the thing. Michelle ink blended the bottom section of a white card base, then stenciled some flowers over top and added … Read More ...
Stencil Background Floral Card
This lovely card from Channin has a graphic modern look with sections of colors and the simple black stamped image and sentiment. For the background she used the “beam” from a light house stencil to ink blend different color blocks … Read More ...
Underwater Mermaid Cards
Caryn used new products from Avery Elle to create a couple of sweet Underwater Mermaid Cards. For the backgrounds she created her own stencil with a wave die, adding color over top with ink blending and ink sprays. She colored … Read More ...
Floral Wreath Stencil Card
Laura used stencils from Pinkfresh Studio to create this pretty Spring Floral Wreath Card. These layering stencil give lots of depth and dimension to the stenciling and I love the blend of soft pastel ink colors she used, perfect for … Read More ...
Slimline Rabbit Card
Jenn used dies and stencils from i-Crafter for this sweet Slimline Spring Card. Using the same shape repeated is a great way to fill up more space on a tall cards. I love her use of soft Distress Oxide ink … Read More ...