A circle stencil with ink blending created the perfect colorful polka-dot background for this fun Birthday Balloons Card. Vicki used products from Time for Tea Designs to create her card featuring an adorable bear and mouse. She’s sharing a tutorial … Read More ...
2 Dinosaur Cards Tutorial
Lynnea used stamps and stencils from Sassy & Crafty to create two fun Dinosaur cards. One features an ink blended silhouette, the other has a stenciled background with cute stamps of kids and dinos. These are sure to put a … Read More ...
Pet Sympathy Card
It’s never fun to have to make a sympathy card but letting someone who is grieving know you are thinking about them is so important. Kari has created this beautiful card for the loss of a pet. She used a … Read More ...
How to Use Dies to Create Stencils – Mushroom Card
Lydia used her metal dies to create her own stencils for the background on this Magical Mushroom Card. She then used the die cut shapes, colored with watercolors, over top of the stenciled background for a cool card design. This … Read More ...
Versatile Stencil Card Backgrounds
I love having large stamps or stencils that are very versatile and will work to create backgrounds on lots of different styles of cards, I feel like a I really get my moneys worth out of them. Vicky is using … Read More ...
Christmas in July Snowflake Card
I don’t normally start my holiday cards until later in the year but I know lots of you do Christmas in July to get a jump start on yours. Verity is over on the WOW! Embossing blog with a card … Read More ...
2 Slimline Summer Cards
Carrie combined several techniques to create these bold and colorful slimline cards for Summer. Using ink pads for ink blending she layered a sun beam die over top one card, the other she ink blended over a stencil for a … Read More ...
Pirate Girl Card with Stencil Background
Wendy used some soon to be released stamps, stencils and dies from SugarPea to create this fun Pirate Girl Card. The treasure map stencil makes the perfect background and I love the cute sentiment with the glittered X that marks … Read More ...
Layering Stencils Birthday Card Background
Stencils are so popular and are great for creating backgrounds on cards. Amanda took her stenciled background to a whole new level by adding 3 different stenciled layers to her wonderful Slimline Birthday Card design. She started off ink blending … Read More ...
3 Techniques to Create Bubbles for Cards
Check out all these different bubbles Kari created for her cute card backgrounds. Using the same bubble stencil she used ink blending with Distress Inks on light cardstock, on another she used pigment inks on dark cardstock and for the … Read More ...
Funny Cat Mixed Media Journal Page
I love this mixed media journal page from Kath Stewart! She created lots of texture on her background using Tim Holtz stencils with Distress Oxide inks and also with stencil paste, her bricks look so realistic. And the stamped cat … Read More ...
One Stencil Two Ways on One Card
There are so many fun techniques you can do with stencils, you can even combine them on one card like Lynnea did on this sweet card design. She ink blended the top half in one color then ink blended the … Read More ...
Foiled Butterfly Cards
I love the look of foil! And one easy way to get this look is with foil, gel and a stencil. Lynnea used Deco Foil Gel over top of a pretty butterfly stencil to adhere colorful foil sheets on top, … Read More ...
Stenciled Mixed Media Tags
Andy used the new Structure Paste from Creative Expressions to create some cool Mixed Media tags. You can add color to this paste and use it to create backgrounds that have loads of texture or use it with stencils to … Read More ...
Father’s Day Tool Card
Does your Dad love to work with tools, is he handy around the house? Then this tool themed Father’s Day card just might be perfect for him. I love the stenciled tile background with the faux wooden letters screwed to … Read More ...