These adorable little poodles are having so much fun for Valentine’s Day and there’s even more of the running around inside the card too. This slimline card was created by Cassie using stamps and dies from Heffy Doodle. She’s sharing … Read More ...
How to Color with Ink Pads
We all know ink pads are for stamping out your stamps but you can also use them for so many other techniques, like actually coloring in your stamped images with them. Simon Hurley is sharing 3 different ways to color … Read More ...
Valentine Card with Ink Smooshing
This graphic red, white and black Valentine’s Day card requires no coloring. Gaylynn used an ink smooshing technique for the vibrant red watercolor background for an easy yet stunning card design. She’s sharing a video tutorial over on the Unity … Read More ...
Mixed Media Tips and Techniques for Beginners with May Flaum
Noted crafting expert May Flaum demystifies the art of mixed media and shows you just how simple, beautiful, and creative this popular trend can be. This is a class where you can truly allow your imagination to run wild and … Read More ...
Watercolor Greeting Cards
Wow your friends and family with this ingenious and oh-so-gorgeous technique. Watercolors aren’t just for painting anymore — these projects will show you how to incorporate them into your special card and crafting projects. Designs were previously published in the … Read More ...
Holiday Card with Watercolor Sheets
Watercolor sheets are sheets of paper that are infused with watercolor pigment and can be used with a wet paint brush just like a regular paints. These handy little booklets are perfect for crafting while traveling, taking to a class … Read More ...
Christmas Window Wreath Card
Bonnie used stamps and Tombow markers to create this beautiful Christmas Window Wreath Card. She stamped her images from Art Impressions “inking” them with the markers and then blended with water for a soft watercolor design.
Cactus Christmas Card
Southwest style, cactus and succulents are really trendy. Especially if you live in a warmer climate, you might actually have a Christmas Cactus or just want to decorate some for the holidays on a fun card. Bonnie used stamps from … Read More ...
Fall Watercolor Cards
I love the easy, loose watercolor look on these wonderful Fall Cards from Lisa Spangler. She used copper embossing powder for her leaves and acorn stamped images and water colored them for quick and simple coloring.
Thinking of You Card
This lovely Thinking of You card from Heather Nichols looks like a page from a nature journal. I love the white on white heat embossing she used for the flowers, coloring them with watercolor brush pens. The splatters and grid … Read More ...
Handmade Sympathy Card
Lisa used ink pads with water to color the stamped leaf images on this Sympathy Card. She also use it to tint her pattern paper and doily for a nice rustic, distressed look. The doily and twine help add texture … Read More ...
Autumn Still Life Card
Using a digital stamp from Power Poppy Stamps Gloria created this wonderful Autumn Still Life Card. To color the stamped image she used water soluble crayons and a water brush for an artsy watercolor look. She sharing step by step … Read More ...
Watercolor Sunflower Cards
Lindsay used woodless watercolor pencils
Visit her blog, The Frugal Crafter, to check out her 3 watercolor techniques.… Read More ...
Autumn Scene Slimline Card
Kristina Werner used a masking technique to created this delightful Autumn Scene card. Masking allows you to be able to “layer” stamped images onto a single piece of paper to help give your scenes a more realistic design with more … Read More ...
Autumn Sunflower Card
This Sunflower Card from Amber is the perfect friendship card to send to your bestie this Autumn. She used a large sunflower background stamp but only partially stamped and water colored it, leaving some “white space” for some interest and … Read More ...