Rina has a great tip for an easy way to using the same ink for stamping and watercolor. By inking different colors of Distress Inks in a rainbow pattern down the large stamp it adds a colorful outline that can … Read More ...
Watercolor with Perfect Pearls
Perfect Pearls are a shimmery powder that can be used for lots of different techniques. They add sparkle and shine on light and dark cardstocks and are perfect to color in stamped images or create backgrounds. Simon Hurley used them … Read More ...
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 ...
Handmade Sunflower Card Tutorial
Nichol used mostly dies to create this stunning Sunflower Card. The large yellow flower has such a big impact on the stamped woodgrain background and the sentiment cut from gold paper also pops with the white border behind. I love … Read More ...
Watercolor Card for Dad
Masculine cards can sometimes be challenging but this beautiful watercolor card from Debbie is perfect to send to Dad for his birthday or Father’s Day. She used new stamps from Colorado Craft Company colored with liquid watercolors to create it, … Read More ...
How to Watercolor Stamps with Markers
Jill Foster has created some stunning floral cards using rubber cling stamps from Penny Black. These solid images are perfect for coloring directly onto the rubber to add multiple colors to the stamp. By using a water based marker and … Read More ...
Easter Egg Cards
Waleska designed these colorful Easter Egg Cards with dies and Shimmer Powders. She added a mix of pretty Spring colors of the powders to color the egg shapes and also to create the background patterns with them too. This is … Read More ...
Funny Birthday Fairy Card
I love this funny birthday card from Lynn, I’m sure many of us wouldn’t mind a fairy to come along and magically make us 29th again! 🙂 She used metallic watercolors for lots of shimmer and shine for the background … Read More ...
Easter Slimline Card
These bunnies are busy painting eggs and getting ready for Easter and aren’t their little chick helpers so cute too!? Nichol Spohr used new products from Mama Elephant to create this adorable slimline card and she’s sharing a video tutorial … Read More ...
Mixed Media Valentine Cards
I love the vintage look of these mixed media Valentine’s Day cards from Riikka! For the background of each card she heat embossed a patterned stamp and then painted over top for a resist technique. Each card used a different … Read More ...
Faded Stencil Card Background
Dina combined several popular techniques for the background on this sweet card. She ink blended Oxide Inks on white cardstock then stenciled over top, blotting the ink with water for a cool faded watercolor ombre’ design.
Glitter Watercolor Valentine Card
Wow, this Valentine’s Day card from Kristina Werner is stunning! To get this look she heat embossed
Brush Lettering 101 with Kelly Creates
Kelly Klapstein, the brilliant and artistic mind behind Kelly Creates for American Crafts, introduces you to the tools and techniques in the amazingly beautiful world of brush lettering! Learn all about the new, trendy artform of brush lettering, modern calligraphy,
Poodle Valentine’s Day Card
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 ...