This stunning card from Sandy Allnock looks hand drawn but she actually used rubber stamps along with markers to get a stunning water colored design. She’s got a video tutorial showing how to get this wonderful painterly look, click here … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Water Color Lifting
Wendy Cranford has a cool stamping technique called water color lifting over on Splitcoast Stampers. She colored water color paper with markers, stamped over top and heat embossed the images, then removed some of the marker color with water for … Read More ...
Technique: Cards with Gesso Stenciled & Water Colored Backgrounds
The Lilybean Paperie blog has some lovely cards whose backgrounds were made by applying gesso to a stencil, letting it dry and then water coloring over top. Add some stamped designs and you’ve got a beautiful card. Find more info … Read More ...
Technique: Water Colored Die Cut Card
Take your die-cutting to a whole new level with water colors. Instead of using colored paper to die cut your images try cutting from white cardstock and color them with water color paints or watercolor markers. Or do the … Read More ...
Technique: Cards with Stencils and Water Color Pencils
Water color pencils are great for coloring in stamped images on your cards but you can also use them with stencils too. Find a tutorial and a couple of card ideas over on the Spectrum Noir blog.
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… Read More ...Stamping Technique: Perfect Pearls Shimmer Water Coloring
Add some sparkle to your next hand made card. Learn how to make your own shimmery water color paints using Perfect Pearls Powders and just water. This beautiful paint is perfect for coloring your stamped and heat embossed images on … Read More ...
Technique: Painting Stamps with Brusho Powder
Brusho is a water color powder that is popular for painting background by Sandy Allnock decided to experiment with it and see if she could use it to paint some animal stamps. The results have a bit of a rustic, … Read More ...
Technique: Inlay-ed Die Cut Card
Here’s a cool way to use your die cuts to make a card but with adding layers or bulk. Sandy Allnock will show you how to lay out, die cut, water color and inlay those dies for a cute (and … Read More ...
Tutorial: Vintage Water Color Card
Take your water coloring into a different direction by using sepia and other vintage tones. Hether Telford has step by step direction and a video tutorial showing how to get this antique look on your stamped cards. Use vintage style … Read More ...
Project and Technique: Wild Flower Garden Handmade Card
This stunning wild flower card has so much depth. Mary Prasad got this look by using Ink Potion No. 9 solution over paper and then stamping the flowers using markers colored directly on stamps, this along with second generation stamping … Read More ...
Technique: Water Colored Die Cut Cards
Virginia Lu will teach you how to add Distress Ink using a watercolor technique to die cut flowers for a series of stunning Lily and Butterfly cards. Visit the Penny Black stamps blog for her step by step instructions.
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Card Making Technique: Water Colored Stencil Stamping
I’m constantly amazed at how clever paper crafters are. I see a cool new technique and think, “Now, why didn’t I think of that?!”. This is one of those ideas, Nina-Maria applied ink pads directly to her plastic stencil, spritzed … Read More ...
Technique: Salt Lifting
You can achieve a really cool speckled look using water colors and salt. This technique looks great on card backgrounds or for coloring stamped animals to give them a textured look. Find out more over on the Ellen Hudson Classroom … Read More ...
Review: Prima Water Color Pencils
The always amazing designer Danita has one of my favorite shops on Etsy. Her blog is wonderful too, she shares her works in progress, finished art and has started sharing product reviews. Recently she reviewed the new Water Color … Read More ...
Techniques: Cloud Backgrounds for Stamped Scenes
If you’re stamping an outdoor scene then you probably need clouds in the background, right? If you don’t have a cloud stamp that’s okay, you can do it yourself. Dina Kowal has two techniques for making clouds, one using a … Read More ...