Yana from Clean and Simple Die Cutting has a video tutorial showing how to make this pretty embossed card. She started out with plain white cardstock and used washi tape to mask off stripes and added ink using a blending … Read More ...
Technique: White Washed Card
Jocelyn from Red Balloon Cards has a tutorial showing how she made this lovely floral card. For the background she stamped her flowers using brightly colored ink pads but then she painted over them with watered down white paint for … Read More ...
Project: Fairy Card
Dorinda from My Little World has a step by step photo tutorial showing how she made this birght and bold fairy card using die cuts, stamps and stencils. She’ll even show you a neat trick: how to extend your stamped … Read More ...
Technique: Easter Card with Salt Technique
If your looking for a new background technique for your card making give this salt technique a try. Spray a colored Ink Spritz onto cardstock, sprinkle on salt, which will absorb the ink color and make a cool pattern, let … Read More ...
Technique: Using Copic Markers on Kraft Paper
Kraft paper is a nice alternative for card making, stamping and coloring then white or cream cardstock and can give you a totally different look, I think it has a more vintage feel. The Copic Marker Europe blog has tips … Read More ...
Technique: Stencil Masking
Good day sunshine! Stencil are so popular, they are inexpensive and work great with all your other paper crafting items. And they are so many different techniques you can do with stencils. Jennifer McGuire will teach you a masking technique … Read More ...
Project: Collage Art Bird House
I’m in love with this amazing mixed media bird house project! The Layers of Ink blog has step by step photos to show you how to alter a plain wooden bird house using paints, inks, showing how to add color … Read More ...
Tip: DIY Stamps with Household Objects
Looking for a fun way to make your own stamps and you have a box of gelatin in your cupboard? Then you’re all set to make some cool DIY stamps. You can make your own gelli stamping plate with gelatin … Read More ... Tip: Die Storage
As paper crafters I think one of our biggest issues is storage, at least it always is for me 🙂 I need a good way to store my supplies and they need to be easy to organize and find or … Read More ...
New Product: Magic Stamp
Do you have something with texture that you think would make a great stamp? Well there’s a cool tool just for that! It’s called the Magic Stamp and it’s a large foam block that you heat up and soften with … Read More ...
Tips: How to Use A Copic Marker (or any other) Blender Pen
alcohol markers are great for coloring your stamped images and each company that makes them also sells a blender pen but what exactly does a blender pen do? A blender pen is like a clear marker and can move marker … Read More ...
Project: Mixed Media Art with Stamp Pads
Ink pads aren’t just for inking up your stamps, you can also use them to add a vintage stained look to paper and also color plain ribbons and trims. The Simon Says Stamp blog has a step by step tutorial … Read More ...
Tip: Coloring Cat Stamps
The Stampendous stamps blog has a video tutorial showing you how to color a cat stamp so that it looks like your own cat (or a friends cat). Fran Seiford uses colored pencils and acrylic paints to color in the … Read More ...
Technique: Stamped Color Blocking
If you want to add colorful blocks to your scrapbook pages or cards with out layers of paper you can mask off areas using sticky notes, add inks directly to the paper and then stamp and remove the sticky note … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Mixed Media Canvas
Over on the Paper Artsy blog you can learn several different techniques for making a fun stamped art canvas. Like using a stamp to create a stencil and painting a stamped image on a book page. Click here for complete … Read More ...