The Gel Press has become a very popular tool again in stamping and card making, I remember them from years ago and now with more unique mixed media products on the market that work together create fun techniques the Gel … Read More ...
Colorful Distress Archival Ink Butterfly Cards
Archival Ink and Distress from Tim Holtz combine to create Distress Archival Ink Pads that can be used in a variety of stamping and background techniques for card and mixed media. Juliana used these inks to create two stunning butterfly … Read More ...
Create Wonderful Card Backgrounds with White Ink
Not all white inks are made alike, it can be difficult to find one that really shows up, Hero Arts Unicorn White Pigment Ink is one that does. Nicole ink blended some beautiful card background and then either stamped or … Read More ...
New Sticky Craft Mat
If you love doing techniques like ink blending, stenciling and coloring techniques but find it hard to keep your cardstock from moving and slipping? Then maybe the new Sticky Craft Mat from Brutus Monroe is for you! It has a … Read More ...
How to Add Embroidery to Your Cards
No, this isn’t the sewing section of the blog but as card makers we can also add some pretty stitches to our projects too. Angela used a Piercing Die Cut and used colorful embroidery floss to add some simple graphic … Read More ...
Heart Card Using Paper Strips
Have lots of strips and scraps of pretty cardstock laying around (I sure do! :)) Well put those to good use on a pretty card like this one from Samantha. She used strips of pink, red and peach cardstock adhering … Read More ...
Gnome Love Valentine’s Day Card
I love the rich pink and purples on this Valentine’s Day card from Ashley! She used Distress Oxide Inks and a blending technique to create the beautiful background that shows through behind the die cut letters. And how cute is … Read More ...
Masking a Large Stamp for a Valentine Card
There are lots of large detailed stamps out there that can fill the entire front of card but what if you don’t want to use the entire image? Then a masking technique is perfect to try. Jill used sticky note … Read More ...
How to Create Heart Shaped Cloud Cards with Erasers
Sandy used colored pencils and erasers to create beautiful sky scenes with heart shaped clouds, perfect for Valentine’s Day. She created her design with a couple of different techniques, one used pencil shavings to create the clouds, adding rays with … Read More ...
Llama Slider Card with Mirror Stamping
This sweet interactive card from Lynn features two Llamas and when the tab on the card is pulled they come together and kiss, how cute! To create her card she using a single Llama stamp from Art Impressions and a … Read More ...
Hidden Message Card
Wendy used a cool die cutting technique to create a “hidden message” on the front of this beautiful card. The background is pretty pattern paper that she die cut the sentiment from, she cut the same sentiment again from cardstock … Read More ...
Stenciled Heart Cards
These lovely heart cards from Amy are quick and simple to create. She used concentric heart shaped stencils and ink pad trios from Simon Says to create the layered hearts. Notice how she took part of the hearts off the … Read More ...
Scratch Off Cards
How adorable are these Scratch Off Cards from Amanda?! Each interactive card has a sticker that works like a lottery scratcher, the recipient scratches it off to reveal the sentiment you’ve placed underneath, how much fun is that? She even … Read More ...
Skunk Valentine’s Day Card
I’m seeing lots of adorable skunk stamps lately, them seem to be a trendy theme right now and they are really cute as long and you don’t have to smell them 🙂 Delphine used a new sweet skunk stamp from … Read More ...
DIY Treat Holders For Valentine’s Day
These sweet little treat holders are perfect to fill with candy to pass out to friends, family, co-workers and school mates. They are simple to create with supplies you probably already have in your stash like pattern paper, brads and … Read More ...