This fun Self Closing Card from Jay Jay folds up and stays closed for a unique interactive design. It reminds me of closing a card board box top with out tap, tucking the flaps beneath each other. This card also … Read More ...
Slimline Flamingos Card with Shimmer Paste
Lynne used cute Flamingo stamps from Art Impressions for this fun couples card, perfect for a wedding or anniversary card. She added wonderful depth and color to her card background using shimmer paste over top of a dry embossed panel. … Read More ...
Coloring a Birthday Card with Copic Markers
If you’re new to coloring stamps watching a video tutorial that is in “real time” can be very helpful so you see all the details of blending and layering colors and maybe even follow along for practice. Angelica is sharing … Read More ...
Coloring Animal Fur with Colored Pencils
If you’re looking to achieve a realistic look when coloring animal stamps colored pencils 
are a great way to add texture to their fur. Bev is sharing a tutorial video over on Technique Tuesday site with details and directions on … Read More ...
Layering Stencils Birthday Card Background
Stencils are so popular and are great for creating backgrounds on cards. Amanda took her stenciled background to a whole new level by adding 3 different stenciled layers to her wonderful Slimline Birthday Card design. She started off ink blending … Read More ...
Monkey Birthday Card Tutorial
I used some cute new stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to make this fun Monkey Birthday Card. Their new Word Buddies stamps work perfectly with word dies for such a cute card design. For this card I used some … Read More ...
Emboss Resist Technique with Gel Press
Mindy created some amazing card backgrounds using a resist technique and a gel press
. She heat embossed the fireworks background stamp onto white cardstock and then brayered multiple colors of ink on a gel press and then “stamped” that … Read More ...
Girl Shark Card Tutorial
How cute is the bow on the head of the shark on this card from Laura, totally adorable! I love how she “contained” her scene onto a die cut shaped panel using ink blending to add lots of bright colors. … Read More ...
Masculine Buffalo Scene Card Tutorial
This cool Buffalo Birthday card is perfect for a masculine design. You could change up the sentiment for Father’s Day too. Gaylynn used stamps from Unity, colored with Copics
and created her nature background using a masking technique and ink … Read More ...
Elephant Quilt Card Tutorial
This cute slimline card features elephants and a quilt style background which would make the sweetest card for a baby’s birthday. Lynn used hexagon shaped dies, colored them with watercolor pens and pieced them together to create a quilted background. … Read More ...
3 Techniques to Create Bubbles for Cards
Check out all these different bubbles Kari created for her cute card backgrounds. Using the same bubble stencil she used ink blending with Distress Inks on light cardstock, on another she used pigment inks
on dark cardstock and for the … Read More ...
3 Rainbow Stripe Cards
Don’t have time to color in your stamped images? Kristina has a quick and easy way to still add color to your cards. She used a floral background stamp and stamped it in black ink and then used watercolors to … Read More ...
Mini Slimline Butterfly Card Tutorial
I love all the depth and dimension of this beautiful Butterfly Card from Dilay. She layered white die cut butterflies onto a white card base for a subtle pattern and then die cut the butterflies from black and backed them … Read More ...
Watercolor Ocean Friends Card
This fun Ocean Friends card has a cool watery background made with different ink pad colors mixed with water for a wonderful sea themed card. The stamped images were also colored with ink pads and a blender pen to keep … Read More ...
Vase of Roses Card Tutorial
Shauna has a few cool techniques to share for making this pretty Vase of Roses Card. First she used a die with a rubber mat to emboss instead of cut her card background, she ink blended the vase, then she … Read More ...