Any hand made card is a gift in itself but this card also includes a fun gift. The flowers on the card are hair clips! Lydia used dies from Altenew with felt to cut and assemble these pretty clips that … Read More ...
How To Make A Faux Tile Card Background
Wow, this amazing card looks like it has real ceramic tiles on the background! Shel used cardstock in blue and black to paper weave her pattern then she covered the entire panel in clear heat embossing to create a shiny … Read More ...
Kitty Cat Birthday Card
This adorable Birthday Card from Marine is sure to put a huge smile on any cat lovers face! And speaking of faces, I love how she added frosting to the kitty’s mouth and that “purrrday” pun, it’s all so cute! … Read More ...
Paper Strips Cards
If you use pattern paper on your cards I’m sure like me you have tons of strips left over from your projects. We keep them becuase they are pretty and surly we’ll find a use for them, right? Well, here’s … Read More ...
Step Card Free Template
I love an interactive card and of course you can cut, score and fold them yourself or save yourself a lot of time and trouble and use a template. Fran has generously shared a FREE template you can download and … Read More ...
How to use a Blender Pen
A water based blender pen
is a very helpful tool to have in your crafting arsenal. It can be use with a variety of coloring mediums for softening, applying color directly or of course, blending. Lindsay is sharing lots of … Read More ...
Fairy House Card
I used the new Mushroom House background stamp along with some other stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to create this cute Fairy House Card. I used Arteza Brush Pens to watercolor the images for an easy coloring technique. Visit … Read More ...
Card Backgrounds with Book Pages
One of my favorite things to use in my mixed media projects are old book pages. They have such amazing illustrations and text and the age can add interesting vintage coloration on the paper. Gina K used some book pages … Read More ...
Ink Smooshing and Embossing Technique
Natasha did something I’ve never heard of and that’s heat embossing with water! She first ink smooshed her background panel with stamping inks and water then left some sections wet and poured on glitter embossing powder and then heated. The … Read More ...
Inking Dies with Gel Press
If you’re not familiar a Gel Press it’s a large flat piece of polymer that you can use for inking, stamping and mixed media techniques. Jennifer McGuire has an easy way to use a Gel Press, stamping ink and a … Read More ...
Stamping and Watercolor in One
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 ...
Missing You Shaker Card
I used the adorable new House Cats stamps and the Milk Carton dies from My Favorite Things for this cute Missing You Shaker Card. I thought the cats and the milk carton went together perfectly for fun card. I used … Read More ...
Tips for Choosing Ink Blending Tools
When it comes to ink blending and stenciling it can be hard to know what the best tools to use are. There are tools with bristles, tools with foam, different sizes, shapes and brands. And also the type of paper … Read More ...
Rainbow Die Cut Cards
Carrisa used stamps and dies from Erin Lee to create two beautiful Rainbow Cards. To get lots dimension on her rainbows she used several layers of just white cardstock and then adhered section of the different colors of cardstock over … Read More ...
Faux Metal with Embossing and Wax
Wow, the frame on this card from Vicky looks like it’s metal but it’s actually paper! She used an embossing folder/die combo to create the shape and depth and then added metallic waxes over top for a faux metal look … Read More ...