Did you struggle to come up with masculine cards for Father’s Day this year? I hear lots of card makers say “It’s hard to come up with more masculine designs.” Theresa Calvird has created 5 different masculine card ideas using … Read More ...
Product Review: Distress Embossing Glaze
The new Distress Embossing Glazes from Tim Holtz are translucent colored embossing powders that add a glossy shine to your mixed media and paper crafting projects. They come in many coordinating colors to other products in the Distress Line and … Read More ...
9 Techniques with Distress Oxide Sprays
Distress Ink Oxide Sprays from Tim Holtz
are so versatile! Laurel Beard has 9 different ways you can use these sprays on your cards, they work perfectly on their own as colorful backgrounds and you can use them with stencils, … Read More ...
Simple Painted Card Backgrounds
By using a paintbrush and paint and painting short stripes you can create some simple but effective card backgrounds. Using different paints like watercolor or gouache will give you different looks. Debby explored this idea and created several different cards … Read More ...
1 Stencil, 3 Card Techniques
Amber used the same stencil and three different mixed media techniques to create three different card designs. One card has dimension from stencil paste with alcohol inks over top, another is just liquid alcohols and the third was colored in … Read More ...
Nuvo Glitter Markers
Who doesn’t love to add sparkle and shine to their cards? Loose glitter is so messy but Glitter pens and markers can add the perfect touch of shimmer with no mess. Michelle is sharing 3 techniques using Nuvo Glitter Markers … Read More ...
Father’s Day Bear Card
If you struggle with designing masculine cards try modern, geometric styles. Like these card using Geometric Animal stamps from Kari. By using silver embossing powder and adding some simple watercolor to each shape inside the image it gives the look … Read More ...
Bunny Slider Card
Lynnea used a Seesaw Slider die and stamps from LDRS Creative to design this adorable Bunny card. These little guys look like they are having so much fun and the card recipient will also have fun playing with this card … Read More ...
Faux Quilting Birthday Card
Dina used pattern papers and cardstock to create blocks that look like quilted panels to form candles on this birthday card. This is a fantastic way to use up paper scraps. I love that she used a leaf die for … Read More ...
How to Ink Blend on an Embossing Folder
Embossing folders add great texture to your cards but you can also use them to add color as well. I used ink pads and a blender brush to add a blue sky to the starry background on my Unicorn Card. … Read More ...
How to Watercolor on Colored Cardstock
Normally when using watercolors for your cards you’d stamp on watercolor paper but Amber has a technique using cardstock. She used liquid watercolor markers and just a bit of water on a paint brush to color her images with. Using … Read More ...
Watercolor Powder Resist Card Background
Lisa used several different products to create this colorful background on her card. She first stenciled paste onto watercolor paper, then she added Color Burst powders and wet them with water. The paste resisted the colors so the diamond pattern … Read More ...
Tissue Paper Butterfly Cards
Cindi had the wonderful idea for her butterfly cards of die cutting their wings from tissue paper! This really added lots of dimension and a real flutter to them. And since tissue comes in some many different colors and patterns … Read More ...
Clear Tri-Fold Bee Card
Kristina Werner used new stamps from Colorado Craft Company to create this stunning clear Tri-Fold Card. The top panel is clear acetate with a gold embossed bee on vellum, the panel underneath was created with an ink blended resist … Read More ...
Scrape Painting Card Technique
I sometimes find solid silhouette stamps can be difficult to design with. Karen Dunbrook has a fun Scrape Painting technique that adds a colorful background behind her stamps that she stamped in black. By adding dots of acrylic paints to … Read More ...