I love Tall, Slimline card designs, they give you so much room to work with! I used this style on a fun Woodland Animals Card for Father’s Day. I’ll show you how to enhance and accent your alcohol marker … Read More ...
Using Stamps for Embroidery
Take your stamping off the card and onto fabric projects with embroidery. Stamps make the perfect pattern design to follow for stitching. Debi used sweet flower stamps from Hero Arts and embroidered over top of them to create a sweet … Read More ...
Stamped Paper Piecing
Crystal has a terrific way to add color and layers to a single stamp. She stamped a large floral stamp from Unity multiple times in different colors of ink, cut them apart and them pieced them back together, how clever!… Read More ...
Dragonfly Card with Resist Technique
Using an embossing resist technique with ink blending Erin created an amazing background on her card. I love the bold colors on her tall slimline card, they work so well with the dragonfly stamps from Colorado Stamp Company and the … Read More ...
Clean and Simple Succulent Cards
Cactus and Succulents are trendy right now and Carolyn used them to design some lovely clean and simple cards. By using Distress Markers and water she got an artistic, modern watercolor look.
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Shaped Gatefold Cards
The super talented Simon Hurley has a fun new twist on Gatefold cards. He stamped the front panel and cut it in half, going around some of the stamped images so they piece fit back together when the front card … Read More ...
Corgi Dogs Card
Cassie used stamps and dies from Heffy Doodle to create this adorable Corgi Card. I love how she used their tree dies in a different way, she used them to create the purple mountains in the background, how clever! She’s … Read More ...
Book Reading Scene Card
Jill Cameron design this sweet one layer card scene focused around a girl reading a book stamp from Concord and 9th. She drew in the table, window and lamp, ink blending the backgrounds and coloring the rest with Copic Markers.… Read More ...
Floral Card with Masked Ink Blending
Kelly Fusco used a Rectangle Mask from Taylored Expressions, ink blended with Distress Oxide Inks to design a lovely soft background for her floral card. She stamped her flowers over top in black for a simple but beautiful design. A … Read More ...
Small Framed Scenes Card
Eloise used small die cut frames to create little scenes for this cute Bug Card. I love how each scene is different and how she took the frames off the edges of the card, it looks like a little 
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How to add Extra Details to Stenciling
Stenciling is fun and trendy and can add amazing designs to your cards with ink blending techniques. Birka took this idea to the next level by adding lines around sections of the stencils edges with a fine line black pen. … Read More ...
How to Foil Digital Stamps
I recently did a review for the Glaminator Foiling and Laminating machine from Xyron, you can find it here if you missed it, and I’m continuing to use and love it! One technique I’ve been doing is foiling … Read More ...
12 Ideas with One Abstract Stamp
A good background stamp can be just the thing to complete the design on your card and the more versatile the better. The design team over at Darkroom Door used one of their Abstract Stamps to create twelve different projects … Read More ...
Otter Space Card
Even though it might feel we are so far apart right now we’re really all in this together! Let someone know you’re thinking about them with a fun handmade card like this one from Lisa Mensing. She used the funny … Read More ...
How to Color Die Cut Shapes
Check out this beautiful card from Courtney! I love how she used mostly die cuts for her design. She added realistic color, depth and dimension by coloring her shapes with her Copic Markers. She’s sharing how to over on her … Read More ...