Up your doodling game with this pretty technique from Norine. She stamped out some layered flower and leaves in different colors of ink and then added her own hand drawing around the images for a really wonderful artist look. This … Read More ...
How to Add Shading to Solid Stamps
Sometimes solid stamped image can look a bit flat. Nichol has some great tips on adding shading, shadow and depth to solid stamps by using colored pencils. I think this really gives them a much more realistic look.
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Geometric Masculine Card
I find masculine cards can sometimes be tricky to create, I have so many flowers and cute animals stamps and those might not work for every guy. Amber used some bold triangle stamps with dark ink colors and filled them … Read More ...
Light Up Shaker Card
This cute card is double the interactive fun. It’s a shaker card and also when you press the button the terrarium jar lights up. How cool! Kelly shares how she used lights from Chibitronics to create it.
Tropical Vacation Card
These Hippos look like they are ready to head out on a fun tropical vacation. Using some current trends like inking, stenciling and Nuvo Drops Allison created this pretty travel card.
Marbling Card Technique
These colorful cards created by Carly were made using a marbling technique with alcohol inks. The backgrounds are the star so some simple die-cutting and sentiment is all that is needed to finish these off. Honey Bee
Three Cards Made Only with Dies
I find it challenging to create cards using only dies so I was really inspired by Jung Ahsang. She created three amazing cards with no stamping, using some of the Die D-lite dies from Spellbinders . All her extra touches … Read More ...
Artist Style Inspiration
Therese Calvird decided to use two artists that she admires and use there style to inspire her bird cards. I love her Andy Warhol card, the look is instantly recognizable as Andy but with her own spin on it. She’s … Read More ...
5 Different Stamped Card Backgrounds
Yana Smakula has stamped 5 wonderful card backgrounds without using large background stamps. I love the idea of using smaller stamps to create designs and patterns for card backgrounds, it’s a great way to get more from your stamped images. … Read More ...
Circus Party Spinner Invite
This adorable spinner card is the perfect way to invite someone to a circus themed party. Eva created it with papers and dies from Pebbles. I love her tip about using a stamp positioning tool for easily stamping lots of … Read More ...
Get the Foiled Look with No Heat!
Deco Foil Metallix Gel from Therm O Web comes in 6 colors and adds a fantastic metallic shine to your paper crafting projects without heat! These gels work perfectly with stencils, apply with the stencil pal and let dry for … Read More ...
Grounded Scene Card with Partial Ink Blending
Emily helped ground the background of this pretty scene card by masking off and ink blending only a section of her cardstock. If you don’t want to color your entire panel this is a great way to still add an … Read More ...
How to Watercolor Die Cuts
Nina Marie added some amazing color to her die cut images using watercolors. The splatters and specks she added seem to be stars or fireflies and are perfect for this evening scene card.
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Inlaid Frame Cards for Spring
The inlaid frames that Nichol used on these lovely Spring and Easter cards really creates a wonderful spotlight on the focal images. She’s sharing a video on how she made all three card using My Favorite Things stamps and dies.… Read More ...
Peacock Feather Card
Kyriakos creates a beautiful design with a couple different stamping techniques using VersaColor inks, embossing powders and a frame created with a mold. It is simple and stunning!
Visit the Imagine Crafts blog for directions.
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