Crystal stamped the large floral image from Unity stamps onto white cardstock and heat embossed it in silver and then ink blended a pretty color gradation over top for an amazing looking card base. I love the soft touch the … Read More ...
Easter Card with Die Cuts
Jeanne Jachna used a combination of ink blending, stenciling and watercolor for her card background on this sweet Easter card. All the fun die cuts she used are new from Poppy Stamps. She’s sharing how she put it all together … Read More ...
Marshmallow Easter Bunny Cards
These pastel little bunnies look good enough to eat! Taylor VanBruggen used some yummy new dies and stamps from Taylored Expressions to create fun marshmallow bunny cards for Easter. I love her tip about using a stamp positioning tool to … Read More ...
Pop Up Oval Frame Card
Shelly Hickox used some fun new pop up oval frame and border dies from Karen Burniston to make this amazing bird card. I love the vintage style and the quote from William Blake is perfect!
How to Foil on Acetate
Foiling adds a wonderful metallic look to cards. I’ve seen it applied to cardstock on many designs but Tina had the great idea to add foiling to acetate and the results are stunning! It gives an extra layer of dimension … Read More ...
How to Watercolor a Vintage Rabbits Card
Sandy Allnock has some terrific tips on using watercolor pencils to color some vintage style bunny stamps. She used drawing paper instead of watercolor paper for a smoother look and has more tips like adding shadows and mixing colors.
Debossed No Line Coloring Technique
Instead of using a stamped image for her lovely water colored card Dina used a die with an embossing mat in her die cutting machine to deboss the image and then used that as a guide to add her coloring. … Read More ...
Rose and Trellis Card
This lovely detailed die makes the perfect trellis background for the layered roses on this pretty card from Mona Toth. I love her tip of applying her cardstock to an adhesive sheet before die cutting, it makes the design like … Read More ...
Floral Watercolor Cards
Ashley used ink pads and reinkers
with solid stamps for an easy watercolor design on these lovely floral cards. I love the simply one layer look of these cards with just the black sentiment, it makes for a really elegant … Read More ...
Card Background with Alcohol Marker Refills
I love the background is on this lovely card from Nicole, it’s looks like colorful marble and the gold letters for the sentiment work beautifully with it. She created her card background using different colors of refill for alcohol markers… Read More ...
Interactive Dancing Raccoon Card
When you pull the tab on this oh so cute Raccoon Card from Laura Dovalo he does a little happy dance, how amazing is that!? She’s sharing some tips and tricks on how she created the mechanism for this fun … Read More ...
Coloring with Sheer Shimmer Stix
Sheer Shimmer Stix
from Imagine Crafts are a fun new way to add color, shimmer and shine to your cards and paper crafting projects. Jessica Lin shows how quick and easy it is to use the Stix to color directly … Read More ...
Robot Cards
These cool robot cards from Lindsay are perfect for masculine cards or for anyone who loves Steampunk or an Industrial look. The rusty metallic backgrounds are the perfect touch and really make the robots pop off the card. She’s sharing … Read More ...
Coloring the Same Stamp with Different Mediums
Julie Koerber got different looks using the same stamp just by changing the ink color she stamped in and the different coloring mediums she chose. It’s a great way to challenge yourself to try new ways to color your stamps … Read More ...
5 Different Ways to Use Nuvo Drops on Cards
Nuvo Drops from Tonic Studio 
are a fun way to add embellishment to your cards. They come in loads of different colors and finishes in small squeeze bottles. Yana has 5 different way you can incorporate Nuvo Drops on your … Read More ...