Andrea Gomoll has some tips for a quick water colored winter stamped design using monochromatic blues. She’ll show you how she colored with liquid water colors and also an easy and fun background using Q-tips. Visit her blog Cre8tive Cre8tions … Read More ...
Download and Tips: Valentine’s Day Stitched Cards
My Favorite Things has a really cool die that allows you to add stitched designs to your cards. You can make your own or they offer many simple patterns that you can download for free and follow, including 12 new … Read More ...
Tips: Coloring with Sharpie Markers
Now a days so many people are using alcohol markers for coloring its easy to forget all the “classic” markers we’ve bought over the years. Kathy from the Daily Marker has some great tips for shading, layering and blending Sharpie … Read More ...
Technique: Water Coloring with Ink Pad Refills
This card makes me ready for spring! Arjita colored this beautiful rose image with Memento ink pad Re-Inkers , using them like water colors. She also used a no-line stamping technique to get a more realistic look. She’ll show you … Read More ...
Tip: Make a Rainbow Ink Pad with Ink Cubes
I love getting inks in those tiny cubes, it’s less expensive to get loads more colors and they take up less storage space. Jennifer McGuire has some tips for using these tiny ink pads like making your own rainbow ink … Read More ...
5 Tips for Crafting with Freezer Paper
Freezer paper is great in the kitchen but you can also use it in your craft room. Nina Marie shares 5 useful tips like using freezer paper to protect your work surface, using it for stamping and masking techniques, as … Read More ...
Tutorial: Make a Gift Bag from an Envelope
Bianca has directions on how to score, fold and cut a long business sized envelope and turn it into a small cute gift bag covered in stamped images. Visit the Stempeleinmaleins blog for her tutorial and several decorating ideas from … Read More ...
Project: Dog Slider Card
Designer Torico will show you how to make this super cute dog slider card with some tips on how to use a cloud stencil for a sky background. Visit her blog Stamparadise to watch her project video.
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Tip: Other Ways to Use Dies
Gina K has a couple of really clever ways to use dies in a new way. For this card she used a tree die as a stencil for the clouds and an oval die for the hills. Grab some of … Read More ...
Trend: 4 Ways to Use Sequins on Cards
Sequins are the “it” embellishment for card making right now. They add a nice sparkle to most any card and there are so many cool ways to use them. Put them inside a shaker card, scatter them around the front … Read More ...
Travel Spinner Card
Wish someone a happy trip or good luck on your move with this cool Travel Spinner Card. The plane moves around the globe, how cool!
Find direction for making this card over on the Kaiser Craft blog.
-Heather
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Technique: Card with Pencils Shavings and Stencils
Bibi Cameron has a cool technique that I’ve never seen before. She uses pencil shavings to color and blend over top of stencils for some amazing cards. Just imagine all the pretty patterns, designs and color combos you could create! … Read More ...
Tip: Crafty New Years Resolutions
The Papertrey ink team has gathered together some wonderful New Years resolutions for us crafty types. With ideas like create your own journal/planner and send out one hand made card a week there’s many ideas to get your creative juices … Read More ...
Tip: Reuse Gift Wrap for Cards
Don’t throw away all those pretty scraps of wrapping paper, bags, ribbon or gift tags from the holidays. Many can be reused on your next greeting card. Nina-Marie has some wonderful ideas to upcycle your wrapping leftovers for some fabulous … Read More ...
Project: New Years 2018 Card
Ring in the New Yer with a fun “2018” card. You can punch out your own custom letters and numbers using the Alphabet Punch Board from We R Memory Keepers perfect for date cards like this one. Find more info … Read More ...