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This bright and bold card combines two big trends, metallics and splashy watercolor backgrounds. Gaylynn used gold heat embossing for her stamping and liquid inks to watercolor this stunning card.
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Distress Inks from Tim Holtz have been out quite a while now and have become a stamping staple in most craft rooms. We also now have Distress Oxide Inks and they have quickly become just as, if not more popular, … Read More ...
These layered Poppy stamps from Hero Arts look so realistic. I love the bright color combinations that designer Yana used and with them die cut it really makes them pop off the card! She’s sharing a tutorial video over on … Read More ...
I love the new Fable Friends stamp set from Stampin’ Up! It has the cutest spring animals, perfect for Easter, baby and friendship cards. I made this Squirrel Friend Card with the sweet squirrel stamp from the set using … Read More ...
I love this helpful stamping tip from Katie. She used a stamp positioning tool to stamp an entire set of sentiment stamps onto cardstock at once and then used small rectangle dies to cut each out. This makes for such … Read More ...
I love the pops of metallics on dark cardstock on this beautiful butterfly card. The stamp was heat embossed with black on dark cardstock and then was water colored using metallic markers and a water brush.
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Kelly Latevola used lots of popular trends like white heat embossing, ink blending and stencilling to make this super sweet elephant card. These new products from Neat and Tangled she used are so cute!
What’s better than a unicorn Valentine? A giant sparkly Unicorn Valentine! Michaels has a printable template for the Unicorn to cut from glitter cardstock and also the sentiment to print for an easy but awesome large Valentine’s Day card.
Galaxy and space designs are still really popular right now. I love that Laura used a stamp set that wouldn’t be considered a traditional Valentine set to make this fun To the Moon and Back card. Check your stash, you’ve … Read More ...
Foil is so trendy right now that Spellbinders has created a monthly club for foiling. The Glimmer Hot Foil Club sends a Hot Foil Plate and roll of Foil each month that can be used with their Glimmer Hot Foil … Read More ...
Tim Holtz has designed a wide variety of tools for Tonic Studio to help with all your paper crafting projects. From several styles of scissors, paper trimmer, picks, knives, rotary cutters, scoring tools and more. Scrapbook.com has gathered together a … Read More ...
Turn About cards are very popular, several companies have their own designs. Used with a template and stamp positioner you can create fun colorful wreaths and all over background patterns. Jennifer McGuire used some new products from Concord and 9th … Read More ...
Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz on line about some brushes used for ink blending and that there was a much less expensive alternative makeup brush that gave similar results. I thought I’d give the dupe brushes a … Read More ...
The brand new Occasions 2018 Catalog from Stampin’ Up is full of wonderful additions to the annual catalog. You’ll find themes like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day, Easter, Spring and birthday. With clear and cling mounted stamp sets with … Read More ...
Pinata designs are really trendy right now. The bright fun colors are perfect for birthdays and parties. Carly created this super cute Pinata Card making her own fringe with colorful tissue paper along with stamps and dies from Pretty Pink … Read More ...
