The Metallix Gel from Deco Foil will add sparkle, shine, color and texture to your cards and paper crafting projects. They work beautifully with stencils as Catherine Pooler shares on her blog with several different stenciling ideas and techniques. And … Read More ...
Gold Inlaid Sentiment Card
Arjita used flower stamps from Trinity and colored them with Copic Markers for this lovely floral card. For the sentiment she die cut the letters directly from the stamped panel as well as from gold metallic cardstock and then inlaid … Read More ...
State Flower Postage Stamp Cards
Gina K has some amazing State Flowers stamp sets that are perfect for creating custom cards that show pride in your state. Melanie combined them with postage stamp designs to create some really beautiful cards. She’s sharing a tutorial over … Read More ...
6 Country Garden Coloring Pages
I’ll be so happy when I can soon go out into my garden and start planting flowers and veggies! Get inspired to create a beautiful garden with these wonderful Country Garden Coloring Pages. There are 6 to download, print and … Read More ...
Xyron Glaminator Review and Giveaway! (GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED)
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I recently got the chance to try out The Glaminator from Xyron. This machine does hot and cold lamination as well as FOILING! So you can easily add shimmer and shine to your paper crafting projects … Read More ...
Into to Nuvo Watercolor Pencils
The look of watercolor is still really trendy in stamping, it’s an easy way to add an artistic flair to your card making. Watercolor Pencils are one way to add watercolor to your stamped images and I find pencils to … Read More ...
Mirror Stamping with a Media Mat
Mirror Image Stamping is a fun technique that allows you to stamp the reverse of an image. This makes for fun card where your images can face each other or you can add a reflection. The silicone Media Mat from … Read More ...
Spring Animals Card with Ink Blending
I love how the animals on this adorable Spring Card are all shaped like eggs, so cute! Sandie masked off each stamped animal so she could ink blend a pretty background. She finished off her card by coloring her animals … Read More ...
How to Make a Shadow Box Card
Eva is over on the Pebbles blog showing how easy it is to create your own Shadow Box Card. She’s got direction on how to cut and core the card base. And to make it even quicker she used pre-made … Read More ...
Card Trend – Quilling
Quilling is a paper crafting technique that has been a round for a long time. I remember my mom creating projects with it back in the 70’s but it dates back even further then that. If you’re not familiar with … Read More ...
Heat Embossing Techniques – Create 5 Cards with 1 Stamp
I love a versatile stamp, if I can use it in many different ways I really feel like I’ve gotten my monies worth. Simon Hurley used a floral stamp set and several different heat embossing techniques to create 5 beautiful … Read More ...
7 Spring Coloring Pages
I’m tired of snow and cold weather, I am so ready for Spring to get here! If you’re ready for Spring too check out these 7 different Spring themed coloring pages. They are FREE to download and print from Dover … Read More ...
Miss You Bears Card
These sweet little bears are here to tell someone how much you miss them. Ally used stamps from Gerda Steiner and Copic markers to color them. I love how she colored each bear with a different texture, it adds so … Read More ...
Butterfly Box Card
How pretty and Springy is this card from Dina Kowal!? This box style pop up card opens up to reveal some lovely butterflies but still folds flat to fit inside an envelope. She’s sharing step by step photo direction as … Read More ...
Rainbow Stripe Card with Stencils
Colorful Rainbow patterns are still so popular and they add such a bright cheerful touch to any card. Lydia created her rainbow striped card by placing painters tape over top of a stencil to mask off different areas for ink … Read More ...