Laura from Card Making is Fun will show you how to use a combination of ink blending and masking to make a fun night sky with moon card background. I love the addition of glitter stars with stencil paste
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Project: Witch Silhouette Card
Vicky Papaioannou designed this amazing witch card with new products from Tim Holtz. She used Distress Oxide inks
for the background and dies for the main images. She’ll show you how to put it all together over on the Clips … Read More ...
Technique: Paint Swiping Card Background
Add a painterly touch to your next card with this cool paint swiping technique. By adding stenciling and paint splatter over top Cathies Cowles really added a lot of texture to her card background. Add some stamped images for a … Read More ...
Project: Rustic Vintage Santa Card
I love this vintage looking Santa card! I’m seeing a lot of distress and metallic looks combined for the holidays and I’m loving it! The rustic metallic card background was made by heat embossing a large background stamp on Metallic … Read More ...
Technique: Colored Pencil Backgrounds for Winter Cards
Learn how to make snowy, winter scene backgrounds using colored pencils , baby oil and a blending make-up sponge. Bibi Cameron has a tutorial over on her blog, click here to check it out.
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Technique: Image Transfer for a DIY Card Background
If you don’t have exactly the right background designs for your card you can use a printed pattern with a transfer technique. Kristina Werner shows how she made this honeycomb background with a pencil transfer for this adorable stamped bee … Read More ...
Project: Halloween Owls Card
These adorable little owls are all ready for Halloween! And you can get ready for Halloween too by making this fun card with stamped pattern paper background and stamped and die cut owls from Sunny Studio. You’ll find a video … Read More ...
Technique: Colored Pencil Card Background
What pretty skies on these holiday home cards. This card background techniques uses colored pencils and baby oil for a lovely nighttime scene. This technique is perfect for beginners and you can find a tutorial video over Bibi Cameron’s blog.… Read More ...
Tip: Quick and Easy Letter Press Card Background
Add color and texture to your next card background and get more from your embossing folders with this easy Letter Press look. By inking them up and then embossing you’ll get a unique card background. Find out more about this … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Starry Sky Silhouette Cards
Wow these starry night sky card background are amazing! Using techniques like ink blending, ink sprays and paint splatter Nichol Spohr will show you how she made these Night Sky Silhouette cards. Visit her blog for a video tutorial.
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Technique: Color Blended Card Background with Oxide Inks
Mindy Eggan got this beautiful bright card background by blending Distress Ink over top of a stencil. By mixing and blending 3 colors together she was able to get multiple colors from just the 3 inks. Visit her blog Paper … Read More ...
Technique: Inked and Stenciled Swirl Card Background
Tim Holtz’s new Distress Ink react with water like regular Distress Inks so you can combine different colors and add water for fun color combinations. This card used three blues over top of a swirly stencil for the perfect wave … Read More ...
Tip: Coloring the Negative Space on a Stamp
Instead of coloring the stamped leaf images Debby Hughes painted the “negative” background space making the image really pop. This works really well with floral and botanical images and is a great way to get more use and a unique … Read More ...
Technique: Colorful Inked Card Background
I love the colorful background for this beautiful fairy card! Sadia will show you how she inked over a heat embossed stamped image to make this pretty background. Find directions over on her blog.
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Technique and Project: Star Wars Card with Water Color Galaxy Background
Yulis has an awesome tutorial water coloring a galaxy background for a fun Star Wars inspired card. Check out her tutorial over on the Magnolia with Heart blog.
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