Therese Calvird decided to use two artists that she admires and use there style to inspire her bird cards. I love her Andy Warhol card, the look is instantly recognizable as Andy but with her own spin on it. She’s … Read More ...
Jumping Dog Interactive Card
Torico has put a clever spin on the new Swig Dies from My Favorite Things. She’s flipped it upside down so that the show dog jumps over the hurdle. So cute!! She’s got step by step photo directions over on … Read More ...
5 Different Stamped Card Backgrounds
Yana Smakula has stamped 5 wonderful card backgrounds without using large background stamps. I love the idea of using smaller stamps to create designs and patterns for card backgrounds, it’s a great way to get more from your stamped images. … Read More ...
James Burke Stamps
Artist James Burke has created several stamp sets to be used as a base to create your own imaginative designs. His clear stamp sets include fun and funky girls, guys and flowers that can be used alone or mixed together. … Read More ...
Grounded Scene Card with Partial Ink Blending
Emily helped ground the background of this pretty scene card by masking off and ink blending only a section of her cardstock. If you don’t want to color your entire panel this is a great way to still add … Read More ...
How to Watercolor Die Cuts
Nina Marie added some amazing color to her die cut images using watercolors. The splatters and specks she added seem to be stars or fireflies and are perfect for this evening scene card.
Learn a little more about how she … Read More ...
Cards with Alcohol Ink Backgrounds
Bibi Cameron used alcohol inks and a large sponge to create colorful rainbow plaids for her cards. She added addition pattern and detail by heat embossing a large stamped image over top. Changing ink and embossing colors makes it easy … Read More ...
Inlaid Frame Cards for Spring
The inlaid frames that Nichol used on these lovely Spring and Easter cards really creates a wonderful spotlight on the focal images. She’s sharing a video on how she made all three card using My Favorite Things stamps and dies.… Read More ...
Peacock Feather Card
Kyriakos creates a beautiful design with a couple different stamping techniques using VersaColor inks, embossing powders and a frame created with a mold. It is simple and stunning!
Visit the Imagine Crafts blog for directions.
-Heather… Read More ...
Spring Pig with Chicks Card
Using new stamps from Hello Bluebird I created this Spring card with a pig, I thought it would be fun to have him surrounded by hatching chicks. I also tried out one of the new Tri-Color markers from Spectrum Noir… Read More ...
Ink Blended and Embossed Card with Vellum
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 ...