I love using the Arteza Real Brush Pens for water coloring. I find them easy to use, they blend nicely and have build-able color. I used them to color in this beautiful fall girl stamp from LDRS Creative for an … Read More ...
Fall Leaves Shaker Card
Kat used pretty pattern papers and leaf shaped dies to create a fun Falling Leaves Shaker Card for Autumn. She’s sharing directions over on her blog.
Visit Kat Scrappiness to check it out.
-Heather
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Colorful Striped Holiday Cards
Who says you can’t use the trendy rainbow style on Holiday cards? Laura sure did on these beautiful striped Christmas cards. Sticking with pinks, reds and greens she added colorful stripes of cardstock on her card backgrounds and they off … Read More ...
Ornament Window Cards
Stephanie used an intricate snowflake shaped die from My Favorite Things to create two amazing Ornament Window Cards. She used the negative open space for the card window adding additional elements behind or inside. I love how she got two … Read More ...
Holiday Joy Card with a Kissing Technique
The kissing technique is a fun and easy way to add patterns to your stamped images. By touching (or kissing) two stamps together you can transfer a design from one stamp to another. It sounds hard but it’s really a … Read More ...
Metallic Watercolor Christmas Cards
Wow, these cards really shine for the Holidays! Nichol Spohr combine the really popular trends of watercolor and metallics for these stunning Christmas cards. She heat embossed large background stamps from Hero Arts in gold on dark cardstock and used … Read More ...
How to Color a Christmas Lily Card
If you love flowers you don’t have to leave them off your holiday cards many still bloom during the winter months like poinsettia and some lilies. Mindy Baxter used a lovely Amaryllis stamp for this beautiful Christmas card. She has … Read More ...
Using Water Reactive Inks 3 Ways
Using Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir I created this fun winter Yeti Card. These versatile inks can be used for lots of different stamping and coloring techniques. If you missed my review on them last week be sure to … Read More ...
How to Use Stitching Dies without Sewing
Several companies make dies that have holes in them so you can add some stitching. These dies might seem a bit limiting but you don’t always have to add sewing to them. You can use the negative space left from … Read More ...
Easel Slider Card
Eloise combined two really trendy card styles by adding a slider element to an easel card, how much fun is that!? I love this little Yeti snowboarding across the card!
Visit the Lawn Fawn blog for her video tutorial.
-Heather… Read More ...
Light Up Easel Card
I think Easel Cards are going to be a popular trend this holiday season, I’m seeing lots of them pop up on designers blogs. Maymay created a lovely Easel Card using a lantern design that holds a small tea light … Read More ...
Simple Penguin Holiday Card
The holidays are a hectic time but us card makers still want to find time to create cards for the season. If you’re making cards but are pressed for time this year try creating clean and simple cards. Even the … Read More ...
Fall Hedgehog Card
Kristina Werner added some fall leaves and a banner around this adorable hedgehog stamp to create a simple Fall wreath design. She used watercolors for her images and I love the shadow she added to each one, it adds a … Read More ...
Christmas Candy Shaker Card
I love how the candies on this card look like they are cover in real sugar, they look good enough to eat! Ardyth used colorful ink pads and glitter paste for her die cut candy shapes to make them look … Read More ...
Fall Swing Easel Card
Wendy Lee is sharing step by step photo and video directions on how to create a fun Swing Easel Card. She used an Autumn theme but this versatile idea can be altered for any occasion.