The Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir are fun inks that, you guessed it, react with water! With these slow drying dye based ink pads you can get trendy looks like distress, ink splatters, ink blending and you can even … Read More ...
3 Holiday Christmas Cards from 1 Stamp Set
I love a versatile stamp set, like this one from Hero Arts. The Layering Peace clear set can be used on it’s own or with other stamps, in many different color combination and with different styles of cards. Yana used … Read More ...
Easy Watercolor Holiday Cards
Water coloring doesn’t have to be neat and perfect, it’s one of the great things about that medium. Sandy Allnock used some loose and easy watercolor techniques to create these wonderful Autumn and Christmas Foliage Cards.
Fall Squirrels Card
Christy used new stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to create this fun Fall scene card. Those squirrels are having so much fun jumping in a pile a leaves! I love how she used ink blending on her tree, ground … Read More ...
Caramel Apple Card
This Caramel Apple Card looks yummy enough to eat! Amy R. used new dies from Simon Says, applying clear glaze over top to add a wonderful shine.
Visit the Prairie Paper and Ink blog to watch her card making video.… Read More ...
Autumn Leaves Thanks You Card
Shari ink blended white cardstock with fall colors and then die cut the paper with leaf shapes for this wonderful Autumn Thank You Card. Her leaves look very realistic and the touches of gold splatter and copper words add an … Read More ...
Stamping and Shading on Pattern Papers
A quick and easy way to add color and pattern to your stamped images is by stamping on patterned paper. Heather Hoffman used some pretty florals for this technique and added some inking to the edges of her images for … Read More ...
Halloween Balloons Card
Maria had a very clever idea to take stamps that might normally be used for a birthday card, in this case a bunch of balloons, and added some Jack O’ Lantern faces to them to create a fun and festive … Read More ...
Haunted House Knock Knock Joke Card
This Haunted House Card from Kara is just too much fun! When you turn the wheel a knock knock joke is revealed and the punch line is hidden behind the door, so clever! She used house and wheel dies along … Read More ...
Fall Watercolor Resist Card
Crystal used white heat embossing with leaf stamps on watercolor paper and then added a lovely wash of watercolors over top for a resist technique on this wonderful autumn card. The Nuvo drops and embossed sentiment finish off this Thank … Read More ...
Flip Flap Halloween Card
When you pull the tab on this amazing Halloween Flip Flap Card it flops to the side to reveal another scene behind it. How cute and clever is that!? You can find step by step photo directions for making one … Read More ...
Breast Cancer Awareness Card
I’m back with another paper crafting project for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Using stamps, stencils and dies from CAS-ual Fridays Larissa added heat embossed images and words in black and glitter pink over a stenciled and splatter background for a … Read More ...
3 Retro Christmas Cards You Can Make At Home
Do you love a kitschy 50’s retro look? I sure do, especially when it comes to holidays. Hero Arts is embracing this cool retro style with their latest kit and add-ons with stamps, papers, glitter, die cuts and more for … Read More ...
Pumpkin Patch Critters Card
These adorable little fall critters are having so much fun in the pumpkin patch! Christy used some cute new stamps from Hello Bluebird and Copic markers to make her autumn card.
Visit her blog Christy Gets Crafty to watch her … Read More ...
Halloween Trick or Treaters Card
The current small die of the month from Spellbinders
had lots of pieces to mix and match to create some fun trick-or-treaters, you can make a ghost, a devil or skeleton. Vicky create this cute card using the dies adding … Read More ...