The Matchbook line of products from Art Impressions allows you to create tiny pop up cards that fold up like a matchbook and slip inside a coordinating envelope. Lynn created this magical card that pop ups and folds out to … Read More ...
Snowy Techniques with Distress Products
Tim Holtz’s Distress line has so many different mediums from glazes, pastes, sprays and more that can all be mixed with his inks and paints to create a wide array of looks. Tami decided to try putting lots of products … Read More ...
Mixed Media Halloween Home Decor
This awesome mixed media piece from Paula is perfect to decorate your home for Halloween. She painted her frame with paint and added texture with heat embossing. She created her art with stamps, paper, photo elements, twine and more with … Read More ...
Resist Stamping Technique with Oxide Inks
A resist stamping technique usually involves heat embossing but Jennifer McGuire figured out that Distress Oxide Inks from Tim Holtz will also resist dye based inks as well putting a new spin on this classic technique. She also used her … Read More ...
Halloween Coffee Card
Cooler fall days mean it’s time for hot drinks like coffee, tea or pumpkin spice anything. Amy R captured the season perfectly with a fun Halloween coffee mug card, don’t you just love the puny “Hello BREWtiful” sentiment? She’s sharing … Read More ...
Black Cats Halloween Tag
Patti used products from Tim Holtz to create this amazing Black Cat Halloween Tag. This mixed media project uses ink sprays, stenciling, embossing, stamping and more for loads of great texture and detail. I love her tip of dying white … Read More ...
Trapped Ink Blending Halloween Card
Amy R. shows that you don’t need Halloween stamps to create a spooky card, she used flowers and butterflies for this non-traditional card design. She also used an interesting trapped ink blending technique where she ink blended the card panel … Read More ...
Whale Done Card Tutorial
I love the puny “Whale Done” sentiment on this sweet card from Jill Foster! She stamped the whales in a light colored ink pad and then used Distress Ink Re-inkers to color them in for a beautiful water colored design … Read More ...
Create a Card with Pattern and Texture
This card from Nora has so much texture and pattern. She used a Gel Plate, applying Distress inks
to the plate with a stencil and was able to use both the positive and negative images from the “print” on her … Read More ...
Rainbow Splash Floral Card
I love the bold rainbow colors on this beautiful card from Channin! She stamped each flower in a different color of Distress Ink, then spritzed them with water and blew the wet colors with an air blaster tool to move … Read More ...
Versatile Stencil Card Backgrounds
I love having large stamps or stencils that are very versatile and will work to create backgrounds on lots of different styles of cards, I feel like a I really get my moneys worth out of them. Vicky is using … Read More ...
Cats and Dogs Card : No Line Coloring with Distress Inks
I love the no-line coloring technique Galina used on this sweet card! She stamped the cute dogs and cats image stamp from Studio Katia in a light colored Distress Ink pad and then used Distress Markers and a water brush … Read More ...
Funny Cat Mixed Media Journal Page
I love this mixed media journal page from Kath Stewart! She created lots of texture on her background using Tim Holtz stencils with Distress Oxide inks and also with stencil paste, her bricks look so realistic. And the stamped cat … Read More ...
Distress Stain Card Backgrounds
Amy used Distress Ink Spray Stains to create a variety of stunning card backgrounds using different techniques. She used them as sprays, as a “watercolor” to paint with, with stencils, used them on dry and wet papers and more. These … Read More ...
Stamping and Watercolor in One
Rina has a great tip for an easy way to using the same ink for stamping and watercolor. By inking different colors of Distress Inks in a rainbow pattern down the large stamp it adds a colorful outline that can … Read More ...