Kelly Fusco used a Rectangle Mask from Taylored Expressions, ink blended with Distress Oxide Inks to design a lovely soft background for her floral card. She stamped her flowers over top in black for a simple but beautiful design. A … Read More ...
6 Floral Coloring Pages
It’s finally Springtime and the flowers here are blooming! Get in the Spring spirit with some lovely Floral Coloring pages. There are 6 to download, print and color and they are FREE from Dover Publications!
How to Color Die Cut Shapes
Check out this beautiful card from Courtney! I love how she used mostly die cuts for her design. She added realistic color, depth and dimension by coloring her shapes with her Copic Markers. She’s sharing how to over on her … Read More ...
Beautiful Bouquet Card
Daria used flower stamps from Neat and Tangled for this beautiful Bouquet card. I love how she embossed her images in white and left them uncolored on the Kraft card base but colored them on the white. It’s the perfect … Read More ...
Garden Kitties Birthday Card
I love this beautiful Garden Birthday card from Patricia. The sweet kitties in the garden add a whimsical touch and the 3D flowers add loads of depth and dimension. The pretty inside of the card peeks through the round opening … Read More ...
One Card, Many Techniques
Simon Hurley created this beautiful floral card using lots of different “hacks” on just one card. He’s sharing how to use a matte medium for a resist technique, how to choose the right cardstock for ink blending, how to use … Read More ...
3D Flower and Lattice Card
Bev shows how she used Poppy Flower dies from Whimsy Stamps to create wonderful 3D flowers for her cards. She’ll show you how to add color with a pen and inking and how to fold and bend the paper to … Read More ...
Watercolor Floral Striped Card
Michele wanted to create a custom background that coordinated with her water colored floral stamps. So she used washi tape to mask off sections of watercolor paper and painted them in with her watercolors. The result is a colorful and … Read More ...
Water Coloring Digital Stamps + Freebie
Kathy used opaque watercolors to color up this lovely digital floral stamp from Jane’s Doodles. In order to apply her stamp to the watercolor paper she used a tracing method and then water colored. The results are very bold and … Read More ...
Gold Inlaid Sentiment Card
Arjita used flower stamps from Trinity and colored them with Copic Markers for this lovely floral card. For the sentiment she die cut the letters directly from the stamped panel as well as from gold metallic cardstock and then inlaid … Read More ...
Heat Embossing Techniques – Create 5 Cards with 1 Stamp
I love a versatile stamp, if I can use it in many different ways I really feel like I’ve gotten my monies worth. Simon Hurley used a floral stamp set and several different heat embossing techniques to create 5 beautiful … Read More ...
Heat Embossing and Watercolor on Dark Cardstock
Jenny used a clever tip to trick the eye into thinking her heat embossed
and water colored stamped images are directly on her dark cardstock background. But what she actually did was emboss and color on white cardstock and then … Read More ...
Using Background Stamps as a Focal Point In Cardmaking
Background stamps are usually the quiet achievers in cardmaking – they sit behind your sentiment, add texture, and subtly tie everything together. But what if your background stamp didn’t stay in the background at all?
Jaycee takes this classic supply … Read More ...
Focus on Background Stamps
Pink Fresh Studio has just released a bunch of beautiful new large background stamps. These cling mounted rubber stamps give you the freedom to create your own custom pattern papers for your card backgrounds. Laura used two to design for … Read More ...
4 Butterfly Coloring Pages
I’m so ready for Spring, to see flowers bloom and butterflies visit my garden. If you’re also yearning for Spring check out these beautiful Butterfly coloring pages. There are 4 to choose from and they are FREE to download from … Read More ...