SVG Cuts is offering these pretty flower and leaf SVG die cut shapes to download for FREE. Perfect for floral card designs or scrapbook layouts. Cut them with your electronic die cutting machine, they say their “downloads are in … Read More ...
Card Background with Embossing Paste & Powder
To get the pretty background on this card Nicole added embossing paste partially over a stencil and then added embossing powder over top and heated it for a great shiny, textured look. It’s a great way to mix medias! I … Read More ...
How to Color with Mixed Mediums
Laura from Studio Katia used alcohol based markers, colored pencils and a white gel pen to color these lovely stamped flowers. Mixing those mediums gave her stamped images a lot of depth and realism. I also love the texture she … Read More ...
Stampin’ Up Annual Catalog 2019 Review Part 3
I’m back with another look at the new annual catalog from Stampin’ Up. If you missed my first post click here to check it out and my second post is here. Inside the catalog you’ll find lots and lots … Read More ...
Sewing and Solid Stamps
Michelle added some great texture and color around her solid stamped flowers and leaves by sewing around them. She pierced holes along the edge of each image and then sewed a simple running stitch. This is a great way to … Read More ...
Card Making with Pattern Paper Strips
Patterned papers are great for backgrounds on cards but what using them as a way to color? Virginia adhered strips of different pattern papers together side by side (essentially created her own custom design) and then stamped botanicals and die … Read More ...
Stampin’ Up Annual Catalog 2019 Review Part 2
I’m back with another look at the new annual catalog from Stampin’ Up. If you missed my first post click here to check it out. Inside you’ll find lots and lots of clear and rubber mounted stamp sets, many … Read More ...
Floral Card with Faux Watercolor Technique
Using more new stamps from the brand new Stampin Up catalog I created this pretty floral card with the Beautiful Friendship stamps. I did a faux watercolor technique using different ink pads colors spritzed with water on the solid stamps. … Read More ...
Easy Watercolor Floral Card
Erum shares this stunning card on the Altenew blog and how she used their Watercolor Brush Markers for an easy but beautiful watercolor technique. I love the light blue woodgrain ink blended background, it makes the flowers really stand out.… Read More ...
Floral Cards with Background Texture
May Park used embossing paste with a stencil and some splattering to create the wonderful textures on her mixed media cards. I love how she used gray instead of green for her flower stems, it helps the pretty colors of … Read More ...
Foiling and Watercolor Card
Yana combined two popular techniques, foiling and watercolor into one gorgeous card! Did you know foiling works as a resist (yeah, I didn’t either :)) but it does so just like with heat embossing it will repel water based products, … Read More ...
1 Stamp and 1 Die, 3 Cards with Vellum
Emily used the same pretty floral stamp set and Thank You die from Trinity Stamps to create 3 different cards. I love the soft look of the flowers heat embossed in white on vellum, so pretty!
Coloring Card Download
The Creative Scrapbooker Magazine has this lovely botanical card designed by Betty Hung to download and print for FREE! Download, print, cut, color and send to a friend to brighten their day.
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Happy 45th Anniversary Hero Arts!
Hero Arts Stamps is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year! I’ve been using their stamps for over 25 years, have purchased so many over that time and through all those years their products and service has always been top notch! … Read More ...
1 Stamp 6 Cards
Wow, these stunning cards from Erum as so different and yet she used the same stamp from Altenew to create all 6 cards. She’s sharing a simple explanation of how she made each one plus a complete card video tutorial … Read More ...