May Park designed this lovely birthday card that has a hidden element. She stamped her all over floral background using stamps from Altenew and die cut the numbers from the panel and then popped them up using fun foam to … Read More ...
Giveaway and Review: Paper Pumpkin Kit for Aug 2018
If you’re looking for paper crafting inspiration Paper Pumpkin is here to inspire you and bring creativity to your door each and every month. Paper Pumpkin is a subscription kit brought to you by the folks at Stampin’ Up.… Read More ...
Color Layering Dies
Layering Stamps have been popular for a while and now Spellbinder has taken the idea in a different direction with color layering dies. Die cut each die from different cardstock colors for a lovely layered dimensional look.
Yana Smakula has … Read More ...
Card with Stained Glass Look
Saundra got the look of stained glass by stamping and heat embossing her image in white on vellum and using her Copic markers to color. I love the color combo of the pop of pink with the muted gray and … Read More ...
Die Cutting with Patterned Papers
Add some quick and easy pattern, color and texture to your die cutting by using patterned papers. It’s also a great way to use up some of your paper scraps!
Norine shares some lovely flower cards with this idea over … Read More ...
Negative Space Die Cut Coloring
I love the colorful rainbow hues of this floral card. By tracing the inside and outside of a detailed die Stephanie watercolored the negative space of the shape for beautiful results.
Visit her blog Stephanie Low Creative for more on … Read More ...
Colored Pencils on Dark Cardstock
Kristina achieved a lot of depth on this card even though it’s only one layer. By using colored pencils and on dark grey cardstock and subtle inking with white ink on the background her design really stands out. This card … Read More ...
Subtle Embossed Card Sentiments
Lydia used alphabet dies with an embossing pad to add subtle embossed sentiments to her cards. The pops of color in the layering stamped flowers adds a nice touch to these elegant cards.
You can find her card tutorial over … Read More ...
“Coloring” Your Stamps with Bleach
This cool bleaching technique is sort of anti-coloring. Stamp your image and then using a paint brush with bleach to “color” inside your image to remove the papers color for a neat white out effect. I’ve done this technique on … Read More ...
Tiger Lily Layering Stamps Cards
Layering stamps give such a realistic look like with this Tiger Lily set from Hero Arts. The flowers just really pop right out. Designer Yana has some color suggestions to use with these stamps on a few different cards.
Watercolor Stamping with Ink Sprays
This pretty floral card has such a dream ylook. Juli Riedel used ink sprays with her stamps to get a wonderful watercolor look, no brush required! Learn more about her quick and easy faux watercoloring technique over on the Canvas … Read More ...
Elegant Floral Card
Kia used Color Burst Powders for this bold card background and added her floral images, embossed in gold and watercolored with Zig Clean Color Markers over top. I love how she added extra dimension by using a stylus tool on … Read More ...
Using Small Stamps for Patterns
May Park will show you how to use those tiny stamps to make a lovely all over stamped patterned card background. I love the addition of more detail with the die cut pop outs. Visit her blog Mayholic Design for … Read More ...
Coloring Stamps with Watercolor Crayons
Watercoloring is still really popular in the stamping right now. There are many different mediums that they come in, one handy style is watercolor crayons. They are easy to store and transport for coloring on the go and can give … Read More ...
Reverse Flower Cards
Dawn McVey has a fun flip on using flower dies. Instead of using bright colors for the petals and white for the centers she’s made white flowers with bright pops of color for the leaves and centers. The look is … Read More ...