Carissa introduces you to some amazing new die cuts and coordinating stamp sets from Pinkfresh Studio. I love how to tiny stamps fit into areas of the die cuts, these products are so clever! She will show you how to … Read More ...
Project: Chrysanthemum Floral Card
This lovely chrysanthemum card combines rubber stamping, die cutting, dry embossing and coloring with markers for a wonderful floral design. Using Chameleon markers that turn from dark to light make coloring flowers quicker and easier. Hop on over to the … Read More ...
Project: Floral Card with Specialty Inks
Combining water mark ink from Versmark and Gold metallic ink from Delicata Julia Stainton stamped up this wonderful floral greeting card. She talks more about what each of these specialty ink pads can do and includes project directions for the … Read More ...
Project: Metallic Floral Wedding Card
What couple wouldn’t love getting this stunning card for their wedding? Nicole Spohr used metallic water colors over top of heat embossed stamped floral images on black cardstock to get this amazing look. She’s got a video tutorial for making … Read More ...
Techniques: 5 Different Cards with One Stamp Set
When you plunk down your hard earned money on a stamp set you want to know you’re going to get a lot of use out of it., right? So having lots of ideas and techniques you can use on just … Read More ...
Tips: Get Great Result with Multi Layer Stamps
Loads of stamp companies have some amazing multi layered stamp sets where you stamp images over top of each other in different colors and the results are very realistic dimensional images. But lining them up can sometimes be challenging so … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stamped Card with Raised Sentiment
Nicole Spohr has directions for making this card with a floral stamped and embossed background with matching raised sentiment, how lovely! By die cutting the word from fun foam and layering the same die cut shaped word from her stamped … Read More ...
Project and Tip: 3D Dimensional Flower Cards
Using large floral stamps and coordinating dies from Hero Arts Yana Smakula made some stunning 3D Dimensional Flower Cards. She’s got a video over on the Hero Arts blog showing how to use these products.
But my tip is you … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Water Colored Stencil Card Background
Combining two hot trends in paper crafting, stencils and water coloring Betsy Veldman made the background for this lovely card. She finished off with a sentiment embossed on vellum
and some stamped flowers. You can find a video tutorial for … Read More ...
Tutorial: DIY Hand Carved Flower Stamps
Don’t have the perfect flower stamp for your spring cards? Not to worry, you can carve your very own rubber stamps. Draw or find some simple printable designs and carve them out on erasers. The Paris en Rose blog has … Read More ...
Technique: Hammered Flower Prints
I’m not sure I’d really call this technique stamping but it’s just too cool an idea not to share. Using flowers and a hammer (yes, a hammer) you can tape down flowers and hammer over them, leaving behind some of … Read More ...
Technique: Water Coloring with New Distress Oxide Inks
Tim Holtz’s new Distress Ink react and work the same as regular Distress Inks but they give a cool oxidized look when mixed with water. Caryn Davies used these new inks to water color with and got a really amazing … Read More ...
Tip: White Embossing on Vellum
Get a lovely light and lacy look by embossing your stamped floral images in white on vellum. Alexandra added a touch of color and added her embossed panels into windows on her cards for some stunning designs. Visit her … Read More ...
Tips: Colored Pencils Techniques
Learn how to get loads of depth, shading and realistic dimension to your stamped images with these great colored pencils coloring tips from May Sukyong. She’s got a fantastic tutorial over on Hero Arts.
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Project: Chipboard Sentiment Window Card
Wow, this is such a cool card! I’ve seen lots of cards with thick sentiments on them but this card from Stephanie takes it one step further, the sentiment is inside the card and comes up through a die cut … Read More ...