Vellum is a thin semi-transparent paper that add a soft touch to any paper crafting project. Justine Hovey has 5 different techniques using vellum, from card bands, to overlays, embossing and backgrounds colored with ink she’ll show you just how … Read More ...
Creating a Stamped Wreath Card
By using a wreath builder stencil and your stamp positioning tool you can use just about any shape and create a wreath design. Jill Cameron used a heart shape for this sweet card which shows this is a great way … Read More ...
Dog and Puppy Pet Cards
Our pets are part of our family so of course we want to send cards to congratulate someone on a new pet or let them know we’re thinking of them when they lose their special friend. Taylored Expressions has a … Read More ...
Cigar Box Themed Card
Masculine card deigns can sometimes be difficult. With Father’s Day coming up now’s a good time to try out more manly ideas. Teri created this card designed to look like a Cigar box, her stenciled background and heat embossed sentiment … 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 ...
Card Making Tutorial Colored Pencils on Dark Cardstock
Nichol Spohr used some large Asian inspired background stamps from Hero Arts to create these beautiful cards. She heat embossed them in gold on darker cardstock and used polychromos colored pencils to color in the images, which makes them really … Read More ...
Alcohol Inks and Embossing Card Backgrounds
Verity created the most stunning card backgrounds by applying alcohol ink to vellum paper. And then took it to the next level by added embossing powder to sections that were still wet for an added metallic shine. These pattern are … Read More ...
Bold Background Cards
Lindsay has created some amazing cards that bring background stamps to the foreground. These types of large stamps allow you plenty of room to play with lots of different techniques. Using ideas like heat embossing and adding Perfect Pearl she’s … 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 ...
Chalkola Marker Review, Giveaway and Coupon Code
Chalkola recently sent me a set of their 30 Chalk Markers to try and it was so much fun incorporating them into my paper crafting. I created some card samples and filmed a product review sharing all about these markers … 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 ...
Make Your Own Heart Mask for Cards
Gina K shows how easy it is to use scissors to cut out a heart shape from Masking Paper to create some fun designs for Valentine’s Day. If you’re not familiar a mask covers up a section of your cardstock … Read More ...
Gold Embossed Wedding Cards
Lorena used stamps with gold embossing on vellum to create some elegant cards for a wedding. She also added more texture by adhering die cut flowers with added touches of gold embossing too. These cards have a very classic design, … Read More ...
Heart Background Stamp used 3 Ways
Vicky used the brand new Heart Garland background stamp from Simon Says Stamp 3 different ways to create 3 different cards for Valentine’s Day. Each card has different die cut and stamped sentiments. She’s sharing a video on her blog … Read More ...
Black, White and Gold Valentine Cards
Amy R. used black, white and gold to create these elegant looking Valentine’s Day cards. This is such a classic and classy color combination. She added extra shimmer and shine to her cards by heat embossing her stamps and also … Read More ...