New to stamping and embossing? This helpful beginner level tutorial for stamping and cardmaking features VersaColor Pigment Ink. Nicole Watt shows you 5 easy ways to use Pigment Ink on your cards.
Mermaid Tails Card
I LOVE Mermaids so I totally flipped when I saw this card! Using new stamps and die from Simon Says Nichol Spohr created this amazing Mermaid Tails Card. The background for her scene is stunning with the waves, clouds and … Read More ...
Coloring Embossed Sentiments
If you’re new to coloring stamped images Cathy has a great tip. If you heat emboss your stamps it gives you a little raised “edge” that helps hold in the color so you don’t color outside the lines. She used … Read More ...
Ink Smooshing Flower Card
If you need a quick way to add some color to some stamped flowers try the ink smooshing technique. Dana used Distress inks
, sprayed with water picked up and applied with some acetate. It adds a pretty colorful splash … Read More ...
Heat Embossed Inlaid Dies
I love doing inlaid die cutting, placing die cut images together like a puzzle piece. Verity took this idea a step further by apply heat embossing on every other section of her inlay. I love that she used glitter embossing … Read More ...
Product Review: Distress Embossing Glaze
The new Distress Embossing Glazes from Tim Holtz are translucent colored embossing powders that add a glossy shine to your mixed media and paper crafting projects. They come in many coordinating colors to other products in the Distress Line and … Read More ...
Father’s Day Bear Card
If you struggle with designing masculine cards try modern, geometric styles. Like these card using Geometric Animal stamps from Kari. By using silver embossing powder and adding some simple watercolor to each shape inside the image it gives the look … Read More ...
Clear Tri-Fold Bee Card
Kristina Werner used new stamps from Colorado Craft Company to create this stunning clear Tri-Fold Card. The top panel is clear acetate with a gold embossed bee on vellum, the panel underneath was created with an ink blended resist … Read More ...
Three Card Techniques Using One Stamp Set
Using a lovely Peony stamp set from Recollections I designed 3 cards, each with a different technique. I’ll show you how to ink blend over a mask, how to do an ink smooshing technique and how to color with colored … Read More ...
Glittery Beach Card
Wow, check out all that sparkle and shine on the sand and waves on this stunning Beach Card from Gemma! She die cut her waves and beach from white cardstock, applied clear ink to each section and heat embossing … Read More ...
5 Vellum Techniques for Cards
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 ...