Bibi Cameron used alcohol inks and a large sponge to create colorful rainbow plaids for her cards. She added addition pattern and detail by heat embossing a large stamped image over top. Changing ink and embossing colors makes it easy … Read More ...
Peacock Feather Card
Kyriakos creates a beautiful design with a couple different stamping techniques using VersaColor inks, embossing powders and a frame created with a mold. It is simple and stunning!
Visit the Imagine Crafts blog for directions.
-Heather… Read More ...
Ink Blended and Embossed Card with Vellum
Crystal stamped the large floral image from Unity stamps onto white cardstock and heat embossed it in silver and then ink blended a pretty color gradation over top for an amazing looking card base. I love the soft touch the … Read More ...
Double Embossing Technique
If you don’t have the right color of embossing powder for your project don’t worry, you can try this cool (or should I say hot? :)) double embossing technique. Kim stamped her fun nerdy science images with colored ink pads … Read More ...
Ink Blending: Distress vs Oxide Inks
Distress Ink from Tim Holtz have been out quite a while now and have become a stamping staple in most craft rooms. We also now have Distress Oxide Inks and they have quickly become just as, if not more popular, … Read More ...
Birthday Bear Card
The soft pastel balloons and cake on this sweet card are the perfect backdrop for the fun birthday bear. Shay created her background with heat embossing and watercolors. She is sharing her card making tutorial over on the Winnie and … Read More ...
Pink and White Flowers Card
The white embossing powder really helps the bold water colored pinks pop on this lovely Cosmos flower card. The background die Effie used reminds me of a fancy trellis and really helps pull the card together.
Watercolor Resist Cards
How lovely are these card by Thi Lam? By stamping and embossing the floral and leaf stamps in clear ink and powder she was able to watercolor over top her images and the embossing resisted the color. So pretty! Mama … Read More ...
Butterfly Card with Metallic Water Coloring
I love the pops of metallics on dark cardstock on this beautiful butterfly card. The stamp was heat embossed with black on dark cardstock and then was water colored using metallic markers and a water brush.
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Meant to Be Valentine Card
I created this romantic Valentine card using the Meant to Be stamps and Be Mine Stitched Hearts dies from the new Stampin’ Up Occasions catalog.
I’ve shared a tutorial over on my Youtube channel, you can click here to watch … Read More ...
Elephant Valentine Card
Kelly Latevola used lots of popular trends like white heat embossing, ink blending and stencilling to make this super sweet elephant card. These new products from Neat and Tangled she used are so cute!
Galaxy Valentine Card
Galaxy and space designs are still really popular right now. I love that Laura used a stamp set that wouldn’t be considered a traditional Valentine set to make this fun To the Moon and Back card. Check your stash, you’ve … Read More ...
Layered Valentine’s Day Card
Kassy combined paper, ink sprays, heat embossing and painting for this lovely dimensional layered frame Valentine’s Day card. I love all the shimmer and shine on this card!
Visit the Imagine Crafts blog to check out her card tutorial.
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10 Ways to Add Gold to Cards
Gold and metallics are super hot in paper crafting right now! There are many way to add merallics to your card projects like heat embossing, foiling, pastes, glitters and more. Justine Hovey shares 10 different ways to add gold to … Read More ...
Layered Heat Embossing
Metallics are still really trendy right now! And metallic embossing powders are a great way to add a big shiny wow to your cards. Lydia took her heat embossing one step further by layering different colors over top each other … Read More ...