Jennifer Vanderbeek used metallic medium and gold heat embossing to jazz up this pretty bird card she made out of various pattern papers. Find directions for her gilded Sympathy card over on the Imagine Crafts blog.
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Project: Embossed and Water Colored Floral Card
Visit the Altenew stamp blog for a video tutorial showing how to combine heat embossed colored inks and water colors for a bright and vibrant floral card.
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Technique: Multi Coloring Foiling with Stamps
The very popular look of foiling can be achieved in a couple of different ways, there are machines and there are also foil sheets you use with sticky heat embossing and stamps. With the second technique you can get multi … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Water Color Splash
Amy Rysavy designed this cool and colorful card using lots a splashes of water color over an embossed stamped image. She’s got a video tutorial for this technique over on her blog Prairie Ink and Paper, click here to watch.… Read More ...
Tips: Fixing Heat Embossing Mistakes
Yana Smakula has a video tutorial on Hero Art showing how to make this lovely inked and heat embossed card plus she shares a couple of really helpful tips to fix mistakes that can happen when you heat emboss. Click … Read More ...
Technique: Embossed and Ink Blended Stamped Card
This lovely card was made by stamping and heat embossing the flower and leaves onto white cardstock with white embossing powder and then using a blending tool and ink pad to add the soft colors. You can find a video … Read More ...
Card Making Technique: Water Color Lifting
Here’s a really cool stamping technique from Jennifer McGuire called water color lifting. First Jennifer applied water based markers all over her paper then added water, then she heat embossed stamped background images with clear powder, then she lifted off … Read More ...
Card Making Project: Water Colored Vellum Card
This stunning card was made by stamping and heat embossing white flowers all over vellum and then using Tim Holtz’s Distress Ink pads and a wet brush to watercolor a selection of the flowers. Hop on over to the Bearydo … Read More ...
Product Review: Stampin’ Up Holiday Part 3
I am back with one last look at some of the new products available from Stampin Up in their new Holiday Mini Catalog. If you missed my first review click here to check it out and my second review can … Read More ...
Card Making Project: Embossed Snowflake Christmas Card
The Embellished Dreams blog has a lovely holiday card with a watercolor look made using a resist technique with heat embossing and Distress Ink pads. I love the tip of taping your cardstock down with blue painters tape so your … Read More ...
Technique: Faux Tile Card
Here’s a neat technique for getting your stamped cards to look like ceramic tiles. Cut your stamped image into equal squares and cover the cardstock with clear embossing ink and clear embossing power, heat and repeat this a few times … Read More ...
Technique: Masking Over a Stamped Sentiment
Find out how to stamp out a sentiment (or image) and still add a stamped background over it by using a masking technique. Details can be found over on the Lost in Paper blog.
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Tip: Heat Embossing with Stencils
I love how card designers just keep coming up with new techniques for using stencils! This pretty card was made by heat embossing with a stencil instead of a rubber stamp and then color was added to the non embossed … Read More ...
Tips: 9 Card Making Tips All Card Makers Need to Know
The Craftsy blog has a great posts with 9 tips every card maker should know. These handy “hacks” can save you money and make your card making quicker and easier. You’ll find tips on making custom colored clear rhinestones and … Read More ...
Technique: Layered Embossing
Hero Arts stamps has some really cool new stamps that have multiple layers you stamp on top of one another to get an almost 3-D effect. Jennifer McGuire has taken it to the next level by heat embossing each stamped … Read More ...