These masculine cards from Teri are perfect for a quick and easy guys Birthday or for Father’s Day. Using strips of cardstock she created her background and then heat embossed her stamp over top in silver metallic. You can also … Read More ...
How To Make A Faux Tile Card Background
Wow, this amazing card looks like it has real ceramic tiles on the background! Shel used cardstock in blue and black to paper weave her pattern then she covered the entire panel in clear heat embossing to create a shiny … Read More ...
Ink Smooshing and Embossing Technique
Natasha did something I’ve never heard of and that’s heat embossing with water! She first ink smooshed her background panel with stamping inks and water then left some sections wet and poured on glitter embossing powder and then heated. The … Read More ...
2 Mini Slimline Cards from 1 Panel
Cathy is sharing a great way to create two cards from one stamped panel. She used a large circle with dots rubber stamp to ink and then heat emboss in clear on white cardstock, the added colorful bands ink blending … Read More ...
Rainbow Birds Card
How pretty is this rainbow of birds card from Laura!? She used Distress Inks to ink blend over top of white heat embossed birds in a lovely array of colors across the card. The clean white background helps the colors … Read More ...
3 Easy Easter Cards
Yana Smakula has created 3 easy Easter Cards using some cute new products from Simon Says Stamp. By using the same products but slightly different card layout designs it’s simple to make cards that are similar but different so you … Read More ...
3 Ways to Color on Acetate
I love working with acetate, those clear plastic sheets are fun to use to create shaker and window cards but you can also stamp and color on them too! Rebecca has three different ways to add color to acetate, one … Read More ...
Coloring with Alcohol Inks
Alcohol Inks
add loads of color and pattern for card backgrounds but did you ever think of using them to color a stamped image too? Well, Lydia did for this beautiful floral card. She created purple and green inked panels … Read More ...
Heat Embossing on Vellum Technique
I love all the depth, texture, color and dimension on this wonderful card by Anna-Karin! She heat embossing a large background stamp on vellum, then colored in some of the circles and then used a stylus to dome out the … Read More ...
Embossed Card with Spot Blending
By now I’m sure most stampers are familiar with the popular technique of ink blending, adding color to cardstock with a blending tool 
and ink pad so it’s fun to see someone put a bit of a spin on it. … Read More ...
Mixed Media Valentine Cards
I love the vintage look of these mixed media Valentine’s Day cards from Riikka! For the background of each card she heat embossed a patterned stamp and then painted over top for a resist technique. Each card used a different … Read More ...
Glitter Watercolor Valentine Card
Wow, this Valentine’s Day card from Kristina Werner is stunning! To get this look she heat embossed
her stamp with gold embossing on black cardstock and then colored it with glitter watercolor
which really pops on the dark paper. Don’t … Read More ...
Secret Message Valentine Card
Add a hint of mystery this Valentine’s Day by sending your love (or crush) a card with a hidden message. Laura use stamps and dies from My Favorite Things to create this sweet interactive card. When the heart is pull … Read More ...
Quick and Easy Valentine Cards
Deepti combined several techniques for these fun quick and easy Valentine’s Day cards. She heat embossed her stamped sentiments in gold, then masked them and ink blended with Distress Inks over stencils to create amazing patterns for her card backgrounds. … Read More ...
Gnome Valentine Slimline Card
I used cute Gnome stamps and dies from Heffy Doodle with additional dies from Stampin’ Up and Hello Bluebird for this Slimline Valentine’s Day Card. I’ll show you how to use a blender pen and chalks to color in stamped … Read More ...