Distress Oxide Inks are great for so many inking and stamping techniques including heat embossing. They stay wet long enough to add embossing powder and once embossed have a nice texture and depth of color. Julie used them to emboss … Read More ...
Stenciled Lotus Flower Cards
Ashley used a Lotus Stencils from Penguin Palace to create these stunning cards. I love how she used multiple blue colors of ink blending along with metallic silver heat embossing for a wonderful mix of colors and textures. She’s sharing … Read More ...
Christmas Card with Offset Stamping
Anne created a lovely pattern on this Slimline Christmas Card with an offset stamping technique. By stamping the large leafy background stamp in brown ink in a stamp positioner and then slightly shifting the paper and stamping again adding white … Read More ...
Joyful Holiday Card
Tina used soft colorful inks to stamp out the words and candies on the sweet Joy Holiday Card. She used a white gel pen to added faux stitch marks around the edges of the letters which goes perfectly with the … Read More ...
Large Sentiment Christmas Card
Sometimes we can get so caught up in adding tons of images to our cards but a clean and simple card focusing on the sentiment is just as lovely. This Merry and Bright Holiday Card from Lydia says it all … Read More ...
Fall Watercolor Cards
I love the easy, loose watercolor look on these wonderful Fall Cards from Lisa Spangler. She used copper embossing powder for her leaves and acorn stamped images and water colored them for quick and simple coloring.
Thinking of You Card
This lovely Thinking of You card from Heather Nichols looks like a page from a nature journal. I love the white on white heat embossing she used for the flowers, coloring them with watercolor brush pens. The splatters and grid … Read More ...
Paper Strips Autumn Card
Nina has a wonderful way to use up scraps of pattern papers for some lovely Autumn Cards. If you’re like me you keep all those pretty scraps of papers because you can always use them on a future project, right? … Read More ...
Gold Metallic on Black Slimline Card
I love the stunning gold embossing on black cardstock on this Slimline card from Jessie! She added simple but beautiful coloring to her images with some white watercolor which shows as a silvery grey over the black. The gold melted … Read More ...
Color Changing Embossing
Amber used translucent embossing powders from Wow to create an amazing chameleon color changing effect on these holiday cards. The embossing shows a different color depending on what it’s over top so by ink blending her card background with different … Read More ...
Resist Embossing Technique with Watercolors
Verity is sharing 3 different card ideas using an Resist Embossing Technique with watercolors. The beautiful metallic heat embossing really stands out beneath the washes of watercolor colors. She’s sharing how to use 3 different types of watercolors: liquid, pan … Read More ...
Coffee Shaker Card
If you know someone who is obsessive about their coffee this fun Coffee Cup Shaker Card is perfect! This card from Jo Herbert has a tiny shaker element inside the mug and the background is covered in glittery coffee beans, … Read More ...
Crackle Card Background
Wow, check out the stunning background on this card from Nicole Spohr! She heat embossed a Crackle stamp on her cardstock and then used an ink smooshing technique with Distress Oxide Inks over top for some amazing looking texture. She … Read More ...
Embossed Wedding Card
I made this sweet wedding card with soft pink and cream adding touches of gold with heat embossing and embellishments. I used several helpful tools that are great to have in your stamping arsenal like an embossing tray, tiny hole … Read More ...
Metallic Watercolor Birthday Card
I love the mix of metallics in gold and silver on this stunning birthday card from Lisa. She embossed the flower stamps from Unity in gold on dark cardstock and then colored them in using silver metallic watercolor. It’s quick … Read More ...