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If you love bold color, inky fingers, and backgrounds that look like tiny works of art, then ink spray tie dye cards are about to become your new favorite cardmaking technique. This vibrant ink spray card technique creates stunning, one-of-a-kind … Read More ...
Lindsay combined ink blending and a glittery spray to created a stunning night sky for her card background. I love how she used this with a simple city skyline adding the lovely encouraging sentiment.
Distress Ink Oxide Sprays from Tim Holtz
are so versatile! Laurel Beard has 9 different ways you can use these sprays on your cards, they work perfectly on their own as colorful backgrounds and you can use them with stencils, … Read More ...
I love how Laura created several different little scenes on this sweet Hedgehog card. She die cut circles, adding ink sprays for the green grass and blue sky and then added her cute little hedgehogs on each area. This is … Read More ...
Natalie used stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps to create this wonderful mixed media journal page for Valentine’s Day. I love how she used a piece of cardstock she’d die cut hearts from for another project for the background. What a … Read More ...
Jowlina used Shimmer Spray and Rinea Foil paper to add lovely touches of shine to this card. I love the extra texture she got by dry embossing the foiland stitching the paper together. The addition of the spray over … Read More ...
May Park used embossing paste with a stencil and some splattering to create the wonderful textures on her mixed media cards. I love how she used gray instead of green for her flower stems, it helps the pretty colors of … Read More ...
Angelica used Distress Ink , water and shimmer spray to create the fun ocean background on this cute shaker card. I love how the sequins look like bubbles and how she placed the windows and critters at a diagonal across … Read More ...
Richele used Distress Ink Sprays from Ranger and Tim Holtz to both watercolor her stamped images and stamp the background on these cool botanical cards. I love the loose artsy style of these cards.
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.
-Heather… Read More ...
I recently reviewed some fabulous products from Whimsy stamps. If you missed those be sure to check out part one and part two.
And I just had to make one more card with the adorable Let’s Be Mermaid … Read More ...
This pretty floral card has such a dream ylook. Juli Riedel used ink sprays with her stamps to get a wonderful watercolor look, no brush required! Learn more about her quick and easy faux watercoloring technique over on the Canvas … Read More ...
This card combines two big trends right now unicorns and galaxy and I love it! Laura Volpes used Shimmer Powders and Mica Mists from Nuvo for her galaxy background and stamps from Ink Road. She’s posted a video tutorial on … Read More ...
Ink sprays can add a cool, colorful splash to your cards. Simon Hurley has some great tips on how to make your own custom ink sprays using Nouvo Mousse. He’s also sharing steps for several great cards he made with … Read More ...
I recently had the chance to try out some great stencils from a shop called Stencil Revolution. Using stencils on cards and other paper crafts has been gaining popularity for a while now. It’s really not surprising since there … Read More ...
