News, techniques and inspirations
Each month Tim Holtz shares a different tag with lots of different paper crafting products, ideas and techniques. This month his tag is all about srping flowers. Using Distress Ink Markers Tim will show you a couple of different techniques, … Read More ...
The chalkboard look has been popular for awhile now and for card making I’ve seen chalkboard style stamps, black chalkboard cardstock, chalk ink pads and now SRM Stickers has chalkboard markers! They have a black chalkboard marker that will … Read More ...
Sandy Allnock achieved this beautiful stained glass look by repeatly stamping and heat embossing a butterfly stamp, coloring it with markers and spritzing it with water and then covering the entire panel with a layer of clear embossing. This is … Read More ...
Visit the Craft Barn for a tutorial from Neil Walker and learn to make a beautiful fairy card with a watercolor background using Distress Ink and markers. I love the dimension of the punched out butterflies! Click here for the … Read More ...
There are several different ways to color your stamped images using water based markers. You can color like normal directly with the marker or use a wet on wet technique, adding water to the paper first then adding the color … Read More ...
alcohol markers, like Copics, can add great details, shading and depth to your stamped images. You can take that one step further by using a colorless blender pen to “remove” color and even more texture, especially to stamped critters, … Read More ...
If you’re not familiar with vellum it’s a semi-transparent paper that can add a really beautiful look to any stamped card but since it’s a non porous, slick surface you’ve got to use the right inks to stamp with and … Read More ...
The Daily Marker blog has a video tutorial showing how to make this wonderful winter scene ornament card. I love the use of white ink spray for the snow and the small pops of glitter! Click here to watch.
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Using a fine tipped marker learn to add depth, shading and dimension to a stamped image with a technique called Stamp Etching. Lydia Fiedler shares her step by step tutorial as well as a video of this cool technique over … Read More ...
Sometimes coloring with alcohol markers can be a bit daunting and take a lot of time to get good results but you can do just some quick techniques for adding shading and highlights, the Spectrum Noir blog has tips for … Read More ...
In addition to coloring your stamped images with Copic markers did you know you can also stamp your images out using Copics too? I didn’t 🙂 The Copic Marker Europe blog has all the details. I’ll definitely being trying … Read More ...
Learn to color a birdhouse stamp to achieve a weathered wood look using Copic markers in a video tutorial over on the Gina K blog.
-Heather… Read More ...
There are so many brush pens and makers on the market is can be hard to choose which is the right one for your paper crafting projects. The Jet Pens blog has a detail guide and over view of some … Read More ...
For awhile now I’ve been sitting on a new product that I’ve been dying to share with you and now I’m so excited that I finally can!
Starting today Stampin’ Up will be releasing the first in their brand new … Read More ...
he Impress Stamps blog will show you how to turn plain old white ribbon into a beautiful ombre colored ribbon using markers.
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