Melinda used Distress Oxide Inks from Tim Holtz to watercolor this beautiful card. For the background she used several ink colors and water for a smooshing technique then used a wet paint brush to pick up ink to color in … Read More ...
Clean and Simple Mixed Media Bee Card
When you think Mixed Media you might think lots of layers of paint or product, maybe a bit messy with lots of collage. But Mixed Media can also be clean and simple, it really just means using lots of different … Read More ...
Mixed Media Floral Card with Ink Sprays
Check out the rainbow of bold colors on this stunning mixed media card from Keisha! She die cut the new Tim Holtz background and flowers from white cardstock, put everything in place and then colored them using Tim’s Distress Ink … Read More ...
Painting with Liquid Pearls
Liquid Pearls can add shimmering, shiny drops to your cards, similar to gems or sequins but did you know you can also paint with them? Jess dropped the Liquid Pearls on a craft mat and picked them up with a … Read More ...
Mixed Media Butterfly Card
Mindy mixed lots of different techniques and products to create this wonderful Mixed Media Butterfly Card. for the background she used an ink smooshing technique, stenciling with glitter paste, paint splatter, stamping and more. Over top she added stamped and … Read More ...
DIY Phone Stand
Lisa used a Phone Stand die from Eileen Hull to create these awesome DIY phone stands. She used alcohol ink techniques for the backgrounds adding stenciling, stamping and die cutting for one of a kind designs. She’s sharing step by … Read More ...
Floral Card with Drippy Watercolor Technique
Do you find it hard to color inside the lines, are you not very adept at watercolor? Then how about embrace the messy with a purposeful drippy watercolor look like this pretty card from Amy R.? She used inks, lots … Read More ...
Gel Press Card Backgrounds
A Gel Press is a fun tool to create lots of different mixed media designs which are perfect for card backgrounds. You can use ink or pant and also use other tools like stencils and stamps to create patterns. Bibi … Read More ...
Birthday Card with Chipboard Shapes
The “Chippies” line from Wendy Vecchi are chipboard shapes that ad a wonderful depth and dimension to your paper crafting projects. Pattie used them to create this colorful birthday card. The pieces are primed but she added white gesso over … Read More ...
Easy DIY Stamped Stickers
Stickers are a fun way to add a quick embellishment to a card or scrapbook projects or for sealing envelopes. You can make your own simple stickers by using printer labels. Christen added splashes of watercolor to the sticker sheets … Read More ...
Gel Press Card Techniques
The Gel Press has become a very popular tool again in stamping and card making, I remember them from years ago and now with more unique mixed media products on the market that work together create fun techniques the Gel … Read More ...
Colorful Distress Archival Ink Butterfly Cards
Archival Ink and Distress from Tim Holtz combine to create Distress Archival Ink Pads that can be used in a variety of stamping and background techniques for card and mixed media. Juliana used these inks to create two stunning butterfly … Read More ...
Cross Stitched Patterns for Emoji Cards
ATC or Artist Trading Card sized cards remind me of the small Valentines we used to pass out at school. These baseball sized cards are so much fun to make, share and collect! I love these cross stitched Emoji cards … Read More ...
Snowy Techniques with Distress Products
Tim Holtz’s Distress line has so many different mediums from glazes, pastes, sprays and more that can all be mixed with his inks and paints to create a wide array of looks. Tami decided to try putting lots of products … Read More ...
Mixed Media Halloween Home Decor
This awesome mixed media piece from Paula is perfect to decorate your home for Halloween. She painted her frame with paint and added texture with heat embossing. She created her art with stamps, paper, photo elements, twine and more with … Read More ...