Patti used products from Tim Holtz to create this amazing Black Cat Halloween Tag. This mixed media project uses ink sprays, stenciling, embossing, stamping and more for loads of great texture and detail. I love her tip of dying white … Read More ...
Create a Card with Pattern and Texture
This card from Nora has so much texture and pattern. She used a Gel Plate, applying Distress inks
to the plate with a stencil and was able to use both the positive and negative images from the “print” on her … Read More ...
Butterfly Art Journal Page
Megan used stamps from Tim Holtz and Gloss Ink Sprays to create this amazing Butterfly Art Journal Page. To color her pretty butterflies she sprayed the inks all over white cardstock and then stamped the butterflies over top and cut … Read More ...
6 Jane Austen Paper Crafting Projects
I adore Jane Austen novels and I think I’ve seen most every movie and TV show based on her works. So of course I feel in love with these beautiful Jane Austen inspired paper crafting projects. Stampington and Company have … Read More ...
Funny Cat Mixed Media Journal Page
I love this mixed media journal page from Kath Stewart! She created lots of texture on her background using Tim Holtz stencils with Distress Oxide inks and also with stencil paste, her bricks look so realistic. And the stamped cat … Read More ...
Stenciled Mixed Media Tags
Andy used the new Structure Paste from Creative Expressions to create some cool Mixed Media tags. You can add color to this paste and use it to create backgrounds that have loads of texture or use it with stencils to … Read More ...
Dry Brush Paint Card Background
Yana Smakula used watercolor cardstock and a dry brush technique to apply acrylic paint
for sine unique card backgrounds. You can create a large sheet of paper and then cut it up to create several backgrounds for your cards. I … Read More ...
Distress Stain Card Backgrounds
Amy used Distress Ink Spray Stains to create a variety of stunning card backgrounds using different techniques. She used them as sprays, as a “watercolor” to paint with, with stencils, used them on dry and wet papers and more. These … Read More ...
Card Backgrounds with Book Pages
One of my favorite things to use in my mixed media projects are old book pages. They have such amazing illustrations and text and the age can add interesting vintage coloration on the paper. Gina K used some book pages … Read More ...
Birthday Floral Easel Card
I think Easel Cards are going to be trendy this year, I’m seeing lots of them popping up (pun intended :)). And for good reason, these cards are easy to create, fold flat for mailing and are fun to display. … Read More ...
Watercolor with Perfect Pearls
Perfect Pearls are a shimmery powder that can be used for lots of different techniques. They add sparkle and shine on light and dark cardstocks and are perfect to color in stamped images or create backgrounds. Simon Hurley used them … Read More ...
Stamped Clay Easter Ornaments
Ornaments and decorated trees aren’t just for Christmas, I’ve seen lots of amazing ideas for other holidays like Halloween and Easter too. And these wonderful ornament would be beautiful hanging on some Spring branches or a tree. Kyriakos stamped and … Read More ...
Kimono Artist Trading Card
Artist Trading Cards also know as ATC’s are baseball card sized works of art that are fun to create and trade with other crafty friends. Julie used some origami paper
folding paired with stamps from Club Scrap to create this … 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 ...
Foiled Sunset Card
Foiling adds such a wonderful metallic shimmer and shine to cards and I’ve seen and used it myself for digital stamps, sentiments and accents but I’ve never seen it used quite like this. Verity has used gold foil for the … Read More ...