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 ...
Black Cats Halloween Tag
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 ...
How to use a Blender Pen
A water based blender pen
is a very helpful tool to have in your crafting arsenal. It can be use with a variety of coloring mediums for softening, applying color directly or of course, blending. Lindsay is sharing lots of … 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 ...