I love the vintage look of these mixed media Valentine’s Day cards from Riikka! For the background of each card she heat embossed a patterned stamp and then painted over top for a resist technique. Each card used a different … Read More ...
Ink Spray Tie Dye Cards
Get ready to get groovy as Tie Dye makes a comeback for a cool 60’s vibe for card making. Patti puts a clever twist to this craft by using watercolor paper instead of fabric and ink sprays for the dye. … Read More ...
Artsy Calendar in a Box
Emilie used stamps from Rubber Moon for this cool Artsy Calendar. For each month she used a blank calendar stamp that allows you to fill in the month and dates and then she created wonderful stamped collage designs for each … Read More ...
Halloween Mixed Media Tag
This amazing Halloween Mixed Media Tag from Emma Williams is a true work of art. She used stamps, dies, paints, inks, embellishments and more from Tim Holtz for this wonderfully spooky tag. I love the creepy skeleton hands reaching around … Read More ...
Hello Girl Card
I love the bold and colorful background on this mixed media card from Katelyn! She used a stencil and ink sprays to create the background, layering die cut circles and a stamped girl image and sentiment over top. It’s sure … Read More ...
Stenciled Mixed Media Cards
Lindsay has a bunch of fun mixed media techniques using stencils to create cards using supplies like acrylic paint, watercolor powders and micron pens over the stencils. I love all the color, depth and texture on these designs!
Vintage Strawberry Tag
I love the sweet old fashioned look of this Strawberry Tag from Anna-Karin. She stamped the strawberries and flowers directly onto pattern papers that have a vintage look and then colored in the images with colored pencils. It really gives … Read More ...
Product Review: Distress Embossing Glaze
The new Distress Embossing Glazes from Tim Holtz are translucent colored embossing powders that add a glossy shine to your mixed media and paper crafting projects. They come in many coordinating colors to other products in the Distress Line and … Read More ...
9 Techniques with Distress Oxide Sprays
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 ...
Simple Painted Card Backgrounds
By using a paintbrush and paint and painting short stripes you can create some simple but effective card backgrounds. Using different paints like watercolor or gouache will give you different looks. Debby explored this idea and created several different cards … Read More ...
1 Stencil, 3 Card Techniques
Amber used the same stencil and three different mixed media techniques to create three different card designs. One card has dimension from stencil paste with alcohol inks over top, another is just liquid alcohols and the third was colored in … Read More ...
Watercolor Powder Resist Card Background
Lisa used several different products to create this colorful background on her card. She first stenciled paste onto watercolor paper, then she added Color Burst powders and wet them with water. The paste resisted the colors so the diamond pattern … Read More ...
12 Ideas with One Abstract Stamp
A good background stamp can be just the thing to complete the design on your card and the more versatile the better. The design team over at Darkroom Door used one of their Abstract Stamps to create twelve different projects … Read More ...
Mixed Media Encouragement Card
Know someone who could use a little lift and some encouragement right now? This stunning mixed media card from Gaylynn is perfect. She colored her stamped image in watercolor, adding trending splatters and ink blending to the background. I love … Read More ...
Mixed Media Mother’s Day Cards
Using supplies like Distress Ink, pastes, ink spray, metal embellishments, paper doll images and more Shari Carroll created these amazing mixed media cards. I love how she created her backgrounds at the same time from one sheet of paper, just … Read More ...