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 ...
Stenciled Rainbow Floral Card
Amy R. used Distress Inks and a pretty flower stencil from Simon Says to create this beautiful rainbow colored Floral Card. After inking she sprayed water to get a faux watercolor look and then added some splatter and large sentiment … 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 ...
Mixed Media Valentine Cards
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 – A Bold and Easy Background Technique for Handmade Cards
If you love bold color, inky fingers, and backgrounds that look like tiny works of art, then ink spray tie dye cards are about to become your new favorite cardmaking technique. This vibrant ink spray card technique creates stunning, one-of-a-kind … 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 ...
Stamp Transfer onto a Pencil Bag
Nicole has a neat way to add your stamped and colored images onto a canvas pencil bag. She first used special ink and markers
to stamp and color her design onto copy paper then transferred it onto the bag using … 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 ...
How to Watercolor with Re-inkers
Did you know re-inkers aren’t just for re-inking your ink pads? You can also use many of them alone as a a way to color or paint! Mansi used her Distress Re-Inkers to watercolor this beautiful Slimline Card. Using … 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 ...
10 Ideas to Add Gold Accents to Cards
Learn some quick and easy ways to add a touch of gold elegance to your next card with these ideas from Laurel. She’ll show you how to use products like gold foil, gilding flakes and metallic watercolor to achieve a … 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!