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 ...
8 Artist Pattern Paper Printables
These lovely Artist Papers are perfect for creating card backgrounds or to use on journal pages or collage art projects. There are 8 different pages to choose from and they are FREE to download from Stampington and Company.
Artsy Face Coloring Page
Thankfully many crafting companies are sharing FREE projects, tutorials and download to help us keep busy while at home. Stampington and Company suggests coloring as a good stay at home activity and I couldn’t agree more. They’re sharing a cool … Read More ...
Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards
Jenny used paints and alcohol ink to create rustic backgrounds for her Mixed Media ATCs (artist trading cards). She then stamped and die cut letter from her bases and then adhered die cut shapes that she stamped and inked over … Read More ...
Alice in Wonderland Card
When I saw this new Purr-fect Cat stamp set from Jane Davenport I immediately thought of Alice in Wonderland and the Cheshire Cat. I used Distress Crayons from Tim Holtz to watercolor the images and adhered a few tea charms … Read More ...
Bold Background Cards
Lindsay has created some amazing cards that bring background stamps to the foreground. These types of large stamps allow you plenty of room to play with lots of different techniques. Using ideas like heat embossing and adding Perfect Pearl she’s … Read More ...
Metallic Gels for Stenciling
The Metallix Gel from Deco Foil will add sparkle, shine, color and texture to your cards and paper crafting projects. They work beautifully with stencils as Catherine Pooler shares on her blog with several different stenciling ideas and techniques. And … Read More ...