I’m so excited that Halloween will be here soon. Halloween cards are some of my favorite to make! Nichol Spohr made this awesome witches hat card painting the hats with metallic water colors, adding distress text around the edges and … Read More ...
Technique: Faux Stained Glass Stamping
Dina Kowal got a super cool stained glass look by stamping over her image with a mosaic patterned stamp (she also provides a printable pattern if you don’t have the right stamp design), colored the sections and then layered embossed … Read More ...
Technique: Image Transfer for a DIY Card Background
If you don’t have exactly the right background designs for your card you can use a printed pattern with a transfer technique. Kristina Werner shows how she made this honeycomb background with a pencil transfer for this adorable stamped bee … Read More ...
Project: Halloween Card with Distress Ink Coloring and Backgrounds
Amy Rysavy used Distress Ink not only for a fun splatter and water color look backgrounds on these cards but she also used them to water color her stamped images. Hop on over to her blog, Prairie Paper and Ink … Read More ...
Tip: Using Spring Stamps for Fall
I love seeing stampers think outside the box and use stamps for occasions they maybe weren’t intended for. Like this great fall foliage card from Nina-Marie. She used some spring floral stamps and by changing the ink colors and adding … Read More ...
Project: Christmas Wreath Card with Sentiment Masking
Sometimes you’d like to stamp a lot of words or sentiments on a card but they might not fit or they may look jumbled together so Clare Prezzia has an easy solution. She used washi tape to mask off just … Read More ...
Project: Forest Animals Thanksgiving Feast Card
These super cute forest critters are gathered together for a wonderful Thanksgiving Feast. This adorable card was designed by Nicol Spohr using some new stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn. She’s got a video tutorial showing how she put it … Read More ...
Project: Realistic Snow Scene Stamped Card
This stunning snowy scene card look almost like a photograph, it’s so realistic! Jill Foster designed this card for Penny Black stamps and will walk you through all the steps she used to make it, from coloring a large stamp … Read More ...
Project: Halloween Owls Card
These adorable little owls are all ready for Halloween! And you can get ready for Halloween too by making this fun card with stamped pattern paper background and stamped and die cut owls from Sunny Studio. You’ll find a video … Read More ...
Project: Embossed Peony Card
Using rose gold embossing powder and coloring the flower stamps with water colors Effie Cho designed this stunning peony floral card. I love the embossed on vellum butterflies, they add such a sweet touch to this elegant card. You can … Read More ...
Techniques: Pumpkin Cards Multiple Masking Techniques
Jennifer McGuire shares several different masking techniques using dies, masking paper and Post It tape to make a few different pumpkin cards, perfect for Fall, Thanksgiving or Halloween. I love the layered pumpkin stamps she used and I love this … Read More ...
Project: Easy Stamped and Die Cut Holiday Gift Tags
Spellbinders has an easy way to turn a stamp with coordinating die cut into a fun double sided gift tag for the holidays. Of course this idea would work for another celebrations too that you’ve got stamps and dies for … Read More ...
Project: Murder of Crows Mixed Media Art
I love crows and Halloween so I’m in love with this mixed media “Murder of Crows” artwork from Maura Hibbitts! Using stencils, stamps and paints she designed this awesome canvas project. I particularly love how she stamped her images on … Read More ...
Project: Vertical Step Card
Robin Tharaldson has provided a FREE printable template to make it easy to make this fun vertical pop up step card. She’s also got directions and a video too, all over on Splitcoast Stampers. To get the template and follow … Read More ...
Technique: Colored Pencil Card Background
What pretty skies on these holiday home cards. This card background techniques uses colored pencils and baby oil for a lovely nighttime scene. This technique is perfect for beginners and you can find a tutorial video over Bibi Cameron’s blog.… Read More ...