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Tell Dad he’s the worlds best this Father’s Day with this awesome Accordion Fold Card. Use stamping and scrapbooking elements to add personalized memories and photos. Visit Close to My Heart for a video tutorial.
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Yulis has an awesome tutorial water coloring a galaxy background for a fun Star Wars inspired card. Check out her tutorial over on the Magnolia with Heart blog.
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Bonnie with Art Impressions stamps will show you how to use masking and water coloring techniques to combine a chair, bunny and flowers stamps to make this sweet bunny sitting on a stool art work. Click here to watch her … Read More ...
Using water coloring, stamping, die cutting and sewing Emilia Sieradzan created this stunning mixed media Dream Big card. Hop on over to the Penny Black blog and watch her video tutorial.
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Jen Carter achieved this bright and cheerful look by using Copics markers to color over top of a white heat embossed stamped sentiment. What a great and simple idea to add multiple colors to word stamps. Hop on over to … Read More ...
A pirate’s life for me! With the Pirate’s of the Caribbean movie coming out pirates are once again popping up everywhere. These adorable girl and boy pirate themed cards are perfect for any young one’s birthday. Find directions for making … Read More ...
Ink Smooshing is a quick and easy technique that gives a big punch of color. Using ink pads, water and a piece of plastic you can get this cool water color splashed effect. Visit the MASKerade blog where Ardyth has … Read More ...
Darcie Heater is sharing directions for 4 different bee themed cards using the same stamp set. I love bee stamps and sentiments, there’s so many clever or puny was to use bee’s, they work for so many occasions. Click here… Read More ...
It’s Mer-May and I love it! All over the creative web you’ll find art and craft projects featuring mermaids.
Like this lovely card from Iliana Crouse, she combined stamps, dies and stencils with water coloring to make this lovely Mermaid … Read More ...
This super sweet Mother’s Day card was designed by Nicole Spohr using stamping, die cutting, Copic marker coloring and inking techniques like direct to paper and two tone stamping. Hop on over to her blog and watch her video tutorial.… Read More ...
This card look hand painted but is really stamped! Mayline Jung will show you how to get this wonderful soft look with a no-line stamp technique and coloring with Zig Clean Color markers using pretty Penny Black stamps. Visit her … Read More ...
Oh my, how sweet is this baby animal card!? Perfect for a baby’s birthday. Kelly Latevola will show you how to mask and ink up a cloud background, how to color the stamped images with Copic markers and how to … Read More ...
What a wonderful idea to incorporate braille onto a card! Even if the recipient doesn’t read braille the sentiment is still a wonderful idea and maybe they’ll learn something new by finding out what the phrase means. The raised dots … Read More ...
Nicole Spohr has directions for making this card with a floral stamped and embossed background with matching raised sentiment, how lovely! By die cutting the word from fun foam and layering the same die cut shaped word from her stamped … Read More ...
Becky Roberts has directions for make this adorable woodland themed shadow box frame card. She’ll show you how to cut, score and assemble the box shaped card. It’s so cute, it almost looks like a little story book. You can … Read More ...
