Chrissie used ink pads as watercolors for the pretty rainbow background on this card. It’s perfect for trendy unicorn or galaxy themed cards.
Visit the Spectrum Noir blog for her video tutorial.
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Product Review: Stampin’ Up New Ink Pad Design
In their most recent catalog Stampin’ Up introduced a brand new design for their Classic Stampin’ Pad ink pads. This new style is slimmer and easier to stack and store. The tops have a color label and on the … Read More ...
Two Trendy Llama / Alpaca Cards
Llamas and Alpacas are super trendy right now and I’ve seen many fun stamp sets with them. Sugar Pea stamps has a cute one that Stephanie Beauchemin used to make two adorable cards.
Colored Pencils on Dark Cardstock
Kristina achieved a lot of depth on this card even though it’s only one layer. By using colored pencils and on dark grey cardstock and subtle inking with white ink on the background her design really stands out. This card … Read More ...
Puppy Cards
I’m a sucker for cards with puppies and kitties on them, they are some of my favorite stamp subjects! Yana made some simple but totally adorable puppy cards using new stamps from Pretty Pink Posh. The images are so fun … Read More ...
Subtle Embossed Card Sentiments
Lydia used alphabet dies with an embossing pad to add subtle embossed sentiments to her cards. The pops of color in the layering stamped flowers adds a nice touch to these elegant cards.
You can find her card tutorial over … Read More ...
“Coloring” Your Stamps with Bleach
This cool bleaching technique is sort of anti-coloring. Stamp your image and then using a paint brush with bleach to “color” inside your image to remove the papers color for a neat white out effect. I’ve done this technique on … Read More ...
Mermaid Cards Inspiration
I adore Mermaids! I’m so happy to see so many great mermaid stamps lately. The Greeting Farm has just released a sweet set of tiny mermaids and also a bottle set that makes fun scenes with them. Their design team … Read More ...
Stamped Wooden Pendants
Transform a simple wooden disc into a stunning piece of custom jewelry with your stamping supplies. Dina Kowal will show you how to paint, stamp and heat emboss on wood to make your own pretty pendants. Visit the Splitcoast Stampers … Read More ...
How To Make A Pop Up Slider Rainbow and Unicorn Card
I’m still loving the rainbow and unicorn trend! If you are too check out this awesome interactive pop up slider rainbow and unicorn card by Ardeth. She got a video tutorial using the new Rainbow Slider die from Ellen Hudson … Read More ...
Cat Cards with Watercolor Backgrounds
Washes of watercolor make the perfect colorful backgrounds for these cute cat stamps. Using Ecoline brush markers
with watercolor paper Eline’s got tips on make this sweet set of cards over on the Marianne Designs blog. (note: you might need … Read More ...
Watercolor Stamping with Ink Sprays
This pretty floral card has such a dream ylook. Juli Riedel used ink sprays with her stamps to get a wonderful watercolor look, no brush required! Learn more about her quick and easy faux watercoloring technique over on the Canvas … Read More ...
Rose Card with All-Purpose Ink and Fantastix
Arjita shares a very easy and quick way to add color to flower or rose images using liquid All-Purpose Ink. The application of the ink with the Fantastix is fast and smooth like butter. You can also build layers of … Read More ...
Make Your Own Glitter Paper
Jenny Colacicco made her own glitter cardstock using chunky glitter from Wow! and a sheet of adhesive. She was even able to die cut it for some amazing glittery shapes for her lovely hot air balloon card. She’s got … Read More ...
Hexagon Shaped Card
I love the monochromatic blue color palette on this pretty card! JoAnn Danchick will show you how to use dies to make a hexagon shaped card and how to watercolor stamped images using Tombow markers over on the Simon Says … Read More ...