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Dragonflies Mini Slimline Card

May 25, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

I love the beautiful water colored Dragonflies on this Mini Slimline Card from Laura Evangeline! She stamped and heat embossed the dragonflies on watercolor paper in white before she colored them. This card also has some fun features like the … Read More ...

Create a Faux Tile Card Background

May 19, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

Create a Faux Tile Card Background

This pretty green faux tile is the perfect background behind the potted plants on this card from Kathy. Using a sheet of watercolor paper she sprayed it with water and then added drops of liquid watercolor in greens and yellow … Read More ...

How to Watercolor a Card with Stencils

May 6, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

How to Watercolor a Card with Stencils

I usually think of ink blending when I think of using stencils but Therese used watercolors with layering stencils to create this beautiful floral card. She’s sharing step by step directions on how she water colored her Birthday card, adding … Read More ...

Floral Card Water Coloring on Cardstock

April 30, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

Floral Card Water Coloring on Cardstock

Usual when you think about water coloring your stamped images you probably think you need to use watercolor paper but Lisa has some great tips for water coloring on cardstock. She used Karin pens making sure to not use … Read More ...

Faux Watercolor Technique with Copic Markers

April 11, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

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If you’ve worked with alcohol markers before you know that they don’t blend or bleed with water but since they are alcohol based they can be moved around with alcohol. Joy put alcohol in a water brush, applied her Copic … Read More ...

Floral Card with Drippy Watercolor Technique

April 3, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

Floral Card with Drippy Watercolor Effect

Do you find it hard to color inside the lines, are you not very adept at watercolor? Then how about embrace the messy with a purposeful drippy watercolor look like this pretty card from Amy R.? She used inks, lots … Read More ...

Mouse House Card

March 21, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

Mouse House Card

Who wouldn’t love to shrink down and move into this wonderful little mouse house?! Bibi Cameron used new stamps from Colorado Craft Company and colored them with watercolor markers, over top of an ink blended background, adding beautiful gold foiled … Read More ...

Go Bananas! Monkey Cards

January 23, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

Go Bananas! Monkey Cards

How cute are these new little monkey stamps from Mama Elephant!? Rina used these cute new designs to create two fun and funny cards great for birthdays, anniversaries or Valentine’s Day. She used ink blending for the backgrounds and on … Read More ...

Fairy Hello Card

January 20, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

Fairy Hello Card

Like me Lien is ready for Spring to hurry up and get here! So she created this beautiful Fairy Hello Card, ready to bring a warm sunny smile to someone special. She create her background with liquid watercolors on a … Read More ...

Love You Rainbow Card

January 8, 2022 by Heather Holbrook

Love You Rainbow Card

Tell someone how much you love them with a beautiful rainbow card for Valentine’s Day. Amy R. heat embossed a white background stamp in white onto watercolor paper and then used watercolors to add the pretty rainbow colors over top. … Read More ...

Santa Pop Up Matchbook Card

December 4, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Santa Matchbook Pop Up Card

The Matchbook line of products from Art Impressions allows you to create tiny pop up cards that fold up like a matchbook and slip inside a coordinating envelope. Lynn created this magical card that pop ups and folds out to … Read More ...

Fall Candy Bar Wrappers

November 22, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Fall Candy Bar Wrappers

Share some gratitude with friends and family with some yummy Wrapped Candy Bars. Terri stamped fall leaves on cardstock, colored them in with water and ink pads and added tags and then wrapped them around chocolate bars for sweet … Read More ...

Fall Card with Pearl Watercolors

November 8, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Fall Card with Pearl Watercolors

The combination of heat embossing and pearl watercolors gives such wonderful shimmer and shine to this Hello Fall Card. Lien heat embossed her stamped flowers onto brown cardstock, coloring them with the water colors which really pop on the … Read More ...

Monster Cards with 2 for 1 Backgrounds

October 27, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Kate create a card background panel using ink blending, shimmer ink sprays and paint splatter. She cut it with a multi circle die, adding those circles to another panel, getting 2 for 1 card backgrounds! She then added fun Monster … Read More ...

Stacked Pumpkins Slimline Halloween Card

October 13, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Stacked Pumpkins Slimline Halloween Card

These cute critters are getting ready for Halloween with their big stack of pumpkins! Kristina Werner used new stamps from Art Impressions, coloring them with watercolors for this fun Slimline Card. The black background with some subtle sparkle is the … Read More ...

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