Using masking and ink blending techniques with Distress Ink Erin created a stunning background for this fantasy themed card. It’s the perfect backdrop for the tree, fairy and bunny silhouette stamps from Lavinia Stamps.
Color in the Center Layout
I love the bold burst of color in the center of the black and white stripes on this layout from Giorgia. The torn layers that reveal the stripes add great texture to her page and help draw the eye to … Read More...
Frosty Treat Card Backgrounds
Lisa Spangler has some fun card background techniques for these yummy frosty treat cards. She used watercolors with salt, embossing powders and a straw blowing technique for a cool mix of textures, patterns and colors.
Housewarming Mini Album
Welcome someone to their new home with a pretty mini album. They can include their own photos of moving, decorating and settling in. Terhi Koskinen used the Banner Punch Board from Pebbles to create the fun pennant shaped page of … Read More...
5 Sided Gift Box
Natalie O’Shea is on Splitcoast Stampers with a FREE template and directions for making this lovely 5 sided gift box. Use the template on cardstock, cutting with scissors or you could probably download it for an electronic die cutting machine … Read More...
What I Packed Layout
Have you seen those Youtube videos of “What’s in My Bag?” or “What I Packed for My Trip?”. Wendy let her son pack his book bag for an over night trip and was amused by what he thought was important … Read More...
Die Cut Parrot Card
Els deigned this bright and colorful Tropical Parrot card using new dies from Elizabeth Crafts. I love how she added extra dimension to her die cut shapes by inking the edges and curling them with a stylus tool. She’s sharing … Read More...
Girly Mini Tag Book
To count down her daughters days of summer Lorilei created this cool little tag book. Each day her daughter can flip to a new page and get a bit of fun and inspiration. I love how bright, pink and funky … Read More...
Hero Hues Inks 10 Ways
Hero Arts has recently introduced their new Hero Hues ink pads. These inks react with water and are blendable so you can achieve trendy ink blended backgrounds, splashy watercolor looks and more. Carrisa with Ellen Hutson has 10 different way … Read More...
7 MemoryDex Cards
The MemoryDex system from Heidi Swapp is a fun way to create small pieces of art to display on your desk. Flip to a new one each day, use photos and fun quotes for daily doses of joy. These would … Read More...
National Coloring Book Day
Aug. 2 is National Coloring Book Day, a day to relax and color. To celebrate Dover Publications is offering a FREE mini coloring book you can download and print for, a contest to enter to win coloring books and on … Read More...
Tropical Layout
Sue Plumb used large tropical flower stamps from Viva Las Vegastamps combined with open cut flower dies for this fun Tropical Layout. The big blue splashy background looks like ocean water or sky and helps tie the theme together.
Aladdin Inspired Slider Card
Inspired by the new Aladdin live action movie from Disney I made this fun slider card with stamps from Pink and Main.
Click here to watch my video tutorial on Youtube or check it out down below.
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Unicorn Planner Pages
I love the tag shape of these Unicorn planner pages from Els. A simple but fun way to change the shape of a layout. And the elephant that she added the unicorn headband to is just too, too adorable! She’s … Read More...
Fairy Card Partial Inked Background
To create a sunset horizon on her sweet card Emelie masked off the bottom half of her card and inked just the top. This is an easy way to delineate areas of your card with out adding extra paper. I … Read More...
Easy Baby Album Kit
Busy new parents probably don’t have a lot of time to keep track of all the new babies firsts, photos and milestones. But these things mean so much so an album kit is a great solution. The Easy Albums line … Read More...
Ink Blending Over Embossing
Using the pretty new Blender Brushes from Taylored Expressions Noriko created this stunning card. She dry embossed her cardstock with an embossing folder and then used different ink pads and the brushes to ink over top to create a wonderful … Read More...
Feminine Craft Room Tour
With all white furniture and touches of pink, teal and florals Amy’s home office and craft room has a lovely feminine look. I love the added touches of gold to make it even more elegant and vintage nick knacks to … Read More...
DIY Pattern Paper with Small Stamps
If you don’t have the perfect pattern paper for your card background why not just create your own? Lynnea used a small stamp from an adorable bear set from LDRS Creative to create her own custom pattern paper. It’s the … Read More...
Office Layouts
Kathleen was inspired by the tabbed file folders pattern paper on the new Office hours line from Pinkfresh Studio to create a layout that opens up like an actual file folder. With all the space inside she was able to … Read More...