How cute are these two Bunnies? Allison used markers and a watercoloring technique to color them for her sweet Easter card. She’s sharing a how to video along with a link to download the digital stamp image for FREE!… Read More...
Handmade Card Tutorial – Butterfly Shaped Card
Large shaped dies are perfect for making fun shaped cards. Ilina used a large butterfly die from Hero Arts to cut out her card base, adding some lovely stamped flowers in white embossing which really pop on the dark cardstock.… Read More...
53 FREE Easter Digital Stamps
Paper Crafter Magazine has a whopping 53 different Spring and Easter themed digital stamps from Tattered Lace that you can download for FREE! WOW! Note: you will need to register to download them.
-Heather… Read More...
Die Cut Watercolor Floral Card
I love how cheerful this Springtime botanical card from Bobbi Smith is. She die cut a bunch of leaves and flowers from white cardstock and then used a water brush and Distress Oxide Inks to color her die cut shapes. … Read More...
How to Add Shading to Solid Stamps
Sometimes solid stamped image can look a bit flat. Nichol has some great tips on adding shading, shadow and depth to solid stamps by using colored pencils. I think this really gives them a much more realistic look.
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Light Up Shaker Card
This cute card is double the interactive fun. It’s a shaker card and also when you press the button the terrarium jar lights up. How cool! Kelly shares how she used lights from Chibitronics to create it.
Tropical Vacation Card
These Hippos look like they are ready to head out on a fun tropical vacation. Using some current trends like inking, stenciling and Nuvo Drops Allison created this pretty travel card.
Marbling Card Technique
These colorful cards created by Carly were made using a marbling technique with alcohol inks. The backgrounds are the star so some simple die-cutting and sentiment is all that is needed to finish these off. Honey Bee
Artist Style Inspiration
Therese Calvird decided to use two artists that she admires and use there style to inspire her bird cards. I love her Andy Warhol card, the look is instantly recognizable as Andy but with her own spin on it. She’s … Read More...
7 Spring Scene Coloring Pages
I’m so glad that Spring is finally here! To get you in a Springtime mood Dover Publications is offering 7 different coloring pages with Spring Scenes. They are FREE for you to download and print.
Click here (then click each … Read More...
Jumping Dog Interactive Card
Torico has put a clever spin on the new Swig Dies from My Favorite Things. She’s flipped it upside down so that the show dog jumps over the hurdle. So cute!! She’s got step by step photo directions over on … Read More...
5 Different Stamped Card Backgrounds
Yana Smakula has stamped 5 wonderful card backgrounds without using large background stamps. I love the idea of using smaller stamps to create designs and patterns for card backgrounds, it’s a great way to get more from your stamped images. … Read More...
James Burke Stamps
Artist James Burke has created several stamp sets to be used as a base to create your own imaginative designs. His clear stamp sets include fun and funky girls, guys and flowers that can be used alone or mixed together. … Read More...
Grounded Scene Card with Partial Ink Blending
Emily helped ground the background of this pretty scene card by masking off and ink blending only a section of her cardstock. If you don’t want to color your entire panel this is a great way to still add an … Read More...
How to Watercolor Die Cuts
Nina Marie added some amazing color to her die cut images using watercolors. The splatters and specks she added seem to be stars or fireflies and are perfect for this evening scene card.
Learn a little more about how she … Read More...
Peacock Feather Card
Kyriakos creates a beautiful design with a couple different stamping techniques using VersaColor inks, embossing powders and a frame created with a mold. It is simple and stunning!
Visit the Imagine Crafts blog for directions.
-Heather
Spring Pig with Chicks Card
Using new stamps from Hello Bluebird I created this Spring card with a pig, I thought it would be fun to have him surrounded by hatching chicks. I also tried out one of the new Tri-Color markers from Spectrum Noir… Read More...
Ink Blended and Embossed Card with Vellum
Crystal stamped the large floral image from Unity stamps onto white cardstock and heat embossed it in silver and then ink blended a pretty color gradation over top for an amazing looking card base. I love the soft touch the … Read More...
Easter Card with Die Cuts
Jeanne Jachna used a combination of ink blending, stenciling and watercolor for her card background on this sweet Easter card. All the fun die cuts she used are new from Poppy Stamps. She’s sharing how she put it all together … Read More...
Make a Paper Easter Basket
Clarissa from Stempeleinmaleins has come up with a quick and easy Easter basket design that’s perfect for last-minute crafting! Using heavyweight patterned paper, you can create a beautiful and sturdy Easter basket that will add a special touch to … Read More...