Terry wanted to have two chicks facing each other on her adorable Easter card. So she used an easy mirror/reverse stamping technique with a stamp positioner and solid rubber stamp. She’s sharing this tip over on her blog, Waving My … Read More...
Gold Embossing with Watercolor Background
This bright and bold card combines two big trends, metallics and splashy watercolor backgrounds. Gaylynn used gold heat embossing for her stamping and liquid inks to watercolor this stunning card.
Visit the Unity Stamps blog to watch her card making … Read More...
Ink Blending: Distress vs Oxide Inks
Distress Ink from Tim Holtz have been out quite a while now and have become a stamping staple in most craft rooms. We also now have Distress Oxide Inks and they have quickly become just as, if not more popular, … Read More...
Birthday Bear Card
The soft pastel balloons and cake on this sweet card are the perfect backdrop for the fun birthday bear. Shay created her background with heat embossing and watercolors. She is sharing her card making tutorial over on the Winnie and … Read More...
Princess Tunnel Card
The pretty layers of pattern papers and cardstocks die cut in concentric circles makes a tunnel to bring depth and focus to the castle on this lovely Princess Card from Marine. I love all the different shades of blue she … Read More...
Beehive Glitter Card
This fun “Have You Heard the Buzz” card is a fun way to share some special news. All the pretty glitter and dimension make this card from Niki really stand out. She’s sharing her process over on the Hedgehog Hollow … Read More...
Squirrel Friend Card
I love the new Fable Friends stamp set from Stampin’ Up! It has the cutest spring animals, perfect for Easter, baby and friendship cards. I made this Squirrel Friend Card with the sweet squirrel stamp from the set using … Read More...
Distress Inks 5 Ways
Distress Ink pads are great for ink blending, watercolor, backgrounds, adding color, direct stamping, smooshing and more. Jessica Frost-Ballas shares 5 different ways you can use Distress Inks on your cards.
Visit the Simon Says Stamp blog for more info.… Read More...
DIY Wire Embellishments
Using the Happy Jig wire tool from We-R-Memory-Keepers you can create wonderful wire shapes and words. They are super fun embellishments to add to scrapbook pages, cards and home decor projects. They have gathered together several ideas to help inspire … Read More...
Kids and Critters Love Card
Tricia created the adorable scene for this card with a masking technique using stamps from Art Impressions. By stamping her images with Tombow markers, that are water based, she was able to apply water over top with a paint brush … Read More...
Stamped Sentiments Strips Tip
I love this helpful stamping tip from Katie. She used a stamp positioning tool to stamp an entire set of sentiment stamps onto cardstock at once and then used small rectangle dies to cut each out. This makes for such … Read More...
Dino Valentine Card
I love all the layers of die cutting and textures on this fun Dino Valentine card from Audrey! This would be a great card for a boy or anyone who loves Dinosaurs.
She’s sharing how she used die cuts and … Read More...
No Stamp Stamping Love Card
This lovely Valentine was made using various colored ink pads and a wooden heart shape as a stamp to create a distress background. The then the wooden heart shape was used to decorate the card.
Meant to Be Valentine Card
I created this romantic Valentine card using the Meant to Be stamps and Be Mine Stitched Hearts dies from the new Stampin’ Up Occasions catalog.
I’ve shared a tutorial over on my Youtube channel, you can click here to watch … Read More...
Mermaid Mirror Stamping
Mirror stamping is a fun way to get more from your stamps by having two images face each other just using the same stamp. But sometimes the results can be imperfect or blurry. Roni discovered she could use her Image’s … Read More...
Elephant Valentine Card
Kelly Latevola used lots of popular trends like white heat embossing, ink blending and stencilling to make this super sweet elephant card. These new products from Neat and Tangled she used are so cute!
Valentine Penguin Printable
Oh my, how adorable is this Valentine Penguin?! She would be so sweet on cards, planner or scrapbook pages. She’s FREE to download from Pretty Grafik.
Click here to add her to your cart and check out.
-Heather
Skunk Valentine with Ink Blending Brushes
Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz on line about some brushes used for ink blending and that there was a much less expensive alternative makeup brush that gave similar results. I thought I’d give the dupe brushes a … Read More...
Pipe Cleaner Easy Valentine Cards
These adorable kissy lips Valentine cards are such a fun and easy craft that kids will absolutely love! All you need are some pink and red pipe cleaners to create the cute, kiss-shaped lips that make these cards so special. … Read More...
Watercolor Coloring Page Cards
Suzy from Suzy’s Doodles has truly outdone herself with her latest release, Sending Love, which is themed around Valentine’s Day. These watercolor cards are perfect for anyone who loves to color and get creative! They come pre-printed on watercolor … Read More...