Kathy had a pretty sunflower stamp with one flower but she wanted more then one so she used a masking technique to add another stamped flower, bees and butterflies and also added her own drawn stems to make one seamless … Read More...
Technique: Wet on Wet Watercolor Stamping
How lovely is this floral card? Sandy Allnock gets an amazing soft and painterly look with her wet on wet water color stamping technique. Visit her blog for a video tutorial.
-Heather
Project: Baby Card with Hinged Letters
Help someone celebrate the arrival of a sweet little one with this wonderful baby card. Kittie will show you how to partially die cut hinged letters for the front. I love how she stamped the animals on the pattern paper, … Read More...
DIY Galaxy Patterned Paper & Card
Learn how to make galaxy patterned paper for all the star gazer stories in your scrapbooks and Project Life. The tutorial is for a large scale, to make wrapping paper, but you can adapt it to a smaller piece, … Read More...
Stamping Technique: Add Texture w/ Stylus and Colored Pencils
Learn how to add texture and patterns to your stamped images with this awesome technique from Dina Kowal. She used a stylus to make indents in her paper and then lightly colored over top with colored pencils so the texture … Read More...
Project: Cat and Fish Bowl Die Cut Card
Hope this little kitty isn’t hungry? 🙂 Nicol Spohr made this cute card using several different die from Mama Elephant. She’s got a video tutorial on how to make using the dies in addition to stamping, an inked background … Read More...
Project: Coordinating Stamps and Dies Shaker Card
Carissa introduces you to some amazing new die cuts and coordinating stamp sets from Pinkfresh Studio. I love how to tiny stamps fit into areas of the die cuts, these products are so clever! She will show you how to … Read More...
DIY Letterboard Birthday Cards
Letter boards are all the rage now, and how fun are these letter board birthday cards? You can use this simple DIY for cards or even as a background element on a scrapbook page. or how about as the cover … Read More...
Project: Floral Card with Specialty Inks
Combining water mark ink from Versmark and Gold metallic ink from Delicata Julia Stainton stamped up this wonderful floral greeting card. She talks more about what each of these specialty ink pads can do and includes project directions for the … Read More...
Card Making Project: DIY Purple Glitter Unicorn Card
Yes, this is my second unicorn card post of the week, I told you I love unicorns 🙂
Jess with Hero Arts added colored ink to Glimmer Paste for her own custom stencil paste to make this beautiful sparkly purple … Read More...
Technique: Metallic Water Coloring and Stenciled Card
Kristina Werner used metallic water colors over a detailed stencils for this amazing card. She’ll show you how to use adhesive spray to hold the stencil in place as well as other tips for getting great results with this technique. … Read More...
Project: Bold Butterfly Card
Nichol Spohr created this wonderful custom card background that rivals any pattern paper out there! She used a stamping tool and butterfly stamps that layer together. I love the splatter over the stamping and the vellum layer with the sentiment, … Read More...
Tip: Make DIY Stencils with Dies
By using stencil plastic or thin acetate you can make your own custom stencils by die cutting them and using the “negative” space. “Solid”, not too detailed dies work best for this idea. Learn more from Heather Nichols on how … Read More...
Project: Make Your Own Epoxy Stickers
Sandy Allnock will show you how to make your own fun glossy epoxy looking stickers using stamps with clear Glossy Accents and adhesive sheets. Visit her blog for all the details.
-Heather
Download Free : Owl Coloring Page
I love detailed coloring pages with lots of spaces for adding many different colors and creativity like this lovely owl page. Download this Owl Mosaic Coloring Page for FREE from Dover Publications. Click here to get it.
Coloring in sheets … Read More...
Technique and Project: Star Wars Card with Water Color Galaxy Background
Yulis has an awesome tutorial water coloring a galaxy background for a fun Star Wars inspired card. Check out her tutorial over on the Magnolia with Heart blog.
-Heather
Project: Vintage Baby Shower Invitation
This precious vintage style baby shower invite uses stamps, papers and embellishments from Graphic 45. Aneta Matuszewska has a video tutorial showing how to make it along with photo inspiration of stunning baby album over on the Graphic 45 blog, … Read More...
Tips: Get Great Result with Multi Layer Stamps
Loads of stamp companies have some amazing multi layered stamp sets where you stamp images over top of each other in different colors and the results are very realistic dimensional images. But lining them up can sometimes be challenging so … Read More...
Tip: 5 Different Techniques for Foiling
Adding foil to your cards adds a wonderful metallic shine. There are many different technique you can use to add foiling like adhesive sheets and transfer medium, some ideas require a foiling or laminating machine but some don’t. Nina-Marie has … Read More...
Card Making Technique: Stamping With Stencils
There are so many things you can do with stencils but did you know you can also stamp with them? This clever idea comes from Jess over on Hero Arts. She inked up her stencils with Distress Ink , spritzed … Read More...