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...
Snowman Card with Custom Ink Pad Background
The Distress Ink Custom Blend Ink Pad is a blank ink pad, you use Re-Inkers to add your own custom mix of inks for wonderful rainbow and ombre effects. Kristina used hers for a lovely background on this snowman card. … Read More...
Mixed Media Journal Pages
Kath Stewart made this bright and cheerful set of journaling pages using stamps, stencils, paint and die cuts from Tim Holtz and Ranger . I love the pretty tea cups filled with flowers! Visit her blog, Dairy of the … Read More...
4 Different Card Backgrounds with Alcohol Inks
Michelle over at the Card Grotto has 4 different way to use alcohol inks on your card for colorful backgrounds. She’s got tips for using foil, stencils and more. Add a clea die cut sentiment over top for a sticking … Read More...
Techniques and More: Monthly Tags from Tim Holtz
Each month this year the amazing Mr. Tim Holtz will share a different tag, each filled with ideas, technique, product tips and more. His first tag of the year for January is now up on his blog along with detailed … Read More...
Project: Fall Metal Tag
Anita aka The Artful Maven combined embossing on metal, Perfect Pearls , stamping on acetate and more for this wonderfulmixed media fall leaves tag. Find more info here on her blog.
-Heather
Looking for Fall themed stamps, papers and … Read More...
Project: Art Journal
Believe it or not this stunning art journal started life as a plain old manila office folder! Adding a 3 ring binder and using ink, stamps, stains, stitching and embellishments the Artful Maven turned it a wonderful place to store … Read More...
Project: Stamped Paper Suitcase and Book
This little suitcase by Anna-Karin is amazing!! She used a die from Sizzix for the base, stamping and distressing it and adding metal embellishments. She even stamped the inside of the case and made a wonderful tag book to put … Read More...
Project: Collage Art Journal Cover
Find directions at Ranger for using paints, papers, ink, stamps and more to make this wonderful artsy collage mixed media journal cover.
-Heather
Project: Stamped Canvas Bag
I adore a crafty man!! And I’m so in love with this awesome bag from Neil over at Neelz Expressions! Hop on over to his blog and he’ll show you a cool way to transfer pattern paper to sticky back … Read More...
Project: Sea Shell Tag
Using a combination of stamping, embossing and stains with stencils Richele (aka California Art Girl) made this pretty summer themed tag. I’m crazy about how she added the sea grass in tiny glass bottle!! Find her direction here.
-Heather
Technique: Stamped Book Page
Here’s a great way to recycle old book pages, use them for background papers! Visit the Stampendous website to learn how to stamp some pretty book page papers using Distress Stains.
-Heather
Tips: Distress Stains
Papercrafters Library has a great run down on Tim Holtz’s Distress Stains from Ranger . Find out all the “ins and outs” and “how to’s” with a couple of helpful videos.
-Heather
Technique: Stain and Bleach Background
Hetty over on the Craft Chaos blog has directions for a cool coloring technique using Distress Stains and bleach. This idea would be perfect for large detailed stamps you might not want to spend all day coloring in 🙂
-Heather
Techniques: Metal Foil Tape
Tim Holtz and Teresa Natividad share with you what you can do with Ranger’s adhesive backed Metal Foil Tape. You can ink it, stamp on it, die cut and emboss it, this stuff looks so cool! (I think I need … Read More...
Project: Distress Card
Julia Stainton made this a lovely card using the new Tim Holtz Distress markers for stamping and Distress Stain on her paper flower. I love the colors and how all the Distress products co-ordinate so well together. Visit the Ellen … Read More...
Projects and Techniques: Stamping with Studio Paints
For the last four weeks Blockheads has been sharing different techniques combining stamping and Studio Paints from Claudine Helmuth. Each week features three projects with that technique, a basic card, an advanced card and a wall tile. The weekly pdf … Read More...
Technique: Emboss Metal Embellishments
How lovely are these metal leaves and flower? Tammy Tutterow took plain metal embellishments and added color and shine by melting embossing powers on them, cool huh? Or should I say hot? 🙂 Click here to find out how she … Read More...
New Release: Archival Inks from Ranger
Ranger has recently expanded their line of Archival inks. Join Debbie Talch and Tim Holtz as they share with you all the new colors as well as what you can do with these permanent oil based ink pads.
-Heather
Technique: Embossed Color Blocking
This is a really cool technique from Blockheads! Combining color blocking with Distress Stains and sanded embossing you can get a really unique look for your card backgrounds. Find complete details here.
-Heather