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...
Butterfly Card with Metallic Water Coloring
I love the pops of metallics on dark cardstock on this beautiful butterfly card. The stamp was heat embossed with black on dark cardstock and then was water colored using metallic markers and a water brush.
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Faux Watercoloring Technique
May Park inked up her solid flower stamps with different Altenew inks and then spritz them with water before stamping on watercolor paper to get this wonderful faux watercolor look. No brush or painting required!
DIY Handmade Card Tutorial – Valentine’s Love Birds Card
This pretty love birds card is perfect for Valentine’s Day. The different shades of pink are so soft and sweet and I love the “tweet heart” pun too.
You can visit the Hero Arts blog for a video tutorial.
-Heather
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.
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!
DIY Thank You Stamps with Mint
If you’d like to create your own custom DIY stamps for any occasion the Mint
system from Silhouette is perfect. Using your computer you can create or purchase images and then “print” your own stamps. These Floral Thank You cards … Read More...
Be Brave Mixed Media Journal Page
Using stamps, paint, stencils and paper MakaArt created this amazing mixed media journal page using products from AB Studio. I love the bold flowers and touches of gold mixed in with all the texture of the background.
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Large Unicorn Valentine
What’s better than a unicorn Valentine? A giant sparkly Unicorn Valentine! Michaels has a printable template for the Unicorn to cut from glitter cardstock and also the sentiment to print for an easy but awesome large Valentine’s Day card.
Paper Gift Bag with Chopstick Closure
Tanja created this sweet gift bag from some pattern cardstock and sealed it closed with a chopstick. She’s got a cutting and folding template over on the Stempeleinmaleins blog where you’ll also find more samples from their design team.
Classroom Valentines Cut Files
These hearts with envelopes dies can be decorated with stamps, glitter and stickers and are perfect for classroom Valentines. Best of all they are FREE!
Click here to download the digital cut files from SVG Cuts.
-Heather
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One Swan Stamp Used Three Ways On Handmade Cards
From subtle to pastel to bold Yana used this lovely swan stamp from Hero Arts in 3 completely different ways for very different looks. I love seeing the versatility you can get from just one image using various techniques.
She’s … Read More...
Valentine Bears Cards
The pretty pink goes perfectly with the soft brown of the bears on these sweet Valentine cards from Nichol Spohr. I also love how she accented to words with die cuts.
Visit her blog for a video how to.
-Heather
Galaxy Valentine Card
Galaxy and space designs are still really popular right now. I love that Laura used a stamp set that wouldn’t be considered a traditional Valentine set to make this fun To the Moon and Back card. Check your stash, you’ve … Read More...
Otter Valentine Card
Using the otter stamp and saying from the super cute new Hey Love stamps from Stampin’ Up I made this sweet Valentine’s Day card. I’ll show you how to use a die cut for a stencils with ink blending to … Read More...
Reading Scrapbook Layout
One of my favorite things to do is read. I actually read every single day, it’s how I relax and unwind at the end of each day. It’s a part of my regular habits but I never thought to scrapbook … Read More...
33 Cards from One 6×6 Paper Pack
Are you like me and have piles and piles of 6″x6″ pattern paper packs? I do use them but I have so many I’d like to use more of them 🙂 Kristie found a great way and used a 6×6 … Read More...
Valentine Framed Art with Matching Card
Stephanie created a lovely card with matching framed art to give as a gift for Valentine’s Day or even a wedding or anniversary. She created her pretty rainbow hearts with ink blending and die cutting.
She’s sharing her project tutorials … Read More...
Hot Foil Cards and Club
Foil is so trendy right now that Spellbinders has created a monthly club for foiling. The Glimmer Hot Foil Club sends a Hot Foil Plate and roll of Foil each month that can be used with their Glimmer Hot Foil … Read More...