This sweet layout from Kat feature 2 adorable photos surrounded by X’s and O’s. She stamped them out in pink and green inks concentrating most of her design on the center right of the page, balancing that out with a … Read More...
How to Color with Ink Pads
We all know ink pads are for stamping out your stamps but you can also use them for so many other techniques, like actually coloring in your stamped images with them. Simon Hurley is sharing 3 different ways to color … Read More...
Little Memories Layout
Tracy used stamps that she water colored for the images on this sweet Little memories Layout. She stamped her dragonfly and floral designs at an angle across the page behind the large matted photo, adding extra paint splatters for more … Read More...
Vintage Valentine’s Day Card
This beautiful Valentine’s Day card from Vicky has a wonderful vintage feel to it. Stamping and ink blending with Distress inks gives the paper an aged look, gold foiling and paper flowers adds a romantic touch and die cut panels … Read More...
Picture Window Valentine Card
This amazing card by Mindy has a cute bird on the front but all the fun is actually on the inside. When opened up the card reveals a scene with a pop out heart window featuring an owl delivering Valentine … Read More...
Emboss with Distress Oxide Inks
Distress Oxide Inks are great for so many inking and stamping techniques including heat embossing. They stay wet long enough to add embossing powder and once embossed have a nice texture and depth of color. Julie used them to emboss … Read More...
Valentine Card with Ink Smooshing
This graphic red, white and black Valentine’s Day card requires no coloring. Gaylynn used an ink smooshing technique for the vibrant red watercolor background for an easy yet stunning card design. She’s sharing a video tutorial over on the Unity … Read More...
Birthday Dinner Page from a Sketch
Patricia used a wonderful sketch from Citrus Twist Kits as inspiration for her Birthday Dinner layout. The photo is backed by lots of layers of pattern papers, the journaling is in a half circle at the top surrounded by vines … Read More...
Sloth Birthday Card
Elaine Hughes always blows me away with her coloring skills! She used Copic Markers
to color this adorable Sloth Birthday Card using stamps from Stamping Bella. The hand drawn background and all the texture she added with dots really puts … Read More...
Slimline Valentine’s Day Card
I used the fun new Winter Walk die from Hello Bluebird along with their Oh Nuts stamp set to create this sweet Valentine’s Day Card. It’s perfect to send to your bestie for “Galentine’s Day” too 🙂 I’ll show you … Read More...
Better Together Layout
I think the phrase “Better Together” has even more meaning this past year for so many of us then ever before. Ashley used it as the title of this beautiful page of her family just hanging out together. I love … Read More...
Tag Shaped Valentine Treat Holder
Sheri create these cute little treat holders for Valentine’s Day with two tag die cuts. She scored and folded the bottom of each tag and then adhered them together, tying the top closed with ribbon. Each tag bag is decorated … Read More...
Triple Fold Cat Card
This amazing card from Cristena has a wonderful surprise inside, it’s got 3 different panels that fold out! Inside this fun fold card is lots of room for additional stamped images, sentiments and more. I love the cute theme with … Read More...
Missing You Milk Carton Card
Oh my gosh, this Missing You Milk Carton Card from Karolyn is just so cute and clever! She cut a window inside the milk carton and added a rotating wheel behind that has four different animal faces that show in … Read More...
Jar Shaped Treat Bags
How cute are these little treat bags for Valentine’s Day?! For each bag Nina-Marie used 2 jar stamps that she stamped, colored and die cut and created a box to glue in-between and then tied them closed at the top … Read More...
Slimline Valentine’s Day Cards
Amy R used dies from Simon Says and patterned papers from Doodlebug to create some colorful Valentine’s Day cards. The pattern papers come in a collection pack so it’s easy to mix and match colors and patterns for a cohesive … Read More...
Peony Peek a Boo Card
Lydia used stamps and dies from Altenew to design these lovely Peony cards. Each card has a fun cut away element for a peek a boo where a part of the inside of the card, in this case it’s the … Read More...
Stenciled Lotus Flower Cards
Ashley used a Lotus Stencils from Penguin Palace to create these stunning cards. I love how she used multiple blue colors of ink blending along with metallic silver heat embossing for a wonderful mix of colors and textures. She’s sharing … Read More...
Valentine Spotlight Technique Cards
Yana Smakula used some super sweet new stamps from Colorado Craft Company designed by illustrator Anita Jeram for these adorable cards. She kept the cards clean and simple but added some extra depth with a spotlight technique. By stamping twice … Read More...
Mixed Media Tips and Techniques for Beginners with May Flaum
Noted crafting expert May Flaum demystifies the art of mixed media and shows you just how simple, beautiful, and creative this popular trend can be. This is a class where you can truly allow your imagination to run wild and your … Read More...