The kissing technique is a fun and easy way to add patterns to your stamped images. By touching (or kissing) two stamps together you can transfer a design from one stamp to another. It sounds hard but it’s really a … Read More...
Metallic Watercolor Christmas Cards
Wow, these cards really shine for the Holidays! Nichol Spohr combine the really popular trends of watercolor and metallics for these stunning Christmas cards. She heat embossed large background stamps from Hero Arts in gold on dark cardstock and used … Read More...
How to Color a Christmas Lily Card
If you love flowers you don’t have to leave them off your holiday cards many still bloom during the winter months like poinsettia and some lilies. Mindy Baxter used a lovely Amaryllis stamp for this beautiful Christmas card. She has … Read More...
Using Water Reactive Inks 3 Ways
Using Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir I created this fun winter Yeti Card. These versatile inks can be used for lots of different stamping and coloring techniques. If you missed my review on them last week be sure to … Read More...
Easel Slider Card
Eloise combined two really trendy card styles by adding a slider element to an easel card, how much fun is that!? I love this little Yeti snowboarding across the card!
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Light Up Easel Card
I think Easel Cards are going to be a popular trend this holiday season, I’m seeing lots of them pop up on designers blogs. Maymay created a lovely Easel Card using a lantern design that holds a small tea light … Read More...
Fall Hedgehog Card
Kristina Werner added some fall leaves and a banner around this adorable hedgehog stamp to create a simple Fall wreath design. She used watercolors for her images and I love the shadow she added to each one, it adds a … Read More...
Ink Techniques Autumn Card
Yana combined some cool ink and stamping techniques on this wonderful Autumn Card. She first heat embossed her images in white, ink blended over top in fall colors, then wiped away the excess ink for a resist technique and then … Read More...
4 Christmas Coloring Pages
Get yourself in the holiday mood with some lovely Christmas Coloring Pages. Dover Publications has some festive pages to keep you busy inside on cold nights. So grab your colored pencils and download 4 FREE pages.
Christmas Candy Shaker Card
I love how the candies on this card look like they are cover in real sugar, they look good enough to eat! Ardyth used colorful ink pads and glitter paste for her die cut candy shapes to make them look … Read More...
Fall Swing Easel Card
Wendy Lee is sharing step by step photo and video directions on how to create a fun Swing Easel Card. She used an Autumn theme but this versatile idea can be altered for any occasion.
Review: Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir
The Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir are fun inks that, you guessed it, react with water! With these slow drying dye based ink pads you can get trendy looks like distress, ink splatters, ink blending and you can even … Read More...
3 Holiday Christmas Cards from 1 Stamp Set
I love a versatile stamp set, like this one from Hero Arts. The Layering Peace clear set can be used on it’s own or with other stamps, in many different color combination and with different styles of cards. Yana used … Read More...
Little Holiday Bags and Tags
“Paper packages tied up with strings”……..Maggie used stamps to decorate some little bags and tags to create fun tiny packages for the Holidays. Slip in candy or gift cards for a sweet treat to pass out at work or school.… Read More...
Snow Globe Gift Tags
I think Snow Globes are going to be a popular theme this year, I’m seeing them pop up on lots of paper crafting projects. Marine used some dies and small stamps from Lawn Fawn to create adorable little snow globe … Read More...
Easy Watercolor Holiday Cards
Water coloring doesn’t have to be neat and perfect, it’s one of the great things about that medium. Sandy Allnock used some loose and easy watercolor techniques to create these wonderful Autumn and Christmas Foliage Cards.
Holiday Baking Treat Bags
Do you bake for the Holidays? If so these adorable little gift bags are the perfect way to package and pass out your yummy treats this year. The new Baked with Love stamp set from Mama Elephant works for anyone … Read More...
Fall Squirrels Card
Christy used new stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to create this fun Fall scene card. Those squirrels are having so much fun jumping in a pile a leaves! I love how she used ink blending on her tree, ground … Read More...
Stamping and Shading on Pattern Papers
A quick and easy way to add color and pattern to your stamped images is by stamping on patterned paper. Heather Hoffman used some pretty florals for this technique and added some inking to the edges of her images for … Read More...
Halloween Lollipop Covers
Add an extra special touch to your Halloween candy this year with these fun Lollipop Covers. Dina shows how to score, fold and cut cardstock using some simple die shapes to create a Pumpkin and Cat. Your trick or treaters … Read More...