Add an interesting 3D pop to your cards with partial die cutting. This easy technique allowed you to cut out only part of a dies shape. It’s a really great way to get more from your dies. Laurel Beard has … Read More...
Cat and Mice and Donuts, Oh My!
This adorable cat, mouse and donuts birthday card designed by Nicole Spohr includes a fun little envelope on the front that opens to reveal the sentiment. She’ll show you how she made it using stamps and dies from Mama Elephant… Read More...
Floral Card with Selective Coloring
Selective or “spotlight” coloring adds color to just a section of your stamped image. It can be a way to add attention to your card with a combination of pop of color and elegant black and white. Crystal Thompson used … Read More...
Make Your Own Rainbow Die Cut
I recently wanted to make a rainbow for a card but don’t have a rainbow stamp or die set. I thought surely there was a way I could make my own. So using a set of oval stacking dies I … Read More...
Unicorn Shaker Card with Tulle
Shaker cards are so much fun to make and you don’t always have to use clear plastic or acetate for the opening, try something different like Tulle. If you don’t know tulle to a thin mesh like material and adds … Read More...
Elephant Card with No-Line Stamping
This happy little elephant looks like he was hand drawn but he was actually stamped and water colored using the no-line stamping technique. Kristina Werner will show you how to paint and also mask the image to paint the background… Read More...
Front Fold Flap Card
Tina Zinck has a tutorial for using circle dies to create a fun Front Flap Fold card with an image or a sentiment is inside the card behind an open window. Visit her blog The Serene Stamper for project directions.… Read More...
Tips for using Mini Ink Pad Cubes
Mini ink pad cubes are a great way to try new ink colors or brands without investing in a large pad, they take up less storage space and there are lots of cool stamping technique you can do with them. … Read More...
Double Pocket Card
This pretty double pocket card is perfect for tucking in multiple items like gift cards, book marks or tags. You’ll find a video tutorial from designer Elaine on how to make one over on the Stamping Bella blog.
-Heather
Product Review and Project: Fox Card with Arteza Brush Pens
I really love the look of water color and the ease and control of using markers so I was really interested in trying out the Arteza Real Brush Pens. These water based markers have a flexible nylon brush tip … Read More...
Tip: Ink Blending Directly on Stamps
How lovely are these birds!? Lydia has a great tip for getting an even more realistic look from layered stamps and that’s by ink blending directly on the stamps. She’ll teach you this technique and show you how she made … Read More...
3D Butterfly Card
Crystal Thompson has a great idea to turn a butterfly stamp from Unity stamps into a 3D butterfly. By stamping two and layering them, only adding adhesive to the body of the top butterfly she created some great dimension on … Read More...
Mixed Media Sunflower Journal Pages
This set of art journal pages are so bright and cheerful! Using mixed media like paint, stencils, gel pens, and DIY stamps die cut from fun foam Kath Stewart made these lovely layout. She’s got more info and photo over … Read More...
Project: Animated Owl Card
Recently I’ve been seeing on-line some really cool cards made with new animation stamps from Motion Crafts and was thrilled to see some for sale at my local Michael’s craft store. They have a selection of stamps, grid sheets and … Read More...
Technique: Dahlia Card with White Instead of Black Stamped Outline
Instead of using a black outline for this lovely Dahlia floral card Effie used white embossing powder to stamp the images and colored them with water colors for a pretty soft look. You can find a video tutorial for this … Read More...
Project: Clean and Simple Flower Card and Tag
Simple cards are something I personally struggle with, I always want to add more embellishments, more layers, just….more! But I do love the look of clean and simple cards and would like to make more of them. If you do … Read More...
Tutorial: Blue Bird and Robin Card
I’m so ready for Spring! I think if I keep making cards with a Spring theme then maybe Spring will hurry up and get here? I made this sweet card with a blue bird and robin with an ink blended … Read More...
Tip: How to Edit a Digital Stamp
If you’ve got a rubber stamp that you want to only stamp part of you can cut the stamp apart, mask off sections or only ink certain parts but what if you’ve got a digital stamp you want to only … Read More...
Project: Animated Duck Card
The new animated stamps from Motion Crafts are so amazing and so much fun. These cool stamps are used with grids that slide over top to make the stamps appear to move. Vicky from Clips-n-Cuts has a video tutorial showing … Read More...
Project: Dr. Who Inspired Envelope Art
If you’re a fan of Dr. Who you’ll love this inspired envelope art. What Whovian wouldn’t love to get this in the mail?Tera Callihan used stamps from Viva Las Vegas stamps and a masking technique and she’s got directions over … Read More...