Heat embossing adds great texture and shine to you handmade cards. Join Lisa as she shows you how to use embossing powders with stencils plus she shares a fun tip on using the positive and negative giving two stenciled panels … Read More...
Dandelion Mouse Card
I used the adorable Make a Wish stamp set from Hero Arts along with some Distress Oxide Ink blending for this fun card. I used a liquid masking solution to mask my stamp and also used a little shimmer paint … Read More...
Balloon Bear Card with Embossing
Jenny used embossing powders in a couple of different way on this cute Balloon Bear card. She embossed her stamped images in black but she also embossed cardstock and die cut her balloon shapes which gave them some fun shine … Read More...
Create Your Own Thicker Stickers
Kerry has a great sticker hack to create your own thicker stickers. She placed stickers on white cardstock and cut around them using her Brother Scan N Cut Machine. This made them sturdier and also gave a nice white border. … Read More...
5 Ways to Use Pigment Ink for Card Making
New to stamping and embossing? This helpful beginner level tutorial for stamping and cardmaking features VersaColor Pigment Ink. Nicole Watt shows you 5 easy ways to use Pigment Ink on your cards.
Landscapes with Layered Stamps
Hero Arts has some absolutely stunning new landscape stamps. These designs are layering stamps so you can easily build a colorful scene card. I love all the little accessories you can add like clouds and hot air balloons to complete … Read More...
Coloring Embossed Sentiments
If you’re new to coloring stamped images Cathy has a great tip. If you heat emboss your stamps it gives you a little raised “edge” that helps hold in the color so you don’t color outside the lines. She used … Read More...
6 Different Ideas for Using Border Dies
Border dies are perfect for, well, card borders of course but there are lots of other things you can do with them too. Bibi Cameron used brand new border dies from Tonic Studio 
for pockets, bands around gift boxes, card … Read More...
Floral Card with Multiple Ink Techniques
Nicole used Versacolor inks with several different techniques to make this lovely floral card. She used them for stenciling, coloring in her stamped images, traditional stamping and splattering. What a great way to show so many uses with just one … Read More...
Using Stamps on Traveler’s Notebook Pages
Stamps are a great way too add color and embellishment to your traveler’s notebook pages. Adelina added lots of journaling and photos to her layouts adding stamps for titles and also gives a passport look to the pages.
Heat Embossed Inlaid Dies
I love doing inlaid die cutting, placing die cut images together like a puzzle piece. Verity took this idea a step further by apply heat embossing on every other section of her inlay. I love that she used glitter embossing … Read More...
Tropical Aloha Card
Wow, doesn’t this amazing card from Marine make you wish you were on the beach right now? She used stamps from Hello Bluebird for this card and she’s blown me away with the palm trees. Why? Because Hello Bluebird doesn’t … Read More...
How to Color Acrylic Shapes
Acrylic shapes can add a colorful or clear embellishment to your layout but what if it’s the right design but not the right color for your project? You can easily change the color with embossing powder, using the same tools … Read More...
Product Review: Distress Embossing Glaze
The new Distress Embossing Glazes from Tim Holtz are translucent colored embossing powders that add a glossy shine to your mixed media and paper crafting projects. They come in many coordinating colors to other products in the Distress Line and … Read More...
Colorful Summer Layout
I love how Terhi used color on this amazing Summer Layout! Moving across the page from blue to green to pink she added loads of layers and groups of similarly colored pattern papers in strips, circles and blocks all clustered … Read More...
9 Techniques with Distress Oxide Sprays
Distress Ink Oxide Sprays from Tim Holtz
are so versatile! Laurel Beard has 9 different ways you can use these sprays on your cards, they work perfectly on their own as colorful backgrounds and you can use them with stencils, … Read More...
Simple Painted Card Backgrounds
By using a paintbrush and paint and painting short stripes you can create some simple but effective card backgrounds. Using different paints like watercolor or gouache will give you different looks. Debby explored this idea and created several different cards … Read More...
1 Stencil, 3 Card Techniques
Amber used the same stencil and three different mixed media techniques to create three different card designs. One card has dimension from stencil paste with alcohol inks over top, another is just liquid alcohols and the third was colored in … Read More...
Nuvo Glitter Markers
Who doesn’t love to add sparkle and shine to their cards? Loose glitter is so messy but Glitter pens and markers can add the perfect touch of shimmer with no mess. Michelle is sharing 3 techniques using Nuvo Glitter Markers … Read More...
How to Ink Blend on an Embossing Folder
Embossing folders add great texture to your cards but you can also use them to add color as well. I used ink pads and a blender brush to add a blue sky to the starry background on my Unicorn Card. … Read More...