Check out this beautiful card from Courtney! I love how she used mostly die cuts for her design. She added realistic color, depth and dimension by coloring her shapes with her Copic Markers. She’s sharing how to over on her … Read More...
Morning Glory Card with New Style Layering Stamps
The Ton is releasing some new and innovative stamp designs. These clear Group Layering stamps have marks that you line up on each stamped layer to allow for stamping in groups of several images at one time for quicker and … Read More...
DIY Glitter Paper
Glitter paper is really popular and can add loads of sparkle and shine to your paper crafting projects. But what if you don’t have the perfect color of shimmery cardstock for your card? Well, you can make your own using … Read More...
Simple Card Invites with Scrapbooking Supplies
Sometimes we might not have time to stamp and color a bunch of images, especially if we’re making multiple of cards like Party Invitations. Wendy Sue used scrapbooking supplies like pattern papers along with precut and colored dies to design … Read More...
Card Using Gilding Flakes
Gold gilding flakes can add an amazing touch of metallic shimmer and elegance to your cards. Echo used them two different ways on this lovely Bee Card. She adhered them to tape for a golden border between her papers and … Read More...
Watercolor Card Designs with Painters Tape
I love the bold geometric shapes that Kristina Werner created on these cards. She used blue painters tape trimmed into thin strips to mask of areas of her watercolor paper and then colored over top. The sentiments die cut from … Read More...
Copic Marker Coloring for a Stuffed Animal
Elaine used Copic Markers to create a plushy, fluffy texture to this cute Kitty Cat stamp from Stampingbella. This idea could be used on many animal stamps to give them the look of stuffed animals. She’s sharing a video tutorial … Read More...
One Card, Many Techniques
Simon Hurley created this beautiful floral card using lots of different “hacks” on just one card. He’s sharing how to use a matte medium for a resist technique, how to choose the right cardstock for ink blending, how to use … Read More...
Antiquing Techniques for Vintage Layouts
If you’re working on heritage or vintage scrapbook layouts or want to create a vintage look on a modern page there are several different technique you should try. Close to My Heart is sharing 4 ways to add that aged … Read More...
Horizontal Row Layouts
The design team at Designer Digitals used a similar page sketch to create several different layouts, with a row of photos across the center of the page. Keeping the title and embellishments close to the photos leaves lots of “white … Read More...
Hybrid Scrapbooking for Beginners
Do you do all your scrapbooking digitally on the computer or the traditional way with paper, photos, stickers and scissors? If you’re looking for something new to spice up your scrapbooking why not try creating a hybrid layout. This means … Read More...
Alcohol Inks and Embossing Card Backgrounds
Verity created the most stunning card backgrounds by applying alcohol ink to vellum paper. And then took it to the next level by added embossing powder to sections that were still wet for an added metallic shine. These pattern are … Read More...
How to Cut SVG Files
If you’re new to using an electronic die cutting machine you might have seen the terms SVG or PNG cut files. These are files that your Cricut, Silhouette or Scan N Cut uses to cut out shapes and designs. The … Read More...
Mini Easel Card
Jennier D. is sharing how to create a mini easel card base using circle dies. Once you’ve created the base you can decorate it with as many layers of stamps and embellishments as you’d like. Hers are quite wonderfully detailed … Read More...
Water Coloring Digital Stamps + Freebie
Kathy used opaque watercolors to color up this lovely digital floral stamp from Jane’s Doodles. In order to apply her stamp to the watercolor paper she used a tracing method and then water colored. The results are very bold and … Read More...
Toner Sheet Page Embellishments
Unity Toner Card Fronts are pre-printed sheets that can be used with foil to create shiny metallic papers for greeting cards. But Suzanna fussy cut them out and used them for embellishments on a scrapbook layout. What a great way … Read More...
10 Quilling Videos
With hundreds of quilling videos posted online, it’s hard for those who are new to the craft to know where to start. All Things Paper has narrowed the options to ten favorites that not only are ideal for beginners, but … Read More...
Add Pretty Flourishes to Your Handwriting
I know many of us don’t like our own handwriting but it can really add a special personal touch to include our own writing in our scrapbooks. If you’d like to step up your handwriting game try adding some swirls … Read More...
Hot Air Balloon Card
Mindy Eggen got a bright and bold watercolor look on her Hot Air Balloon Card by using Karin Brushmarkers to color her stamped image. Those colors really pop against her pretty ink blending background. by HoneyBee Stamps
Metallic Gels for Stenciling
The Metallix Gel from Deco Foil will add sparkle, shine, color and texture to your cards and paper crafting projects. They work beautifully with stencils as Catherine Pooler shares on her blog with several different stenciling ideas and techniques. And … Read More...