I have absolutely fallen in love with Concord & 9th’s Turnabout stamps. Yesterday, I shared a watercolor lifting technique and used a turnabout stamp to make the card. Today I wanted to show you how to use a turnabout stamp (see my video below) and how versatile these stamps sets are. You could create 20 cards from one… Read More »
Weekly Deals: It’s All About Embossing! Check out all of the great embossing folders on SALE for 25% off this week online at mystampingstore.com! Here is a Two Minute Quick Tip that I shared on my YouTube Channel a while back on how to do the Inked Dry Emboss Technique with your embossing folders! Here is another Two… Read More »
3 Techniques To Combine For Great Holiday Tags! Don’t you love when someone asks, “How’d you do that?”! I still love when that happens! When I released pictures of my Black Friday Grab Bag specials, I showed the tags that I had made using a combination of 3 great techniques! The 3 Techniques: Heat embossing The Chalkboard Technique… Read More »
Autumn inspired seasonally scattered stamp set using the emboss resist sponging technique! This week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge inspired me to use one of the fabulous (and giant!) seasonal images from the Seasonally Scattered stamp set! For this card, I heat embossed the image with the new Crushed Curry Embossing Powder and then sponged on Mossy Meadow,… Read More »
Let the sentiment do the talking, that’s what I say. The sentiment and a quick technique are the focal points of this card today. I know! That’s a lot of purple, right?! It’s one of my favorite colors, so I’m not sure you can have too much purple. I did give it a nice pop of contrasting color… Read More »
6 watercolor card ideas and a video technique tutorial for one easy watercoloring method! The NEW Watercolor Wonder Note Cards and Envelopes make these easy to create. The card backgrounds give you a perfect backdrop for stamping, watercoloring and embellishing your way to having a fabulous stash of cards on hand for every occasion! These are the NEW… Read More »
I have been experimenting with background techniques for my rubber stamping projects. For the past couple of weeks, I have been trying out a technique using rubber bands on my clear blocks. This gives you a really fun and fabulous background image for your card! Isn’t this card an eye-popper?! I think it’s that Melon Mambo! Every time… Read More »
Stampin’ Up!s new Swallowtail stamp make the perfect image to practice all of our stamping techniques! I created 6 different cards using a different technique on each card using only the Swallowtail image stamp and a few sentiments. I’m having trouble deciding on which card is my favorite, but I think this one is it. It was so… Read More »
This week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge gave me the opportunity to use some of the embellishments in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog’s Artisan Elements Kit! I originally purchased two of the kits thinking that I had no idea what to do with it. I thought that my daughter, who is 21 and very creative, might have… Read More »
This is my second installment using the sponging resist technique using Stampin’ Up!s Natural Specialty Paper (#126917). What a fun technique! Look at how different this paper looks with the Tangerine Tango sponged on. Yesterday, I used the very same paper with Real Red and you get a completely different look! Check it out here! You can really… Read More »
I love when I have a day to myself just to be creative. It is so relaxing. There is something to be said about having hours just to rubber stamp and create handmade cards, scrapbooking pages and paper crafted projects and gifts. I love the texture that the Big Shot gives to a card. If you don’t have… Read More »
There are days when I sit and create really detailed cards and projects. I fuss with the details and try different elements to see what I like best. Today was not one of those days. It was time to break down and clean the house today, so my creative time was limited! I decided I better stick with… Read More »
You can add some great dimension to your cards by using a technique called Inked Dry Embossing. You use a brayer to ink up the front inside of your embossing folder and then emboss your paper. It really gives a beautiful effect. Here is an up close view of two samples. One is gumball green on whisper white, the… Read More »
You deserve to do something for yourself! I know that you’ve spent the last few weeks immersed in holiday preparations. You’ve made the cards, signed the cards and mailed the cards. You’ve shopped until you dropped and then you wrapped and embellished. You bought the food and now you are no doubt working on preparing that too. You’ve… Read More »
Let the sentiment be the focal point of your card with this technique. It is called In the Middle. I could have mounted these on a colorful piece of card stock to add more color, but I was liking the clean and simple feeling of this card. This would be a perfect technique for new stampers who don’t… Read More »