Die cuts are fantastic for bringing interest to an otherwise boring concept. Simple additions, I love utilizing them in my card designs. Card 1 Today’s card starts with a panel created using Black Soot Distress Oxide ink and Altenew’s Broken Chevron stencil. After ink blending over the stencil and adhering Continue Reading
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Distress Oxides and Stencils
Distress Oxides are great for blending and other techniques and using them along with stencils is no exception! Today, I have two great cards, both created using Distress Oxide inks. Card 1 For the first card, I used mini ink daubers and Gina K Design’s Sun Spot stencil. After adding Continue Reading
Card Making Basics 6 – Stenciling
Stencils are a fun way to add interest to your handmade cards! Used with a variety of techniques and mediums, owning just a couple can bring you plenty of diversity. Today, I will walk you through a few techniques utilizing stencils. Later in the week, I will post full tutorials Continue Reading
Ink Blending and Embossing Simplicity
Hello! Thanks for stopping by! Today, I have three cards that pair ink blending and embossing to great effect! Distress Oxides are my favorite way to ink blend. Starting with Bristol paper and Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tools, I blended Distress Oxide inks: Seedless Preserves, Pine Needles and Chipped Sapphire. Continue Reading
Watercolor Sunflowers
September makes me think of sunflowers, and today they inspired my creativity. I began by embossing Simon Says Stamp’s Daisy Bouquet set onto watercolor paper. I embossed two entire sets of the flower using Ranger black embossing powder. Next, in preparation for watercoloring, I used painters tape to adhere my Continue Reading
Card Making Basics 5 – Embossing
Embossing is a great way to add interest to handmade cards and other craft projects. In addition, it’s not a very difficult technique to get good at. In this weeks Card Making Basics installment, we will cover all things embossing to get you well adversed in this great technique. Tools Continue Reading
Masculine Birthday Cards
I always have a need of more birthday cards. Lately, of a masculine theme. Today, I’ve put together a few to add to my card stash. To start, I began embossing watercolor card panels using various embossing folders from my stash and my Big Shot die cutting machine. I selected Continue Reading
Easy Birthday Card
Creating handmade cards does not need to take a lot of time. Sometimes, a few minutes is all I have to pull together something. Today’s card utilizes a couple elements and a few minutes, but yields a great card nonetheless. When I am working on different techniques, I sometimes end Continue Reading
Card Making Basics 4 – Die Cutting
Die cutting is a fun way to add creative elements to handmade cards. There are many automatic die cutting machines out there (Cricuit & Silhouette are a couple of the most popular for crafters), in addition to numerous manual machines that require the use of metal dies. Manual machines is Continue Reading
Birthday Cards and Cute Characters
August is a month for celebration at my house. This year, my daughter turns 10 and I can hardly believe it! We are in full swing of school and extracurricular activities and this week I made good use of my ‘waiting time’. While the kids were at their activities, I Continue Reading