Hi friends and a happy Thursday—and a happy Thanksgiving, if you’re celebrating. Last night I hosted a Facebook Live for Altenew, featuring their Ornate Foliage stamp and die set. This is one of those stamp sets that can be used…
Author: Sara Naumann
Tinting Grunge Paste with acrylic paint is a tried-and-true way to get custom-colored texture for your cards. Most often, we stencil with the tinted medium… but another fun application is with an acrylic stamping block. Simply apply the paste to…
Last week I hosted a Live session on the Altenew You Tube channel, featuring the Winter Wonderland Watercolor Brush Marker collection. These are just what they sound like: Water brushes, with watercolor inside. Of course you can use them to…
Hello friends! Today I want to show you one of my favorite techniques with stencils: Reverse stenciling: The background of this card uses the PaperArtsy PS145 stencil, which looks like this: So normally when using a stencil, you color through…
Happy Monday, friends! Here’s a quick, easy, and high-impact design to start off your week. This card uses simple white-on-white layering, crisp black ink stamping and spattering, plus a pop of bright pink color. I started by using a dye-based…
Hi friends, today I’m having a look at some of my favorite PaperArtsy card-making techniques—this time, it’s a simple paint-brayered background with stenciling, stamping and foiling. I’m using the following: Every Leaf stamp: PaperArtsy Eclectica ESN41 Circles stencil: PaperArtsy PS176…
Happy Monday, friends! Today I have a *new* technique that I absolutely adore: 3-D die-cut layering. You’ll see the floral card focal here has been die cut from several layers of patterned paper. These are all from the Peony Hello…
I’ve always loved tag art. Being a different size from my usual cards, tags provide a fun, different surface to work on, and can be little works of art all by themselves. This collage tag is actually made on an…