Flowers in a Circle (Video)

Hi everybody,

today I show you three cards I made, all with flowers stamped in a circle, but arranged separately. And there is a Video for that ;-)

But first: here are my cards...

Here is my Video

There is a new release in the shop. Only one day old. A lot of new Stencils, Dies and some cute Stampsets :-) 

To brighten up your day

Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here!

Today I have a little underwater scene for you. Hope you like it!

It's hot around here (Berlin) and I'm longing for vacation at the ocean. That's why I enjoy creating cards with underwater scenes a lot lately.

• stamp, color and fuzzy cut the stamped Images
• create an inkblended background in your favorite colors

• sponge the egdes of the paper in a darker color to create  more depth
• spritz on some water 
• adhere the stamped Images with foam tape or glue dots

To save some money and ink use colored cardstock in a very light color as a base for your ink blended backgrounds. That's what I did on this card.

Strahlende Küste

Glowing Seaside

Kroküsse

Crokisses

Königlich

Fur Real

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Happy crafting!

((VIDEO)) Watercolor Backgrounds&Loose Watercoloring

Hi everybody,

I got asked on instagram and youtube from time to time, how I do my Watercolor-Backgrounds. And its really no magic. That is why I though I make a Video for you.

And I show you on four cards with my go-to-techniques....

Watercoloring is really easy. You can't do "wrong" so maybe you just give it a try :-)

Here you can watch my Video in "english" ;-)



Here you can watch my Video in Deutsch (much better)

Did you know that christine, the owner of create a smile, does have a second Instagram-Channel called "@smilesspotting"?  There she shows her awesome lettering-skills with a kind of urban street-art :-) 

So Many Flowers... Happy Birthday

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Today's card is full of flowers.

I learned this technique from one of Kelly Latevola's amazing videos. I tried it once before and found it easy but loved the effect. So I decided to do it a second time.




AS I already told you is the technique not too difficult. For the instructions how to achieve this look you can watch Kelly's video on this rechnique. It is called Watercolor Bleaching.

• Instead of Copics I used coloured pencils for the shadows. I had the feeling my Copics didn't go well with the embossing and the Oxide inks.
• Use dark colours for your card The effect is much more stronger with darker colours.

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