Tag: Catherine Pooler
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Stenciling Two Ways For Beautiful Card Backgrounds
Both of the cards shown today are made using the same stencil and ink colors. By stenciling them two different ways, you can create interesting and beautiful card backgrounds. The first card is ink blended by holding the stencil in place and overlapping the ink. Because the colors are on the cool side of…
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Stained Glass Medallion Cards
This card came about because I wanted to make the medallion from the Stained Glass Medallion die set look as close to stained glass as possible. Using a high gloss glue over the ink-blended cardstock gives a shiny, almost glass-like look. Ink blending within the parameters of the shapes keeps the focus on the…
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Bubble Wrap Embossing
Accidental Embossing An interesting thing happened when I laid a piece of mini-bubble wrap onto the card front when running it through the die-cutting machine to cut a smaller panel. I was trying to maintain the shape of the white splatters and hoped the bubble wrap would absorb enough of the pressure to keep the…
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Venetian Neighborhood Using Three Different Coloring Techniques
This Hero Arts stamp is an amazingly detailed large stamp that is perfect for many types of coloring techniques. I could have chosen more but stuck with three very different ones to showcase very different looks. And one of them is kind of a failure. The stamped image is a Venetian neighborhood. I wanted something…
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Mixed Media Howdy Card
Many of us purchase mixed media supplies for art journaling but don’t use them for much else. It is fun to use them on cards and scrapbook pages, too! This mixed media “Howdy” card is simple to make. And it packs a lot of texture without needing extra postage! First, I applied Pink Candy Coat…
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A Quick Colorful Card
Sometimes you need to make a card quickly. This colorful card is straightforward to make and only takes a short time to assemble. To make the crisp center square I used the alignment tool’s square mask and ink blended all around it. All the die cuts were made with one set of dies, cutting…
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Craft My Stash: Glossy Accents For Stained Glass Effect
Recently, I purchased some new glossy glue from Spellbinders called Glaze and Glue. This purchase, as are many of mine, was motivated by thinking it was a new product to try. As it turns out, it is very much like something already in my stash: Glossy Accents from Ranger. This makes this Craft My Stash…
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