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Fanciful Florals Easter Card by Nadine
Hello my creative friends! Today I am sharing an Easter themed card using the Fanciful Florals collection. I love this paper collection because I love to add color to my pages. These lovely black and white designs are perfect to add soft or bold colors to customize your project. Add Distress Inks to Paper Start by adding Distress Inks to paper using a foam and blending tool. By blending in light layers this will create a warm and soft color to the card background. Start blending with Squeezed Lemonade distress ink in a very light manner across the open spaces...
Garden Selfies Scrapbook Page by Nadine
Hello my Creative Friends! Are you waiting for spring to arrive and for the snow to go away? As I was working on garden planning this week, I came across these fun garden photos that I just had to scrapbook! I love the Play in the Dirt and Pam Bray Carefree collections for their bright colors. They are the perfect materials for this project! If you are interested in purchasing these projects, please use DTNADINE at checkout to get a discount on your order. In this week’s scrapbook project, I used some of my favorite scrapbooking design techniques for...
Mixed Media Art Panel by Nadine
Hello my creative friends! Today I want to share with you how to use the Floral cut files from Wild Whisper Designs to make a mixed media art panel. I will also be using some of my favorite mixed media products in the creation of this art panel. Wild Whisper has some beautiful papers and stamps, but were you aware that the also have a great range of cut file images? What I love the most about these images is that they can be sized to fit the scale of the project that you are creating. I love the versatility...
Valentine’s Day Slimline Card by Nadine
Hello crafty friends! With Valentine’s Day just a few days away, I wanted to share with you how to make a Valentine’s Day slimline card. Valentine’s Day cards are fun to make, but what if you want to move away from more conventional colors for these cards? In this tutorial we will be creating a card that does not use red or pink, but the more muted greys and greens of the Adventure collection. To create this card, I used the Wild Whisper Adventure and Pam Bray Watercolor paper collections along with a few other materials to add some mixed...
Altered Page ft. Pam Bray’s Carefree Collection by Nadine
Hello everyone! Today I wanted to share with you one of my favorite ways to alter paper using acrylic paint in this fun and bright mixed media journal page. In this week’s project I’m going to share with you my new favorite paper collection by Pam Bray called Carefree. What I love about this paper is that it so bright and cheery. If you are interested in this paper, please use the code DTNADINE to get a discount on your next order. What You Focus on Grows This paper reminded me of a phrase that I heard several times during...