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  Hi everyone, I'm Christina, here today in the Design Team Spotlight to share an elegant and unique wedding card that I created for a friend of mine. The colours of light blue and royal red, related to their heritages/ancestors, makes this card extra specia l.   So let's get started... Using Tim Holtz mixed media card stock as a base, I ran the TH Sizzix texture fades in sparkle on the top half of the card stock. Then applied distress oxide in Tumbled Glass over the top and lightly sanded it.  To give it more definition, I randomly applied distress oxide in Broken China over the whole card (I didn't spritz the card with water because I wanted to achieve a chalk like finish) Next, I created three backgrounds using distress inks in Broken China, Peacock feathers and distress oxide in Candied Apple. I used Tim Holtz thinlits die in Funky Florals to  create the flowers. Now the fun part begins... WARNING.. be prepar...

Hello Zahraa here with a tutorial on how to make a vintage card.  Fabric designs and colours have been a huge inspiration to me lately. For this card I wanted to mimic a piece of embossed vintage velvet that I had seen. How fun to translate designs into  something real for me as a paper crafter.  Step one: Paint a piece of recycled card stock with a thin layer of Gesso and talc powder. Try and paint in two directions to create texture. Step two: Use three colours of distress oxide and black acrylic paint and paint over the 'gessoed' piece. Notice how the gesso texture really comes alive when you add colour to it. I started with touches of black paint first, then added distress oxides in selected areas. Step three: Leave the ink to dry and then emboss a pattern onto the card stock piece using an embossing folder and your machine. The pattern doesn't look like much until the next step.  Step four: Use your black ink pad and lightly sw...

Hello, Zowie here with a quick tutorial on how to create a vintage nostalgic Christmas Postcard.  To start, I chose these beautiful papers to adhere to a tag that I made from plain white card stock measured at 5.5" x 3.5" * Wood design-  Wild at heart paper stash * Digital music  sheet-  LaBoutiqueDeiColori * Vintage Reindeer image-  GraphicMarketplace Next, I used a North Star and two Reindeer metal dies along with Kraft card stock. I distressed the edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink and created some small white decoration on the Reindeer's body. I have also embossed the star with a embossing folder.  Medium Reindeer - Xcut mini die  Small Reindeer - Marianne Design Christmas village decoration set  Star die - Xcut mini die   Snowflake embossing folder - Crafters Companion Vintage collection Finally I printed out the words 'Merry Christmas' on to white cardstock and inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  Hope tha...

Hello everyone, Priya here with a tutorial on how to make a layered mixed media canvas. There will be a list of  products used at the bottom of this post. To begin, I gave a stencil background on both the rectangle and heart shaped canvas, using a Mudra's Diamond deco and TCW'S Tiny circle stencil, I applied both Graphite paste and modelling paste.# Mixed media canvas video tutorial Next, I applied Liquitex glass bead gel randomly on both canvases, then gave a coat of black gesso. Here I have layered the heart canvas over the rectangle one , I also adhered some cheese cloth and burlap. Here I have adhered some Papericious Linear flourish chippies. I adhered some old paint brushes, bottle caps, metal flowers and other embellishments to the base using soft gloss gel. Mixed Finnabair art stones and mini art stones have been randomly applied with soft gloss gel also. When dry, I coloured the entire work with Olive green rust paste.I then dabbed Blue and Mint green P...

Hi everyone, Christina here with a tutorial on how to create a 'faux stitching' mixed media tag. Choose your favourite pattern paper, using a 1" square punch, punch out various pieces of the paper to fit an number 8 tag and adhere. Take a paper piercing tool and poke holes through the edges of the squares. Draw random squiggly lines in black and white markers to give the illusion of thread. To give the background more dimension, apply a Tim Holtz distress crayon in Old paper around the squares and rub with your fingers to smudge it.(Hint) use a baby or alcohol wipe to remove some excess crayon for a more subtle look. To create the layered snowflake, I used the Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz die layered snowflake with the embossing folder, Ranger foil sheets and ran them both through the Vagabond. Next, I coloured the snowflake with alcohol inks in Latte and Blue and added a Tim Holtz idea-ology word token 'frosty' in the centre. Using a distress crayo...

Hello everyone, Zowie here with a quick and easy altered Index card tutorial.. vintage style! I've seen so many wonderful altered Index cards on the internet and wanted to make some; they are highly addictive and perfect for a quick and fun project, especially if you are having creative block!  Here I have used a plain index card and adhered a book page and vintage map design paper, which has been torn at the edges. Next, I chose these elements to compliment the paper that I used, including this wonderful vintage photo.  I have used a Tim Holtz star rubber stamp along with Tiramisu Archival ink.  Vintage photo distress ink has been used on all edges of the card and elements. Finally, I chose some book text and adhered it to the card along with a fussy cut butterfly. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial, happy crafting! Zowie Dixon