Craft Your Joy Card Tutorial: Stamp Layering + Color Mixing

Life is Good Card Design

In this card tutorial video, I’m sharing some simple techniques for layering stamped images and mixing colors right on your card. This project is big on single layers, texture and color. Super fun card that takes less than 10 minutes.

Craft Your Joy Card Tutorial: Graphic Inspired Card Design

Graphic Inspired Card Design

In this card tutorial video, I’m sharing graphic inspired card designs looks where the stamps are the star of the card. Bold, graphic card design is a lot easier than it looks. Spoiler Alert: There is a bit of singing and excitement in this video. It just can’t be helped.

Craft Your Joy Card Tutorial: Simple Happy Hello

A Happy Hello

In this card tutorial video, I’m sharing a clean and simple card that focuses on creating a fun pattern with the horizontal background stamp from my Just a Little Stamp Set with Gina K Designs. Spoiler Alert: There’s a bit of a nerdy moment in the middle there when I discover a super fun way to use the background to create a fun square pattern.

Craft Your Joy Card Tutorial: Grateful for Flowers

So Grateful For You Card

Hi Friends! Thanks so much for stopping by, I’m so grateful you’re here. This video is all about the flowers, and, of course… WATERCOLOR. I’m paying homage to the florals in my Gina K Designs stamp sets and watercoloring them up with a “new to me” art supply brand, Arteza.

Holy Smokes! It’s STAMPtember 2018

Stamptember 2018

I’m super excited and grateful to be participating in STAMPtember this year. It’s a huge stampy celebration. Today, Simon Says Stamp is having a massive STAMPtember® blog party. A party, not a hop. It’s a big honkin’ celebration PARTY!

Craft Your Joy Card Tutorial: Color Mixing with Dye Inks

Just a Happy Hello Card

Hi Friends! Thanks so much for stopping by, I’m so grateful you’re here. In this card tutorial video, I’m mix mashing up dye inks to create a new color and achieve dimensional effects. Turquoise Sea and Dandelion make an appearance in this color mixing video and I think you will be delighted to see the new color. This card is simple, fun and big on color pop.

Craft Your Joy Card Tutorial: Watercolor Marker Mojo Fun!

Watercolor Marker Mojo

In this week’s video, I’m having some fun with all my watercolor markers and sharing how to mash them up to create bold, bright colors for your stamping projects. I’m also dropping some knowledge about watercoloring on Bristol paper. It’s a fun one, let’s dive in!

Craft Your Joy Card Tutorial: Watercolor Stamping on YUPO

Watercolor Stamping on YUPO

In this tutorial, I’m geekin’ out a bit with some watercolor technique fun on YUPO. It’s a fun paper medium, but not so much a paper, that’s super bright and resists buckling with wet watercolor mediums. Brilliantly used by papercrafters and artists with alcohol inks, I decided to have some watercolor fun with YUPO.