Welcome to Flag and 4th of July Blog Hop! The members of the Design Team of Joy Clair Stamps are so glad you joined us for this special event. We want to inspire you by using two different new stamp sets that Joy Clair launched recently, specially for this celebration. They are Grungy Flag Background and Happy Fourth. Both stamp set are available in our Joy Clair Store and you can use them to create amazing projects. As usual during this blog...

Techniques are my passion and today I want to share with you Ink Coloring with Rinea Foil paper, a quick and easy tip to change the color of your foil using StazOn Ink and the texture created by an embossing folder. It’s easy and quick and you can obtain amazing results when you decide to experiment and combine different colors of inks. Take a look at my card: To create this I used Whisper White card stock for the base, the die cut...

When Live Gives You a Monday… you have to celebrate because you are alive!!! I  love this snarky stamp from So Suzy Stamps and I decided to use it in today’s project combined with a sweet image. Take a look at my card: Is it not a great sentiment? Like it said, I decided to add glitter and sparkle to my creation and I want to share with you how to make this: Cut the base of the card using Rich Razzleberry card stock. The size is...

Summer has arrived and what better way to celebrate than with a striking tangerine orange project. What a beautiful color! When I saw the challenge, I thought of the neon colors in the Tsukineko’s Radiant Neon Amplify. I made this card using “hello,” cherry blossom and flamingo die cuts but, the best part of this card is the wild background created with Amplify. Amplify reacts to the heat tool and creates a soft look with a 3-D effect. The...

Picture Perfect in God’s Focus! what a great stamp set from Joy Clair… I love it!!! Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a Color by Faith stamp set called God’s Focus that I used to create a card. Take a look at my card and see how simple it is to make this: To create this card, I selected watercolor paper and Cherry Cobbler card stock. Cut the base of the card using Cherry Cobbler card stock. The size is...

Love you Birds!!! Today I am sharing with you two stamps from the most recent release from So Suzy Stamps and as I combined the stamps I also combined the title for my post. The two stamps that I used are Love Birds and Simple Love You. Take a look at my card: This is a window card and the first thing that I did was to create the background of the front using the stamp Simple Love You. I took the Memento Morocco Ink and after inking the image I...

One of my favorite techniques is embossing, but since I can´t use this technique in all my projects, I can use it partially, don´t you think?  Take a look at my card: Today I want to share with you a partial embossing technique using color layering stamps. It’s very simple and fun and you can get beautiful results on your projects.  Let me tell you how I made my card: Stamp the first layer of the stamps using Memento Ink. For my flowers I...

Welcome to the Joy Clair & Imagine Blog Hop Day 2, the perfect match with stamps and inks! I am so happy to have you here for a second day!!!   We have two different design teams, full of talented ladies that will surely inspire you along the way. And of course amazing prizes to share with you!!! Just be sure to leave comments during the hop so you can be entered to win one of two $25 Joy Clair Stamps Gift Cards and one of two $25 Gift...

Welcome to the Joy Clair & Imagine Blog Hop Day 1, the perfect match with stamps and inks! We are so glad you joined us for this fun collaboration blog hop.   We have two different design teams, full of talented ladies that will surely inspire you along the way. And of course amazing prizes to share with you!!! Just be sure to leave comments during the hop so you can be entered to win one of two $25 Joy Clair Stamps Gift Cards and one...

Techniques are my passion and Imagine has the best products to develop techniques. On today’s project I am using the Mother Pearl Technique. The secret: All-purpose Ink in Frost White color. Come with me and see how easy it is to create this effect in your background or stamped images. Take a look at my card: Take a piece of regular card stock and sponge it with two or three tones of Memento Ink . I selected two tones Lulu Lavender and...