TECHNIQUES--at a glance

This is an alphabetical link-list of techniques that I've got here on my blog. If you have any questions, requests, and/or creative criticism, I'd love to hear from you!

Acetate embossing
Acetate paint embossing
Acrylic alphabet background
Altering cardstock (with background stamp to match designer papers)
Altered cardstock (with a marker) Altered cardstock (by sponging)
'Artsy fartsy' faux grass strip (painted and then cut)
Bandanna technique
Batik Bloom
Batik UFO
Bookspine bookmarks
Bubble paper
Carving your own stamps (with lino):

• crow & more crow & crow card
  
• mushrooms
• outrigger
• wee birdies
  

Computer printing on gesso cardstock & faux watercolour
Cracked glass over pastelled collage images
Custom faux stitching template (and how to make your own)
Custom designer paper (by just swiping on ink!)

Cuttlebug techniques a link-list of 101 ways to Cuttlebug (and counting)

• Cuttlebug Crayon Resist (& an example here & another here)
  
• Cuttlebug Crayon Rub
  
• Faux Tin Tile (in the cuttlebug) (& an example here)
• Making your own stamps with Cuttlebug fun foam (1. DIY Dye cut Fun foam stamps) 2. Turn Embossing Folders into Stamps & 3. DIY fun foam background)
  
• Oil Pastel & Gesso Cuttlebug paper
  

Direct to paper crayoning (Easy way to make great textures)
Distressed ribbon
Distressed (extra hot!) embossing
Dye your own primas (silk flowers) with reinkers
Dye your own ribbon & more ribbon
Embellishing gems
Embossed faux ribbon
Embossed mats (for glossy or textured mats)
Emboss Resist over images (Magic Pattern)
Embossed Ribbon
Embossed Vellum
Embossing with water! (looks like rain drops)
Etched Verdigris embossing (and DIY embossing powder)
Fabric Stickers & how to Adapt Templates with a scanner
Faux Bleach with no bleach
Faux Bleach with no bleach (tinted)--similar to black magic
Faux Grid technique (doesn't require a Scor-Pal)
Faux Metal tin look (in cuttlebug with crayons & reinker)
Faux scallop
Faux stitching (freehand & glue pen emboss) (lots o' links)
Faux stitching embossed (with S.U.'s perforator from the cutter kit)
Faux stitched ribbon
Faux suede (with glue pen embossing and white craft ink)
Giving copper tape a verdigris finish
Glittering stamped images (with heat'n'stick powder)

Glue pen embossing (with a Sakura Quickie glue pen):

• Acrylic alphabet background
• Black flowers & textile pattern link
• Detailed freehand emboss resist emboss resist
• Embossing hand-written sentiments
• Glue-pen Embossing with multiple colours of embossing powder!
• How-to lighten images to print & white on white embossing
• Silver with black resist & faux-bleach with no bleach
• Silver on Soft Sky textile pattern
• The original tutorial & embroidery pattern links
• Water coloured poppy
• Freehand Flower stem
  

Handmade lacquered embellishments
Homemade designer paper (antique handwriting) (printed on your computer)
Homemade designer paper (antiqu maps) (printed on your computer)
Homemade shimmer spray (with pearlex)
Homemade tearing edge (esp. good for mulberry paper)
Hot cuttlebug embossing (adds e.p. to inking the cuttlebug smoosh)
Jewelery finding embellishment
Journal covering (with aluminum tape & chipboard)
Lots of ways to use the Round Tab punch
Lumiere Sheen
Make ahead card-kit images & embellishments (for quick cards)
Magic Pattern
Magic Pattern Primas
Moist Kissing (the traditional technique 'moistened' to work better!)
Spectrum (or rainbow stamp pad) look using markers
Paint with reinkers (mix dye-inks, craft/pigment inks, & versamark)
Tone on Tone (painted) Paper Dots
Paper piercing (or faux stitching)
Powderless Embossing (with a glaze pen!) & more Powderless Embossing
Printed butterflies
Printing on tissue paper (from your computer)
Printed Vellum
Sanded emboss resist
Sanding cardstock with a white core
Scallop with punched circles

Scor-Pal Techniques

• Over 100 things you can do with your Scor-Pal
• Beaded Scor-Pal Grid
  
• Blinged up Scor-Pal stripes (or grid)
• Distressed Scor-Pal marker grid (& an example here)
  
• Faux French Knot (& a sample here & another example here)
  
• Faux Tin Tile (& an example here)
  

Sealing cottony ribbon with crystal effects/lacquer (when a lighter won't work)
Shaped lotus flower (wet wrinkle cardstock technique)
Shaped paper blooms
Single layer "Fabulous Flower" (SU stamp)
Soaps with stamps
Sparkling Rain Background
Stamping on candles (poetry)
Stamping with Lumiere (& turning a solid stamp into a line image & dry embossing over Lumiere sheen)
The book that ate a book (covered sketchbook)
Tinted photo(copy)
Tinted Vellum (finger smudging)
Tinted Vellum (painted with wash)
Tinted Versamark Pad (make your own custom colours)
Tinted White Signo Gel pen
Unmounting wheels (Stampin' Up wheels)
Using Vintage jewelery as accents
Vellum colouring (sponge on ink)
Water colour Pencil crayon pointers
Water window (hair gel) card
Wet and wrinkle cardstock
Word window keyhole tab (and belly-band-elope)

This list is sure to grow, so please feel free to come back anytime ;0). There's a button right under my blog banner that will bring you here (it's called TECHNIQUES.)

Thanks for stopping by!


P.S. Want more stuff to do? Here is Beate's fabulous link-list of her tutorials