Welcome to a new Cards By Kendra blog post!   Today I wanted to share the tutorial video for these three handmade cards I made using Distress oxide inks for making the backgrounds.  I posted about the third card a few days ago, which is a scented "Happy Birthday" card.  I promised a tutorial video on how I made it, so here it is!  Two of these three cards are shaker cards. The first card I made (not a shaker card) is below. The first card was made using an emboss resist technique with the Batik stencil from Martha Stewart.  My video tutorial doesn't show all of the steps and instructions for the first card shown in the picture.  It only shows how I made the background.  To finish the card, I used the "Friend" die and the flower/vine die from the  "Well Written" die set by Stampin' Up. I thought the flower matched the center part of the stenciled image pretty well.  Black cardstock was used to cut out the die cuts and the...

Welcome to a new Cards By Kendra blog post!   Today I wanted to share this card that I made for a card swap with a watercolor theme for the Facebook Group "Card Swaps for All Seasons".  I've been experimenting with a lot of different types of ink lately and for this card I used several different techniques using watercolor pencils, Distress Oxide Inks and Distress Spray. The watercolor frame was made using three of my favorite colors of distress oxide inks on watercolor paper using a smooshing technique (I found a video for this on YouTube a while back).  I used the following Distress Oxide ink colors:   squeezed lemonade , twisted citron and mermaid lagoon .  After letting this dry overnight I used the largest die and then two sizes smaller to make the frame from the torn edge rectangle die set .  Next, I used a die that had small holes in it on a piece of clear acetate that was cut just slightly bigger than the smaller rectangle die. ...