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...

Hello! I wanted to share with you my first ever attempt at using embossing markers! A few months ago, I signed up for a card swap in a Facebook group called "Card Swaps for All Seasons".  For the month of February 2020, I signed up for 8 different cards.  This post highlights the first card I made. The theme for this card was Art Impressions "Girlfriends".  We could use anything as long as we used any of the Girlfriends stamps by Art Impressions.  I chose the Picture Perfect stamp set .  I just love the stamp of the group of women taking a selfie.  I can totally relate to this stamp...and the sentiment! This reminds me of my friends! I knew I wanted to color this card with my alcohol markers but I wanted to try something different and make the outfits stand out a bit.  I didn't have very many embossing powder colors so I thought I'd try out these embossing markers in primary colors by Marvy (unfortunately, they are discontinued now but I was able...