Embrace New Change Art Journal

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Imagine

By Helen Gullett

– Hello crafty friends! The new season always brings something new that can surprise us. And new change brings hope, it can be beautiful. Let us embrace it with expectation. Today, we are going to make an art journal together.

Let’s get crafting!

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30-45 Minutes

Direction:

Step 1
First step we are going to build the base watercolor background.
Spray randomly each color of the FireWorks! Shimmery Craft Spray.

Step 2
While the spray pains are still kinda wet, spray lightly some water using a sprayer bottle.

Let it sit for a few seconds and then dab off some of the water with a clean dry paper tower. This will create more texture to the background.

Dry the page with a craft heat gun. Make sure the surface is completely dry.

Step 3
Cover the page with some anti-static powder and brush it off the page.

Add the stencil on the page and secure it with a washi tape or low-tack tape.

Add the VersaMark Original ink to the page with finger sponge dauber and remove the stencil off the page.

Add some of the Gold Mboss Embossing Powder and heat set it with a craft heat gun.

Step 4
Randomly on the page, stamp the ledger pattern stamp with VersaFine Clair Morning Mist ink using second generation stamping technique.

And then using the stamping technique and ink, stamp the script pattern stamp on the page.

Dry the stamped images with a craft heat gun.

Step 5
Stamp the leaves branch on the page with VersaFine Clair Avocado ink.

Dry the stamped images with a craft heat gun.

Step 6
Put a piece of white cardstock on the stamping tool and stamp the butterfly stamp with VersaFine Clair Pinecone ink.

Do not remove the stamp and paper.

Clean the ink off the stamp with Staz-On All-Purpose Stamp Cleaner.

Step 7
Stamp the same butterfly stamp with VersaMark Original ink.

Add some of the Sparkle Mboss Embossing Powder to the stamped image and heat set it with a craft heat gun.

Step 8
On a piece of white cardstock, gently swipe the VersaFine Clair Pinecone across the cardstock.

Dry the ink with a craft heat gun.

Cut it with one of the Stitched Tag dies.

Step 9
Add the tag to the page with On Point Glue.

Put the butterfly slightly off the page, and then glue the center of the butterfly with some of the On Point Glue. Leave the wings loose.

Cut the extra wing off the page with micro-tips scissors.

Step 10
Stamp the words on a piece of ivory cardstock with VersaMark Original ink.

Add some of the Gold Mboss Ebossing Powder and then heat set it with a craft heat gun.

Cut them with micro-tip scissors.

Draw lines around the word with Memento Marker Rich Cocoa.

Step 11
Add some of the Tear It! Double Sided Tape to 3D fun foam to create your own 3D foam tape.

Add some of the foam tape to each word and add them to the page.

Add some of the foam tape under the wings also to give them a 3D effect.

Step 12
Dab some of the Memento Luxe Wedding Dress ink on the craft mat and spray it with some water.

Pick up the ink with a small round brush, and add some splatters to the page.

Dry the whole page one more time with a craft heat gun.

This mini mixed media art journal page is done. It has a combination of the shimmery background, sparkly butterfly, and shiny gold metallic embossed texture and sentiment.

I hope you like the page and give this tutorial a try. Thanks so much for stopping by our blog today.

Have a wonderful day!

Craft Supplies

Imagine Crafts:

Memento Luxe (Wedding Dress)
Memento Marker (Rich Cocoa)
VersaFine Clair (Morning Mist, Avocado, Pinecone)
VersaMark (Original)
Mboss Embossing Powder (Gold, Sparkle)-retired
FireWorks! Shimmery Craft Spray (Dandelion, Tangelo, Pear Tart, Summer Sky)
On Point Glue
Tear It! Double-Sided Tape
Sponge Daubers
Imagine Craft Mat
Staz-On All Purpose Stamp Cleaner

Others:

Butterfly Bliss Stamp Set (Creative Worship Stamps)
Made New Stamp Set (Creative Worship Stamps)
Peaceful Botanicals Stamp Set (Creative Worship Stamps)
Vintage Snippets Stamp Set (Creative Worship Stamps)
Damask Pattern Stencil (Creative Worship Stamps)
Stitched Tags Die Set (Creative Worship Stamps)
Spiral Bound Watercolor Mixed Media Sketchbook (Creative Worship Stamps)
White cardstock
Ivory cardstock
Anti-static powder
Washi-tape or low-tack tape
3D fun foam
Round brush
Stamping blocks
Stamping tool
Micro-tip scissors
Diecutting machine

Ink Blending With Kaleidacolor Inks

Posted on August 28, 2024 by Imagine

By Alison Heikkila

Hello! I’m Alison Heikkila. Kaleidacolor Inks come in beautiful color palettes and help you do some really fun techniques. I love to use my Kaleidacolor Inks with my Gel Press plates. In this case, we’re using one of the Petite Plates to get the look of a watercolored painting without actually watercoloring.

Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Time to Complete: 20-30 Minutes

*Some affiliate links are used in this post. That means that if you shop through these links, I may receive a small compensation, at no cost to you.

Supplies:
Imagine:
Kaleidacolor Ink in Creole Spice
VersaMark Ink
White Embossing Powder
Fireworks! Spray in Cantaloupe
Memento Ink in Elderberry

Other:
Gel Press: Petites Set A
Gel Press: Rubber Brayer
Stampers Anonymous: Halloween Sketchbook
The Rabbit Hole Designs: Cotton Tail Blending Brush
Accent Opaque 100lb. White Cardstock
Scrapbook.com: Artis Craft Glue
Watercolor Paper
Stamping Platform

Thorny Rose – Trick or Treat Card

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Imagine

By Alison Heikkila

~Greetings! Alison Heikkila here. Today I have my latest video for Imagine, and I am making it part of my Halloween series. I broke out the Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray again (I love that stuff!) and I experimented with a technique idea I had. Did it work? You’ll have to watch the video to find out!

*Some affiliate links are used in this post. That means that if you shop through these links, I may receive a small compensation, at no cost to you. For more information, please see my Affiliates page, where I also have some coupon codes.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time to Complete: 30-40 minutes

Supplies:
Imagine:
Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray in Rhubarb Stalk and Lady Bug
VersaFine Clair Ink in Nocturne
VersaMark Ink
Memento Markers in Rhubarb Stalk, Love Letter, Lady Bug, Olive Grove, Bamboo Leaves, London Fog, and Tuxedo Black
Black Embossing Powder

Other:
A Colorful Life Designs: Thorny Vines stencil– Use code AlFan10 to save 10%
Erin Lee Creative: Stay Weird Stamp Set (no longer available)
Ellen Hutson: Hocus Pocus Stamp & Die Combo
Strathmore: Smooth Bristol Cardstock
Bearly Arts Glue
White cardstock

I hope you enjoyed this! Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a spooktacular day!

Compare 4 Different Mboss Powders on Kaleidacolor Gel Plate Printed Backgrounds

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Imagine

By Nancy May

How familiar are you with Kaleidacolor inkpads and Mboss Embossing Powder? Let’s take a look at one of the Kaleidacolor pads I have had for many years and see how it does on the gel plate. Then we’ll play a bit and see how 4 different Mboss Embossing powders impact the same basic Gelli printed background.

~Nancy

Skill: Beginner, Intermediate

Time: undetermined

Art Supplies

Imagine:

● VersaMark Clear Embossing Ink

● Kaleidacolor – Autumn Leaves

● Mboss – Clear, Gold, Black, White

Other:

● Gelli Arts – 5×7 Gel Plate

● Speedball Brayer, 6”

● Hero Arts – Abstract Honeycomb Bold Prints 6×6 Red Rubber Background Stamp

● Hero Arts – Bee and Flowers Wreath Stamp Set

● Tim Holtz – Tag Collection Framelits Dies 658784

● Pinkfresh Studios – Fancy Label Frames

● Whimsy Stamps – Nested Hexagon Die Set

● Heffy Doodle – Honey Word Die

● Tonic – Gold Metal Sheets

● Amazon – Cotton lace

● Amazon – Bulb pins

Quick and Easy Thank You Card

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Imagine

By Martha Lucia Gomez

Hello crafty friends! Today, I have the easiest and simple tutorial to make a unique thank you card or any type of cards. Let me share the project with you.

Skill: Beginning
Time: 60 minutes

Directions:

To make my model, I decided to use Radian Neon 4 Warm for two reasons. The first one is because I love the colors of this set of inks and the second, because Radian Neon brings the opportunity to create textures.

Step 1:

Select the colors of inks that you want to use in small sizes pads. For this idea, you can use any of our 4 Inkpads or small presentations like the Dew Drop of other inks, like Brilliance, VersaMagic, Delicata or Memento, just to mention some.

Step 2:

Place the entire ink pad over the cardstock in the direction that you want the colors. I press mine three times over the card under different pression to obtain different textures in each color.

Step 3:

Let the ink dry naturally or speed the process with a heat tool. If you want, you can cover the stamped blocks of ink with clear embossing powder and emboss them with the heat tool, to obtain a better texture.

Step 4:

Stamp a sentiment over the color blocks using VersaFine Clair Nocturne to add a major contrast over your card.

Step 5:

Heat embosses the sentiment with clear embossing powder and paste the decorated layer over your card base.

As you can see this is a really simple way to use your ink pads as stamps. Depending on the pression and intensity that you apply over the ink pad or 4Ink Pad, you will obtain different looks.

Thanks for stopping by and remember, you don’t need to create complicated projects. Just use the best inks and let your creativity shine!

Art Supplies:

Imagine:

Other:

Stamping Tool
White and colored cardstock.
Crafty Foam Tape

Using Fireworks! Spray with Emboss Resist

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Imagine

By Alison Heikkila

– Hello! It’s Alison Heikkila. Today we’re going to play with some Fireworks! Sprays on an emboss resist background. It’s a great masculine card, but I prefer to call it non-gendered. By changing up the background stamp and/or the colors, you can make this card as unique as the person you’re giving it to.

Skill: Beginner-Intermediate

Time to Complete: 20 minutes