Kristina Werner created her own large polka dots on this pretty Valentine’s Day Shaker Card. Using a bottle she traced the edge to create circles, filled them in with masking fluid, water colored over top and then removed the mask … Read More ...
3 Valentine’s Day Cards with Heart Stenciled Backgrounds
Nichol Sphor used 3 different stencil in 3 different way to create some wonderful backgrounds for 3 cute Valentine’s Day Cards. Using ink blending techniques, light ink on dark cardstock and glitter paste she’ll show you how to design each … Read More ...
How to Color Metallic Balloons for a Valentine Card
Wow, Catherine took a simple XOXO die cut and made them look like actual metallic balloons! She cut the die from white cardstock and used Copic Markers in shapes of pink and red to color them in. They are the … Read More ...
Valentine Edge to Edge Shaker Card
Marine combined a couple of fun trends in this adorable Valentine’s Day Card. First it’s a mini slimline style and it’s also an edge to edge shaker card, both very much on trend right now. She added large chunky elements … Read More ...
XOXO Valentine’s Day Card
Send hugs and kisses this Valentine’s Day with a sweet XOXO Card. For the background Mindy heat embossed a large heart background stamp in white and then ink blended pinks and purples over top, then wiped the ink off the … Read More ...
Birthday Card with Wax Seal
Wax seals are fun to close envelopes with (which always make me think of Harry Potter’s Letter to Hogwarts :)) but you can also use them as embellishments on cards too. Bobbi used pretty pink wax and a lovely rose … Read More ...
2 Stitched Valentine Cards
Tiffany combined stamping and stitching on these 2 super sweet Valentine’s Day Cards. I love how she didn’t color the stamped images but added loads of color instead with her sewing. Dies that have holes already punched like these from … Read More ...
Snowman Greetings Cards
These snowmen are ready to sent someone some sweet winter greetings. Nichol used stamps and dies from Simon Says to create these wintery woodland scenes. Notice how she die cut the background from white cardstock and added color to the … Read More ...
Interactive Garden Shutter Cards
These beautiful cards have layers of dry embossing and die cut backgrounds, flowers and butterflies and they also include a fun interactive element too. Using the Garden Shutter dies from Spellbinders Lisa created 3 cards that have flaps that lift … Read More ...
Ice Day Shaker Card
Samantha used adorable seal and penguin stamps from LDRS to create the winter scene on this sweet card. And isn’t the “Have an ICE day” sentiment so funny!? Covering her scene she also added an over all shaker element for … Read More ...
Puppy Pop Up Valentine Card
With a sweet doggy face on the front and another pop up face who’s ears move on the inside this cute Puppy Valentine’s Day Card brings all the cuteness! Emelie used dies from i-crafter to create her interactive card and … Read More ...
Moon and Back Valentine Card
This stunning To the Moon and Back Card from Yana Smakula makes a wonderful masculine Valentine’s Day or Anniversary Card. She heat embossed the moon and sentiment in gold on dark cardstocks, adding some glitter stenciled stars as well as … Read More ...
Hot Foil “Left Overs” Card
When you use foil there’s usually a “positive” and a “negative”, the positive is used on your project and you might think to throw away the negative “waste” but don’t do that! The left over can create beautiful card backgrounds … Read More ...
Happy New Year!
I’d like to wish all our readers a safe, healthy and Happy New Year!!
-Heather
(card by me with stamps from Hero Arts)
… Read More ...New Year Bottle Tag
Bring a bottle of something bubbly to your friends New Years Eve party decorated with a fun handmade Bottle Tag. Brenda used dies from Trinity Stamps to create this one cutting the base from black cardstock and using shimmery holographic … Read More ...