I love foiling, it adds the most amazing shine to cards but I never thought to foil on anything but cardstock. Well, Carol certainly did and the results are beautiful gold foiled ribbon! How cool is that!? She used hot … Read More ...
Teapot Shaped Card for Mom
What Mom wouldn’t be thrilled to receive this card? This sweet project from Terri can be used as a small shaped card or with a ribbon to hang it from can be used as a large gift tag. She used … Read More ...
Greyscale Elegant Easter Card
How elegant is this Easter Card from Lynn? I love the greyscale of black and white with no color, it gives a really classy feel to the card! She used a striped stencil and paste to create her background and … Read More ...
Bucket Of Carrots Easter Card
Shauna Todd used stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink to create this beautiful Bucket of Carrots Easter Card. To create the carrots she die cut them from white cardstock and used ink blending to add color, the bucket is a … Read More ...
Hamster Pop Up Birthday Card
Eeek, how cute are these little hamsters just waiting to pop up and wish someone a big Happy Birthday! Davina used stamped and dies from Mama Elephant to create this fun interactive pop up card design. She’s sharing step by … Read More ...
Masculine Birthday Dog Card
Masculine cards can be difficult to create but I think this Birthday card design from Gaylynn is perfect. This card has lots of texture from the stamped plaid background with paint splatter, the dry embossed and die cut frame and … Read More ...
Create Easter Cards with Small Stamps
When you get a stamp set it’s easy to focus on the larger main images and you might think the little stamps are just for accessories but they can also be the main event. Yana has create 3 beautiful Easter … Read More ...
2 Easter Basket Cards with No Line Coloring Technique
The no line coloring technique means you use a light colored ink (instead of traditional black) to stamp your images, the result is a softer, more hand drawn look. Nichol Spohr used this technique coloring in her stamped images with … Read More ...
Good Egg Spring Card
Lien used stamps and dies from Reverse Confetti to create this sweet “You’re a Good Egg” card that’s perfect for Spring and Easter. Die cutting the eggs from pattern paper is a quick and easy way to add color and … Read More ...
Card with Stained Glass Effect
This wonderful card from Lounon has the amazing look of stained glass. An open die cut image works well for this technique. She placed her flower die over top of watercolor paper and cut it out, then colored in with … Read More ...
Interactive Strawberry Basket Card
How yummy is this Strawberry Basket Card from Carly?! The top of the card with the strawberries actually pulls out of the basket base to reveal a sentiment or even a gift card for a fun interactive element. To give … Read More ...
Big Hugs Card
This beautiful “Big Hugs” card from Tina is full of texture and dimension with little 3D butterflies, lacey die cut border and dry embossed background. I really love the large die cut sentiment, notice the gradation of blue and yellow … Read More ...
All Ears Bunny Card
This sweet bunny is “All Ears” for a good friend. Jamie used stamps and dies from Rubbernecker to create this card. I love all the pretty touches like the glittery sentiment, sparkly die cut background and soft vellum doily.
Tips to Using Pattern Paper on Cards
One of my favorite things to use in card making (other than stamps :)) is pattern paper. Catherine Pooler is over on her blog sharing some inspiration for using it on card backgrounds, frames, die cutting, layering and more. My … Read More ...
Paris Pop Up Card
Ah, Paris in the Springtime, don’t you wish you where there? I know I do! Marine used cute stamps and dies from Sunny Studios to create this wonderful Pop Up City Card. I love the 3D layers to this pop … Read More ...