New to making shaker cards or looking for a different way? Here’s a great tip. Instead of using layers of foam adhesive for her shaker cards Juliana used layers of die cut frames stacked together to make her shakers. So … Read More ...
Download: Christmas Tree Cut File
This tree pattern die cutting file is perfect for card or scrapbook page backgrounds for your holiday or winter cards and photos. Designed by Nicole Nowosad for Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine, it’s free to download from their blog, click … Read More ...
Tips for Making Quick and Easy Holiday Cards
The holidays can be hectic and finding time to do everything can be tough and as card makers we feel like we just “have” to make everyone we know a card this time of year, right? Well take some of … Read More ...
Project: Christmas Tree Shaped Cards
Infinity dies, which come in the same shape that get progressively smaller make for perfect shaped cards. These lovely Christmas tree card were made with dies and stamps from Hero Arts. You can visit their blog for a video tutorial.… Read More ...
Project: Stamped Christmas Gift Bags
Transform a plain white paper bag into a festive gift sack for the Holidays with pattern paper, stamps and dies. Sandie from Stampingbella shares them over on their blog, click here for directions.
-Heather
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Technique: Coloring Winter Scene Cards with Water Color Markers
Kristina Werner will show you how to color up some fun winter snowman scenes with water color markers and also shares some tips on how to use unmounted rubber stamps. Visit her blog for all the details.
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Project: Funny Christmas Shaker Card
This bunny isn’t sure he’s ready for Christmas, he’s got some explaining to do! This adorable shaker card was designed by Nichol Spohr using dies and stamps from Honey Bee. I love their Blah Humbunny stamps set, such a … Read More ...
Project: Bird Making a Snow Angel Card
This adorable little bird wobbles on the card and appears to make a snow angel, how cute is that?! Amy Rysavy will show you how to make a mask and apply paste to the card for the snow and how … Read More ...
Projects: 5 Mini Class Card Tutorials
Each month My Favorite Things stamps shares some of their favorite projects from their designers, each with a mini class to complete the projects. You’ll find a downloadable PDF as well as video tutorials for 5 different projects. November has … Read More ...
Project: Holiday Card with All Over Stamped Background
Designer Laura Bassen will show you how to use a stamp positioner to make it easy to line up a boarder stamp to create a seamless all over background pattern. She’s also got complete card directions for these lovely holiday … Read More ...
Tips: Three Ways to Add Stitching to Your Cards
Adding stitching to your stamped cards adds such a special touch and extra dimension. There are several ways to add stitching to your cards and the Ellen Hudson blog shares how to achieve 3 different stitched looks, hand stitching, machine … Read More ...
Project: 1/2 Page Easel Card
Over on the Stempeleinmaleins blog you’ll find complete cutting, scoring and folding directions to make a fun 1/2 page easel card where 1 /2 of the card slides up to form and easel and reveals images underneath. There’s also loads … Read More ...
Projects: 3 Different Magic Slider Cards
Magic slider card are so much fun, they have a pull out that magically reveals an image underneath. In the past they were a little tricky to put together but the cleaver folks over at Lawn Fawn have designed a … Read More ...
Project: Under the Sea Holiday Card
I love mermaids (and mermen) and using tropical designs for the holidays so I am in love with this adorable Z Fold Sea-sonal card! It’s designed by Katie Gehrig using stamps from Waffle Flower and she’s got a project tutorial … Read More ...
Tutorial: Inlaid Holiday Cards
Maria Russell created this sweet card by coloring a die cut scene image with markers and placing it into the negative cut out space for some simple but super cute Holiday Inlaid cards. Visit her blog for complete instructions.
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