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 ...
3 Sympathy Cards
Sympathy cards are never easy to make but they might be some of the important so you can reach out and let someone know how sorry you are for their loss and that you are there for them. Joy used … Read More ...
Shamrock Backgrounds for St. Patty Cards
Lisa Mensing has 3 fun Shamrock backgrounds that you can use for your St. Patrick’s Day Cards. Using dies and stencils from Whimsy Stamps she created a stenciled background, a shaker card and a little die cut shamrocks popped up … Read More ...
5 Free Sunflower Digital Stamps #CardsforUkraine
The hashtag #CardsforUkraine is trending right now as crafters around the world show their support for Ukraine. The Ukrainian flag colors of blue and yellow and their National flower, the Sunflower, are popular themes. There have been auctions from card … Read More ...
3 Beautiful Butterfly Cards
Using the new Bibi’s Butterflies products from Spellbinders Jennifer create 3 amazing cards. Combining stamping, die cutting, foiling and stenciling these beautiful cards have so much color, texture and pattern. There’s a butterfly shaped card, a tall slimline design and … Read More ...
Cards with Nesting Dies, 4 Ways
Nesting dies are simple shaped dies that are concentric getting smaller or larger in size. These are some of the most versatile dies and I think all paper crafters should have at least circles and rectangles in their craft room. … Read More ...
5 Spring Cards from 1 Kit
Using the brand new monthly kit for March “Hoppy Days Ahead” from Simon Says Stamp Vicky created 5 different beautiful cards for Spring. These designs with loads of flowers and bunnies are perfect for Spring Birthday’s, Mother’s Day and Easter … Read More ...
Colorful Distress Archival Ink Butterfly Cards
Archival Ink and Distress from Tim Holtz combine to create Distress Archival Ink Pads that can be used in a variety of stamping and background techniques for card and mixed media. Juliana used these inks to create two stunning butterfly … Read More ...
Typewriter Cards
I love the old school look of typewriters! Real typewriters can still be used today to not only write letters but also for crafting, I love typewritten phrases on cards or journaling on scrapbook layouts! Or just the image of … Read More ...
How to Add Embroidery to Your Cards
No, this isn’t the sewing section of the blog but as card makers we can also add some pretty stitches to our projects too. Angela used a Piercing Die Cut and used colorful embroidery floss to add some simple graphic … Read More ...
Heart Pocket Cards
How pretty is the peach and gold color combination on these sweet Valentine’s from Jamie!? She used gold foiling on vellum tags tucked inside the pocket card that has a heart shaped opening, adding stamped sentiments to the tag and … Read More ...
How to Create Heart Shaped Cloud Cards with Erasers
Sandy used colored pencils and erasers to create beautiful sky scenes with heart shaped clouds, perfect for Valentine’s Day. She created her design with a couple of different techniques, one used pencil shavings to create the clouds, adding rays with … Read More ...
Stenciled Heart Cards
These lovely heart cards from Amy are quick and simple to create. She used concentric heart shaped stencils and ink pad trios from Simon Says to create the layered hearts. Notice how she took part of the hearts off the … Read More ...
Scratch Off Cards
How adorable are these Scratch Off Cards from Amanda?! Each interactive card has a sticker that works like a lottery scratcher, the recipient scratches it off to reveal the sentiment you’ve placed underneath, how much fun is that? She even … Read More ...
Colorful Bold Sentiment Cards
These wonderful cards from Cheiron are quick and simple to make but have a big impact with bold and colorful sentiments. She stamped her floral background and then using the same color of Distress Ink Pads stamped the sentiment over … Read More ...