When I make cards I usually like to fill the entire front, it’s hard for me to keep it simple π But clean and simple designs make for beautiful cards that are quick and easy to create but still have … Read More ...
Tulip Card with Foiled Ribbon
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 ...
Free Spring Flower Frames Digital Stamps
These beautiful digital stamps have borders and flowers to create lovely cards for Spring or Mather’s Day. These downloadable digital stamps from Mama Makes are FREE to download from Papercrafter Magazine and use on your next card and paper crafting … 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 ...
Spring Flowers Card with Die Cut Texture
This pretty Spring Card from Yoonsun features layered stenciled flowers and lots of die cut texture. Using borders dies she cut her stenciled panel and then pieced it back to together, adding a die cut butterfly and sentiment in the … 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 ...
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 ...
How to Add Shading to Solid Stamps
Solid stamps, meaning a stamp that is not an outline but stamps out in a solid color, can sometimes look a little flat so shading can help give those images more dimension and realism. Lydia stamped up some beautiful solid … Read More ...
3 Techniques to Create Bubbles for Cards
Check out all these different bubbles Kari created for her cute card backgrounds. Using the same bubble stencil she used ink blending with Distress Inks on light cardstock, on another she used pigment inks on dark cardstock and for the … Read More ...
Vase of Roses Card Tutorial
Shauna has a few cool techniques to share for making this pretty Vase of Roses Card. First she used a die with a rubber mat to emboss instead of cut her card background, she ink blended the vase, then she … Read More ...
One Stencil Two Ways on One Card
There are so many fun techniques you can do with stencils, you can even combine them on one card like Lynnea did on this sweet card design. She ink blended the top half in one color then ink blended the … Read More ...
Stenciled Mother’s Day Cards
Laura used stencils from Pretty Pink Posh to create 2 sweet cards for Mother’s Day. These stencils have tiny flowers or leaves on each one which makes it easy to color them separately. Laura used distress ink pads and blending … Read More ...
Mother’s Day Paper Crafts
This sweet grouping of a Mother’s Day Card, Box, Tag and Pocket will put a smile on any mom’s face this year. The floral and faux stitching make for a pretty feminine design! The matching gift set is simple to … Read More ...