Usually unicorn and rainbow cards are happy and sweet but this hilarious card features a grumpy unicorn and a funny sentiment. He’s part of the new Mythical Grumplings stamp set from Taylored Expressions. There’s also a dragon and Yeti too. … Read More ...
Metallic Gels for Stenciling
The Metallix Gel from Deco Foil will add sparkle, shine, color and texture to your cards and paper crafting projects. They work beautifully with stencils as Catherine Pooler shares on her blog with several different stenciling ideas and techniques. And … Read More ...
Gold Inlaid Sentiment Card
Arjita used flower stamps from Trinity and colored them with Copic Markers for this lovely floral card. For the sentiment she die cut the letters directly from the stamped panel as well as from gold metallic cardstock and then inlaid … Read More ...
State Flower Postage Stamp Cards
Gina K has some amazing State Flowers stamp sets that are perfect for creating custom cards that show pride in your state. Melanie combined them with postage stamp designs to create some really beautiful cards. She’s sharing a tutorial over … Read More ...
Xyron Glaminator Review and Giveaway! (GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED)
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I recently got the chance to try out The Glaminator from Xyron. This machine does hot and cold lamination as well as FOILING! So you can easily add shimmer and shine to your paper crafting projects … Read More ...
Mirror Stamping with a Media Mat
Mirror Image Stamping is a fun technique that allows you to stamp the reverse of an image. This makes for fun card where your images can face each other or you can add a reflection. The silicone Media Mat from … Read More ...
Spring Animals Card with Ink Blending
I love how the animals on this adorable Spring Card are all shaped like eggs, so cute! Sandie masked off each stamped animal so she could ink blend a pretty background. She finished off her card by coloring her animals … Read More ...
How to Make a Shadow Box Card
Eva is over on the Pebbles blog showing how easy it is to create your own Shadow Box Card. She’s got direction on how to cut and core the card base. And to make it even quicker she used pre-made … Read More ...
Heat Embossing Techniques – Create 5 Cards with 1 Stamp
I love a versatile stamp, if I can use it in many different ways I really feel like I’ve gotten my monies worth. Simon Hurley used a floral stamp set and several different heat embossing techniques to create 5 beautiful … Read More ...
Butterfly Box Card
How pretty and Springy is this card from Dina Kowal!? This box style pop up card opens up to reveal some lovely butterflies but still folds flat to fit inside an envelope. She’s sharing step by step photo direction as … Read More ...
Rainbow Stripe Card with Stencils
Colorful Rainbow patterns are still so popular and they add such a bright cheerful touch to any card. Lydia created her rainbow striped card by placing painters tape over top of a stencil to mask off different areas for ink … Read More ...
Chalkola Marker Review, Giveaway and Coupon Code
Chalkola recently sent me a set of their 30 Chalk Markers to try and it was so much fun incorporating them into my paper crafting. I created some card samples and filmed a product review sharing all about these markers … Read More ...
Card Making Tutorial – Pull Tab Birthday Card
This birthday card from Channin is super fun, inventive and also interactive! When you lift the lid of the box you reveal a fox in a party hat on a confetti background. She used stamps and dies from Hero Arts… Read More ...
Heat Embossing and Watercolor on Dark Cardstock
Jenny used a clever tip to trick the eye into thinking her heat embossed
and water colored stamped images are directly on her dark cardstock background. But what she actually did was emboss and color on white cardstock and then … Read More ...
