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How to Make a Banner Tea Card

June 26, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

How to Make a Banner Tea Card

This amazing card from Lynn is a tea-rrific way to use up pattern paper scraps. She used banner dies that might normally be hung in a row and designed her own starburst pattern with them. She used two different sizes … Read More ...

12 Handmade Card Ideas with Trendy Arches

June 24, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

12 Handmade Card Ideas with Trendy Arches

Michelle used a die cut arch for a shaker element on her lovely floral card. I love the die cut faux stitching lines around the edge! Over her shaker she added die cut flowers ink blended in shades of purple … Read More ...

How to Make Faux Postage Travel Cards

June 19, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

How to Make Faux Postage Travel Cards

Yana used products from Waffle Flower to create an amazing collection of travel cards with trendy faux postage styles. Starting with white cardstock and a stencil that has different square and rectangle openings she used bright and bold ink pad … Read More ...

Graduation Pop Up Card Tutorial

May 10, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

Graduation Pop Up Card Tutorial

The kids will be graduating from school soon so let them know how proud you are with an out of this word handmade card. Jessica used stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn for this amazing outer space themed pop up … Read More ...

12 Handmade Card Ideas for Mother’s Day

May 6, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

 

12 Handmade Card Ideas for Mother's Day

Suzy created a wonderful slimline card for Mother’s Day featuring stamped Moms and baby animals colored with Copic markers. She ink blended the background and added a stamped sentiment and some tiny hearts floating around too. She created a … Read More ...

Ink Blending on Colored Cardstock Technique for Die Cut Cards

May 3, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

Mirisha has a great tip with one of her favorite techniques, ink blending on colored cardstock. There’s nothing wrong with die cutting images from colored cardstock and just adding them to your card but you can easily take it to … Read More ...

12 Easter Egg Card Ideas using Stamps and Dies

April 15, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

12 Easter Egg Card Ideas using Stamps and Dies

Mindy used a masking technique, stenciling and ink blending to create the beautiful Easter eggs on her sweet card. There’s more inking in green around the card edges, a sweet die cut bunny and a stamped and die cut sentiment … Read More ...

How to Make an Interactive Birthday Explosion Box

March 27, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

If you’ve got someone’s very important birthday coming up you’ll want to create an over the top card for their special day! So this “card” is actually a box that looks like a simple present with beautiful detailed die cut … Read More ...

12 Handmade Cards that Focus on Words and Sentiments

February 18, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

12 Handmade Cards that Focus on Words and Sentiments

This beautiful card has a large die cut sentiment with pink ombre color added, it’s over top of a die cut frame to really draw in the eye. There’s also small die cut butterflies in white and pretty stamped flowers … Read More ...

12 Valentine’s Day Cards with Candy and Food

February 11, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

12 Valentine's Day Cards with Candy and Food

Catherine create this darling interactive card with a stamped bear holding a heart shaped box. When you open the “lid” it reveals sweet chocolate dipped strawberries. I love all the lacy details she added and the stenciled heart background! Learn … Read More ...

How to Make a LOVE Shaker Card for Valentine’s Day

February 8, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

This Valentine’s Day card is a terrific example of how to design a shaker card with out needing shaker specific products! 

Christy used products from Pretty Pink Posh to create this wonderful LOVE shaker card for Valentine’s Day. For the … Read More ...

12 Valentine’s Day Handmade Treat Bags and Boxes

February 4, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

12 Valentine's Day Handmade Treat Bags and Boxes

Chari used stamps and dies from Lawn to make treat bags decorated with adorable die cut gum ball machines filled with different stamped candies to hold her Valentine’s Day treats in. She also added a cute little tag tied on … Read More ...

16+ Handmade Card Ideas with Hearts for Valentine’s Day

January 28, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

16 Handmade Card Ideas with Hearts for Valentine's Day

This beautiful card from Charlene uses a heart shape for a wonderful shaker card for Valentine’s Day. There’s layers of die cut flowers springing from an envelope and a stamped sentiment too. Notice how she kept to a color theme … Read More ...

12 Handmade Floral Valentine’s Day Card Ideas

January 14, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

 

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to show some extra love, and what better way to do that than with a handmade card? Whether you’re crafting for a special someone or sending love to friends and family, floral designs … Read More ...

How to Make a Stitched Ladybug Card

January 11, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

How to Make a Stitched Ladybug Card

Sewing and stitching whether by hand or with a machine can add so much interest and texture to your handmade cards. Each month Spellbinders releases a stitching die set that includes dies with holes for easy sewing. This month it’s … Read More ...

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