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Send someone a sunny smile with a handmade Summer themed card. Capture those Summer Vibes with beachy scenes and ice cream dreams with whimsical or realistic designs of Summertime favorites. There are so many stamps, dies, stencils and pattern … Read More ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 bunch … Read More ...
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 … Read More ...
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 ...
If you’ve ever wanted to make a birthday card that truly wows when it’s opened, this Birthday Explosion Box tutorial from Spellbinders is such a fun one to check out.
Instead of a traditional folded card, this project starts as … Read More ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 are … Read More ...