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Yana Smakula used new dies from Spellbinders to create some beautiful, colorful Landscape Cards. Using different colors of cardstock she pieced together the different sections of the dies for a color blocked design. A stamped sentiment and a few small … Read More ...
Stencils are so popular and are great for creating backgrounds on cards. Amanda took her stenciled background to a whole new level by adding 3 different stenciled layers to her wonderful Slimline Birthday Card design. She started off ink blending … Read More ...
If you’re Dad is a dog lover then this card is perfect for him. The cute little pup “runs” across the card chasing the ball for a fun interactive slider design. I love the large foam letters incorporated into the … Read More ...
This awesome Best Dad card from Jenn really shines a spotlight on a great Dad. I mean it, the card literally lights up, how cool is that!? She used EZ Lights from Pear Blossom to add the lighting mechanism behind … Read More ...
I used some cute new stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to make this fun Monkey Birthday Card. Their new Word Buddies stamps work perfectly with word dies for such a cute card design. For this card I used some … Read More ...
How cute is the bow on the head of the shark on this card from Laura, totally adorable! I love how she “contained” her scene onto a die cut shaped panel using ink blending to add lots of bright colors. … Read More ...
This cute slimline card features elephants and a quilt style background which would make the sweetest card for a baby’s birthday. Lynn used hexagon shaped dies, colored them with watercolor pens and pieced them together to create a quilted background. … Read More ...
This yummy Coffee and Doughnuts card is perfect to create for anyone who loves their daily cup of joe. Danielle used stamps and dies from Dare 2 B Artzy to create this fun step card that folds flat for mailing. … Read More ...
Sometimes you just to tell someone special that you are thinking of them and I think “Happy Everything” sums that up so nicely. Kelly used stamps and dies from My Favorite Things for this sweet wreath card. I love the … Read More ...
Don’t have time to color in your stamped images? Kristina has a quick and easy way to still add color to your cards. She used a floral background stamp and stamped it in black ink and then used watercolors to … Read More ...
Rainbow colors continue to be trendy and there’s lots of different ways to add rainbows of colors to your cards. Carrisa decided to rainbow color to the die cut sentiments on these two beautiful cards. For one card she used … Read More ...
I love all the depth and dimension of this beautiful Butterfly Card from Dilay. She layered white die cut butterflies onto a white card base for a subtle pattern and then die cut the butterflies from black and backed them … Read More ...
This fun Ocean Friends card has a cool watery background made with different ink pad colors mixed with water for a wonderful sea themed card. The stamped images were also colored with ink pads and a blender pen to keep … Read More ...
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 ...
Becca used some of her brand new slimline dies from Spellbinders to create this lovely Slimline Gatefold Card. This card uses vellum for a soft romantic feel mixed the Victorian inspired dies for a really elegant card design. A belly … Read More ...
