I’m really excited to once again be participating in the Save the Crafty Youtuber Hop! Justine Hovey and lots of amazing companies are sponsoring the hop. Along the way you’ll find video tutorials from amazing paper crafters, some familiar to … Read More ...
Box Up Box of Flowers Card
The Gemini Box Up Box dies create amazing 3D Pop Up Boxes that can hold a variety of stamped images or embellishments. These box card folds even flat for mailing. I love these flower designs, it’s like sending a vase … Read More ...
Mini Easel Card
Jennier D. is sharing how to create a mini easel card base using circle dies. Once you’ve created the base you can decorate it with as many layers of stamps and embellishments as you’d like. Hers are quite wonderfully detailed … Read More ...
Tips for Using Basic Shapes on Cards
Basic shapes like squares, rectangles, circles and ovals are the building blocks of design. But that doesn’t mean they have to be simple or boring, they can take center stage too. Ellen Hutson calls them Essential Shapes and they can … Read More ...
Easter Bunny Shaker Card
A cute little bunny is peeking out from an opening on this sweet Easter card from Nichol Spohr. The opening is a shaker element filled with sequins. I love the bright yellow plaid pattern paper she used, it’s so Springy!… Read More ...
Hot Air Balloon Card
Mindy Eggen got a bright and bold watercolor look on her Hot Air Balloon Card by using Karin Brushmarkers to color her stamped image. Those colors really pop against her pretty ink blending background. by HoneyBee Stamps
Funny Grumpy Unicorn Card
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spinning Cards
Close to My Heart has released their new Card Front Spinner die and coordinating stamps that allow you to easily make some fun cards with an interactive spinning wheel. I love the trendy rainbow and sweet gumball machine designs!
Using Background Stamps as a Focal
Background stamps are of course perfect for create backgrounds for your cards but Jaycee has taken it a step further by using them as focal images. He’s stretched the new Pinkfresh Studio
background stamps by fussy and die cutting out … Read More ...
Baby Stationery Set
This super sweet set of stationery is perfect to give to new parents or grandparents. Having ready-made cards, envelopes, seals and tags will make it faster and easier for them to send out birth announcements and thank you cards. And … Read More ...
Interactive Wiper Card
Julie used cute new bug stamps from Lawn Fawn to create this interactive wiper card. When you open the card a magnifying glass pops out, so fun! She’ll show you step by step how to create your own wiper, no … Read More ...