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12 Handmade Tropical Card Ideas

June 18, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

12 Handmade Tropical Card Ideas

This card features pretty pink Whimsy Stamps die cut Hibiscus flowers and blue leaves in tie dye patterns created with Distress Inks. There’s also a gold embossed sentiment and gold sparkly dot accents for shine too. I spotted this card … Read More ...

12 Handmade Nautical Card Ideas (Great for Masculine Cards!)

June 11, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

12 Handmade Nautical Card Ideas (Great for Masculine Cards!)

This stunning porthole card has wooden texture from an embossing folder, gold brads for rivets and silver cardstock for the die cut anchor that all give great shine and texture to the design. I came across this idea in the … Read More ...

Create 5 Different Cards with One Butterfly Embossing Folder

June 6, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

Create 5 Different Cards with One Butterfly Embossing Folder

If you’re not familiar with embossing folders they are a plastic folder that you place cardstock inside and run through a die cutting machine that creates raised embossed designs. The Fantasy Butterflies embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp has beautiful … Read More ...

10 More Handmade Card Ideas for Father’s Day

June 4, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

10 More Handmade Card Ideas for Father's Day

If you’re Dad loves the ocean check out this amazing sea turtle Dad and child card from Andrea. She colored the stamped turtles with Copic markers and created her ocean background with inking, splatter, and glaze through a stencil. Learn … Read More ...

101 Ways to Use Enamel Dots on Your Handmade Cards

May 30, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

101 Ways to Use Enamel Dots on Your Handmade Cards

Enamel dots are fun little round embellishments that you can easy add to your paper crafting projects like cards and scrapbook pages. They come in different sizes, different finishes and loads of different colors to add some extra dimension and … Read More ...

12 Handmade Wedding Card Ideas

May 28, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

12 Handmade Wedding Card Ideas

This lovely card from Nicki uses a dry embossing folder to create the raised design, she used ink pads to add some color. Learn more about this design and see 5 other cards with the same folder over on the … Read More ...

How to Make Faux Wax Seals

May 18, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

How to Make Faux Wax Seals

Wax seals have been having a moment lately. I know they’ve been around for hundreds of years and have bursts of popularity from Harry Potter (his Hogwarts letter was sealed with red wax) and again when vintage and mixed media … Read More ...

12 Mermaid Cards for MerMay

May 14, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

12 Mermaid Cards for MerMay

There are so many fun sea creatures you can include in Mermaid cards like these adorable otters on Amy’s card. She used stamps from Hello Bluebird for her scene, colored with Copic Markers. Take a closer look at her Thousand … Read More ...

13 Handmade Graduation Card Ideas

May 7, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

13 Handmade Graduation Card Ideas

All the shiny gold on this graduation card adds such a festive touch! I love how this idea, that uses products from Gina K., adds a personal touch with a banner of the graduates name. I spotted this design on … Read More ...

10 Non-Traditional Mother’s Day Card Ideas

April 30, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

10 Non-Traditional Mother's Day Card Ideas

If your Mom is a big dog lover then this cute card is perfect. Natasha created a bright background with paper strips adding stenciled pawprints overtop. And aren’t those stamped dachshunds too cute!? Watch her video tutorial on the Heffy … Read More ...

12 Handmade Mother’s Day Card Ideas

April 23, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

12 Handmade Mother's Day Card Ideas

This pretty Mother’s Day card uses pink foil for the flower pattern on the die cut “MOM” and also on the 3D flowers for a card that has lots of shimmer and shine! Find a tutorial from Lisa on the … Read More ...

12 Handmade Spring Birthday Card Ideas

April 2, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

12 Handmade Spring Birthday Card Ideas

Michelle used a Letterpress plate for the beautiful wreath of flowers on this stunning Spring Birthday card. She used watercolor markers to color them in for a soft painterly look. Learn more at the Spellbinders blog.

Now that Spring is … Read More ...

Learn to Create 20 Different Card Backgrounds

March 30, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

How to Create 20 Different Card Backgrounds

One way to spice up your card designs is with interesting backgrounds. Instead of just reaching for some pattern paper you can create your own backgrounds with a variety of different techniques and products.

Learn to Create 20 Different Card Backgrounds

Erum used watercolor to create this … Read More ...

15 Handmade Card Ideas for St. Patrick’s Day

March 5, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

15 Handmade Card Ideas for St. Patrick's Day

Vicky used a coordinating die and stencil with ink blending to create the background for this lovely, lucky card idea. Watch a video tutorial on the Clips N Cuts blog.

March is here and Spring is on it’s way so … Read More ...

14 Spring Card Making Ideas with Birds and Butterflies

February 27, 2024 by Heather Holbrook

14 Spring Card Making Ideas with Birds and Butterflies

These sweet stamped birds are getting ready for a new arrival among pretty pink Cherry Bloom branches. I spotted this card on the sunnystudiostamps Instagram page.

I spotted the first yellow Buttercups blooming and it’s getting me so happy for … Read More ...

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