The Stamp and Stencil Combo sets from Taylored Expressions allow you to easily create amazing patterns for your cards. Joy has some tips and tricks for using these combo sets to create beautiful Fall Leaf designs on two different cards.… Read More ...
Autumn Sunflower Card
This Sunflower Card from Amber is the perfect friendship card to send to your bestie this Autumn. She used a large sunflower background stamp but only partially stamped and water colored it, leaving some “white space” for some interest and … Read More ...
Light Up Halloween Card
This card from Koren Wiskman at first glance is already wonderful but it’s even more amazing by the fact that the lighting strike actually lights up! How cool is that!? She die cut the lightening and backed it with vellum … Read More ...
DIY Plaids for Pumpkin Cards
Plaids are perfect for Fall and Autumn cards and Tanya has two different way you can create your own custom plaid designs. She’ll show you how easy it is to stamp them out or paint them yourself using watercolors. For … Read More ...
Fall Mushroom House Card
I imagine tiny little fairies or woodland mice live in the sweet Mushroom House on this wonderful card from Nina-Marie. She used watercolors to create lots of realistic texture on the die cuts, carrying that look over on to the … Read More ...
Faux Metal Card Background
Using Metallic Pan Pastels over top of cardstock that was dry embossed Kyra created a wonderful faux metal background. This cool technique adds texture and shine to your cards and is perfect for Autumn or Masculine cards. She’s sharing step … Read More ...
Hello Autumn Card
Kath Stewart used Distress Ink Pads and dies from Tim Holtz for this wonderful Hello Autumn card. Using the small ink cubes and swiping them across her paper is a simple but effective way to create a colorful card background … Read More ...
Threaded Rainbow Card
Just when I think I’ve seen every idea for creating a trendy rainbow card someone comes up with a new clever design. Caly Person was inspired by a card she saw on Instagram and created this card using sewing thread … Read More ...
Leaf Stamping on your Handmade cards
Don’t have a leaf stamp for Fall cards? No problem, just step outside and grab a real leaf. Nicol applied Goosebumps texture paste onto a leaf and applied it to her card front with a brayer, she then ink … Read More ...
Foiling on Wood Paper
Oooh, I really love the mix of wood and metallic on this card from Jenny! Using hot foil Glimmer Plates from Spellbinders she was able to apply the brass colored foil onto wood paper. Isn’t this the perfect look for … Read More ...
Fall Animals Watercolor Cards
I love how easy and forgiving watercolor can be and you can choose to keep it really simple or add lots of details and hand painted backgrounds for a more complicate design. Sally Allnock does amazing work with watercolor and … Read More ...
3 Friendship Coffee Cup Cards
Even if you can’t meet a friend for coffee you can still send them a warm hug in the form of a card. Using the same stamp set and some pretty pattern papers Aga made 3 sweet Friendship Coffee Cards. … Read More ...
Fall Scarecrow Card
If you’re looking for an easy way to add color and pattern to your stamped images paper piecing is the perfect technique. Stamp onto a piece of patterned paper, cut out the section you want and glue it to your … Read More ...
Acrylic Painting Ideas with Vicki Boutin
Acrylic paints + paper = the papercrafting brilliance your projects have been missing! Join dazzling designer, crafter, and blogger Vicki Boutin in this enlightening introduction to acrylic paints in papercrafting!
Take a tour through the beginner basics of applying Vicki’s radiant Acrylic Color Pop … Read More ...
Halloween Copic Coloring Card
This amazing Halloween slimline card was created with one large, long background stamp from Rubbernecker. Michelle used her amazing coloring skills and her Copic markers to color in the design.
Visit the Rubbernecker blog to watch her coloring tutorial video.… Read More ...