I know a lot of us sometimes struggle with creating card designs for men so with Father’s Day coming up soon it’s a great time to take a look at masculine card ideas that might have darker colors, subtle prints… Read More ...
Product Review: COLOP Stamps and Ink Pads
Hi everyone, I am excited to bring you a product review for COLOP who make a wide range of stamps and inks for home, school, office and crafting. You’ll find clothing stamps, perfect for marking your child’s name in … Read More ...
How to Make a Cute Gatefold Card
If you’re tired of the same folded at the side or top design of card then try something different like a gatefold. This style of card has two folds on each side with flaps that meet in the middle and … Read More ...
9 FREE Mean Girls as Bratz Dolls Coloring Pages
“On Wednesday’s we wear pink”
Bratz dolls have always been about bold style, confidence, and unapologetic self-expression — and that’s exactly what makes them such a fun inspiration for colouring pages. With their oversized eyes, dramatic fashion, and early-2000s attitude, … Read More ...
12 Handmade Cards with Ink Blending Techniques
You can add additional dimension to die cut designs by applying ink blending to colored cardstocks like Carol did for this stunning floral card. She inked her cardstock before die cutting instead of after which is a nice tip for … Read More ...
How to Make a Mermaid Shaker Card
Continuing on with our celebration of MerMay this week is a stunning Mermaid shaker card from Mindy. If you don’t know about MerMay it happens each year in May where crafters and creators make Mermaid themed arts and crafts and … Read More ...
FREE Beautiful Mermaid Digital Stamp Download
This week we’re celebrating MerMay here on the Card Making blog, there’s a post from earlier this week sharing lots of handmade Mermaid card ideas for inspiration, click here to check it out if you missed it. And to help … Read More ...
12+ Mermaid Cards Designs to Celebrate MerMay
One of my favorite companies for Mermaid stamps is Sweet November, with clear and digital images you’ll find so many wonderful designs. Amy Young is sharing four stunning cards using new or new to the public stamps for beautiful underwater … Read More ...
Graduation Pop Up Card Tutorial
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 ...
FREE Mother and Child Mother’s Day Digital Stamp
This touching Mother’s Day image is FREE for you to download, print and use on your handmade Mother’s Day paper crafting projects. Include this digital stamp on your cards, scrapbook layouts or planner pages that are all about Mom. Print … Read More ...
12 Handmade Card Ideas for Mother’s Day
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 ...
Ink Blending on Colored Cardstock Technique for Die Cut Cards
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 ...
10 FREE Chunky Unicorn Digital Stamps to Download
How stinkin’ cute are these chunky unicorns!? I love the idea of something we normally think of as being sleek and majestic being so poofy and fluffy! If you love fun and fantasy like I do then you’ll want to … Read More ...
12 Handmade Fairy Card Ideas for Spring
Sweet November has some of my favorite fairy stamps! Amy used them for a trendy Spring postage style card with buzzing bees and falling flowers and a darling dancing fairy scene in the center. She colored her stamped images and … Read More ...
4 FREE Kawaii Cats and Accessories Digital Stamps
Earlier this week I shared a post with card ideas using cats and dogs, click here if you missed it, so I thought it would be fun to share some FREE digital stamps that went along with that theme. … Read More ...