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With all the wonderful flowers blooming it’s about time to start seeing those caterpillars turning into butterflies who will begin to fluttering around our gardens. Let’s celebrate their arrival with some beautiful Butterfly coloring pages. Dover Publication is offering 6 … Read More ...
It’s getting hot, summer is in full swing so it’s a great time to incorporate a Tropical theme into your handmade cards. This bold, colorful style features images like palm trees, colorful blooms, beachy scenes and jungle animals and … Read More ...
If you’re looking to create a detailed card for someone special then you need to download this amazing interactive Jellyfish Card! It’s perfect for anyone who loves swimming, snorkeling, the ocean or the beach. This deep shadow box style card … Read More ...
Let Dad know how truly special he is with an over the top card for Father’s Day or for a birthday. Grace has used stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn to create this amazing interactive Sub Shop card. The front … Read More ...
Some of us might still be working on cards for Father’s Day or maybe you need a masculine card for a birthday or other special occasion? I know many struggle with card ideas for guys and I think a Nautical … Read More ...
If you’re creating handmade cards with summer themes then you need to download this fun collection of 6 different digital stamps. Each design has a cool sentiment and summer images like flip flops, seashells, palm trees, tropical drinks… Read More ...
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 ...
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 ...
Finding the perfect sentiment for a card design is the cherry on the cake, it’s the finishing touch. I like to add a sentiment on the front of the card and another inside so I’m usually adding two to each … Read More ...
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 ...
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 ...
With Summer coming on quickly and Father’s Day just around the corner you might find yourself in need of some good old fashioned BBQ stamps to create cards, scrapbook layouts and planner pages. This collection of digital stamps are perfect … Read More ...
Other than Holiday cards I’m sure most of us create more birthday cards during the year than any other type of card, right? So we’re always on the look out for fresh new birthday card ideas and here’s Simon Says … Read More ...
Now that we’ve celebrated our Mom’s it’s time to celebrate all the Dad’s and Father figures in our lives on Father’s Day. What better way to let him know how much you love and cherish him then with a handmade … Read More ...
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 ...