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These wonderful digital stamps from Craft Starters give you 10 delightfully spooky ways to wish your family and friends a Happy Halloween in style. Each unique sentiment features a different hand-lettered design, beautifully framed with playful Halloween icons like curious … Read More ...
I love the spooky scene that Lynn created with stamping, ink blending and splatter for this Fab-BOO-lous Halloween card! The circle she die cut creates the moon and also an opening in the card front for the bat, who spins … Read More ...
The little goth part of my heart is so in love with this Edgar Allan Poe image! Elaine used Oddball stamps from Stampingbella and her Copic Markers to color up this wonderful image that’s perfect for this spooky time of … Read More ...
Whether you are brand new to stamping or a pro stuck in a technique rut these 11 techniques from Close to My Heart are timeless and perfect to pull out of your repertoire again and again. Some of my favorites … Read More ...
Mindy used new products from Taylored Expressions to create this beautiful Autumn Blessings Card. She created her background cutting a large background die from orange cardstock and adding orange and brown ink blending around the edges. For the leaves she … Read More ...
Woodgrain texture adds the perfect rustic touch to cards and can be achieved with stamping, die cutting, embossing or just simply buying pattern paper. I love this look for fall, winter and holiday card designs like this one from Yoonsun. … Read More ...
How sweet are this little Pumpkin Treat Bags!? Birgit is sharing step by step how to cut and fold the base of the bag, how to create the pumpkin with scalloped dies and dry embossing and then decorated it with … Read More ...
Tina Smith used new stamps from Newton’s Nook to create this adorable Hoot Owl Card. Notice how she created her cloud background inside the die cut frame but added the branch and owl outside and over top of the frame, … Read More ...
Hot foil plates are used to add metallic foil in different designs and patterns to your cards and projects. But Angela had the idea to use them with out foil for a dry embossing technique. She combined both ideas to … Read More ...
Who says Halloween has to be dark and spooky all the time? I love the non-traditional pastel colors on this amazing Halloween Wreath Card from Mona Toth. This card includes a fun interactive element, the spiders actually move and swing … Read More ...
I love the dark spooky feel of this Halloween card from Yana Smakula! The slimline card design gave her lots of room to create a flurry of flying bats using a stencil over an ink blended and shimmer sprayed background. … Read More ...
Marine used several different stamps sets from Sunny Studio and dies from Lawn Fawn to create this amazing Picture Changer Card for Halloween. When you pull the tap at the top of this interactive design the mouse in the center … Read More ...
This little fox is sleeping in the pumpkin patch during a windy day on this lovely Thanksgiving Scene Card. Silvia used stamps, dies and stencils from Trinity Stamps to create this design. I love all the movement she created with … Read More ...
This truck is ready to bring all the festive feel of the season to everyone on your holiday card list this year! Wil used dies from i-Crafter to create this amazing Pop Up Card featuring a red pick up truck … Read More ...
Bibi Cameron used some wonderful new dies from Spellbinders to create these two Autumn Harvest Wagon Cards. She used Distress Inks to ink blend shading onto the die cut colored cardstock shapes for added shading and dimension. These rustic wagons … Read More ...
