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Rainbow Zig Zag Background Card

May 3, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Rainbow Zig Zag Background Card

This fun card is a simple way to add loads of color to your next design. Lisa die cut zig zag borders from white cardstock and used Copic Markers to add colorful gradient waves of down each section, when stack … Read More ...

Fairy Shadow Box Card

May 2, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Fairy Shadow Box Card

This sweet Fairy Shadow Box card folds flat for mailing but pops out for display. The fairy sits in a pretty scene behind a curtain of vines and is ready to wish someone a Happy Birthday. Jen is sharing step … Read More ...

Mermaid Cards Round Up

May 1, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Peek a Boo Card

It’s May first so that means it’s Mer-May! If you’re not familiar Mer-May started on Instagram for artists and crafters to create and share projects they’ve created that feature Mermaids during the month of May. I … Read More ...

Stamped Cards with No Coloring

April 30, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Stamped Cards with No Coloring

Sometimes you need a quick and simple card, sometimes you’re not in the mood to color or maybe you’re not that confident with your coloring skills yet. Either way you can still make an amazing card without coloring in your … Read More ...

Girl on Swing Free Digital Stamp

April 29, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Girl on Swing Free Digital Stamp

This sweet girl is ready to swing into Spring! Add her to your next card with a FREE digital stamp download from Pink Gem Designs.

Visit the Simply Cards Magazine blog for the download.

-Heather

Design Bundles – Digital papers… Read More ...

Jaws Inspiration Shark Card

April 29, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Jaws Inspiration Shark Card

I love the “duh nuh” reference to the movie Jaws on this cool card from Marcia. She used stamps and dies from Kindred Stamps to create it. It’s a great masculine card or for anyone who loves sharks or the … Read More ...

Card with Hair Clips Included

April 28, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Card with Hair Clips Included

Any hand made card is a gift in itself but this card also includes a fun gift. The flowers on the card are hair clips! Lydia used dies from Altenew with felt to cut and assemble these pretty clips that … Read More ...

How To Make A Faux Tile Card Background

April 26, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Faux Tile Card Background

Wow, this amazing card looks like it has real ceramic tiles on the background! Shel used cardstock in blue and black to paper weave her pattern then she covered the entire panel in clear heat embossing to create a shiny … Read More ...

Kitty Cat Birthday Card – Printable Digital Stamp and Video Tutorial

April 25, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Kitty Cat Birthday Card

This adorable Birthday Card from Marine is sure to put a huge smile on any cat lovers face! And speaking of faces, I love how she added frosting to the kitty’s mouth and that “purrrday” pun, it’s all so cute! … Read More ...

Geisha Folded Fans Card

April 24, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Geisha Folded Fans Card

I love paper folding, teabag folds and origami but it can be a bit intimidating so i-crafter has designed some amazing dies to help you cut and score to create some wonderful folds. Jenn used their Ribbon Rosette die to … Read More ...

Paper Strips Cards

April 24, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Paper Strips Cards

If you use pattern paper on your cards I’m sure like me you have tons of strips left over from your projects. We keep them becuase they are pretty and surly we’ll find a use for them, right? Well, here’s … Read More ...

Fairy House Card

April 20, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Fairy House Card

I used the new Mushroom House background stamp along with some other stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to create this cute Fairy House Card. I used Arteza Brush Pens to watercolor the images for an easy coloring technique. Visit … Read More ...

Card Backgrounds with Book Pages

April 19, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Card Backgrounds with Book Pages

One of my favorite things to use in my mixed media projects are old book pages. They have such amazing illustrations and text and the age can add interesting vintage coloration on the paper. Gina K used some book pages … Read More ...

Birthday Sentiments Printable

April 17, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Birthday Sentiment Printables

I’m sure most of us card makers make more birthday cards than any other type of card, right? So this set of Happy Birthday printable sentiments from Scrapbook and Cards Today is super useful! There are 8 different font styles … Read More ...

Ink Smooshing and Embossing Technique

April 17, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Ink Smooshing and Embossing Technique

Natasha did something I’ve never heard of and that’s heat embossing with water! She first ink smooshed her background panel with stamping inks and water then left some sections wet and poured on glitter embossing powder and then heated. The … Read More ...

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