The Gemini Box Up Box dies create amazing 3D Pop Up Boxes that can hold a variety of stamped images or embellishments. These box card folds even flat for mailing. I love these flower designs, it’s like sending a vase … Read More ...
Mini Easel Card
Jennier D. is sharing how to create a mini easel card base using circle dies. Once you’ve created the base you can decorate it with as many layers of stamps and embellishments as you’d like. Hers are quite wonderfully detailed … Read More ...
Tips for Using Basic Shapes on Cards
Basic shapes like squares, rectangles, circles and ovals are the building blocks of design. But that doesn’t mean they have to be simple or boring, they can take center stage too. Ellen Hutson calls them Essential Shapes and they can … Read More ...
Easter Bunny Shaker Card
A cute little bunny is peeking out from an opening on this sweet Easter card from Nichol Spohr. The opening is a shaker element filled with sequins. I love the bright yellow plaid pattern paper she used, it’s so Springy!… Read More ...
Funny Grumpy Unicorn Card
Usually unicorn and rainbow cards are happy and sweet but this hilarious card features a grumpy unicorn and a funny sentiment. He’s part of the new Mythical Grumplings stamp set from Taylored Expressions. There’s also a dragon and Yeti too. … Read More ...
Gold Inlaid Sentiment Card
Arjita used flower stamps from Trinity and colored them with Copic Markers for this lovely floral card. For the sentiment she die cut the letters directly from the stamped panel as well as from gold metallic cardstock and then inlaid … Read More ...
Butterfly Box Card
How pretty and Springy is this card from Dina Kowal!? This box style pop up card opens up to reveal some lovely butterflies but still folds flat to fit inside an envelope. She’s sharing step by step photo direction as … Read More ...
Spinning Cards
Close to My Heart has released their new Card Front Spinner die and coordinating stamps that allow you to easily make some fun cards with an interactive spinning wheel. I love the trendy rainbow and sweet gumball machine designs!
Using Background Stamps as a Focal Point In Cardmaking
Background stamps are usually the quiet achievers in cardmaking – they sit behind your sentiment, add texture, and subtly tie everything together. But what if your background stamp didn’t stay in the background at all?
Jaycee takes this classic supply … Read More ...
Fairy Door Card
I’ve been seeing a lot of paper crafters “shopping their stash” lately, meaning they use items they already own to create something new instead of going shopping. I thought this was a fantastic idea and so I shopped my own … Read More ...
Tropical Tote Shaped Card
It’s very cold where I am but I’m getting warm feelings looking at this Tropical Tote Shaped Card from Anna. Shes used stamps and dies from Concord and 9th to create it. I love that you can stamp any pattern … Read More ...
DIY Punch and Die Bunny Rabbits
Cindy Lynn looked at a leaf die and thought “That looks like bunny ears” and then grabbed a balloon shaped punch for the body and created some adorable bunny rabbits for Easter. How clever is that?! The little pom pom … Read More ...
Focus on Background Stamps
Pink Fresh Studio has just released a bunch of beautiful new large background stamps. These cling mounted rubber stamps give you the freedom to create your own custom pattern papers for your card backgrounds. Laura used two to design for … Read More ...
3 Thank You Flower Cards
Ardyth used the same flower and Thank You dies from i-Crafter to make three different Thank You cards. Each card just a little more detailed then the next. I love how the floral dies have slits in them to allow … Read More ...
Love Themed Stamped Journal Page
Natalie used stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps to create this wonderful mixed media journal page for Valentine’s Day. I love how she used a piece of cardstock she’d die cut hearts from for another project for the background. What a … Read More ...