Using school colors is a great way to tie together a graduation layout. Allison used a large die cut from black cardstock, backing the “grad” and diploma in different pattern papers and adding glitter glue to the congrats. I love … Read More...
12 Handmade Cards Ideas with Stenciling
Kristina used some beautiful products she designed for Concord and 9th to create this stunning card. She stamped the leaves background and flower with black ink and colored them in using the coordinating stencils. The gold frame and die cut … Read More...
Color Wheel Mini Scrapbook Album
Add lots of bold and beautiful colors to your next mini scrapbook album with this amazing artist inspired Color Wheel design. Andrea used dies and pretty cardstocks from Spellbinders to create this rainbow of an album.
She cut her base … Read More...
4 FREE Father’s Day Digital Stamp Sentiments
If you’re working on your handmade cards for Father’s Day you’ll want to download this fun collection of FREE digital stamp designs. With a bit of a retro feel there’s four different sentiments that say “Happy Father’s Day” along with … Read More...
4 FREE Graduation Pattern Papers to Download
If you’ve got kids graduating from school this year I know you’ll be snaping lots of pics and creating lots of scrapbook layouts to celebrate so you’ll want to grab this fun set of pattern papers. This FREE downloadable , … Read More...
12 Handmade Masculine Card Ideas for Father’s Day
If your Dad loves to fish then this stunning card idea from Julissa is perfect! She stamped the background, the scene and some lures, coloring them with Copic markers and added a bit of ink blending on the postage edge … Read More...
12 Scrapbook Layout Ideas using Repeated Shapes
Circles are a great shape to repeat on a layout like Traci used all over her wonderful sailing page. She cut her photos in circles as well as lots of different pattern papers and she used different sizes as well … 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 Create a Polaroid Photo Greeting Card
As scrapbookers we are always snapping photos to include on our layouts but we should also be sharing them in other ways with family and friends to cherish and remember. So let’s take those photos off the page and onto … 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...
15 FREE Spring Titles – Pintables and SVG Cut Files
This amazing collection of sentiments includes 15 different words and phrases that can be used on your Spring scrapbook layouts, handmade greeting cards, home decor projects or planner pages. They come in different file types like SVG and PNG so … Read More...
9 FREE Mean Girls as Bratz Dolls Coloring Pages
“On Wednesday’s we wear pink”
Depending on your age you might have grown up loving Bratz Doll, they’ve made a come back recently with new dolls being released and you also might have loved the movie “Mean Girls” which has … Read More...
12 Scrapbook Layout Ideas That Use Tags
Allison used a long row of tags across her double page spread creating a border that has color, pattern and text, including one tag for her typed strip journaling. There’s a border of flowers between the tags and row of … 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...
FREE Floral and Butterfly Wreath Open Cut Die Download
International Scrapbooking Day was recently and to celebrate Doodlebug is offering a beautiful Floral and Butterfly Wreath die to download for FREE! This pretty open cut design from Lori Whitlock can be backed with cardstocks or pattern papers or used … 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...
Mixed Media Photo Tins
I love stepping out of the box and off the page by using photos in non-traditional ways like mixed media and collage. These unique ways of scrapbooking can be meaningful and creative and help expand your artistic legs a bit. … 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 Scrapbook Layouts with Lots of Layers
This adorable cat layout from Aline has several layers of pretty pattern papers with matted photos on top and a tab layer too. She’s also layered and overlapped most of her printed die cut images. Learn more at the Simple … Read More...
12+ Mermaid Cards 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...