I know masculine cards can be challenging and with Father’s Day coming up next month many of us are in search of ideas. If your dad loves the ocean, beach, boating or fishing then a nautical theme might just be … Read More...
Tree Blossoms Layout
If you’re lucky enough to live where Cherry Trees Bloom (or even apple or pear trees) they make the most lovely backdrop for spring photos. Lilian used 2 sweet photos of her kids in front of blooming trees for this … Read More...
Stamped Zippered Pouch
This wonderful Zippered Pouch project from Betty is perfect to carry or store markers, pens or pencils in your craft room or to travel with. She used pattern paper and cardstock covered in clear vinyl, stitched it up and sewed … Read More...
Horse Layout
The new Homestead collection from Creative Memories is perfect for rustic, outdoors or ranch themed layouts like this sweet Horse page. The woodgrain pattern papers mixed with denim colored laser cut borders are perfectly matched for down home country style.… Read More...
Teacher and Grad Cards
Taylored Expressions has a brand new line of stamps and dies perfect for creating Thank You cards for Teachers and Congrats cards for Graduations. Emily used them along with some stencils for a couple of fun card designs. I love … Read More...
Exploding Pocket Box
This amazing box “explodes” out when the lid is removed to reveal 4 paper pocket boxes inside. The boxes can be used to hold photos, mini albums, tiny greeting cards or even small gifts. Decorate the lid and pockets with … Read More...
Tips for Digital Stamps and Copics
If you are new to card making or stamping you might hear the term digital stamp and wonder “what the heck is that?” Digital or Digi stamps are black and white digital files that you print from your computer. They … Read More...
Dalmatian Dog Layout
Black and white are obviously the perfect colors for a Dalmatian dog layout and that little pop of red Sandy added to coordinate with his collar really ties the entire design together. I love how except for the bone shaped … Read More...
Teacher Cards w/ Watercolor Backgrounds
Gaylynn used Colorburst powders to create cool backgrounds for her Teacher Cards. These powders come in a bottles and can be sprayed onto wet paper for an easy watercolor background technique as well as for other fun techniques. She’s sharing … Read More...
Angular Layout
Rainny used a sketch as inspiration for this angular layout design. You can add so much interest just by mixing different lines, directions and angels. In this layout there are vertical strips in the background, a circle in the center … Read More...
Succulent Birthday Card
Succulents and cactus are still really trendy design images. Galina used cute cactus stamps from Studio Katia for this sweet little birthday card, I love the little flower blooms she added! She also used lots of green inks over a … Read More...
Graduation Layout
Last year and for some kids even this year might not be the Graduation ceremony they had been hoping for. But no matter how is goes down it obviously still needs to be celebrated and memorialized in some scrapbook layouts. … Read More...
Stenciled Mother’s Day Cards
Laura used stencils from Pretty Pink Posh to create 2 sweet cards for Mother’s Day. These stencils have tiny flowers or leaves on each one which makes it easy to color them separately. Laura used distress ink pads and blending … Read More...
Bowling Scrapbook Layout
Remember brads, remember when we added brads to almost every layout and card we used to make? Wendy dug through her neglected stash of brads and found some large round ones and used them as ball embellishments for this fun … Read More...
Spring Showers Card
Tell someone how much they brighten your day with this sweet Spring Showers Card from Tasha. She used dies to create her own circle and raindrop stencils for an ink blended spotlight background on her card. The cute stamps are … Read More...
Paper Loops Layout
This super fun layout from Giorgia Rossini is full of such depth and dimension. Her sweet photo is surrounded by clusters of embellishments and I love the heart in place of the “o” in her “Adorable” title . But of … Read More...
Graduation Cards
I hope it will be much more fun and festive for this years Graduates then it was last year. No matter how they celebrate be sure to congratulate them with a handmade card. Nichol Spohr used stamps and dies from … Read More...
Vaccine Layout and Sketch
The past year has been filled with scrapbook layouts about our “new normal” dealing with Covid 19 but now we can start to move on to better things like getting our vaccine shots. Be sure to take some pictures to … Read More...
Tulip Notecard with Colored Pencils
I enjoy making cards of all different sizes, sometimes I want lots of space so I might do a slimline, other times I want something smaller and might do a note card size, slightly smaller than a traditional A2. Sandy … Read More...
Mother’s Day FREE Gift Bag Printable
These pretty FREE printables can be printed, cut out and assembled to create a sweet paper gift bag for Mother’s Day. Use the included images and labels to decorate your bag or added to planner pages, card or layouts too.… Read More...