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
I know a lot of us sometimes struggle with creating card designs for men so with Father’s Day coming up soon it’s a great time to take a look at masculine card ideas that might have darker colors, subtle prints… Read More...
12 Scrapbook Layout Ideas using Repeated Shapes
Repeated shapes are a simple design trick that can instantly bring balance and flow to a scrapbook page. By repeating circles, hearts, stars, or other motifs, you create a sense of rhythm that guides the eye and pulls the whole … 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”
Bratz dolls have always been about bold style, confidence, and unapologetic self-expression — and that’s exactly what makes them such a fun inspiration for colouring pages. With their oversized eyes, dramatic fashion, and early-2000s attitude, … 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 Designs 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...
4 FREE Mother’s Day Scrapbook Titles
These pretty printable Mother’s Day sentiments are just the thing you might need to dress up the titles on your scrapbook layouts for Mother’s Day. You can also include them on handmade cards for Mom too. There are four different … Read More...
Graduation Pop Up Card Tutorial
The kids will be graduating from school soon so let them know how proud you are with an out of this word handmade card. Jessica used stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn for this amazing outer space themed pop up … Read More...
Paw Print Shaped Dog Mini Album
As scrapbookers we need to be sure we aren’t leaving out those very important members of our family, our pets! That furry best friend (or friends) deserve their own layouts and mini albums too. Traci has an adorable way to … Read More...
FREE Mother and Child Mother’s Day Digital Stamp
This touching Mother’s Day image is FREE for you to download, print and use on your handmade Mother’s Day paper crafting projects. Include this digital stamp on your cards, scrapbook layouts or planner pages that are all about Mom. Print … Read More...