It’s probably been sometime since many of us have been to the salon and it’s finally time to venture out and get a cut. Or maybe you decided to do an at home quarantine cut or color yourself or for … Read More...
10 Ideas to Add Gold Accents to Cards
Learn some quick and easy ways to add a touch of gold elegance to your next card with these ideas from Laurel. She’ll show you how to use products like gold foil, gilding flakes and metallic watercolor to achieve a … Read More...
Reading Layout
Probably more then ever kids (and adults) are reading more while staying home or maybe you’re reading to each other. Either way now’s the perfect time to tackle that “want to read” list” and be sure to snap some photos … Read More...
Underwater Slimline Shaker Birthday Card
I love the trendy slimline card style, it gives lots of extra room to design! Mona used the slimline style and took it a step further by turning it into a shaker card. The little shaker sections helps add depth … Read More...
Monochromatic Green Layout
Struggling to find a color combination for a layout? Try choosing one color and doing a monochromatic page. Natsuko fussy cut lots of leaves from pattern paper along with a few frames, butterflies and birds for this lovely green monochromatic … Read More...
5 Rainbow Background Cards
Rainbows are super trendy and are a wonderful way to add lots of color to your cards. Therese has 5 different way that you can add rainbows to the backgrounds of your card from ink blending to stamping to hand … Read More...
Beach Day Focal Layout
A quick and easy way to create a focal point on your layout is with paper. These two papers form a loose arrow pointing straight to the photo, drawing the eye in and anchoring the layout. A title and some … Read More...
Faux Watercolor Technique
Amy R. has a terrific tip on getting the look of watercolor with out actually water coloring. For her faux watercolor technique she heat embossed her stamped images in white on white cardstock and then rubbed water reactive ink pads … Read More...
Love This Frame Layout
I love the mix of hard and soft on this layout from Melissa. The mixture of the woodgrain background with the pretty florals works so well together. The large gold frame helps pull the eye towards the center of the … Read More...
Ocean Shadow Box Card
Anne created this amazing underwater scene shadow box card using dies from Dies R Us. I love how much depth it has with all the layers and how she added the stamped sea turtle to acetate to make it look … Read More...
Meow Cat Pages
I love how Patricia used a large cat silhouette shaped die and split it between her two pages, leaving the background white helps this cat shape really pop. On one of the pages she added a cluster of accents and … Read More...
Interactive Fairy Spinner Card
I love creating interactive cards, they are fun to make but even better to send, thinking about how much enjoyment the recipient has in getting it. Nichol Sphor designed this sweet interactive card which has a spinning fairy inside.
Sweet Happy Life Layout
Sophie used a large detailed Mandala cut file from Just Nick for this Sweet Happy Life layout. To soften some of the sections of the cut shape she added gesso onto the pattern paper behind. I love the soft pastel … Read More...
2 Masculine Missing You Cards
I know many of us struggle with creating masculine cards so I created 2 cards with a bit of a masculine feel (but of course they could be sent to anyone) using some cute new dog stamps from My Favorite … Read More...
Summer Rainbow Layout
I the way Jennifer incorporated the rainbow on her layout. The rainbow itself is not colored but behind it is torn stripes of colorful pattern papers, it’s such a great twist on the trendy rainbow design! She then mirrored those … Read More...
Card Trend : Slimline
Tall Slimline cards are all the rage right now in card making! I love the extra space they give you to play with and they fit in a business sized envelope and don’t need extra postage when mailing. Mama Elephant… Read More...
Floral Layout with Shimmerz Paints
Jennifer McMurtrey used a smooshing technique with different colors of Shimmerz Paints Creameez to color the die cut flowers on her layout. Each one has it’s own unique marble and splattered look that she carried over into the background of … Read More...
Jurassic Park Card
“Life finds a way” – Dr. Ian Malcolm
I love when crafters find inspiration from books and movies, it’s a fun challenge and perfect to create for someone who has a favorite fandom. Marine used stamps from Lawn Fawn to … Read More...
Scrapbooking with Kids
While many of us are still staying at home and probably spending lots of time with the kids it’s the perfect time to include them in your artistic process. Terhi created this lovely layout with her 12 year old daughter, … Read More...
National Coloring Book Day
Happy National Coloring Book Day! Dover Publication is celebrating by offering gift certificate prizes and a FREE mini 10 page coloring book. Visit their site to find links to the festivities on their Facebook page and info on how to … Read More...