Altenew has recently released some more beautiful rolls of large washi tape. These larger sizes give more flexibility and ease to adding washi to your paper crafting projects. Nathalie has used them to cover notebooks, as background patterns on Traveler’s … Read More...
Box Up Box of Flowers Card
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...
Floral Doily Layout
Jasmin added clusters of flowers and butterfly around a large flower doily die cut on this lovely layout. By keeping the open cut die white like the background she created tone on tone pattern, depth and texture to her page. … Read More...
Watercolor Floral Striped Card
Michele wanted to create a custom background that coordinated with her water colored floral stamps. So she used washi tape to mask off sections of watercolor paper and painted them in with her watercolors. The result is a colorful and … Read More...
6 x 6 Hiking Layouts
Flora created some 6″x 6″ hiking themed scrapbook pages using products from Crate Paper. This size page is perfect for 3″x 4″ photos and still leaves room for page titles and embellishments. The fun and trendy woodland and rainbow accents … 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...
Coffee Traveler’s Notebook Pages
There’s not too many things better then Fridays and coffee, right? So Diane documented her love of both in these wonderful Traveler’s Notebook pages. I love how one page is just the photo scaled to size with a few embellishments … Read More...
Triple Slider Gift Card Holder
When you pull the tab on the top of this card sections slide out to reveal a sentiment and a gift card. How cool is that!? Sandi has step by step photo directions on how to cut, score and assemble … Read More...
Bunny Trail Easter Layout
Trendy gingham, checks and plaid patterned papers all mix together beautifully on this sweet Easter layout from Kylie. She mirrored those patterns in her title and the borders of eggs, a bunny tag and a banner add some fun whimsy … Read More...
Water Coloring Digi Stamps + Freebie
Kathy used opaque watercolors to color up this lovely digital floral stamp from Jane’s Doodles. In order to apply her stamp to the watercolor paper she used a tracing method and then water colored. The results are very bold and … Read More...
Weather Planner Pages
Some Odd Girl Stamps has some fun little weather digital stamps that are perfect for planners. They have different faces for different occasions to mark your calendar. And since they are digital you can color them to match any theme … Read More...
Funny Coffee Card
If you know someone who isn’t a perky morning person until they’ve had their cup (or two) of coffee then this hilarious card might be perfect for them.
Visit the Pixel Maven’s Retreat for a video tutorial.
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Emoji Dog Layout
Technique Tuesday has some fun emoji stamps and dies, great for creating trendy hip layouts. Amanda used the little emoji face dies for this sweet dog page for a Traveler’s Notebook. I love the “All Heart Eyes” title, it works … 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...
Unicorn Mini Album
Tamara used a fun Unicorn stamp from CC Deigns for the cover on her cute mini album. Inside are pink and white polka dots and plaid pages for photos.
Visit the Handmade by Tamara blog for a closer look.
-Heather… Read More...
Washi Tape Grid Layout
A grid design can help add sections to your layout to add embellishments, photos and journaling. Paige Taylor Evans used different patterns of washi tape to create a grid design and in the case it also adds lots of color, … Read More...
6 All Over Pattern Coloring Pages
These all over pattern coloring pages would be perfect for backgrounds on cards, scrapbook pages or even wrapping paper. Print, color and trim them to fit your next paper crafting project. There are 6 patterns to choose from and they … Read More...
Glaminator Giveaway
There’s still time to enter to win a Glaminator from Xyron!
Click here to visit the giveaway post for all the details.
Good Luck!
-Heather… 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...
Toner Sheet Page Embellishments
Unity Toner Card Fronts are pre-printed sheets that can be used with foil to create shiny metallic papers for greeting cards. But Suzanna fussy cut them out and used them for embellishments on a scrapbook layout. What a great way … Read More...