Don’t you just love Flip Flops? It’s the only footwear I wear in the summer! This fun Flip Flop die would be perfect for creating 3D shaped cards, gift tags or as table decor for a beach party or even … Read More...
Kitty Cat Page
The touches of peach and pink colors, florals and lace doilies that Heidi used on her sweet cat page adds a soft feminine feline touch. As a cat owner myself I totally get the “I love you, now feed me” … Read More...
Floral Card with Multiple Ink Techniques
Nicole used Versacolor inks with several different techniques to make this lovely floral card. She used them for stenciling, coloring in her stamped images, traditional stamping and splattering. What a great way to show so many uses with just one … Read More...
Beach Life Layout
Maria Celeste used two wood grain frames in the center of her layout for photos on her Loving the Beach Life page. Surrounding the frames are lots of layers of beachy chipboard elements and items like real rope, actual seashells … Read More...
Inspiring Umbrella Card
I love this inspiring card from Chari Moss! The sun and umbrella have a watercolor marbled look that she achieved using an ink smooshing technique. This is a great way to add color and texture to your die cut images. … Read More...
Using Stamps on Traveler’s Notebook Pages
Stamps are a great way too add color and embellishment to your traveler’s notebook pages. Adelina added lots of journaling and photos to her layouts adding stamps for titles and also gives a passport look to the pages.
How to Make a Tent Card
A Tent Card is a fun design that has a 3D effect and can stand up on it’s own. Rachel used some sweet little house stamps for her card, she designed the inside and outside of the card opening to … Read More...
Die Cut Doilies Download
These beautiful lacy, intricate doilies would be lovely on layouts, cards and invites. There are several designs of die cut doily shapes to choose from and they are all FREE to download and cut with your digital die cutting machine.… Read More...
Shaker Tags
Using some fun little dies from Studio Katia Galina created these adorable little tags. And each one is actually a mini shaker too, how cute! I love the little faux stitching detail on each tag and the sweet stamps she … Read More...
Playing Pool Layout
Khristina used a grid block for her photos but by offsetting them and adding her large letters down the other side it adds balance and more interest. The strip of tickets as embellishments helps add to the the fun gaming … Read More...
Heat Embossed Inlaid Dies
I love doing inlaid die cutting, placing die cut images together like a puzzle piece. Verity took this idea a step further by apply heat embossing on every other section of her inlay. I love that she used glitter embossing … Read More...
Alice in Wonderland Pocket Watch Album
Wow, how amazing is this Pocket Watch Mini Album from Joanne Bain!!? She created the watch shaped base from a round tin and added metal embellishments for the top and inside is a small round accordion album. I love that … Read More...
Tropical Aloha Card
Wow, doesn’t this amazing card from Marine make you wish you were on the beach right now? She used stamps from Hello Bluebird for this card and she’s blown me away with the palm trees. Why? Because Hello Bluebird doesn’t … Read More...
How to Color Acrylic Shapes
Acrylic shapes can add a colorful or clear embellishment to your layout but what if it’s the right design but not the right color for your project? You can easily change the color with embossing powder, using the same tools … Read More...
5 Masculine Birthday Card Designs
Did you struggle to come up with masculine cards for Father’s Day this year? I hear lots of card makers say “It’s hard to come up with more masculine designs.” Theresa Calvird has created 5 different masculine card ideas using … Read More...
Summer Butterfly Layout Challenge
Meghann Andrews is issuing a scrapbook layout challenge over on the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog. For her layout she used multiple photos, several different pattern papers, included an interactive hidden flap for journaling, added stamping and hard embellishments. Wow, … Read More...
Cards with Positive and Negative Die Cuts
Using both the positive and negative cuts from your dies gives you twice as many options. This means using the cardstock that was cut out and also the cardstock that was “left behind” after cutting. Becky used this idea for … Read More...
Quick and Easy Frame Layout
Flora used a pattern paper from Maggie Holmes that already has small frames printed all over it for a quick and easy layout. All you need to do is fill in each frame section with embellishments, text and photos.
Product Review: Distress Embossing Glaze
The new Distress Embossing Glazes from Tim Holtz are translucent colored embossing powders that add a glossy shine to your mixed media and paper crafting projects. They come in many coordinating colors to other products in the Distress Line and … Read More...
Colorful Summer Layout
I love how Terhi used color on this amazing Summer Layout! Moving across the page from blue to green to pink she added loads of layers and groups of similarly colored pattern papers in strips, circles and blocks all clustered … Read More...