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With all the wonderful flowers blooming it’s about time to start seeing those caterpillars turning into butterflies who will begin to fluttering around our gardens. Let’s celebrate their arrival with some beautiful Butterfly coloring pages. Dover Publication is offering 6 … Read More...
Masculine scrapbook layouts can be surprisingly tricky to get right. When you’re documenting memories of boys, men, or everyday family life, it’s easy to feel stuck between pages that look too themed or designs that feel flat and uninspired. The … Read More...
It’s getting hot, summer is in full swing so it’s a great time to incorporate a Tropical theme into your handmade cards. This bold, colorful style features images like palm trees, colorful blooms, beachy scenes and jungle animals and … Read More...
Check out this adorable Vacation Mini Album project from Traci! It’s perfect for keeping all your wonderful travel photos and memories in. The album base is black acrylic held together with two metal “O” rings and decorated with travel themed … Read More...
If you’re looking to create a detailed card for someone special then you need to download this amazing interactive Jellyfish Card! It’s perfect for anyone who loves swimming, snorkeling, the ocean or the beach. This deep shadow box style card … Read More...
June is typically wedding season and it looks like peach, gold with touches of green are going to be trendy colors this year for weddings. I’m seeing these colors on lots of paper crafting projects like wedding layouts and greeting … Read More...
Let Dad know how truly special he is with an over the top card for Father’s Day or for a birthday. Grace has used stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn to create this amazing interactive Sub Shop card. The front … Read More...
This beautiful wedding layout has lots of shiny gold frames and borders mixed with pinks and greens and lovely roses for a very romantic design. Take a closer look at the Anna Griffin blog.
It’s June so that means … Read More...
Some of us might still be working on cards for Father’s Day or maybe you need a masculine card for a birthday or other special occasion? I know many struggle with card ideas for guys and I think a Nautical … Read More...
I love using mini albums for a single event like a vacation or trip to the beach. This stunning Tri-Fold Slimline style mini album from Kathy is perfect for a beachy day out. Using products from Spellbinders she decorated the … Read More...
If you’re creating handmade cards with summer themes then you need to download this fun collection of 6 different digital stamps. Each design has a cool sentiment and summer images like flip flops, seashells, palm trees, tropical drinks… Read More...
These bright pattern papers will be perfect for using on all your Summertime paper crafting projects! With bold colors and fun pineapples these designs have a retro 80’s vibe with squiggly lines, tiny tropical drink, suns and flip flops too. … Read More...
If you’re not familiar with embossing folders they are a plastic folder that you place cardstock inside and run through a die cutting machine that creates raised embossed designs. The Fantasy Butterflies embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp has beautiful … Read More...
All the cheerful stripes on this layout are broken up with a thin diamond shape and circle and layered with clusters of color coordinated embellishments. I love the retro feel of the new “Summer Vibes” collection. I spotted this idea … Read More...
If you’re Dad loves the ocean check out this amazing sea turtle Dad and child card from Andrea. She colored the stamped turtles with Copic markers and created her ocean background with inking, splatter, and glaze through a stencil. Learn … Read More...
Mini albums are a fun way to capture a single event or to create as little gifts to give. This amazing mini album from Kerstin has four folded sections/layouts that pop up to create an almost tent shape. The album … Read More...
Finding the perfect sentiment for a card design is the cherry on the cake, it’s the finishing touch. I like to add a sentiment on the front of the card and another inside so I’m usually adding two to each … Read More...
Father’s Day is coming up soon so be sure to take lots of pics with Dad going out to eat, hanging out in the back yard barbequing, getting breakfast in bed or much deserved relaxing at home and create some … Read More...
Enamel dots are fun little round embellishments that you can easy add to your paper crafting projects like cards and scrapbook pages. They come in different sizes, different finishes and loads of different colors to add some extra dimension and … Read More...
This colorful layout from Vicki uses stitching to separate this page into 4 blocks. She also wrapped and tied thread around one section and stitched around the view master wheel on another. The coordinating colors and threads help keep this … Read More...
