When it comes to Valentine’s Day, we often think of pinks, reds, hearts, and of course, Cupid. But have you ever wondered why these colors and symbols are so closely tied to the holiday? The tradition of using reds and … Read More...
Easy Heart Shaped Valentine with Altered Envelope
This cute quick and easy heart shaped Valentine’s Day Card from Cathy Z. would be simple to mass produce a bunch for co-workers or classmates. Since this card is an unusual shape and size Cathy needed a custom envelope so … Read More...
Mini Album Made from an Embroidery Hoop
Wow, check out this clever idea for a mini album, the covers are made from embroidery hoops! Rachel painted two hoops and adhered circles of pattern paper to them, adding more circles of papers for the pages inside. The pages … Read More...
Interactive Floating Balloons Card
This fun interactive Card from Lydia is sure to put a smile on anyone’s face! Using stamps, stencils and dies from My Favorite Things she created a slider card that lifts the cute bunny and bear into the air when … Read More...
Monochromatic Blue “Loved” Layout
I love the monochromatic blues of this sweet “Loved” layout from Jen! This design has so much dimension and depth from the layers of chipboard frames, laser cut dies and ephemera pieces of flowers, butterflies, buttons and more along with … Read More...
Floral Card with Foam Glitter Sheets
Wow, check out the cool sparkle of gold and purple on this beautiful floral card from Yana Smakula! She didn’t actually use any loose or liquid glitter she used foam glitter sheets from Spellbinders. Combined with die cut cardstock images … Read More...
New Years Goals Hybrid Layout
Victoria Marie combined printed digital elements and physical elements to create this hybrid layout for her goals for the New Year. Across the center are 3 photos of herself, below is the list of thoughts and goals for the year, … Read More...
DIY Card and Envelope with Faux Dip Dye Technique
How pretty and colorful are this card and envelope duo? Kristina Werner used watercolor to create a faux dip dye design on both. She created her DIY envelope using a punch board and for the card she die cut the … Read More...
Love You the Most Foiled Layout
Nathalie used products from Pinkfresh Studio to create this beautiful layout. This has so much depth with the stamped leaves in the background with a frame of flowers and grid pattern paper popped up around the edges. The flowers are … Read More...
XO Valentine’s Day Card
This sweet Valentine’s Day Card from Channin has lots of gold shimmer from foiling and heat embossing. I love the colorful blocking on the background she created with ink blending and stenciling over the foiled background! A mix of die … Read More...
FREE Valentine Printables
These sweet printables are perfect for using on Valentine’s Day, Wedding or Anniversary cards, scrapbook layouts and planner pages. There is a pretty rose, 7 sentiments and 6 circles with sentiments and images in shades of pinks and teals. These … Read More...
3 Techniques All Card Makers Should Know
There are so many stamping and card-making techniques to learn and play with but there are a few that are sort of essential and will take your designs to the next level. Jaycee is on the Altenew blog teaching 3 … Read More...
“Heart Eyes” Mixed Media Layout
Brianna used products from Simple Stories for this “Heart Eyes” layout. This excited mixed media design has a great color combo of pink and teal with texture and dimension on the background from a heart stencil and paste, lots of … Read More...
Cute Beavers Valentine’s Day Card
Joy used brand new stamps from Lawn Fawn
to create this adorable Beaver Couple Valentine’s Day Card. She ink blended her sky and water, die cut the grass and flowers creating a dimensional scene with the stamped beavers floating on … Read More...
Introduction to Planning
If one of your New Years resolutions is to be more prepared and organized with your scrapbooking or in life then starting a planner might be for you. Planners are a great way to keep track of what’s coming up, … Read More...
I Love Cake Birthday Card
I love how Laureen replace the “O” in “love” with a big stamped cake, such a clever idea! She also cleverly used lots of birthday text stamps to create her own stamped pattern paper and ink blended and stenciled the … Read More...
Snowflake Shaped Winter Album
Check out the fun snowflake shape on this mini album from Jessica! Each snowflake shaped page is stitched and the entire album is held together by an O ring. Each layout has a photo accented with foils, flocking and embellishments … Read More...
Winter Animals Valentine’s Day Card
This adorable card from Brenda works for winter or Valentine’s Day or both! Featuring a cute stamped penguin and polar bear duo, they are sitting in glittery snow with a pink heart background with a sweet stamped sentiment.
Winter Layout with Hand Cut Snowflakes
Don’t have snowflake dies, stamps or embellishments? No problem, you can cut out your own snowflake designs. Sheena will show you how to create them using thin white paper and a pencil, ruler and scissors. She’s also sharing how she … Read More...
Winter Shaker Hoop Layout
I love how Jessica used an embroidery hoop to create a fun shaker element on her Winter Wonderland Layout! She added her photo behind the hoop, placed some clear beads and silver snowflakes inside the hoop, adding a piece of … Read More...