Dana used a shaker kit from Creative Embellishments to create a quick and easy shaker element on her fun Soccer Layout. These chipboard shapes and can be painted in any color and filled with sequins, beads or other small embellishments. … Read More...
How to Watercolor a Card with Stencils
I usually think of ink blending when I think of using stencils but Therese used watercolors with layering stencils to create this beautiful floral card. She’s sharing step by step directions on how she water colored her Birthday card, adding … Read More...
Crafty Kids Layout
Jen created this fun layout featuring her daughter and friend working on some crafts. Notice how she left an L shape showing the background paper and “pushing” the main design into one corner, part of the title also sits in … Read More...
Mother’s and Father’s Day Wagon Cards
How cute are these scenes of parent pulling all their kids in wagons? Marine used products from Sunny Studio to create these adorable Mother’s and Father’s Day cards. She changed these cards only slightly for either Mom or Dad and … Read More...
Create a Silhouette Cut File from an Image (with Freebie)
One of the things I love most about my Silhouette die cutting machine is being able to use an image or design my own and easily turn it into a cut file. Joy is sharing how she used the image … Read More...
Umbrella Cat Card
This sweet cat in an umbrella card is sure to brighten anyone’s day! Vicky used an easy paper piecing technique to add color and pattern to the umbrella, adding a die cut flower and coloring the stamped kitty in with … Read More...
Folded Flaps Layout
Check out the unique folded flaps design on this layout from Lydia. Using double sided pattern papers she cut from the opposite corners and folded the paper securing the corners with eyelets and ribbon. She added her title in stickers … Read More...
Stamp, Stencil, Foil Floral Card
These stunning cards from Laura feature new products from Pinkfresh Studio and combine to work together for trendy techniques like stenciling and foiling along with stamping and die cutting. I love how the sentiment stamp set can be stamped all … Read More...
Delightful Girl Layout
Michelle did lots of fussy cutting for this Delightful Girl layout but all that work is worth it, look at the beautiful results! This page features a swag of flowers cut from pattern paper underneath the sweet photo. The photo … Read More...
5 Free Gold Flower Digital Stamps
These beautiful flower digital stamps are outlined in gold to give the look of foiling or heat embossing. Print them out, color them up and add them to your next handmade card. There are 5 different flowers that you can … Read More...
Free Strawberry Mini Digital Scrapbook Kit
The free mini kit comes with 6 digital papers and 7 embellishments including word art and an adorable strawberry sticker. This mini digi kit is FREE to download at J Conlon and Sons.
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Mixed Media Butterfly Card
Mindy mixed lots of different techniques and products to create this wonderful Mixed Media Butterfly Card. for the background she used an ink smooshing technique, stenciling with glitter paste, paint splatter, stamping and more. Over top she added stamped and … Read More...
Double Page Layout with Loads of Photos
I love this Monthly layout idea from Kat! She created a double page spread that includes a whopping 13 photos, each photo has a sticker with the date it was taken and there even room for borders, the name of … Read More...
How to Foil with Solid Stamps
There are a couple of different ways to foil and different products to do it, using heat lamination or with a sticky medium, usually specifically made for foiling. But Simon has a great way to use basic stamping supplies like … Read More...
17 Masculine Layouts Using Tags
The design team over at Scrap the Boys was challenged to create layouts using tags. Tags really versatile, they are great for photo matts, journaling, slipping into pockets, layering for backgrounds and more. They can be plain or colorful and … Read More...
Graduation Cards 3 Ways
Emily used the same new products from Taylored Expressions to create Graduation Cards in three different ways. Two cards are rainbow colored, the other more simple, a couple have fun emoji’s and some have gold accents. Mixing and matching stamps, … Read More...
Rainbow Background Layout with Ink Pads
This fun background technique is a quick and easy way to add lots of color to a scrapbook layout background. Apply color from a stamping ink pad to a nonporous surface, spray with water, pick up the color with a … Read More...
Fruit Cookies Card
This is one of the sweetest and cleverest cards I’ve seen in a while! Keiko created yummy Springtime cookies using fruit stamps and dies, placing them on a die cut backing sheet with tongs. She created the cookies by die … Read More...
Spring Explosion Box
When you untie the ribbon and lift the lid on this stunning Explosion Box from Laeti it opens up to reveal four pocket panels. They hold a small card for photos or journaling, each decorated with stamped and water colored … Read More...
Floral Card Water Coloring on Cardstock
Usual when you think about water coloring your stamped images you probably think you need to use watercolor paper but Lisa has some great tips for water coloring on cardstock. She used Karin pens making sure to not use a … Read More...