Looking for a fun way to create a card background? How about a repeat sentiment like on this cute card from Lien. She used a blocky “Hello” stamp with a stamp positioning tool and stamped the sentiment down the card … Read More...
Summer Memories Butterfly Layout
Wow, check out all the texture and depth on this amazing Summer Memories layout from Rhonda! She used Shimmerz Paints over gesso to create a mixed media painted background but the main star of this design is the large butterfly … Read More...
Sunburst Thank You Card
Melissa used stamps, stencils and dies from Papertrey Ink to create this wonderful Sunburst Thank You Card. The blue and yellow color combination is so fresh and sunny! And check out all the layers created not only from the dimensional … Read More...
Summer Pool Traveler’s Notebook Pages
These wonderful Pool themed Traveler’s Notebook pages from Ashley feature the new Wayfarer line from Cocoa Daisy. These tall designs feature a sentiments page that features stickers, labels and stamps stacked down the center over polka dot and wave pattern … Read More...
Christmas in July Interactive Gnome Matchbook Card
It’s time to begin working on all our handmade holiday projects and to help get you started Amanda has this fun interactive Matchbook Card feature a cute Gnome using dies from i-crafter. I love this style of card that opens … Read More...
Tropical Wreath Layout
Jennifer created an amazing design in pinks, oranges and yellows for this Tropical Wreath Layout. She used a bough of tropical leaves and flowers die cut from white cardstock to form part of the wreath. With it she mixed lots … Read More...
How to Watercolor a Card with Distress Re-Inkers
Don’t have watercolors but love that look? It’s no problem if you have any type of ink or ink pad re-inker that is water or dye based. Kristina used Distress Ink Re-inkers to watercolor this stunning stamped and heat embossed … Read More...
Travel Album on a Clipboard
Sandra has a very clever way to “bind” and hold an album, she used a clipboard! For this Travel Themed Mini Album project she decorated the base of the clipboard with embellishments and a photo then created an album that … Read More...
Dinosaur Birthday Card
With the new Jurassic World movie out this summer it’s the perfect time to create cards with Dinosaurs, like this adorable design from Stephanie. She used lots of different techniques like dry embossing, die cutting, stamping and heat embossing to … Read More...
Create Stenciled Doodles for a Layout
Kim created the pretty flowers on the sweet Dog Layout with a stencil and pens. First she used a flower stencil to apply gesso and after it dried used pens to outline and fill in with doodling. This page also … Read More...
Christmas in July Mailbox Cards
It’s July and for many crafters that means we get started working on all our handmade projects and gifts for the Holidays. Yana Smakula has started on her Christmas Cards featuring beautiful Mailboxes using dies from Spellbinders. She die cut … Read More...
Summer Slides Grid Layout
A grid style layout is always a quick and easy way to put together a design but it doesn’t have to be plain and simple. This wonderful Summer Page from Heidi Swapp uses small frames around the pictures to give … Read More...
Crafty Pop Up Box Card
Wow, this amazing card design from Kara would delight any fellow crafter! Using stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn the outside of the card has a cute card making Squirrel and inside a box of crafting supplies pops up and … Read More...
How To Make Nested Pockets Mini Album
Just when you think you’ve seen every style of mini album some inventive creator comes up with a new design. Jamie used nesting pocket dies to created a fabulous Nesting Pockets Mini Album. It has progressively larger pockets as you … Read More...
6 FREE Flower Fashion Coloring Pages
If you love flowers and you love fashion then these coloring pages are for you! There are 6 different designs of models in dresses made from botanicals with kind of a funky 80’s retro feel. They are FREE to download … Read More...
Peeking Pets Card
This Peeking Pets Card is such a cute and clever design! Rectangle dies were used to create a dresser with drawers and stamps of a cat and dog peeking out were added into the drawers. I love the entire scene … Read More...
Rainbow and Flaps Layout
I love the contrast of the bright rainbow and the more subtle flaps on this double page design from Kerstin. On the right she used rainbow striped paper adding a row of stacked embellishments down the center, notice how the … Read More...
Create 4 Tropical Cards at Once
Jessica has a terrific tip for creating 4 cards at once. Using Tropical Leaf and Flower dies from Hero Arts, she die cut them from different colors of cardstock, applied them in a pattern on a piece of 12″ … Read More...
Puppy Love Stamped Layout
Andrea used stamps and dies from Reverse Confetti to create this sweet Puppy Love Layout. She added watercolor splashes and splatters onto her background paper, matted the photo 3 times using different pattern papers and used colorful ink pads to … Read More...
Funny “Hot Mess” File Folder Card
I’m sure so many of us can relate to this funny ‘Hot Mess” card from Lynn, right?! It’s sure to brighten the day of a friend who might be going through a rough time. I love the design of this … Read More...