I love the trendy Slimline design of this cute Coffee Card from Tracy Shultz. The die cut window openings look like a walk up counter at a cafe’. To get her bright neon colors she used Gel Pens to color … Read More...
Scrape Painting Card Technique
I sometimes find solid silhouette stamps can be difficult to design with. Karen Dunbrook has a fun Scrape Painting technique that adds a colorful background behind her stamps that she stamped in black. By adding dots of acrylic paints to … Read More...
Side Flap Tri-Fold Card
From the front this lovely card from Dee looks like a regular folded card but when you open it up there’s a flap on the inside that opens up to reveal the actual inside of the card. This clever design … Read More...
Easy Wedding Photo Cards
Take your photos off the page and use them on greeting cards. I know many think of photo cards for the Holidays but they can be used any time. Like these beautiful wedding cards, which would be perfect to send … Read More...
Card Making Rockin’ Neon Gatefold Card
I love the bright neon colors on this fun and funky card from Amanda, it makes me think of the 80’s! She designed her own gatefold card with a fun heart shaped opening for this card and is sharing how … Read More...
Coffee Cup Pup Card
I love the look of colored pencil on kraft cardstock! The colors really pop and stand out, it has a really artistic quality about it. Jackie used the sweet Pup in a Cup stamp set from Not 2 Shappy for … Read More...
How to Create Custom Pattern Paper
Meg created her own pattern paper designs for this adorable Bee Girl Card. For the first she stamped and cut out bee hives, adhered them to polka dot paper and then dry embossed them for a seamless design. The small … Read More...
Distress Inks with Stencils Technique
Jennifer McGuire has a cool new technique using stencils with Distress and Oxide Inks . First she ink blends some white cardstock, then places the stencil over-top and then by placing a wet baby wipe over that and running it … Read More...
Stamped Paper Piecing
Crystal has a terrific way to add color and layers to a single stamp. She stamped a large floral stamp from Unity multiple times in different colors of ink, cut them apart and them pieced them back together, how clever!… Read More...
Dragonfly Card with Resist Technique
Using an embossing resist technique with ink blending Erin created an amazing background on her card. I love the bold colors on her tall slimline card, they work so well with the dragonfly stamps from Colorado Stamp Company and the … Read More...
Vibrant Rose Card
Shannon heat embossed a large rose background stamp from Brutus Monroe in gold for this bold and beautiful card. She colored the design with liquid watercolors for a really vibrant look. A simple sentiment and a few gold dots was … Read More...
Ocean Animals CAS Scene Card
Jess combined two card styles that might not always go together, clean and simple (CAS) and a scene card. I think her results are perfect! By keeping her ink blended background in a small area she still has the look … Read More...
New Puppy Card
With so many people working from home right now many have opened their hearts and homes to a new pet. Julianne Foyil created this adorable Congratulations card for a new dog owner using new stamps and dies from Honey Bee. … Read More...
Card Making Shaped Gatefold Cards
The super talented Simon Hurley has a fun new twist on Gatefold cards. He stamped the front panel and cut it in half, going around some of the stamped images so they piece fit back together when the front card … Read More...
Butterfly Clipart Freebies
Add some beautiful butterflies to your next paper crafting project with these clipart designs. There are 25 different colorful butterflies with touches of gold from the Hungry Jpeg you can download for FREE.
Free Fonts Bundle
Following their first wonderful collection of fonts Blog Pixie is offering another FREE amazing bundle of fonts you can download and use on your paper crafting projects. They are also free for commercial use too!
Slimline Birthday Card
Long Slimline cards are really trendy right now. They give you lots of extra room for details and fit inside a business sized envelope for easy mailing. Lynnea create this slimline birthday card with sweet candy stamps and a multicolored … Read More...
Floral Card with Masked Ink Blending
Kelly Fusco used a Rectangle Mask from Taylored Expressions, ink blended with Distress Oxide Inks to design a lovely soft background for her floral card. She stamped her flowers over top in black for a simple but beautiful design. A … Read More...
How to add Extra Details to Stenciling
Stenciling is fun and trendy and can add amazing designs to your cards with ink blending techniques. Birka took this idea to the next level by adding lines around sections of the stencils edges with a fine line black pen. … Read More...
6 Card Ideas with Balloons
Therese used stamps and dies from Penny Black to create 6 different Balloon themed cards. Balloons are fun for birthdays and special occasions and can add lots of color and movement to your card designs. She paired them with cats … Read More...