A cute little bunny is peeking out from an opening on this sweet Easter card from Nichol Spohr. The opening is a shaker element filled with sequins. I love the bright yellow plaid pattern paper she used, it’s so Springy!… Read More...
Metallic Gels for Stenciling
The Metallix Gel from Deco Foil will add sparkle, shine, color and texture to your cards and paper crafting projects. They work beautifully with stencils as Catherine Pooler shares on her blog with several different stenciling ideas and techniques. And … Read More...
Gold Inlaid Sentiment Card
Arjita used flower stamps from Trinity and colored them with Copic Markers for this lovely floral card. For the sentiment she die cut the letters directly from the stamped panel as well as from gold metallic cardstock and then inlaid … Read More...
Mirror Stamping with a Media Mat
Mirror Image Stamping is a fun technique that allows you to stamp the reverse of an image. This makes for fun card where your images can face each other or you can add a reflection. The silicone Media Mat from … Read More...
Spring Animals Card with Ink Blending
I love how the animals on this adorable Spring Card are all shaped like eggs, so cute! Sandie masked off each stamped animal so she could ink blend a pretty background. She finished off her card by coloring her animals … Read More...
How to Make a Shadow Box Card
Eva is over on the Pebbles blog showing how easy it is to create your own Shadow Box Card. She’s got direction on how to cut and core the card base. And to make it even quicker she used pre-made … Read More...
Butterfly Box Card
How pretty and Springy is this card from Dina Kowal!? This box style pop up card opens up to reveal some lovely butterflies but still folds flat to fit inside an envelope. She’s sharing step by step photo direction as … Read More...
Using Background Stamps as a Focal
Background stamps are of course perfect for create backgrounds for your cards but Jaycee has taken it a step further by using them as focal images. He’s stretched the new Pinkfresh Studio background stamps by fussy and die cutting out … Read More...
Interactive Wiper Card
Julie used cute new bug stamps from Lawn Fawn to create this interactive wiper card. When you open the card a magnifying glass pops out, so fun! She’ll show you step by step how to create your own wiper, no … Read More...
Tropical Tote Shaped Card
It’s very cold where I am but I’m getting warm feelings looking at this Tropical Tote Shaped Card from Anna. Shes used stamps and dies from Concord and 9th to create it. I love that you can stamp any pattern … Read More...
DIY Punch and Die Bunny Rabbits
Cindy Lynn looked at a leaf die and thought “That looks like bunny ears” and then grabbed a balloon shaped punch for the body and created some adorable bunny rabbits for Easter. How clever is that?! The little pom pom … Read More...
Focus on Background Stamps
Pink Fresh Studio has just released a bunch of beautiful new large background stamps. These cling mounted rubber stamps give you the freedom to create your own custom pattern papers for your card backgrounds. Laura used two to design for … Read More...
Mosaic Tile Card
Christine used a large mosaic tile design die from Tonic Studio to created this amazing card. Using a combination of cardstock, metallic paper and Nuvo Drops her card looks like a real porcelain tile. All the timely paper piecing is … Read More...
Card Making – Flower Bouquet Card with No-Line Coloring
Caly used a light colored ink to stamp beautiful flower stamps from Hero Arts on her card and used watercolors to color them for a lovely no-line coloring technique. Not seeing the stamped lines give the look of a hand … Read More...
Rainbow Panda Card
Using the tiny but adorable Whittle Panda die from Poppy Stamps I created this colorful birthday card with a trendy rainbow theme. Using shimmer watercolors added a pretty sparkle to the card. Learn how I made this design over on … Read More...
Valentine’s Day Card with Watercolor Powders
Brusho watercolour powders are a fun and easy way to add bold splashes of color to your card backgrounds. Sprinkle them on watercolor paper and spray or “paint” with water and they will react and spread to create beautiful patterns. … Read More...
Princess Birthday Card
Elaine created this pretty, pink Princess Birthday Card with stamps, dies and a stencil from Heffy Doodle. And what’s a princess without some sparkle? So she used the stencil with metallic paste for some shimmer and shine on her ink … Read More...
Baking Themed Card
If you know someone who loves to spend time in the kitchen cooking and baking this sweet card from from Tina Smith is perfect. She created her card using stamps and dies from Newton’s Nook and is sharing a video … Read More...
Mailbox Valentine Shaker Card
Using brand new stamps and dies from Honey Bee Stamps Jessica designed this amazing Mailbox Card. On the front you see the letter going into the slot and when you open the card there’s a shaker filled with hearts and … Read More...