Shelly Hickox used some fun new pop up oval frame and border dies from Karen Burniston to make this amazing bird card. I love the vintage style and the quote from William Blake is perfect!
How to Foil on Acetate
Foiling adds a wonderful metallic look to cards. I’ve seen it applied to cardstock on many designs but Tina had the great idea to add foiling to acetate and the results are stunning! It gives an extra layer of dimension … Read More...
How to Watercolor a Vintage Rabbits Card
Sandy Allnock has some terrific tips on using watercolor pencils to color some vintage style bunny stamps. She used drawing paper instead of watercolor paper for a smoother look and has more tips like adding shadows and mixing colors.
Debossed No Line Coloring Technique
Instead of using a stamped image for her lovely water colored card Dina used a die with an embossing mat in her die cutting machine to deboss the image and then used that as a guide to add her coloring. … Read More...
Rose and Trellis Card
This lovely detailed die makes the perfect trellis background for the layered roses on this pretty card from Mona Toth. I love her tip of applying her cardstock to an adhesive sheet before die cutting, it makes the design like … Read More...
Card Background with Alcohol Marker Refills
I love the background is on this lovely card from Nicole, it’s looks like colorful marble and the gold letters for the sentiment work beautifully with it. She created her card background using different colors of refill for alcohol markers… Read More...
Coloring with Sheer Shimmer Stix
Sheer Shimmer Stix
from Imagine Crafts are a fun new way to add color, shimmer and shine to your cards and paper crafting projects. Jessica Lin shows how quick and easy it is to use the Stix to color directly … Read More...
Embossing with Stencils
Plastic stencils are great used with ink and paint but did you know that you can dry emboss with plastic stencils too? A rubber embossing mat in a manual die cutting machine allows you to get raised embossing on cardstock, … Read More...
Washi Tape Projects
Washi tape makes perfect accents on cards and scrapbooking layouts. Get even more from your washi tape with these fun project ideas. Use them on your planner pages, create page clips, cover boxes or make a memo board. We-R-Memory-Keepers
St. Patrick’s Day Z Fold Card
Hello Bluebird is becoming one of my favorite stamp companies, they have such adorable designs! I used their new Spring Gatherings stamps and die sets to create this fun Z Fold Card for St. Patrick’s Day. Visit my Youtube channel … Read More...
Rainbow Resin Card
The bright and colorful background on this card looks like a shiny, shimmery tile. Danielle applied Copic markers on Yupo paper and then covered the entire panel with resin that she added glitter to for a card that almost looks … Read More...
Masculine Birthday Mug Card
This is would be such a fun card to make and give to that special guy for his birthday. Kelly used a mirror stamping technique for two mugs facing opposite directions and transformed one of the basic mugs into a … Read More...
Pinata Shaker Card
I’m seeing fun and festive Pinatas pop up everywhere, they are super trendy right now! Rina created these colorful shaker cards with a stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh that includes a cupcake, heart and unicorn Pinatas. She’s sharing a … Read More...
Double Embossing Technique
If you don’t have the right color of embossing powder for your project don’t worry, you can try this cool (or should I say hot? :)) double embossing technique. Kim stamped her fun nerdy science images with colored ink pads … Read More...
Floral Card with Faux Painting Technique
Heather Hoffman has a wonderful way to get the look of painted flowers with this faux painting technique. By coloring directly on solid floral stamps with markers she was able to add multiple colors and shading to each element of … Read More...
Magnetic Slider Card
Jessica put a really fun twist on a slider card and used magnets to pull the balloon up into the sky, how fun is that? By using magnets there’s not an open channel to show (or to hide) on the … Read More...
How to make an easy MOM gate fold Mother’s Day card
I am thinking ahead to Mother’s Day and if you are too how about this for a fun big MOM card that can be made out of virtually any paper combo and I used 6 inch letter dies along with … Read More...
Ducklings Baby Card
This sweet baby card with Mama and Baby ducklings would be perfect for a baby born in Spring or change the words for an Easter card. I made this card with stamps from the Fable Friends set, Gingham Gala papers … Read More...
Bunny in the Carrot Patch Card
This sneaky little bunny is stealing carrots from the garden in this adorable card from Teri Pocock. I love how she created her fence using a woodgrain background stamp on strips of cardstock, very clever. She’s sharing how she put … Read More...
St. Patrick’s Day Clipart
This fun guy looks ready to enjoy a cold frosty mug on St. Patrick’s Day. This cute clip art is FREE to download from Pretty Grafik. Add him to party invites or scrapbook pages.