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Card Making -Gatefold Slime Line Card

June 4, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Gatefold Slime Line Card

Becca used some of her brand new slimline dies from Spellbinders to create this lovely Slimline Gatefold Card. This card uses vellum for a soft romantic feel mixed the Victorian inspired dies for a really elegant card design. A belly … Read More...

Birthday Sentiments Printable

April 17, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Birthday Sentiment Printables

I’m sure most of us card makers make more birthday cards than any other type of card, right? So this set of Happy Birthday printable sentiments from Scrapbook and Cards Today is super useful! There are 8 different font styles … Read More...

Ink Smooshing and Embossing Technique

April 17, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Ink Smooshing and Embossing Technique

Natasha did something I’ve never heard of and that’s heat embossing with water! She first ink smooshed her background panel with stamping inks and water then left some sections wet and poured on glitter embossing powder and then heated. The … Read More...

Inking Dies with Gel Press

April 15, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Inking Dies with Gel Press

If you’re not familiar a Gel Press it’s a large flat piece of polymer that you can use for inking, stamping and mixed media techniques. Jennifer McGuire has an easy way to use a Gel Press, stamping ink and a … Read More...

Stamping and Watercolor in One

April 14, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Stamping and Watercolor in One

Rina has a great tip for an easy way to using the same ink for stamping and watercolor. By inking different colors of Distress Inks in a rainbow pattern down the large stamp it adds a colorful outline that can … Read More...

Missing You Shaker Card

April 13, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Missing You Shaker Card

I used the adorable new House Cats stamps and the Milk Carton dies from My Favorite Things for this cute Missing You Shaker Card. I thought the cats and the milk carton went together perfectly for fun card. I used … Read More...

Tips for Choosing Ink Blending Tools

April 12, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Tips for Choosing Ink Blending Tools

When it comes to ink blending and stenciling it can be hard to know what the best tools to use are. There are tools with bristles, tools with foam, different sizes, shapes and brands. And also the type of paper … Read More...

Faux Metal with Embossing and Wax

April 10, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Faux Metal with Embossing and Wax

Wow, the frame on this card from Vicky looks like it’s metal but it’s actually paper! She used an embossing folder/die combo to create the shape and depth and then added metallic waxes over top for a faux metal look … Read More...

Floral 50th Birthday Card

April 9, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Floral 50th Birthday Card

The beautiful Pink Roses on this birthday card from Therese have so much depth and dimension to them! She used layering stencils and ink pads to color all the layers and then stamped the outline and the result is a … Read More...

Birthday Floral Easel Card

April 8, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Birthday Floral Easel Card

I think Easel Cards are going to be trendy this year, I’m seeing lots of them popping up (pun intended :)). And for good reason, these cards are easy to create, fold flat for mailing and are fun to display. … Read More...

Book Reading Easel Card

April 6, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Book Reading Easel Card

This amazing card from Bobbi has so much detail and personality! This cute bear sitting in front of a book shelf and reading is such a sweet scene that she created using stamps and dies from SugarPea. The easel design … Read More...

Rainbow Birds Card

April 5, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Rainbow Birds Card

How pretty is this rainbow of birds card from Laura!? She used Distress Inks to ink blend over top of white heat embossed birds in a lovely array of colors across the card. The clean white background helps the colors … Read More...

Watercolor with Perfect Pearls

April 4, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Watercolor with Perfect Pearls

Perfect Pearls are a shimmery powder that can be used for lots of different techniques. They add sparkle and shine on light and dark cardstocks and are perfect to color in stamped images or create backgrounds. Simon Hurley used them … Read More...

Dutch Fold Easter Card

March 31, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Dutch Fold Easter Card

I love a card that has an interesting fold, don’t you? This unique Dutch Fold Card forms a platform like an easel to prop up the card. You can find step by step photo directions for making one along with … Read More...

Stenciled Rainbow Floral Card

March 30, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Stenciled Rainbow Floral Card

Amy R. used Distress Inks and a pretty flower stencil from Simon Says to create this beautiful rainbow colored Floral Card. After inking she sprayed water to get a faux watercolor look and then added some splatter and large sentiment … Read More...

FREE Spring Flower Digital Stamps

March 29, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

FREE Spring Flower Digital Stamps

These beautiful Spring Flower digitals stamps each have a border making it easy to print, color and add a simple sentiment to complete and create wonderful Spring and Easter cards in no time. These digi stamps are FREE to download … Read More...

Handmade Sunflower Card Tutorial

March 27, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/blog/making-the-cut-watercolored-sunflower/

Nichol used mostly dies to create this stunning Sunflower Card. The large yellow flower has such a big impact on the stamped woodgrain background and the sentiment cut from gold paper also pops with the white border behind. I love … Read More...

Women’s History Month Card

March 23, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Women's History Month Card

To celebrate Women’s History Month Sandy Allnock created this terrific card featuring Katherine Johnson who worked as a mathematician at NASA, she’s one of the amazing women featured in the wonderful film Hidden Figures. Sandy transformed some stamps from Ellen … Read More...

Interactive Typewriter Card

March 22, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Interactive Typewriter Card

This Typewriter Card from Jessica has a fun interactive detail, there’s a hidden message! When you pull the paper from the typewriter it reveals the hidden sentiment, so cute! She used new products from Hero Arts to create it and … Read More...

Cola Friendship Card

March 19, 2021 by Heather Holbrook

Cola Friendship Card

Ashley created this fun Cola Friendship Card filled with lots of bubbles. I love that she used different mediums like cardstock, vellum and Nuvo Drops to create the different bubbles, it adds lots of texture and interest to the card … Read More...

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