This cute card is double the interactive fun. It’s a shaker card and also when you press the button the terrarium jar lights up. How cool! Kelly shares how she used lights from Chibitronics to create it.
Tips for Pocket Scrapbook Pages
The Close to My Heart blog has some helpful tips for pocket scrapbook layouts. Stick with a color scheme to keep it cohesive, pick a single event or story and plan out your pattern. There’s even some template for page … Read More...
Marbling Card Technique
These colorful cards created by Carly were made using a marbling technique with alcohol inks. The backgrounds are the star so some simple die-cutting and sentiment is all that is needed to finish these off. Honey Bee
How to make a recycled Plastic Egg Carton Wreath
Don’t toss those clear plastic egg cartons, you can remove the cups and make a darling fresh as spring wreath. Pop on over to Whimziville for the step by step tutorial on how to make a recycled plastic egg carton … Read More...
Custom Fabric Covered Notebook
This is a great way to create a custom cover for a notebook, planner, journal or scrapbook. Niki printed, stamped and colored her design on copy paper then used the Cricut Easypress to transfer it to the cover of a … Read More...
Jumping Dog Interactive Card
Torico has put a clever spin on the new Swig Dies from My Favorite Things. She’s flipped it upside down so that the show dog jumps over the hurdle. So cute!! She’s got step by step photo directions over on … Read More...
How to make a light constellation luminary
OK, this is just too cool and educational! I generally simply look up at the night sky and enjoy the stars without knowing much about the specifics of location and names but that could change with these cool cube constellation … Read More...
5 Different Stamped Card Backgrounds
Yana Smakula has stamped 5 wonderful card backgrounds without using large background stamps. I love the idea of using smaller stamps to create designs and patterns for card backgrounds, it’s a great way to get more from your stamped images. … Read More...
Circus Party Spinner Invite
This adorable spinner card is the perfect way to invite someone to a circus themed party. Eva created it with papers and dies from Pebbles. I love her tip about using a stamp positioning tool for easily stamping lots of … Read More...
Fun and functional recycled creamer container Easter bunnies
Sometime when you recycle a container it looses some of its function or the function is limited. In this case you can still open and close and keep the new contents fresh after transforming this creamer container into an Easter … Read More...
Nested Photo Folio
This lovely little folio nests down inside the frame and makes a wonderful handmade gift idea. Covered with stamped images and photos it’s sure to brighten anyone’s day. You can find step by step directions as well as a video … Read More...
Get the Foiled Look with No Heat!
Deco Foil Metallix Gel from Therm O Web comes in 6 colors and adds a fantastic metallic shine to your paper crafting projects without heat! These gels work perfectly with stencils, apply with the stencil pal and let dry for … Read More...
Grounded Scene Card with Partial Ink Blending
Emily helped ground the background of this pretty scene card by masking off and ink blending only a section of her cardstock. If you don’t want to color your entire panel this is a great way to still add an … Read More...
How to Watercolor Die Cuts
Nina Marie added some amazing color to her die cut images using watercolors. The splatters and specks she added seem to be stars or fireflies and are perfect for this evening scene card.
Learn a little more about how she … Read More...
Spring Pig with Chicks Card
Using new stamps from Hello Bluebird I created this Spring card with a pig, I thought it would be fun to have him surrounded by hatching chicks. I also tried out one of the new Tri-Color markers from Spectrum Noir… Read More...
Easter Card with Die Cuts
Jeanne Jachna used a combination of ink blending, stenciling and watercolor for her card background on this sweet Easter card. All the fun die cuts she used are new from Poppy Stamps. She’s sharing how she put it all together … Read More...
Fairy Garden Book with 3D Flowers
Luciana die cut lots of flower sections using dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs from white cardstock, colored them and then molded and shaped them into amazing 3D flowers. She used her flowers to decorate this wonderful Fairy Garden Book. She’s … Read More...
Best Selfie Layout
Sue Plumb is sharing her layout process for this amazing “Best Selfie Ever” scrapbook page. She used a brayer with inks and stamping for her background, a paper bag and cheesecloth adds lots of great texture as do the wooden … Read More...
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.