I love an interactive card and of course you can cut, score and fold them yourself or save yourself a lot of time and trouble and use a template. Fran has generously shared a FREE template you can download and … Read More...
How to use a Blender Pen
A water based blender pen
is a very helpful tool to have in your crafting arsenal. It can be use with a variety of coloring mediums for softening, applying color directly or of course, blending. Lindsay is sharing lots of … Read More...
Simply By Amy Designs
Looking for something to show off your passion for your favorite craft or share that you’re a proud small business owner? Then check out Simply By Amy Designs. She’s got fun stickers, key chains, magnets, notepads and enamel pins… Read More...
Dressed Pets Free Coloring Pages
Cute dogs and cats in even cuter outfits adorn these sweet coloring pages. Relax on a lazy day coloring these cuties that are sure to put a big smile on your face. There are 4 different pages to chose from … Read More...
Fairy House Card
I used the new Mushroom House background stamp along with some other stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird to create this cute Fairy House Card. I used Arteza Brush Pens to watercolor the images for an easy coloring technique. Visit … Read More...
Wavy Borders Card
Using new stamps, foil plates and dies from the monthly Spellbinders kits you can create a beautiful card with wavy borders. This curved design adds lots of movement and interest to a card design with out much fuss.
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Card Backgrounds with Book Pages
One of my favorite things to use in my mixed media projects are old book pages. They have such amazing illustrations and text and the age can add interesting vintage coloration on the paper. Gina K used some book pages … Read More...
Mother’s Day Paper Crafts
This sweet grouping of a Mother’s Day Card, Box, Tag and Pocket will put a smile on any mom’s face this year. The floral and faux stitching make for a pretty feminine design! The matching gift set is simple to … Read More...
Happy Happy Happy…. Birthday
I love the rainbow of colors on this festive Birthday Layout! Jackie used a “Happy” stamp and stamped it multiple times down one side of her layout in different colors of ink. It’s a fun way to fill half a … Read More...
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...
Birdhouse Shaped Cards
How sweet (or should I say tweet :)) are these Birdhouse Shaped Cards!? Kari used stamps and dies from Scrappy Tails to create them. The mix of woodgrain base mixed with metallic roofs is just perfect! I really love the … Read More...
Stamped Clay Pendant
I love projects that take stamping from paper to other surfaces. Kyriakos has used her stamping supplies to created this beautiful Clay Pendant. She used ink to color some of the clay for a marbled effect, Staz On ink 
to … Read More...
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...
Funny Phone Cards
Do you remember the “old days” when we had rotary dials and our phones had cords? Maybe, I’ve giving away my age but I sure do! Bobbi created 2 funny cards using phone stamps and dies from SugarPea Designs. She’s … Read More...
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...
Blue Roses Thank You Card
This pretty Blue Roses card is a lovely way to tell someone Thank You. Shauna used stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink to make her card. The roses are created with layering stamps in shades of blue ink and the … Read More...
Rainbow Die Cut Cards
Carrisa used stamps and dies from Erin Lee to create two beautiful Rainbow Cards. To get lots dimension on her rainbows she used several layers of just white cardstock and then adhered section of the different colors of cardstock over … Read More...
Spring Butterfly Cards
Adelina used pretty stamps from Ellen Hutson and colorful inks from Catherine Pooler for these wonderful Spring Butterfly Cards. The stamps have such a modern graphic feel that the complementary ink colors she used work perfectly together, no need for … Read More...
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...
2 Mini Slimline Cards from 1 Panel
Cathy is sharing a great way to create two cards from one stamped panel. She used a large circle with dots rubber stamp to ink and then heat emboss in clear on white cardstock, the added colorful bands ink blending … Read More...