Last Minute Handmade Gifts – Flashback Friday!

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See our ideas for down-to-the-wire last minute handmade gifts. Yes we know, it’s truly a now or never situation! But if you are looking for quick, easy, just-give-me-a-few last minute handmade gifts you can make right now, you are in the right spot! You can use these three ideas as they are or as inspiration to pull together something super fast, really striking and made by you. Ready? First is an idea for how to upcycle cookie tins for instant […]

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Handmade Teddy Bear Cards For Winter

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This might just be the cutest idea for handmade teddy bear cards for winter occasions! Cute and cuddly, despite the snow, these handmade teddy bear cards for winter are just so adorable and we really don’t think they are just for kids! Who wouldn’t love to imagine getting a little snuggle from this fuzzy little friend? And when it comes with a hug from you – well, that’s a bonus! Let’s see how Julie made this so we can send […]

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Handmade Winter Cards For Friends – CUTE!

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Check out this quick and easy – yet oh-so-cute – design for handmade winter cards for friends of all ages! After the holidays, we still have so many cards to send – birthdays keep rolling on up, events keep happening and certainly we send lots of thank yous! Today’s design for all occasion handmade winter cards for friends is so cute and you can just swap out the greeting and have an excellent all purpose winter card ready to go. […]

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Gorgeous Handmade Thank You Cards For Friends

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You will want to save this design for these beautiful handmade thank you cards for friends to use over and over! It’s so nice to have fun designs for special handmade thank you cards for friends. The people who help us hold it all together are irreplaceable and it’s so nice to send them something that tells them straight up how much they mean to you with a card that you’ve made just for them. Today’s design is so versatile […]

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See What a Layered Flower Stencil Can Do!

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See how using a layered flower stencil can add the most beautiful details to your handmade cards! Today we get to feast our eyes on Annie’s beautiful floral thank you card made using one of the sheets from our Modern Florals Paper Pad and a coordinating stamp and layered flower stencil set. We designed these layered stencils to allow you to instantly add gorgeous coloring details to the coordinating flower stamps and this is one of the prettiest examples we’ve […]

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A Handmade Toy Train Christmas Card!

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This handmade toy train Christmas card is so adorable and has the most amazing details! We are known for our including all kinds of extra components in our die sets to allow crafters to make things that are incredibly detailed, giving them so much more creative opportunity on their projects. Today’s handmade toy train Christmas card is just so breathtaking in real life and we cannot stop looking at it. As you might guess this is from our Exclusive Associate […]

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Handmade Pink And Gray Thank You Cards – SO Pretty!

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Grab this idea of beautiful handmade pink and gray thank you cards – fast, easy and totally versatile! Shades of pink and gray in combination is an enduring trend and today we have this idea for handmade pink and gray thank you cards from Jamie. This design takes full advantage of a soft shade against an equally soft neutral for a card that is elegant and understated but sends a true heartfelt message. Jamie says she wanted the pretty pattern […]

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A Very Creative Handmade Thank You Card Idea!

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How beautiful is this super creative handmade thank you card idea? This month we are seeing one creative handmade thank you card idea after another. This one really caught our attention with all of the captivating depth and dimension, both tactile and aesthetic. There are physical with dimensional adhesive but the way in which Allison added the visual layering just makes this card POP. Let’s learn from her, shall we? To start, Allie stamped our News Paper Background with Fern […]

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Handmade Holiday Tags – Flashback Friday!

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Check out these unique and fabulous handmade holiday tags! If you’ve finished your holiday cards, still have the itch to create and are looking for ideas, you are in luck! Today we are sharing three ideas for handmade holiday tags that will make each package and gift you present unmistakably yours. Let’s start with two quick and easy ones. These first adorable Christmas DIY gift tags can easily be made in batches and they are PERFECT for making on the […]

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A Great Idea For Funny Christmas Cards!

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Do you love funny Christmas cards? Then you HAVE to see this adorable mini slimline version! Some people like to send dramatic holiday cards, some people like to send non-denominational winter cards and some people like to send funny Christmas cards. If you are in that last group, then this card will absolutely hit your funny bone! This card was just too cute not to share now and if you got your hands on our recently released Winter Birds stamp […]

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Silhouette Stamping Over Ink Blending – Stunning!

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Come see how to make this simple yet gorgeous card with silhouette stamping over ink blending. Melinda says “I love checking out older trends in card making. I was super inspired recently by some cards using silhouette stamps”. That inspired her to create this beautiful, moody, mystical card using silhouette stamping over ink blending. It’s so simple and we think an undersung technique, which you can appreciate when you see a card like this! Let’s see how Melinda made this […]

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Gifts For Card Makers Still Shipping!

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If you are looking for the very best gifts for card makers, we have very good news! If you are still shopping and starting to feel a little pressure we have such good news! Our products make awesome gifts for card makers and because we are a small, family owned business we are all in to make sure that everything you want and need gets out the door as soon as possible. Right now we are super busy and we […]

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Make an Icy Winter Snowflake Thank You Card!

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Come see how to make an icy winter snowflake thank you card perfect for all season long! We are so excited that Carol is sharing her version of how to make an icy winter snowflake thank you card – it’s SO perfect for this season! Card says “there’s not a bit of stamping on this card!  Just a stencil, and nesting dies, complete the card!” This sounds like fun – let’s take a look! Carol does such a great job […]

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Christmas bib overlay card

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Make a Christmas bib overlay card in less time with a handy pre-made card base. Recently Kittie shared this Christmas bib overlay card on her blog and we thought it was so unique and pretty. Then when we saw her post an learned that she’d used a pre-made base from our friends at The Paper Cut, we just knew we had to share it here too. Event though the decoration is super simple, it overall has some extra impact thanks […]

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Flashback Friday – Cards That Sparkle!

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Take a moment and see some our cards that sparkle – perfect for the coming winter! We have so many different designs and styles of cards that sparkle and we had a tough time choosing just three to share today. These cards all use a little different approach to add their sparkle and they are so worth a second look! First is this gorgeous slimline white and gold Christmas tree card. Note that you can just omit a few of […]

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A Handmade Country Style Thank You Card Idea

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Learn how to create this charming, handmade country style thank you card! We are loving the trend of the farmhouse chic, refined country look and this handmade country style thank you card fits right in! From the pretty, botanical background to the wood grain details to the textural flower blossoms, this card has a lot to look at and it all works so perfectly together! Let’s get all of Lisa’s insider tips and make one of these ourselves! Lisa started […]

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Fast, Beautiful Handmade Thank You Cards

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Come see an idea for beautiful handmade thank you cards that you can make in just minutes! This month we are seeing and going to see more beautiful handmade thank you cards and today’s is so sweet and special and can be made so quickly thanks to one of our layered floral stamp sets. Let’s take a look at how Annie put this together for us. First, Annie stamped the flower and stem layers of the rose from our Happy […]

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Use Die Cut Shadow Layers To Add Instant POP!

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Come see how using simple die cut shadow layers can really create a lot of depth on your cards. Adding depth and dimension to your handmade cards can really amp them up and there are lots of ways to create that look. One of the quickest and easiest is to add die cut shadow layers behind elements for some instant pop. Today Jamie has used a simple black shadow to “lift” her beautifully designed leaf element and the effect is […]

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