Today you guys are in for a treat because we have a super cute pop up box card that today is packed full of gnomes. And our designer is sharing her tips for using the PREMADE pop up box card blanks from The Paper Cut to help you adapt this fun type of card to all kinds of themes. These blanks come with all the pieces to make the base and a measuring/cutting guide for your panels to add all […]
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Happy Monday, Friends – are you ready for some SUPER CUTE slimline cards? With SUPER CUTE new gnomes? We are loving these new gnomes and are so happy to see them starting to be out in the world. Our designers love them too so be prepared to see lots of cute slimline cards AND A2 cards using these fellas. Here’s how Jamie put this stinkin’ cute card together for us today. First she stamped her gnomes, colored them with her […]
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A SUPER Cute Woodlands Slimline Card! We are so impressed with all of the wonderful cards you guys are making with the new Woodlands sets and this Woodlands slimline is one we just had to share! Creating fun scenes really makes each card unique and beautiful. Today our designer Alison has created an ombre slimline that feels like its out of a Disney movie, woodland creatures all alert and joyful! We love these sets and are so excited to see […]
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Today we have not just one but TWO gorgeous slimline Autumn cards to inspire you! Remember that all of the ideas and inspiration we share for slimline cards can be adapted to a standard size greeting card so take the elements you love and use them YOUR way! Today’s cards use two of the latest offerings from our latest stamp release. With three different woodland animal stamp sets and a huge garden gnomes stamp set, you’ll have plenty of creatures […]
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Hello friends – today we are sharing an idea for some cute cards for friends using one of our brand new stamp sets! Our designer used Woodland Animals #3 stamps and coordinating dies and a collection of her Copic markers on this STINKIN’ cute card! She said that she loves that this stamp set was designed to let you build your tree and shrubs in just about any shape you’d like. Let’s take a look at how she did it. […]
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Hello friends – today we are sharing one of the pretties heat embossed card ideas we’ve seen on a slimline. Our talented designer used our new beautiful Autumn Harvest stamp set for her card along with several Color Fuse ink shades and we are just in awe of how pretty this card turned out! She started by taking the second largest of the Slimline Nested Stitch and using a soft pencil, traced the inside of the rectangle onto her white […]
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Today we are excited to share a super cute fall shadow box card from our Exclusive Associate Designer, Kittie Caracciolo. As usual, Kittie has created an adorable fall scene made using some of our die cuts tucked into a card-sized shadow box. The feedback from our customers on this die has been overwhelming – we are SO glad you love being able to make these shadow box cards so easily using the die! This image shows a little of what […]
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Today we are sharing a card made with a pretty paper floral arrangement using a couple of the new layered floral stamps from the August release! Follow along to see how our designer Lisa made it! She started with a pre-cut card from The Paper Cut shop which we love because it means your slimline bases are ready to go! Then she used a layer from The Paper Cut Slimline Layers saving even more time – WOOT! She added a […]
Continue ReadingHappy Saturday – today we are sharing a super cute honeybee slimline card from one of our talented designers. We just love all the adorable details she’s incorporated. We love the blended Color Fuse backgrounds she’s created in the three little windows – that ink just blends so well and the colors were all designed to work together and you can really see that here. And we REALLY love the polka dots she stenciled on the white – doesn’t that […]
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Today we are sharing a SUPER detailed and totally adorable Labor Day barbecue day that is just perfect as an invitation or a thank you card. Can you believe all the detail Kittie, our exclusive Associate Designer, packs into her projects? She used a whole bunch of our dies including the BBQ Set, Tabbed Mountains, Pine Tree Forest, Cooler, Picnic Tables, Grass. Grass #2 and Small Birds! And it’s not just her creative use of dies that adds so much […]
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Are you ready to create a fun and colorful Cherry Blossom greeting cards using our new Bloomin Vines Floral Layered Clear Stamps and Color Fuse Inks? We have an amazing video tutorial for you today that you won’t want to miss. Follow along with our designer, Preeti, as she makes a vibrant and fun card, using techniques that you can use in your everyday stamping. We have some wonderful card making tutorials on our YouTube channel, make sure to subscribe […]
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Hello – today we are going to show you some easy steps for how to make a slimline shaker card. This card has the benefit of using both one of our amazing slimline dies and our new layered floral stamps and we think the combination is just stunning! Our designer started by using the largest of the Nested Stitch Slimline Frame Dies, added the slimline insert die Inside Scallop with Teardrop inside and used washi tape to hold them in […]
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It’s Wednesday and we don’t know about you, but we are trying to get over this mid-week hump, looking forward to the weekend and MAYBE taking the time to make this cute birthday slimline card. These happy hippos definitely brightened up our day! We are here in California, and it has been hot Hot HOT! We would love nothing but to frolic in the flowers like these jolly hippos, but all our grass/flowers are currently burnt crispy. This is one […]
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Today we are featuring a beautiful cheery example of flower card design ideas using slimline cards from Kittie Caracciolo, our Exclusive Associate Designer. Don’t you just LOVE Kittie’s cards? They are always loaded with so much detail and look SO fun to make! Kittie shared with us that she is really enjoying having lots of extra space for her design ideas and this card certainly shows that off! Kittie used one of our Slimline Frame dies in combination with one […]
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Hippo Hippo Hurray – today we have an example of one of our cute handmade birthday cards from our designer Annie. Though the extra real estate on a slimline card is great for filling with little stamped images or a few more die-cuts, we also found that it’s a fun way to extend your sentiments. This Hippo stamp set has several little phrases that you can easily piece together into a larger greeting, so Annie decided to place each part […]
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Today I want to share what I think is a really cute slimline card idea because you can adapt it to so many different themes. I chose three seasons but you could use this concept for flowers in a garden, times of the day or any other time when you want to show the same motif in different stages. For this card I used the Rubbernecker Slimline OPC Square, Cabin, Winter Tree, Stitched Hills, Tiny Leaves, Grass #2, Tiny Flower […]
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Today we have a sneak peek at one of the new layered floral stamps available tomorrow with this one of our autumn card making ideas. We cannot WAIT for you to see these new stamps – our designers went BANANAS!! – and we know you are going to love them! Let’s take a peek at the fall card our designer Lisa created to give you a taste of what you will see tomorrow. You are going to LOOOOOOVE it! This […]
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Today we are excited to share this handmade camping card to help you hold onto the tail end of summer! If you or anyone you know loves to go camping, this handmade camping card is a cute way to celebrate that passion. And it was SUPER easy using the new camping dies from our latest batch of papercrafting dies! For this fun card our designer Kittie used the Camping Tent, Camp Fire Set, Camping Items, Cooler, Winter Tree, Spring Leaves, […]
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Happy Friday friends – today we are sharing one of our funny birthday cards for men! At the beginning of the week we had an awesome slimline card with Ralph Golfing that really wowed. Today we wanted to share him again, but this time on an A2 card, complete with putting green. This fun birthday card for a guy is colored up nicely with Copics, and it sure is beautiful with that Color Fuse sky. He has quite the expression on […]
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We are always on the lookout for funny best friend cards to make and send to those people who just “get” us. And I think we can all agree that NOTHING is better than a fun stamped image that can be used in a ton of different ways to create those cards that our best friends will just crack up over. Allow us to introduce you to Ethel. She’s an older woman who seems to enjoy cooking, but like the […]
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Today we are sharing one of our designer’s funny card ideas for friends that is just PERFECT for your friends who might be a little more “mature”! Jamie says this was a pretty easy card to make and share the steps with us so you can play along. First, she stamped the Graduated Horizontal Stripe Stamp on white cardstock with VersaMark and emboss it all with Vintage Blue Embossing Enamel – we LOVE the added dimension this adds to this […]
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