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Two Ways To Use Liquid Watercolor On Your Cards

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Check out two liquid watercolor techniques on one card! If you’ve been afraid to try liquid watercolor on your cards, today’s project will surely convince you to try it! The other day, we shared a project using the base layer of one of our beautiful layered flower stamps and today Natasha is showing us how to use just the outline layer. If you haven’t snapped up one of our layered flower sets yet, please try one out – there are […]

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A Slimline Card For A Friend

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Today we have a slimline card for a friend that is truly a one of a kind! Making a slimline card for a friend is a fun way to create something that gives you plenty of space to catch up on all the comings and goings of life. This one from Annie was inspired by her thinking of the walls of fresh flowers at the flower market. So she made a little “slat wall” with a slimline die and tucked […]

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Make Some Cute Christmas Slimline Cards!

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These are such cute Christmas slimline cards and they are SO fun to make! We are in love with these cute Christmas slimline cards and we can’t get over how much impact Annie’s use of one of our new stencils added to the whole look. Annie says “stencils are one of the most versatile crafting tools out there and I love finding unique ways to use certain designs that make them even more useful.”  She definitely shows that off here! […]

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Let’s Make Some Cute Slimline Christmas Cards!

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These cute slimline Christmas cards are going to make you want to drop everything and STAMP! When you mix our adorable little Christmas Inchies with our innovative slimline dies you get SUPER cute slimline Christmas cards!!! Natasha flipped for these fun little fellas and spotted that their small size and scale allowed them to be the perfect elements to use in multiples over the larger field of a slimline card. Let’s make learn her secrets!! First, Natasha stamped the images […]

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A SUPER Easy Ombre Technique!

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Learn an easy ombre technique using just one ink color! Ombre is still hot in the paper crafting world and we love the look, especially when it is created with a ridiculously easy ombre technique using just one color of our Color Fuse ink! This post is part of our Rubbernecker Christmas in July 2021 celebration. Every day during the month of July we are sharing projects that are designed to inspire you to start thinking about all the fun […]

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SUPER Sweet Birthday Cards!

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Sweet birthday cards are always perfect and this one “takes the cake!” We love having ideas for sweet birthday cards because there really aren’t too many times when these aren’t just perfect. This one from Renee goes above and beyond loaded with some yummy treats suited to wishing someone sweet a Happy Birthday. Let’s take a look at how she put this cutie together! Renee started by cutting a bright pink frame using our Slimline OPC Squares and then cut […]

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How to Stamp a Slimline Background with a Background Stamp

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Learn how to stamp a slimline background with a regular sized background stamp! There are plenty of tricks for how to stamp a slimline background with a regular sized background stamp but sometimes you have a gap or worse, a visible overlap. Today’s trick from Carol is really clever and helps you avoid that even when you do something more complex like heat embossing! Let’s check it out! First, Carol chose a background stamp with a random pattern to demonstrate […]

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Another Funny Handmade Slimline Card!

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If you liked yesterday’s card, you will also love this funny handmade slimline card with more funny fish! Yesterday we shared an under the sea card with with a tongue in cheek twist and today we are sharing another funny handmade slimline card with more sea creatures! Annie just couldn’t stop making these adorable fish so she made a second slimline card so she could add them all together. Let’s “dive in”! Just like with yesterday’s project, Annie started by […]

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A Cute Handmade Slimline Pirate Card Idea!

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We love the details on this cute handmade slimline pirate card idea! When Annie set out to execute her cute handmade slimline pirate card idea she specifically chose a slimline card because, in her words, “I couldn’t get over how cute the images in the Pirates Under the High Seas Stamp Set are!” and wanted to use as many as she could. We LOVE hearing things like this! So let’s take a look at how Annie made this and get […]

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Use Your Negative Die Cut as a Reverse Stencil!

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Check out this fun twist for creating a reverse stencil from your die cut! Today Jamie is sharing a really innovative and fun way to use your die cuts to create a fun reverse stencil to help you add extra details with one easy step! We just love the way her night time “lights” peek through the skyline and she says she was inspired to thank a million people in a city with a million thanks. What a fun perspective! […]

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How to Make a Mini Slimline Birthday Card!

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Check out how to make a MINI Slimline Birthday card using our slimline nested dies! Today we are sharing a fresh take on the slimline craze with this adorable mini slimline birthday card. Slimline cards are still super popular and along with them are their baby sisters – mini slimline cards – which are typically 6″ X 3″. These are a a very fun sized card to make and thanks to our three different, basic shapes of nested slimline dies […]

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Easy and Fun Gel Plate Background Tips!

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Extend the use of your background stamps with these gel plate background tips! Today we are super excited to learn some really useful gel plate background tips from Lisa – we just LOVE getting more out of our crafting sessions and supplies and these tips are going to get you both. Let’s dive in and follow along! First, Lisa made sure that she put her gel plate out over a protected surface – this can get a little messy! She […]

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A Pretty Turquoise and Pink Handmade Greeting Card

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Check out this trendy slimline pale turquoise and pink handmade greeting card – SO pretty! We love trendy color combinations and this turquoise and pink handmade greeting card nails it! The fact that it’s a slimline card means that there is that much more fabulous color to enjoy! And this is one of those cards that, other than the coloring, is super quick and oh-so-easy. Let’s face it, lots of us got hooked on new TV shows during our cloistering […]

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More No Line Coloring – On A Sweet Slimline Card!

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Another take on no line coloring – so easy and such great results! No line coloring offers a totally different look for stamped images and today Annie is sharing her take on this fun technique with this adorable slimline card. Annie said that this card was inspired by all the real life foxes running around her yard and we love her bright spring look since we are ALL itching for Spring to finally get here! As we showed in this […]

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Super Cute Handmade Dog Cards!

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How many people do you know who would love to receive handmade dog cards by you? Whether YOU are the dog lover or you want to send something to a dog lover, handmade dog cards can be a special way to recognize someone. Today, Jamie used on of our fun animal stamp and die sets, Dogs Front and Back, to make a sweet card. We’ve had so many people thank us for having both the fronts AND the backs of […]

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Do You Love Watercolor Stamping Techniques?

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If you love watercolor stamping techniques, you are going to LOVE this project! We share lots of fun ways to use our products and have shared lots of tips and ideas for watercolor stamping techniques. Today’s project from Melinda is another fabulous take on using our stamps and watercoloring to create truly gorgeous results. And it’s NOT difficult and you don’t have to be “an artist” to create these stunning effects. Let’s get started! First, you will want to use […]

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Last Day Of Rubbernecker Slimline Die Sale!

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Today is the last day of the Rubbernecker Slimline Sale – don’t wait! PLEASE don’t miss out on the Rubbernecker slimline die sale! We are crazy busy packing orders but we do not want one single person to miss out because this is a really great sale! First, you get a full 20% off ANY and ALL slimline die purchases. Then, if you spend $100 you get an extra 5% off for a total of a 25% discount. And if […]

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Repeat Stamping Slimline Style!

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Repeat stamping slimline style looks AWESOME and is SO EASY! We love an easy project that gives a lot of impact and this fun card from Julie using a repeat stamping slimline technique just cracks us up! How adorable is this? Before we dive in to this awesome card, remember that ALL our slimline dies are on sale through tomorrow. Take a nice juicy 20% off any and ALL our slimline dies and if you’ve been wanting to build your […]

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A SUPER Cute Easter Slimline Card!

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Make an Easter Slimline card to give you space for all your creativity! We are loving this adorable Easter slimline card! The way the bunnies are spaced out to give each one their own moment in the spotlight against an overall scene gives you so much to look at on one project. And Carol added those teeny tiny butterflies in a way that creates plenty of motion on the card so you just don’t want to stop looking at it!  […]

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A Slimline Flower Card Design To Announce a SALE!

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What better way to announce our slimline die sale than with this beautiful slimline flower card design? This weekend is when we turn ahead the clocks to start preparing for spring and we want to celebrate with a sale that we are kicking off with this beautiful slimline flower card design! First, the sale! From now through midnight March 16th (next Tuesday), you can take a full 20% off all your slimline die purchases in the store. But wait – […]

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One of The Prettiest Flower Birthday Card Ideas!

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We love seeing and saving flower birthday card ideas and this beauty with its white on white background in combination with those bright, cheery, almost tropical flowers takes our breath away! Melinda has created a keeper for us and we hope you pin this for future reference because we can see this card design idea being used over and over in all kinds of color combinations. Shall we make one? On white card stock, start stamping your layered flowers from […]

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