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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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A Beach Themed Birthday Card

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Make this beach themed birthday card in no time using easy to use dies! Today we are sharing a bold and bright beach themed birthday card from Julie that gets all its visual pop from some of our dies, including the new sea gulls which people have been asking for for a long time. We just love all the bright colors and can see this card being used for lots of different card-sending reasons just by changing out the greeting. […]

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A Birthday Cake Card + A Bonus Card!

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Check out this adorable birthday cake card and a super “sweet” bonus project! We just about fell over when we saw this fabulous birthday cake card and positively squealed when we saw the extra card Annie made for us. She says “I loved all of the images in the new Dessert Stamp Set so much, I had to create two cards to be able to color nearly all of them”.  We just LOVE it when people are inspired to USE […]

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Quick and Easy Birthday Cards – SO CUTE!

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Check out how to make some truly adorable quick and easy birthday cards – change up the greeting for ANY occasion card! As much as we love nothing more than a good, long, satisfying crafting session, sometimes we need cards in a hurry and this idea for quick and easy birthday cards is totally a keeper. Change up the greeting and you can have a card ready for any occasion! Let’s make one! First, let’s make that pretty stamped panel […]

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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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Heat Embossing on Acetate – WOW!

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Take a look at how heat embossing on acetate takes this to a new level! Ok – raise your hand if you knew how awesome heat embossing on acetate looks! This is such a fun and unexpected look and we cannot WAIT to try it out with some of our other background stamps! Let’s make one along with Carol, shall we? Before we begin, it is VERY IMPORTANT that you use only heat resistant acetate for this technique. Regular acetate […]

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A Fun Card Design Using Die Cut Words

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Use your die cut words in a fun way to dress up a card! We love using die cut words as focal elements on cards and today we are sharing a fast and fun project from Julie using one of our brand new Shadow Word dies. Something we’ve been hearing is that people are really liking the scale of the shadow we added and we are so glad! Let’s take a closer look at how Julie made this card so […]

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Birthday Card Design – Black and White With Pop of Color

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You will use this birthday card design – black and white based – over and over! We love card ideas we can use again and again as is or with little modifications and this birthday card design – black and white as the whole base with a single colored element – is a fantastic one to keep around! Julie started this card by cutting some black and white polka dotted paper with the largest of our Rectangle Stitch Dies and […]

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A Fun Way To Use Frame Dies on Handmade Cards

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One of our original die designs were frame dies made up of several layering pieces all together in one plate. There are TONS of ways to use these incredibly useful dies and today Lisa is showing us a super fun way to use all the different frames you can get when you cut with multiple colors of card stock. Let’s jump in and get the whole how-to, shall we? First, stamp the candles on your favorite card stock for Copic […]

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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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Cute Handmade Birthday Cards For Kids!

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Today we have a card from Renee showing an idea for some cute handmade birthday cards for kids. When she saw this set, she immediately thought of her young nephew who loves boats and came up with this fun project. Let’s make one, too! First color a card front sized panel using your favorite blending too with some sand and sky – here Color Fuse Caramel Brown and Sierra Blue – to create the background. Cut that panel and another […]

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A Stunning And Simple Card Design To Use Over and Over!

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You are going to love today’s simple card design so much because not only does it offer a STUNNING birthday card like the one made today, you can use this design over and over, with any motif in any color story for any occasion. You are going to want to bookmark this post because this design is a total keeper! The basic design is some layered circles and rings in the center of a tone on tone card panel with […]

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Make Some Birthday Cards – Cute Animals Included!

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These birthday cards – cute animals included from one stamp – are just perfect for “kids” of any age! The adorable critters set in a pretty, dreamy frame add a magical touch to a birthday wish and we can’t wait to show you how Annie did it. Annie says “Sometimes an image is so perfect, you can’t wait to color it and don’t need to add too much to embellish it” and we SO agree! Let’s get started! Begin by […]

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Emboss Resist + Color Fuse Ink = Magic!

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We just love the look of emboss resist and specifically designed our Color Fuse inks to be super blendable so crafters could get excellent results every time. Not all inks blend equally and that look can make or break a design. In today’s gorgeous card from Jamie, she really showed that off with her cheerful, springy birthday card. She’s given us all the steps so let’s get set up to make a few of these ourselves! First, stamp our Daisies […]

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Quick and Easy Floral Cards

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We are so happy to share Carol’s super pretty quick and easy floral cards today. Here’s what Carol said about her project – “I’m out of birthday cards in my stash and Rubbernecker’s floral layering stamps are perfect to replenish my stash quickly!” We LOVE making batches of cards – maybe changing up the colors a little or leaving off the greetings for last minute additions – and these really are perfect. They are cheery and sweet and great for […]

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A Birthday Slimline Shaker Card – Cake & Fireworks!

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What better way to celebrate a birthday than with a birthday slimline shaker card complete with a yummy cake and some fancy fireworks? Lisa has made a card for us today that really puts the fun and sparkle into a card and we just LOVE it! Let’s take a look at how you can make this card for your own big birthday celebrations. First, line up the largest Slimline Nested Stitch Die with the fireworks dies inside being sure to […]

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Try No Line Stamping For A STUNNING Look!

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Raise your hand if you’ve tried no line stamping. Ok, now raise your hand if you haven’t. Either way you are going to be blown away by today’s project using no line stamping. This card is so beautiful, it could be framed and kept as an always-on-display gift, which was what Melinda says she was shooting for when she created it. We think the totally hit the bullseye! And what’s more, it’s not hard at all to get this look! […]

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A Breathtaking Butterfly Birthday Card!

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When we first saw this butterfly birthday card we had to take a moment and just appreciate how beautiful it is! The soothing background pattern of the watercolor style flowers, the highlighted oval that is the perch for a striking 3D die cut butterfly and that bold black sentiment…….it all just comes together in such perfect balance. And Renee, today’s designer, is sharing her whole how-to here so YOU can make it too! Renee used our Spring Blossom Watercolor stamp […]

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Cute Balloon Birthday Card!

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Today we are sharing a super cute balloon birthday card made for us by our Associate Designer Kittie Caracciolo. Kittie uses our die cuts to create the most amazing projects and with this being our Birthday Month, she’s made us a special card! Kittie is sharing all the details of how she made this card here and we wanted to point out a couple of things we thought were pure genius. First, check out how Kittie matched her layers up […]

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Another Installment of Creative Ways to Use Dies!

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We love sharing creative ways to use dies and today we have another fun twist on die cutting using one of our cool slimline dies. Allison is going to take us through how she made the beautiful, fun cloud layers on this adorable card. We love how she reversed the die on her layers to make a width-wise cloud – it just adds to that whole pretty floaty look. Let’s check out her how-tos! First Allison cut a whole stack […]

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A Super Cute Slimline Peekaboo Birthday Card!

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Slimline cards are still hot, hot, hot and we are just loving this super cute slimline peekaboo birthday card made by our Associated Designer, Julie. We just love how she put all her colorful detail into the peekaboo part and created that gorgeous crisp blue and white for the front. Want to see how she did it? She created the peekaboo background by stamping our super popular Slimline Birthday background stamp in black ink on white card stock. She used […]

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