Today’s CAS monochromatic card can be made in any color and can be used for any occasion – check it out! Today’s post is so perfect to close our our month of clean and simple cards using bright colors. This design for a quick and easy, CAS monochromatic card is also ideal because, thanks to the custom inking, you can make this in any color story you love and it will always be spectacular. Let’s see how Dawn created her […]
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Today’s beautiful hand stamped butterfly sympathy card is so quick and easy yet so beautiful. We have Dawn to thank for this lovely, heartfelt hand stamped butterfly sympathy card. Her simple, subtle touches add depth and texture for lots of details that still allow the poem to be the star of the show. The mini slimline size provides such a nice space for this touching verse and creates a peaceful look that is perfectly appropriate. Let’s get her steps for […]
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Come see how adding some very simple ink blending on die cuts can bring big pops of color to your projects. Sammi – today’s designer – says “My inspiration for this card was that it is Spring time and butterflies remind me of Spring – new beginnings. The sentiment is one of my ALL time favorite sentiments.” We love how her simple ink blending on die cuts adds so much pretty color with such an easy technique. This is perfect […]
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Watch this FREE video tutorial for using simple masking techniques to create gorgeous layered scenes on your handmade cards! Did we mention that our Design Team LOVES our new Butterfly Flowers set? We’ve seen some stunning cards using that set and today’s is right up there! Preeti has used the set in her fabulous video tutorial for us showing the first of several simple masking techniques. Masking is a very easy way to add your images in stamped “layers”. Basically […]
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Check out this easy and fun way to use your mini slimline stamps and dies on full sized cards! Did you know that you can instantly get tons more bang for your creative stash bucks by using mini slimline elements on standard cards? Not only do these fabulous reduced-sized products make the most spectacular mini slimline cards, they can all serve as beautifully proportioned panels and unexpected decorative details on your full sized cards. Today Allison has used one of […]
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Look forward to warmer weather with a springy handmade card with flowers! We’ve all loved seeing pretty winter cards but clearly our designers are ready for a new season – proof positive with this pretty springy handmade card with flowers stamped and die cut for some pop! Jamie’s put this together for us today so let’s take a look at her little tips and tricks! Jamie started by stamping the floral elements from our Summer Bloom set using the colors […]
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These handmade butterfly cards are SO sweet! Today Allie is sharing such a sweet and simple design for some quick and easy handmade butterfly cards that are excellent for lots of different occasions. Keeping the elements simple and unfussy – but still beautiful in their own right – keeps the focus on the darling butterflies. Let’s see how she did it! Allie started by taking a card sized panel of white card stock and blended the lighter shades of the […]
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You won’t believe how easy these handmade butterfly greeting cards are to make! When someone needs to be cheered up or when you just want to let someone know you are thinking about them, one of these handmade butterfly greeting cards are perfect because they suit any reason to reach out. Today Julie has made a card for us that has so much color and is so visually appealing and she used some super easy techniques to get this pretty […]
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Come see how to make this stunning handmade card with orange and purple flowers! This eye-catching handmade card with orange and purple flowers is one that will captivate everyone’s attention. No one will believe you made it yourself! Let’s let Lisa show us how she made it so we can make some, too! Now, Lisa shared a secret with us about this card and that is that many of the elements used on this card were left over extras from […]
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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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See one of our favorite realistic looking distress ink backgrounds for cards! There are loads of fun ideas for creating distress ink backgrounds for cards and this one we especially love because it really brings our Cobblestone Background stamp to life! Melinda saw a fun watercolor tutorial on creating a rock wall and decided to recreate that cool, shaded, mutli-color look using our stamp as a short cut. We think she nailed it! Let’s learn how to do this. Take […]
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Use your card making goodies to create cute handmade gift tags! The leap from handmade cards to handmade gift tags is very tiny – you can use all the fun things you do for your cardmaking to make gift tags that you can add to gifts OR package up and GIVE as gifts! Who doesn’t love pretty accessories when gift giving. And here’s a PRO TIP from us to you all: Use plain old white or kraft paper as […]
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Hey Fellow Crafters – we are trying out a new feature called Stamp Along with Rubbernecker and today’s topic is colored pencil art. We are going to test this out about once a month giving you a video tutorial covering a new fun technique or trick that you can then use right away, coming back to the video if you need a second look. Today, Preeti Chandran is making a stunning floral background card with butterfly and jewel accents! Her […]
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Today we are sharing another fun project using our slimline dies that inspire creativity, according to what we are seeing from you all! As you may have seen, we have released several new “accessory” dies to go with the slimline layers called Slimline Insert Dies. By providing both outside cuts and separate inside cuts, you get so many different varieties with so many less items. Very thrifty! And today we are showing a card used with the combination of the […]
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