Do you like to make funny handmade cards? This is for YOU! We love to make funny handmade cards and even created some special sentiments like this one just for that purpose. ALL cards are “good” cards but there’s a special thing about funny cards and today Lisa is just CRACKING us up with this one. Once we saw that super stunning background we just knew we had to share it right away! Let’s go through how Lisa created this […]
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Who knew gelli plates and stamping would be such a good mix? If you haven’t used gelli plates and stamping together you are in for a fun treat today! Lisa is showing us some fun and easy ways to use acrylic paints, a gel plate and some of our stamps to create some magical looking projects. Let’s check it out! First Lisa shares some GREAT tips for making sure your foray into this fun application of a new technique is […]
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If you use a precut base to make a side step card you will love this PRO TIP! Making a side step card doesn’t have to be difficult or tricky when you start with a pre-cut base like the ones we carry in the store from The Paper Cut. Yes, you can cut and score on your own but who wants to spend crafty time doing that? Today Lisa has a super fun, critter laden side step card for us […]
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Looking for new alcohol ink techniques? Read on for some great PRO TIPS! We love when our designers share fun new ways to use our goodies and today Lisa is sharing one of her super fun alcohol ink techniques to create this gorgeous background for this super fun card. Lisa says she loves combining sets from our store and had you said that our super popular Garden Gnomes would look so great with one of our new Easter sets we […]
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Use a Die Cut to Make The Perfect Cloud Stencil! We love seeing our tools being used in ways that make them even MORE purposeful and today Lisa has made just about the most perfect cloud stencil for her billowy background for our frolicking foxes. Lisa says “I just love ALL the foxes in the new Be Wild stamp set so I decided to make a card using them all.” This set is very popular and we can’t imagine what […]
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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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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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It’s the dead of winter and we are sure you know some people who could use a good chuckle – this funny homemade winter card is the perfect solution! Our quirky penguin adds just enough goofiness to the beautiful construction of this shaker card to make it saveworthy but also CRACK them UP! Let’s let Lisa take us through how she put this together. First, make your shaker window by using the largest of the Stitched Rectangles Dies (for the […]
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Today Lisa has created for us a winter shaker card loaded with details and some of our adorable gnomes! Lisa says she loves this set because there are so many different characters in the set so she used it in combination with some of her favorite colors to create wintry shaker card just perfect for the season. Let’s follow along and make one, too! First, stamp your favorite gnomes and some of your favorite animals from our Woodlands series on […]
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Today on Christmas Eve we wanted to share this post on how to make a Merry Christmas card as a Christmas card to you, our loyal followers and fans. We’ve shared some incredible Christmas cards and projects this month and what better way to end the cheer with a Merry Christmas card? Lisa made today’s card and she’s sharing lots of fun tips and ideas. Let’s dive in! Lisa stamped a piece of white card stock with the ‘Twas The […]
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Today we have not one but two Santa Christmas cards made for us by Lisa using our new Santa Postcard set. We just love that Lisa added to the vintage feel we baked into this set with her fantastic details. Here’s her first card: As we said, Lisa added lots of vintage-y details to this project and it starts with her snowflake panel! She used our Snowflake Frame stamp on a piece of white card stock with gold embossing powder. […]
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People won’t believe that YOU made these cute homemade Christmas cards when they see all the incredible details Lisa has shown us how to pack into them. Follow along with her steps here, though, and you can really show off your mad skillz! Let’s get started! First, Lisa created the front panel by placing the Winter Trees In Circle inside the largest of the Small Stitch Rectangle dies and used some washi tape to hold them perfectly in place so […]
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Today we have an assortment of some SUPER cute DIY Christmas cards all made by Lisa and all using items from our newest Christmas release. Let’s take a look and then we can get some juicy details! First this adorable slimline card with some of our stinkin’ cute (if we do say so ourselves!) winter cuties: Next we’ve got an adorable scene created in a shadow box. A shadow box created using one of our DIES and NOT with a […]
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Some of you may know that we have many thank you card sayings in the shop including this brand new and FLYING out the door set and this set in Spanish and lots in between. We love mixing things up and since “Gracias” has become a popular word for even the non-Spanish speaking peeps this card is a GREAT example of a fun way to use a stamp from a foreign language set in a way everyone can understand it! […]
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We thought we would bring October to a close with one more adorable Halloween slimline card – with owls! Owls are a permanent theme in the stamping world and we love that we can bring you even more fun things to do with your owls from Rubbernecker with the Halloween and Christmas Add-Ons. When Lisa made this card she talked about cutting out a whole slew of little owls and their cute little Halloween costumes. She says she had fun […]
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We just cracked up when we saw Lisa’s spooky themed but oh-so-adorable monster card today! The silly funny monsters against that doom and gloom background is the perfect combination of trick and treat! Let’s check out how she made it! First she cut out her monsters from purple and green card stock and mixed and matched the pieces to make her little characters. Then she used her clouds stencil that she made using the new Clouds Slimline Die to sponge […]
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We have lots of fun tools to make Halloween die cuts like this and this and even more here but one of our all time FAVORITE sets of Halloween die cuts are our brand new OWL COSTUMES! Is there ANYTHING cuter than a little owl all dressed up for trick or hooting, we mean treating? We intentionally designed these dies to cut all the pieces at once to help make your die cutting faster AND to help you NOT lose […]
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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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