Learn how to make a round card with this easy tutorial! Have you always seen a perfectly round card and wondered how the heck you could make one without having to reinvent, well, the wheel? Today, Allison is showing us all how to do this using circle dies and some fun tips to finish it off so perfectly. Let’s dive right in! First, fold a piece of card stock you want to use as your card base and make sure […]
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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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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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Today we are excited to share some soft and lovely elegant thank you cards that you can make – one or a batch! – to send for more formal occasions or just when you want to send something really pretty. Don’t these just fit that bill perfectly? And these cards use some basic design ideas that you can use for any kind of card so read on and be inspired! First you can see that this card was made featuring […]
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Today we have not one but TWO beautiful handmade thank you cards made using some of our glorious clear layered floral stamps. We just LOVE how Annie combined sets to create these cards and can see endless possibilities using these ideas. Let’s check them out in more detail! Here’s he first card. We can’t get over the combination of peonies and pine cones – who knew they look so pretty together? (Well, Annie did!) First, Annie used the Sweet Peony […]
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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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Today we are super lucky to have a video tutorial for you on how to use layered stamps featuring our SUPER popular NEW set, “Winter Bouquet”. This set is flying out the door because it is so gorgeous AND has a matching die set making your crafting that much easier. This set is so much fun to play with and makes the most elegant Christmas cards! We created this stamp to pair well with our color fuse inks, which utilize […]
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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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Today we are sharing one of our handmade cute cards for friends. Whether you just want to say hi to someone you haven’t seen for a while or know someone who could use a little boost, we believe you can NEVER have enough cards for friends and the ready and this one is goofy and cute and sweet all in one. Plus it’s fun to make! Let’s take a peek: Isn’t that cute? It would even make a super cute […]
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We are just loving how these cute and funny fish are just POPPING off this gorgeous background ombre done in cool and refreshing blues! These fun fish – one of our most popular “characters” set – are from Fish Group and are one of our many sets that feature a coordinating die. We design many of our stamp sets to have those coordinating dies to make your paper crafting that much easier and give you more chances to show off […]
Continue ReadingHello everyone! Today we are introducing you to our new product … Stencils! Yes, we now have stencils in our product line. You are going to love them! Our designer made this cute underwater card using the stamp set and matching die cuts of Luncheon Meet (86-17). She said the new Mixed Circles Stencil (4002) look like bubbles. They really do look great with this card. She also used a couple of different die cuts to make her tag, which we […]
Continue ReadingHello everyone! We have a fun card for you today! Today our designer has created a slider card. She is using the Sea Set (3207) clear stamps and hair gel to make her underwater adventure card. She has colored the images beautifully. The card, however, being a little different than the normal gel card, makes it fun and interesting. She’s made fun use of our slider die cuts (5172-01D) and our wave die cut (5202-09D) to make it look like […]
Continue ReadingWhen people see the Over The Moon stamp set (3206), they tend to think of baby cards, space cards, nursery rhymes and other things of that nature. But not Allison, she makes us see the Over the Moon stamp set in a completely different light. Allison added in the Create A Garden stamp set 3 (3002). She was able to bring alive the background behind the sweet Over The Moon stamp set
Continue ReadingThis is such an adorable Hippo (3104) card! Marilyn really has a talent with these sweet little cards using our stamps. They are always so fun and her coloring is always beautiful. Marilyn used the Hippo die cuts (3104D) to make cutting out the hippos easy. She also used the Window w/ Double Stitch (5148-03D) die cut to make the hippos look like they are just having a fun time celebrating someones birthday. The sentiment is also from the hippo stamp […]
Continue ReadingWhat a wonderful way to end the week… Rae Ann has us all snuggled up with the Coffee Blanket (3108) set. Her coloring is out of this world! She always does a fantastic job at getting all her colors to match her patterned paper perfectly! She is just amazing. To make it easy for her she used the Coffee Blanket dies (3108D) to cut out the lovely girl stamp in the set. We love her little hand cut coffee cup that […]
Continue ReadingShaker cards are very fun. But, they are even more fun when Jamie puts them together using the Daisies (727-05) stamp and matching Daisies Die Cut (727-05d). She made this card look completely adorable for any friend. Jamie also used the perfect sentiment out of the Best Friends Etc. (3032) stamp set. Using the Nested Rectangle Stitched Die Cuts (5007d) even put a little texture on her card for her as well, making even more “Wow”. We hope you enjoy her […]
Continue ReadingThinking of all the summer weddings, we decided to make a card using the new and very cute Wedding (3103) clear stamp set. We put a lot of texture and color into the card, yet it is very sweet and simple. The sentiment is included in the Wedding stamp set along with some other sentiments as well. We used Ken Oliver’s Color Burst Fresh Florals set (cbset-5) and Rich Moroccan set (cbset-4) to make the watercolor background using the Rubbernecker […]
Continue ReadingEthel in Leotard (74-16) is just a cute stamp no matter how you color her, or what sentiment you put her with. She is an amazing older lady that reminds us all of someone. Rae Ann did a great job pairing Ethel in Leotard up with the sentiment Chocolate Tastes (814-03). Rae Ann even used the matching die cut for Ethel in Leotard (74-16D) to get that amazing cut around the edges of her so she wouldn’t have to fussy cut […]
Continue ReadingToday we have a very simple but pretty card. Our designer used just one of the several beautiful butterflies from Brushed Butterflies for her card. With the butterfly, the burlap and flowers, the card has a very soft country feel to it. To get that perfect cut on the butterfly, she used the matching die cut set Fluttering Butterflies. And the card has plenty of texture with all the elements and embellishments. She even gave it a bit of watercolor […]
Continue ReadingNothing says spring like beautiful butterflies. Jamie made a very sweet card for our inspiration today using the Butterflies Are Free (3020) stamp set. The butterflies look amazing with the colors Jamie has picked out, as well with the matching Butterflies Are Free die cut (3020d) they look perfect! It is very simple, clean and wonderful a the same time. The sentiment Jamie used is also from the Butterflies Are Free stamp set. Jamie made the sentiment stand out by […]
Continue ReadingAngela has made us a very cute card using the stamp Daisies (727-05). She really made them stand out using colored pencils. She has done a fantastic job combining the Daisies with the stamp set Create a Garden 2 (3009). She used the die cuts that match each of these as well. Daisies die cut (727-05D) fits perfectly to cut out the stamp. Using the Pot Garden Die set (3009D) works perfect with the Create A Garden sent but cuts out just […]
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