Category: Cards
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Masculine – Die Cut Inlay
Masculine – Die Cut Inlay A Die cut inlay is not a new technique it has been around for some time. Die Cut Inlay is when you cut an image or shape and put it back in the same place, this give it a bit of dimension as appose to leaving your image just stamped.…
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You Are Too Kind – Bold Butterfly
You Are Too Kind – Bold Butterfly I’m loving the “One Big Meaning” stamp set from Stampin’ Up! It has so many great ways to say Thank You. It might be the reason why I seem to be making a lot of Thank You Cards lately. Today’s project is relatively simple I’ve allowed my Greeting…
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Masculine Thank You Card
Masculine Thank You Card In today’s project we’re creating Masculine Thank You Card. I always have to stop and think when I need to create a card for a guy as the usual flowers and pretty ribbons are not going to work when creating masculine cards. I wanted to use the Hardwood Stamp for my…
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Marble Painting for Cardmakers
Marble Painting for Cardmakers I recently did a crafting project with my 2 year old daughter Bianca using Marbles and paint to create an abstract art piece. You can read about it on this link “Marble Painting for Toddlers” This was such fun activity and wondered if I could do the same technique using re-inkers…
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You Are Too Kind
You Are Too Kind You don’t need to have all the embellishments in the world for your card to pack a punch. As the saying goes “Less is More” For today’s project, I’ve masked off a section (approx 4 cm) in the center of my Whisper White Card-stock. Then lightly sponged my background in Pumpkin Pie,…
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Watercolour Smooching
Watercolour Smooching I thought it would be fun to play with a few of the classic ink pads on some cards, creating a watercolour smooching technique Tricks & Tips If you don’t have acetate or a plastic sheet on hand, use an acrylic block. The benefit of the acetate is that you can bend it,…
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Rainbow Butterfly Shaker Card
Rainbow Butterfly Shaker Card Hi There! Today I have a video sharing an easy way to create a window shaker card. Although I haven’t done one in ages, I decided to give one a try. It was fun! I’m really loving the bright bold colours on today’s project. I created a colour block for my…
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Sending Smiles Across the Miles
I love clean and simple cards and today’s project is just that. Simple! I’ve used the Lift Me Up Stamp Set and stamped both the large and small hot air balloon images in Memento Black ink onto a scrap piece of By the Shore Designer Series Paper (Mint Macaron Pattern). Then die cut them out…
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Heat Embossing on Vellum
Patterned paper is just one of the little joys of being a card maker. (The colours! The designs!) In fact, many of us collect patterned paper! However, sometimes it isn’t easy incorporating busy patterns onto small cards. That’s where vellum works wonders in creating perfectly patterned cards. I’ve heat embossed my greeting from Thankful Thoughts Stamp…
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Use Those Scraps
Use Those Scraps What do you do with the odd mix of your extra pieces or scraps of paper, die cuts, random bits of pieces from projects that you accumulate over time. For me I look for opportunities for these and I challenge myself I also challenge you to come up with ways to use them. …
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Shadow Stamping
Shadow Stamping Hello there. Today’s video shares how to do Shadow Stamping. The fun technique of “stamping shadows” is so-very-easy to do, and yet gives really fun results. I arranged a cluster of solid images from the Garden in Bloom Stamp Set in one corner of a piece of coloured cardstock from the Brights Collection. I’ve…
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Soft Watercolour Wash
Soft Watercolour Wash I think one of the prettiest card designs is a simple one with a Soft Watercolour Wash background. Today, I will show how to create just such a background using watercolour pencils… and not have any pencil lines showing in my colour wash. I will also show how to add some fun…
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Creating One- Layer Card
Creating One-Layer Card Card making at it’s simplest is a one-layer card. While one-layer cards are the simplest form of card making, they can also be very intimidating when you go to create them. Just one layer – no embellishments, no ribbons, no additional printed papers. How do you create cards without all your favourite…
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Stretch Your Dies – Star Framelits Technique #2
Stretch Your Dies – Star Framelits Technique #2 Last week I shared with you a fun way to use your Star Framelit dies by using the inlay technique. Today we’re going to use the same Star Framelits but this time we’re creating a star impression on our cardstock. You will notice I keep the design…
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Stretch Your Dies – Star Framelits
Stretch Your Dies – Star Framelits The Star Framelits are fabulous! I love it when I can come up with more than one way to use my supplies. For today’s card, I created an inlay background and added a sentiment formed with the Sunshine Wishes Framelits and Crazy About You Stamp Set. The tiny stars are from the…