Category: Tips & Techniques
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Using Coordinating Stamps & Dies in your card making
Using Coordinating Stamps & Dies in your card making One of the greatest ideas/tools/inventions for a card maker has to be coordinating stamps and dies. Having a die that can cut out an image in one pass through a die-cutting machine like the Big Shot saves so much time, especially on really intricate images. Even…
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How to Clean Your Acrylic Blocks
How to Clean Your Acrylic Blocks I have a cute little story for you today. Once upon at time my acrylic stamping blocks were soooo dirty, to the point where they were hard to see through. My husband was curious as to why I didn’t clean them. When I told him I didn’t know what…
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Tip & Technique: How To Create a Glitter Border
Tip & Technique: How To Create a Glitter Border Today I want to share one of my favourite techniques—using tear tape with glitter. I just love the extra bling glitter can add to any project. I find this technique is the easiest way to use glitter and let’s face it, we all have jars of Dazzling…
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Make It Monday #7: Petal Garden Designer Series Paper
Make It Monday #7: Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Vellum is a beautiful, versatile and fragile type of paper that can add uniqueness to any project. There are lots of ways to use vellum and today I’m going to share with you just one idea. I love the Petal Garden DSP, but I find that…
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Tips & Techniques: Adding Colour to Rhinestones & Pearls
Tips & Techniques: Adding Colour to Rhinestones & Pearls If you’re like me and LOVE to use rhinestones & pearl accents, but don’t always have the right colours, then this tip is for you. My favourite thing to do is to colour my rhinestones & pearls with a Stampin’ Blends marker! Yep, you can colour…
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Tips & Techniques: Why Use Baby Wipes!
Tips & Techniques: Why Use Baby Wipes! Why use baby wipes while your crafting? Today and I am going to share a little secret with you. My secret is this—my daughter is nearly 4 years old and I often frequent the baby aisle. Why? It’s because of these glorious little cloths known as baby wipes.…
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Tips & Techniques: Carve A Little Time
Tips & Techniques: Carve A Little Time My best tip for any card maker (new and old) is to practice. Carve out a little time in your busy life each week to get creative. It’s good for you. Every card you make is a learning experience. You might be trying a new colour combination, a…
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Make It Monday #1: Sunshine Wishes
Make It Monday – Sunshine Wishes Welcome to our first Make It Monday series for 2018. I’m excited to be sharing a new project tutorial each week, and I’m starting today with a Valentines project. This project features the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits . No Stamping. To create my card this week, I’ve cut 10 x…
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Non-Traditional Christmas Card
Non-Traditional Christmas Card Today’s card features the Watercolour Christmas Stamp Set from the current Holiday Catalogue, and we’re using non-traditional colours. The Watercolour Christmas stamp set has lots of word and element stamps that you can combine to create your own sentiment design. I stamped my greeting on vellum and embossed it with Gold Embossing Powder I love that it’s not too…
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Paper Crafting Inspiration at Your Fingertips
Paper Crafting Inspiration at Your Fingertips Looking for paper craft tutorials? My free Resource library is a video-tutorial-based library that was created in order to provide an in-depth and easy-to-navigate learning solution for paper crafters of all levels. Whether you’re looking for project ideas by theme, technique or even by stamp set, my free Resource Library has you covered. …
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What are you making for Father’s Day?
What are you making for Father’s Day? This project was featured in my “Ultimate Guide to Masculine Cards” that I posted earlier in the month, if you missed it you can view it HERE. Coming up with the right colour combination can be tricky. I like to look at the pattern paper I have and…
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My Top Five go to items to create masculine cards
My Top Five go to items to create Masculine Cards For some reason, many of us come up with a creative block when it comes to masculine cards, therefore, today I want to share with you my Top five (5) go-to items to Create Masculine Cards Cardstock Often the first stumbling block is colour. Colours…
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Happy Birthday to a Special 3 Year Old
Happy Birthday to a Special 3 Year Old This past week our little girl Bianca, turned three (3). She has brought so much joy to our lives, and after trying for many years to start a family we will finally blessed with our only child Bianca. Although it has taken me many years to come…
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Ultimate Masculine Cardmaking Guide
Ultimate Masculine Cardmaking Guide Many people find it difficult to create masculine cards. If you are one of them, then this “Ultimate Masculine Cardmaking Guide ” is for you. Masculine cards are not just needed for Father’s Day, but throughout the year as well. However, with Father’s Day approaching it is the perfect time to discuss this topic. Creating cards for guys…