ILCS49 – Grateful for You Card Design
Using this week’s card making template over at i Love Card Sketches I came up with another card design. I started with For All Things, a beautiful watercolor-inspired stamp set. Then I added a strip of patterned paper from the Typeset Specialty Designer Paper collection and a smaller strip from Neutrals Designer Paper Stack. The Basic Black […]
Flower Birthday Cards: Painted Roses
With the Timeless Elegance Designer Paper collection you can make exquisite flower birthday cards with little effort. The paper is so beautiful to begin with, just a little stamping or coloring is all you will need to make memorable homemade birthday cards they’ll cherish. Did you know this pattern was hand-drawn by one of the […]
Watercolor Homemade Thank You Card
Today’s homemade Thank You card was inspired by this week’s sketch challenge over at Sweet Sunday Sketch. I really love this particular card making template and think I’ll probably use it again in the future. I pulled the focal image from Remarkable You, a beautiful open image stamp set, and the greeting is from the […]
Card Sketch ILCS24: Guy Greetings
This card began with this week’s card sketch over at i Love Card Sketches. I combined the Typeset Designer Paper and Guy Greetings stamp set with a Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, and Very Vanilla color scheme. I just kept repeating the hats over and over, then used my Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker to ink […]
i Love Card Sketches – Moon Lake
Here’s my submission for this week’s card sketch at i Love Card Sketches. For this masculine card I used Hardwood, Moon Lake, and some of the wonderful papers from the Adventure Bound Designer Paper Stack. The colors were kept neutral — Sahara Sand and Black — with a pop of color from the blue water […]
Homemade Card Ideas: Painted Petals
Combine beautiful designer paper with coordinating stamp sets to come up with your homemade card ideas. The pairing of Painted Petals and Painted Blooms Designer Paper blend seamlessly for creating lovely card making projects. Select your ink colors from the ones used in the patterned paper and you can’t go wrong! Here I used Crisp […]
Clean and Simple Cards: A Happy Thing
Sometimes I just love making clean and simple cards. It’s a happy thing, so today’s stamp set is appropriate, A Happy Thing! This is one of the many awesome Sale-A-Bration items you can select for every $50 you order between now and the end of March. And don’t forget, they’ve recently added four new choices! […]
i Love Card Sketches 17
I created this card using the card making template from i Love Card Sketches this week. The stamps were taken from Butterfly Basics and stamped in Crumb Cake with a bit of Chocolate Chip added around the edges. The green patterned paper is from the Adventure Bound Designer Paper Stack, which is a collection of […]
Christmas and Handmade New Year Cards
This week’s version of Christmas and handmade New Year cards starts with Bright & Beautiful, a holiday stamp set that you can still pick up, having been carried over from the last Occasions Catalog. Grab the bundle with the Stars Framelits Dies and save! The colors used were Lost Lagoon (love it!) and Whisper White. […]
Valentine Greeting Card – ILCS12
Today’s Valentine greeting card uses the new photopolymer stamp set Snuggles & Smooches. You won’t find this in the large Stampin’ Up! catalog or the Occasions Catalog. Every month Stampin’ Up! comes out with a new photopolymer stamp set, and this is one of the newer ones, just in time for those Valentine crafts for […]