Cards For Friends: Show Your Friends You Care

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When you make cards for friends it can be a fun and creative way to show your appreciation and love. Do you ever feel like your friendships need a little more pizzazz?  Sure, you hang out and chat and stuff, but what about when you’re not together? That’s where making cards comes in!  Create something […]

Spec-Taco-Lar Birthday Card – Easy Papercraft Friday

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This is the Spec-Taco-Lar Birthday Card I made for my son’s surprise 30th birthday party last weekend using the Taco Fiesta stamp set.  It’s such a cute set! For Easy Papercraft Fridays this month the focus is on amazing animals.  I think this adorable llama works! I’m feeling a bit under the weather today, so […]

Lost Without You Night & Day

I can’t seem to stay away from the Sky is the Limit stamp set!  Paired with the Going Global you can make Valentine cards, create birthday cards, and much more! I used the Tree Builder Punch to create the clouds on the left by punching out the tree topper/cloud part out of copy paper and used […]

Handmade Card Designs: You Are Tea-Riffic!

With the new Cups & Kettle Framelits Dies you can create adorable handmade card designs like the one shown here.  As you can see on the magnetic card in the picture, it comes with a variety of teacups, a mug, a teapot, and even silverware — everything you’ll need for your next tea party! 🙂 I […]

Stampin’ Up! Card Ideas: Market Fresh

So far there have been a couple Stampin’ Up! card ideas using Market Fresh this week.  Here is the other one I’ve done.  Love coloring in those images! This handmade card features the strawberry image against a brick background, which was created using the new Brick Wall Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, my favorite.  Think of […]

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 […]

Make a Thank You Card With Lotus Blossom

Make a thank you card with Lotus Blossom, a new stamp set you can pick up FOR FREE during Sale-a-Bration! The blossoms were stamped onto a circular Whisper White piece that I cut out using my Big Shot and the Circles Collection dies.  I cut out a larger circle in Basic Black to mount it […]

Clean and Simple Cards: With Love

Clean and simple cards start with clean and simple card sketches.  This one is no exception. I began the card with this week’s handmade card design at i Love Card Sketches.  Beautiful in its simplicity, this quick and easy valentine came together effortlessly. The designer paper came from the Stacked With Love Paper Stack, and […]

Thinking of You Card Sneak Peek

I’ve got another sneak peek with this thinking of you card.  Here I combined some patterned paper from the Trim the Tree Designer Paper Stack in the outgoing Holiday Catalog with a new stamp set coming out next week, Moon Lake.  I used my Blendabilities to color the image in. Sale-A-Bration starts next week.  Schedule […]

Stampin’ Up! Card Ideas: Holiday Home

Today’s Stampin’ Up! card ideas begins by combining Blendabilities Markers, alcohol, and Classic Ink Pads to create the sky, hills, and trees.  The home was stamped using Holiday Home and cut out with the Homemade Holiday Framelits Dies using the Big Shot.  You can actually pick them both up as a bundle and save 15%! […]