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 […]
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Mothers Day Card Ideas
It’s time to start thinking about your Mothers Day card ideas. You don’t always have to create fancy and intricate, time-consuming cards. A clean and simple card can be just as beautiful and doesn’t have to be boring! Here I used a couple smaller strips of Typeset Designer Paper to set off the stamped images. […]
Happy Easter Cards
Make Happy Easter cards with the adorable stamp set, For Peeps’ Sake. I grabbed a strip of patterned paper from the Birthday Bash Specialty Designer Paper collection, and my color scheme followed from there. Night of Navy was used to stamp the greeting and to tie all the pieces together. The egg colors are Bermuda […]
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Friendship Card: From the Garden
Today’s friendship card features From the Garden from the Occasions Catalog. This set of photopolymer stamps is just perfect for spring cards, scrapbook layouts, kids diy crafts, and more. You can pick up this set alone for an incredible price, or buy it as a bundle with the framelits, too! (The Handpicked Framelits Dies can […]
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 […]
DIY Birthday Cards: Timeless Talk
NOTE: This handmade card uses a retired stamp set, but as of this writing you can pick up a gently used set on my Retired Rubber Stamps Page. With a little designer paper and a stamp set, you can make beautiful DIY birthday cards for your friends and family. These clean and simple cards will […]
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! […]
Handmade Card Design: Guy Birthday Cards
Happy Monday! In today’s handmade card design I combined a couple stamp sets, both of them perfect for the man in your life: Guy Greetings and The Open Sea. And they both coordinate well with the Maritime Designer Paper Collection. Just a little can go a long way! With this combination you can make fabulous […]