Does the idea of using stencils excite you and intimidate you all at the same time? Let me show you how to create a beautiful simple stenciled background using distressed oxide ink! I have been super crazy about stencils lately. Especially mandala stencils and oxide inks! I can’t stop creating and the ideas are just […]
Watercolor Technique Using Reinkers
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Have you ever thought about using watercolors but weren’t sure how to go about it? Or you didn’t really want to spend the money if you weren’t sure if you would enjoy it? Well I have a technique for you to try out using supplies you probably already have. The reinker watercolor technique is super […]
Balloons & Banners Birthday Card Swap
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Let’s create birthday cards with balloons & banners! What is a card swap? A card swap is a fun way to make 5 of the same card, send them in, and get 5 beautiful cards back to use! This is a brand/vendor non-exclusive swap. You may use any product, current or retired, in the creation […]
DIY Sea Shell Thank You Card
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I love creating beautiful cards to give to friends. Recently my wife and I traveled to Florida to stay for a week with friends. They have a beautiful condo right on the beach and we had such a nice time. I wanted to create a beachy sea shell thank you card to send to them and the […]
Beautiful Baubles Christmas Card
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Got another Christmas card idea for your today! I love this stampset, Beautiful Baubles! Used Stampin Blends alcohol markers for this card. I love how the Stampin Blends allows you to create shading in the colors. Quick Links to Information in this Post Heat Emboss the Bauble Color the Bauble Using Stampin Blends Dry Emboss the Card Mat Stamp the String […]
Snow is Glistening & Buffalo Check Christmas card
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Want access to my Resource Library? Fill out this form and I will send you the password! Time for another Christmas card. This time we are going to make the Snow is Glistening and Buffalo Check Christmas card. I just got in the mail my latest Stampin’ Up! shipment and it had two beautiful stamps, […]
Thank You Card Swap
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Let’s Make Thank You Cards! It’s time for the Customer Thank You Card Swap. What is a card swap? A card swap is a fun way to make 5 of the same card, send them in, and get 5 beautiful cards back to use! This is a non-demo cardswap. If you are a Stampin’ Up! demo […]
Awesome DIY Chirstmas Card Ideas
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Want access to my Resource Library? Fill out this form and I will send you the password! It’s that time again…. time to make Christmas cards! I spend HOURS on Pinterest looking for cute designs to either CASE (copy and steal everything) or just use for inspiration. I am not sure what I did before […]
Create a Christmas Card with Making Christmas Bright Stamp Set
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Christmas cards are always on my mind these days. I want to show you how to create a Christmas card with the Making Christmas Bright stampset. I created another card with this stampset. You can view that here. Quick Links to Information in this Post Stamp the Main Image on the Front Craft Storage Resource […]
Making Christmas Bright Christmas Card Project
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In this card project, I used the Stamparatus. Because I wanted to set up the Stamparatus to quickly stamp all of the different images of this card, I had to get the Stamparatus ready for this. Hop on over to read how to set up your stamparatus to stamp multiple images for one card here. […]
Beautiful Blizzard Stamp Set Christmas Card
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I love making Christmas cards! And I love when a great card comes together. I made holiday cards for my last monthly class. I decided to use the Beautiful Blizzard stampset and coordinating die for this card. I have really started to embrace using vellum paper and I think it really finishes this card off nicely. […]
Ribbon of Courage For My Friend
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The past few weeks have been full of emotionally hard cards to make. You can read about the sympathy cards I made a couple of weeks ago with my stamparatus here. Today is unfortunately no exception. I have a friend who recently was diagnosed with brain cancer and underwent brain radiation. The cancer was actually […]
Heartfelt Blooms Sympathy Card
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A few weeks ago, a dear friend of mine, lost her niece to colorectal cancer. The lost was devastating because her niece was only 39 years old. I had worked with this friend and her mother and brother, whom were my friend’s niece’s grandmother and father. I decided that I wanted to send all three […]
Beautiful Bouquet Anniversary Card
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5 Year Wedding Anniversary My wife and I married in Maui 5 years ago, before marriage was legal in all 50 states for same-sex couples. We have since gotten married legally but we consider June 21st our wedding anniversary. And now since I’m into card making… its no surprise she expects a beautiful card every […]
Create an accordion style card with 96 candles Part 4 of 4
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Assemble the accordion card with Berry Bust Metallic Ribbon Well this marks the 4th blog in this series of my journey to make an awesome card for my wife’s grandma, Mamaw’s 96 birthday. I wanted to make this day extra special for her because she loves cards and I knew she would just love a […]
Create an accordion style card with 96 candles Part 3 of 4
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Adhere stamp panels with Tear and Tape I have been blogging in a multipart series on how I created this beautiful accordion folded style card for my wife’s grandma, Mamaw as we call her. I blogged earlier about how I used the stamparatus to create the white panels with the stamped candle images. Then in […]
Create an accordion style card with 96 candles Part 2 of 4
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Use the Simply Scored Board to make the panels As mentioned in my part 1 of this blog series, my wife’s grandma (Mamaw as we call her) turned 96 and I wanted to surprise her with a really long card that showed exactly 96 candles. She was so delighted to get the card. In the […]
Create an accordion style card with 96 candles Part 1 of 4
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Create an accordion style folded card My wife’s grandmother, we call her Mamaw, recently turned 96. I wanted to create a card that she would love and cherish. I also wanted to see the delight in her eyes when she opened a card that was almost if not longer than her arm span. Then I […]
A Mother’s Flair and Beautiful Day Birthday cards
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April’s workshop card projects I did a live video on facebook a couple of weeks ago at a workshop that I held in my home. We made 4 card from 2 designs. We used the A Mother’s Flair and Beautiful Day stampsets. We made mother’s day cards with the “A Mother’s Flair”. No surprise there… […]
Sweet Soiree 16th Birthday Card
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So I was contacted by my good friend Debbie who wanted a cute birthday card to give to her niece, who was turning 16th. I asked her if she had any specific requests and she said she wanted the number 16 prominent on the card and asked that I use subtle colors. I had just […]
Valentine Box from Lots to Love Framelit with Paper Rosetta
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Valentine Box I’ve gotten a lot of requests to show you how to make this little note card box and particularly the paper rosetta. That is underneath the heart. This box is made with items from our occasions catalog. I used the Sure Do Love You stamp set, as well as, the framelits that coordinate with it called Lots to […]
Star of Light Christmas Card
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Taught a stamp class at the Woodford County Library today and this is one of the cards we made. It highlights the Star of Light stamp set and coordinating Starlight Framelits. I’m really digging this color palette with this stamp set. There are tons of really pretty cards being made with this stamp set. Check […]
Eastern Palace Suite Masculine Birthday Card #2
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Masculine Birthday Challenge My wife has lately been asking me for birthday cards to give to her male co-workers. That’s usually a struggle as most of my stamps and designer series paper is feminine in nature, but I decided to give it a try with the Eastern Palace Designer Series Paper (DSP) and I think […]
Birthday & Anniversary cards
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I recently made a birthday card for my mother in-law and an anniversary card for both my father and mother in-law. Here is the video I did on the way to have dinner with them. I was so excited to use the Delightful Daisy Suite and the Eastern Palace Suite.
