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Handmade square birthday card featuring two adorable koalas from the Simon Says Stamp Koala-ty Birthday stamp and die set, part of the Sugar and Spice release. The design includes a bright lime green ink-blended background created with the Mix and Match Circles Stencil and a layered scalloped circle frame die-cut using the Scalloped Circles Nested Die Set. The larger koala sits on a striped gift box while the smaller one holds a cupcake, both wearing colorful party hats. A bold “Happy Birthday” sentiment and green gem embellishments complete the cheerful, playful design by Sandi MacIver.

CARDS | Birthday Cards

Simon Says Stamp Koala-Ty Birthday Blog Hop and Giveaway

Hey cardmaking friends! I’m thrilled to join Simon Says Stamp for the Saturday Sugar and Spice Release Blog Hop. Today’s project features the adorable Koala-Ty

October 11, 2025 74 Comments

Handmade Frosty snowman Christmas card created with the Spellbinders Stencil of the Month Club ‘Frosty Wishes.’ Features a cheerful snowman face with a carrot nose, rosy cheeks, and a green top hat accented with holly, layered on a bright turquoise card base for a fun and festive holiday design.

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Spellbinders Simple Frosty Christmas Card

Hey, card-making friends! Welcome Back!. Today, I’m sharing a super fun project – the Spellbinders Simple Frosty Christmas Card. This cheerful design is flat and almost one-layer, making it quick, easy, and perfect for mass production.

October 10, 2025 3 Comments

Handmade greeting card featuring a colorful die-cut fall wreath with leaves in bright shades of green, pink, purple, yellow, and turquoise. The wreath frames a white script sentiment that reads “Sending big hugs.” The background is embossed with a dotted spiral pattern on light green cardstock, mounted on a black mat and placed over a pink and teal background for display.

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Simon Says Stamp Fall Wreaths | STAMPtember® Blog Party

Good morning stamping friends! Today, I’m excited to share a Simon Says Stamp Fall Wreaths card as part of the STAMPtember® Blog Party, kicking off

September 2, 2025 23 Comments

Handmade Halloween card featuring Simon Says Stamp products. The background is an ink-blended midnight sky in blue, green, purple, and yellow tones with white splatter stars. A black die-cut Twisted Tree Arch frames the scene. Inside, the sentiment “spooky vibes” from the Halloween Basics Stamp Set is stamped in black. At the bottom, four cute die-cut ghosts from the Costume Ghost Parade Die Set are dressed in Halloween outfits—a witch with a pumpkin bucket, a mummy, a vampire, and a pirate.

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Simon Says Stamp Spooky Vibes | WELCOME TO STAMPTEMBER

GOOD EEVENING! (insert COUNT DRACULA voice, haha), and welcome to Simon Says Stamp 16th STAMPtember. It’s going to be a fun-filled month, packed with fall, and Halloween vibes, exclusive collaboration stamp/die sets, and a cauldron full of spooky fun.

August 31, 2025 4 Comments

Handmade card featuring a white Dual Diamonds lattice die-cut panel with alternating blue and green inlaid diamonds. The card is mounted on a bright green base with a bold black “LOL” and yellow laughing emoji face in the center, accented by a sentiment strip that reads “make me laugh.”

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Simon Says Stamp You Make Me Laugh

Good morning. cardmaking friends! Today I’m sharing a Simon Says Stamp You Make Me Laugh card, created with the inlaid die-cutting technique.

August 29, 2025 4 Comments

Handmade card inspired by the iconic Woodstock Festival poster, featuring the Simon Says Stamp Ocean Horizon die set. A white die-cut bird from the Birdies die set perches on a stylized guitar neck, recreating the vintage 1969 design in bold rainbow colors.

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Vintage Woodstock Poster Card

Today, I’m showing my age a little—haha—because this card is a total throwback! I created a Vintage Woodstock Poster Card using two fabulous new products from the Simon Says Stamp Friend Like You release: the Ocean Horizon Die and Birdies Die Set.

July 22, 2025 14 Comments

Handmade greeting card featuring a colorful die-cut butterfly design in teal, orange, pink, and aqua, accented with floral die cuts and embossed background texture. Sentiment reads “Sending hugs.” Perfect for spring or summer cardmaking inspiration using Alex Syberia Designs Butterfly Bliss collection.

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New Card Making Video – Cardmaking Made Easy | Alex Syberia Designs Butterfly Bliss Inlaid Die Cut Card

Hi friends! I’m thrilled to be joining the Alex Syberia Design Team Blog Hop today to celebrate their beautiful new release.

July 2, 2025 23 Comments

hand made card with a notepad trim top, and stitched lines and margins with a die cut open mailbox with envelopes cascading out and a little worm on the grass

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

More Spellbinders April Club Cards

Today, I have More Spellbinders April Club Cards to share with you, including the Stencil of the Month, Glimmer of the month, Stitched Die of the Month, and the Clear Stamp and Die of the Month.

April 16, 2025 7 Comments

die cut space ship over a Distress Oxide ink sprayed galaxy background in purples and blues

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NEW Video | How to Create the Milky Way with Distress Oxide Ink Sprays

A new card-making video is up today, How to Create the Milky Way with Distress Oxide Ink Sprays

January 12, 2025 6 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Easy Santa Shaker Card

This is the Simon Hurley Sketched Santa Stamp and Die set that came out in July, with it’s adorable Santa Images, lots of parcels and bobbles to help decorate your cards, and a great selection of sentiments too. I love it when everything you need is in one stamp set, don’t you?

November 1, 2024 9 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

3 Quick and Easy Christmas Cards

Today, I have 3 Quick and Easy Christmas Cards to share with you. I’m finishing my Spellbinders Club Kits for the Month and creating backgrounds with the Stencil Club and BetterPress Club, so I made these cards quick, easy, and mass-produced. We all need those when the holiday crunch is upon us, right? I’m just curious: How many Christmas Cards do you mail out each year?

October 26, 2024 7 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Tim Holtz Halloween Cards

Today, I had a little break from work, so I decided to grab all the Halloween Dies I keep buying and have some fun. So today, I have 3 Tim Holtz Halloween cards to share with you. I can’t resist Tim’s dies and every time I watch one of his lives, I’m in there buying (I’m sure you can relate, haha). I have had so many work commitments lately that there has been no time to play. That’s making me cranky, so it’s a play day. hope you like them.

October 9, 2024 12 Comments

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Festive Friends Die Cut Christmas Card

Welcome back friends. Today I’m sharing a Festive Friends Die Cut Christmas Card. This adorable die set is the October, Small Die of the Month

October 8, 2024 No Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Paper Rose Wedding Blooms Die Cut Card

Today I have a Paper Rose Wedding Blooms Die Cut Card to share. Spellbinders are now carrying the lovely line of Paper Rose from Australia. They have an amazing pattern paper selection and really lovely dies to compliment them

September 30, 2024 8 Comments

hand made white and yellow card with an arch cut in the center surrounded by pink yellow and purple die cut flowers created with new card making supplies from Spellbinders

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Spellbinders Little Blooms Hand Made Die Cut Card

Visit the blog for details on how to create the Spellbinders Little Blooms Hand Made Die Cut Card using new card making products from spellbinders

July 1, 2024 10 Comments

hand made card with a ombre blue ink blended background splattered to look like rain, a person holding a bright umbrella and a little yellow duck wearing blue rain boots created with card making dies from Spellbinders

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Dancin In the Rain Hand Made Die Cut Card

visit the blog for details on how to create the Dancin In the Rain Hand Made Die Cut Card using new die cutting sets from Spellbinders

June 26, 2024 12 Comments

A bridgerton Dress Copy pale green card with gold stems and purple flowers created with new card making products from Simon Says Stamp

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Bridgerton Dress Copy Card and Simon Says Stamp NEW RELEASE

visit the blog for detailed instructions on how to create the Bridgerton Dress Copy Card with new card making products from Simon Says Stamp

June 19, 2024 11 Comments

2 | Cardmaking Videos

New Card Making Video – Add Dimension to Your Stenciled Cards

watch today’s card making video Add Dimension to Your Stenciled Cards, to create beautiful stenciled cards with tons of depth and dimension created with new card making products from Waffle Flower

June 10, 2024 6 Comments

2 | Cardmaking Videos

NEW CARD MAKING VIDEO – My favorite Spellbinders 2024 Clubs

visit the blog and watch the new card making video My favorite Spellbinders 2024 Clubs showing all the cards I created for this months club kits

May 19, 2024 7 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

ALTENEW Bouquet of Poppies New Release

Visit the blog for detailed instructions on creating these 3 cards using the ALTENEW Bouquet of Poppies New Release bundle.

April 11, 2024 8 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Spellbinders April 2024 Die of the Month

visit the blog for a tutorial on how to create each of the Spellbinders April 2024 Die of the Month cards using new card making products from Spellbinders

April 6, 2024 10 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Nested Leaves Die Cut Plate

Visit the blog for details on how to create the Nested Leaves Plate Die Cut Cards using new card making products from Simon Says Stamp

April 3, 2024 13 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Spellbinders Story Time Gnomes

Visit the blog for details on how to create the Spellbinders Storytime Gnomes Cards using new card making supplies from Spellbinders

March 8, 2024 10 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Mixed Media Beautiful Dove

Hi card making friends and welcome back to my blog. Today I have a Mixed Media Beautiful Dove card to share with you. The Beautiful

February 16, 2024 8 Comments

Windows with a View Collection from Spellbinders

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Windows With a View Die Cut Cards

Hi card making friends and welcome back to my blog. Today I have 3 Windows With a View Die Cut Cards to share with you.

February 11, 2024 12 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Daffodil Spray Glimmer Hot Foil Cards

Hi card making friends, happy Friday! (finally), LOL. Today I’m sharing 3 Daffodil Spray Glimmer Hot Foil Cards created with the Spellbinders February Glimmer of

February 9, 2024 14 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Distress Oxide Sprays Wonky Tree-o

Hi cardmaking friends. Today I’m participating in the Simon Says Stamp, Instagram hop for the Season of Wonder release. I decided to do a Distress

October 12, 2023 4 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Spellbinders Sunflower Border Card

Hey there, welcome back. Today I’m sharing a Spellbinders Sunflower Border Card. It’s created with the beautiful September Glimmer of the month Kit – “Sunflower

September 18, 2023 6 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Hand Made Card with Memory Box

Good morning friends. Today I have a new Hand Made Card with Memory Box. Simon Says Stamps STAMPtember released two collaborations today, Clearly Besotted and

September 13, 2023 3 Comments

CARDS | Cardmaking Ideas

Spellbinders House Mouse Holiday Cards

Hi card making friends and thanks for stopping in. Today I’m sharing Spellbinders House Mouse Holiday Cards. This month Spellbinders has released a whole new

August 21, 2023 9 Comments

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