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CARDS | BACKGROUNDS

Spellbinders Hooray! It’s Your Birthday

Well today we are playing with frogs and slots. Bet you never thought you’d hear that from me, haha. Spellbinders Hooray! It’s Your Birthday is the name of this months Large Die of the Month Club Kit and that’s where the adorable convertible driving froggy is from.

November 13, 2024 7 Comments

CARDS | Birthday Cards

His and Hers Birthday Cake Cards

For today’s card-making post, I thought I would create his and hers Birthday Cake Cards from the same products. I’m working with more of the Spellbinders November Club Kits, this time the Party Time Cake Die Set that you get as a bonus this month with your Deluxe Caboodle membership. It’s adorable, and so much fun and these cards are both quick and easy to create.

November 10, 2024 10 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Simple Poinsettia Swag Christmas Card

Hi, card-making friends. I have a Simple Poinsettia Swag Christmas Card to share with you today. The Poinsettia Swag Stamp and Die set is NEW

November 8, 2024 6 Comments

CARDS | Baby/child cards

Spellbinders Birthday Bliss Die Cut Card

Hello, my crafty friends, and welcome back to my blog. My share today is a Spellbinders Birthday Bliss Die-Cut Card. I’m getting an early start

November 5, 2024 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

2 | Cardmaking Videos

NEW Card Making Video – Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique

Today I have Botanical Wreath Blackout Technique to share with you. The Nature’s Botanical Release from Spellbinders and Susan Tierney-Cockburn is beautiful, and I chose the Botanical Wreath and Nature’s Botanical Garden BetterPress Sentiments to create with today. This is a super fast and easy inking technique and you are going to LOVE the results.

October 30, 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

hand made friendship card with blue and green flowers with purple leaves on a white embossed background

CARDS | cards for friends

Purple and Blue Grateful For You Card

Today, we have Purple and Blue Grateful For You Card using new products from Alex Syberia Designs. This is the same stamp and die set as the last card, done with completely different colors and layered over an embossed background using a NEW Tiny Autumn Leaves Hot Foil Plate.

October 24, 2024 13 Comments

CARDS | cards for friends

Stitched Christmas Tree Card

Hey card-making friends, welcome back. Yesterday, I decided it was time to dig out the Stitched Die Set of the Month from Spellbinders. This is

October 20, 2024 10 Comments

CARDS | cards for friends

Heartfelt Snowflakes and Distress Oxide Sprays

Today I’m sharing Heartfelt Snowflakes and Distress Oxide Sprays. When combined, make FABULOUS Christmas cards, and it’s SO EASY. It’s a emboss resist technique: Just white heat emboss the snowflakes all over a watercolor paper card front. Then Spritz the heck out of it with Distress Oxide Sprays and then Distress Spritz to add a beautiful glimmer to the finish.

October 18, 2024 8 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest

I had fun with this one, Trying to Win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. It started with this month’s Embossing Folder Club, the lovely Checkered Argyle, which is quite conservative and lovely. Then I decided our little Festive Friends needed to be included (Small Die of the Month Club), and after I got his sweater all argyled to match the background, I thought, “Ugly Christmas Sweater.” So I grabbed the reindeer dies from the Large Die of the Month Club, Cozy Toes Slippers.

October 17, 2024 8 Comments

2 | Cardmaking Videos

Foiling with BetterPress Plates

Welcome back to my card making blog. Today, I’m sharing 4 cards I created with Foiling With BetterPress Plates. Yana has a new release over at Spellbinders; as usual, it’s lovely. I used Yana’s Festive Poinsettias and Home for Christmas Sentiments for today’s cards. The release also has Yana’s Amaryllis Etched Dies and Amaryllis Garden 3D embossing Folder, which are used in an upcoming post.

October 15, 2024 12 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Village Snowman Die Cut Christmas Cards

I have a couple of fun and easy Village Snowman Die Cut Cards to share with you. This adorable Village Snowman die is part of the new Simon Says Stamp Sweet Wishes Release going live at midnight tonight. He’s a mighty 2 inches tall, and super fun to die cut. I’m sharing two different ways to create with him below.

October 9, 2024 10 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

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Cozy Toes Slippers Card

Today, I’m sharing the Spellbinders Cozy Toes Slippers Card. This is created with the New October Large Die of the Month Club Kit from Spellbinders. As today is the 6th, the clubs are open for purchase, and you don’t want to miss this month; they are fabulous! I started with the Cozy Toes Slippers Dies because it reminded me of my own Christmas as a kid; my mom used to buy us funny slippers. It was so much fun to see what we got each year, although some of them were kind of hard to walk in, haha

October 6, 2024 10 Comments

CARDS | BACKGROUNDS

Mint Green Halloween Card

The spooky season is almost upon us, so today’s project is a Mint Green Halloween card. I’m using the Simon Says Stamp Halloween Friends stamp set for today’s card and a few other goodies. It’s so much fun making greeting cards for this season, as you can be as silly or scary as you like. I have so many Halloween card ideas that it’s tough to find a place to start, LOL, but today, I decided on Mint Green as my base color to challenge myself to create a cute Halloween card without a lot of black cardstock.

October 4, 2024 10 Comments

CARDS | cards for friends

4 New Christmas Card Ideas

Today I have 4 New Christmas Card Ideas to share with you created with the Spellbinders Oh Joyful Day Collection from Rosie’s Studios. I had so much fun creating with this set of stickers, buttons, chipboard embellishments and pattern paper. I made myself stop of 4 cards because I had other deadlines, LOL, but I’m sure I could have made at least 10 more cards.

October 1, 2024 7 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

CARDS | cards for friends

Watercolor Orchid hand made card

This die and embossing folder set are from Spellbinders and Susan Tierney Cockburn and are part of the Winter’s Grace release. If you like making 3 dimensional flowers, you are going to love this release.

September 25, 2024 10 Comments

2 | Cardmaking Videos

New Card Making Video Pocket Gift Card Holders

Today’s new Card Making Video is Pocket Gift Card Holders. Spellbinders recently sent me the new Wendy Vecchi “Not Your Ordinary Card Collection” die set and boy did I have fun with it. I actually played with it for 2 entire days.

September 23, 2024 8 Comments

CARDS | BetterPress

Spellbinders Autumn Cards

visit today’s blog post for detailed instructions on how to create the Spellbinders Autumn Cards using the September club of the month kits

September 19, 2024 12 Comments

Spellbinders Stitched Sunflowers on a turquoise card

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Spellbinders Stitched Sunflowers Card

Today I have Spellbinders Stitched Sunflowers Card to share with you from the September Stitched Die Club. This set is AMAZING. The flowers are super big making them so easy to stitch and layer.

September 13, 2024 8 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

New Falling Hearts Embossing Folder

Today I have a New Falling Hearts Embossing Folder card to share with you. The Falling Hearts Embossing Folder is new this month as part of the main Stamptember release from Simon Says Stamps. It is a beautiful, deeply etched folder which allowed me to color all the individual hearts and then do the swiping technique to add ink to the background. Keep reading to get all the details on how to create this card.

September 12, 2024 8 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

The Blingiest Birthday Card Ever

Today I have the Blingiest Birthday Card Ever, haha…..I’m playing with Simon Says Stamp Sparkling Candles Dies. They are part of this month’s regular release over at Simon, and they are super cool. They cut out the candle and the overlay at the same time, making it super quick and easy to put these candles together. Let’s jump in with the Card Tutorial.

September 11, 2024 9 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Spellbinders Autumn Scarecrow and Pumpkin Cards

I have two Spellbinders Autumn Scarecrow and Pumpkin Cards to share with you today created with the September Small Die of the Month and the second pumpkin card showcases the lovely and very elegant Autumn Chevron Embossing Folder. This embossing folder creates a beautiful backdrop for more pink and orange pumpkins with a bit of added bling from the Friendly Thanks Glimmer of the Month Club.

September 9, 2024 14 Comments

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

3D Pumpkin Embossing Folder Cards

It’s the 6th and that means that the Spellbinders September Clubs are live and you can subscribe. Today I’m sharing 3D Pumpkin Embossing Folder Cards created with this month’s 3D Embossing Folder Club – Pumpkin Patch. This embossing folder has DEEP embossing and I was able to get fabulous results with some Distress Oxide Ink blending on them.

September 6, 2024 10 Comments

hand made shaker card with a stenciled confetti background in purple, pink, turquoise and green and a rainbow lovely sentiment in the same colors

CARDS | cards for friends

Simon Says Stamp So Lovely Shaker Card

Hey card making friends. I’m sharing a new Simon Says Stamp So Lovely Shaker Card with you today as part of the STAMPTEMBER BLOG PARTY celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Simon’s STAMPTEMBER.

You can start the BLOG PARTY over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog and as you visit each of the blogs, make sure to check out the PROMOTIONS at each stop, as there are many different ones to choose from.

September 2, 2024 12 Comments

hand made card with a white die cut martini glass on a pink and gold embossed background with a lime wedge and curl and a flamingo stir stick

CARDS | BetterPress

Spellbinders Happy Hour Martini Cards

Today I have some fun Spellbinders Happy Hour Martini Cards to share with you. This new release is full of cocktail fun from a cocktail glass BetterPress background plate, 2 different shapes of glasses, three different themes of decorative dies, a beautiful set of decorative rectangles dies and an amazing set of sentiments that all foil/BetterPress and cut out at once.

August 25, 2024 7 Comments

hand made card with a purple splash on white background, a die cut purple and gold flower and small white flowers

3 | CARDS | Cardmaking tutorials

Spellbinders Glimmer and Stencil Clubs

Hey card making friends, hope you are having a great week. Today I have Spellbinders Glimmer and Stencil Clubs for August to share with you.

August 23, 2024 7 Comments

Christmas cards in purple, teal and green with little penguins dressed up for winter in sweaters and touques

CARDS | cards for friends

Playful Penguins Twofre Christmas Cards

Today I’m sharing the Playful Penguins Twofre Christmas Cards. These are from the Simon Hurley Let It Snow release and the Twofre part is I created one background and with the help of one background die, made two cards with it. All the details are below, so let’s dig in shall we.

August 19, 2024 10 Comments

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