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Easy Watercoloring with Karin Markers and the Blackout Technique

Hi cardmaking friends! I'm excited to be joining Simon Says Stamp today for Day 2 of the Every Happiness...

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Easy Copic Colored Daisy Birthday Card | Simon Says Stamp

Today I'm sharing a bright and cheerful birthday card featuring the beautiful new Daisy Frame from the...

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Create Beautiful Lemon Cards without Coloring | Simon Says Stamp Squeeze Me

Good evening. I'm excited to share the new Simon Says Stamp Every Happiness Release with you tonight,...

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NEW VIDEO - Easy Watercolor Embossing Folder Technique

Today I'm sharing an Easy Watercolor Embossing Folder Technique using the beautiful new Snowy Footpath...

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Easy Stenciled Leafy Greens Arched Card

I'm toning things down for today's card with the soft pastel shades of Celery and Seafoam Ink to create...

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Dark and Moody Leaning Lily Card with Altenew Nesting Arches

have a stunning Dark and Moody card to share with you today

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Retro Sailboat Card

I have a super quick and easy Masculine card to share with you today, complete with a fun retro vibe...

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Elegant Parchment Bouquet Thank You Card | Altenew Dies

Today I'm sharing this Elegant Parchment Bouquet Thank You Card featuring the beautiful Altenew Parchment...

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Faux Watercolor Meets Embossed Double Vision Card

While cleaning up the creative hurricane from my last video, I discovered I had one Faux Watercolor panel...

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NEW VIDEO - How to Create Faux Watercolor with Embossing Folders | Embossing Folder Magic #6

Today I'm sharing Embossing Folder Magic #6 - How to Create Faux Watercolor with Embossing Folders.

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Handmade spring card featuring a white bunny standing in green grass and looking up at pink flowers inside a gold-trimmed arched window. Two pastel Easter eggs sit at the bunny’s feet. The scene is layered over a pink stenciled background with teal and lime cardstock mats, photographed on a white surface with alcohol markers and greenery accents.

My Monthly Hero Happy Spring Card

03 February, 2026

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Hi cardmaking friends - Welcome back! Today, I'm sharing my second card created with the My Monthly...

Handmade Easter card featuring layered die-cut spring flowers and a white bunny in a grassy garden scene. The card has a soft aqua sky background, bright coral and white flowers with green foliage, and a “Happy Easter” sentiment stamped along the bottom, created using the My Monthly Hero February 2026 kit.

My Monthly Hero February 2026 Card

01 February, 2026

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Hi cardmaking friends - Happy Sunday! I'm popping in a little later than usual today because I didn't...

Handmade winter birthday card featuring an easy diorama design with a smiling snowman wearing a teal scarf and hat, standing inside a layered arched window. The scene includes snowy pine trees, falling snow accents, and a pink-to-teal blended sky, set on a teal card base with scattered white splatter and a small “Happy Birthday” sentiment.

New VIDEO - EASY Diorama Snowman Birthday Card

31 January, 2026

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Hi cardmaking friends! I have another new video to share with you today! Yes - I'm on a roll! haha...

Handmade Galentine’s card featuring a heart wreath embossing folder background colored with Distress Oxide ink sprays and heat embossed in gold. The pastel purple, pink, and blue panel is layered on a lavender card base and finished with a gold-foiled “Galentine” sentiment and small gold embellishments, styled with flowers and greenery.

NEW VIDEO - Embossed Card with Distress Oxide Ink Sprays

29 January, 2026

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Hey cardmaking friends! I have a new video to share with you today featuring an embossed card created...

Handmade birthday card featuring a cute Birthday Bear die-cut from Spellbinders, with outstretched arms and a pink party hat. The bear is layered in black and white with a smiling face and tiny pink details, holding a teal gift wrapped with a gold bow. The background includes a teal embossed panel framed with a black scalloped border and white dots, layered over pink and green cardstock. A pink banner at the bottom reads “Happy Birthday.”

Spellbinders Birthday Bear Card

27 January, 2026

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Hey cardmaking friends - welcome back! Today I'm sharing a Spellbinders Birthday Bear card that's guaranteed...

Under-the-sea themed MemoryDex card created with AALL & Create stamps and dies, featuring a whimsical red-haired mermaid with teal scales seesawing above a row of small fish. The mixed-media background is ink-blended in aqua and turquoise tones with splatters, sea plants, coral, and shells, accented with sequins and a “Sea Life” label.

MemoryDex Challenge #17 Under the Water

26 January, 2026

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Hey cardmaking friends! Today I'm sharing my MemoryDex Challenge #17 - Under the Water project. I've...

Handmade 5-inch square Valentine card featuring die-cut chocolate-covered strawberries arranged in a circle around the sentiment “You’re the berry best.” The strawberries are layered in red, brown, and green cardstock on a white panel with red and green mat layers, set against a red background.

Berry Best Strawberry Card

22 January, 2026

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Hi card-making friends - welcome back! Today I'm sharing a bright and juicy handmade card featuring...

Handmade Valentine card featuring three cute blue peacocks holding hearts and love notes, colored with Copic markers and arranged on stitched purple heart inlays over a teal stitched background, with small purple hearts scattered throughout.

Peacock Love Valentine Card

21 January, 2026

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Hi crafty friends - welcome back! Today I have another Valentine card to share, created with the absolutely...

Handmade winter card featuring a bundled snowman die cut wearing a teal hat and scarf on a pink, purple, and teal ink-blended background. The card includes a layered “Warm Thoughts” sentiment at the top, a small “thanks for being you” label, and glitzy falling snow accents scattered across the background.

Warm Thoughts Snowman with Glitzy Falling Snow

20 January, 2026

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Hey card-making friends - welcome back! Today I'm creating with more brand-new products from the Simon...

Handmade pink card featuring a soft blush ink-blended background embossed with the Spellbinders January 2026 Embossing Club “Cloud Nine” folder, layered die-cut flowers from the Small Die of the Month, and a black heat-embossed “Have a Nice Day” sentiment from the Clear Stamp and Die of the Month, finished with black gems.

Spellbinders Jan 2026 Embossing Clubs

19 January, 2026

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Hi cardmaking friends - welcome back! Today, I'm wrapping up the Spellbinders January Clubs with these...

Handmade Galentine’s Day card featuring a Copic-colored Simon Says Stamp Loving You Bouquet with purple roses and teal leaves on a watercolor background created with Distress Oxide sprays. A gold-embossed heart made of words is stamped behind the bouquet, the sentiment is layered with vellum and finished with a gold foil “Galentine”.

Be My Galentine Handmade Card

16 January, 2026

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Hi cardmaking friends. I'm back with another card created using brand-new products from the Simon Says...

A bright, mixed-media AALL & Create MemoryDex card for Theme #1 Photography, featuring a whimsical fairy character holding a camera in front of a large rainbow-colored camera with a smiling sun lens, layered flowers, grass, paint splatter details, and a “click” label on a teal background.

MemoryDex Challenge Card Theme #1

14 January, 2026

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Hi card-making friends, welcome back! Today, I'm excited to share my MemoryDex Challenge Card for Theme...

andmade Valentine’s card featuring two classic cartoon mice die-cut from black, white, and teal cardstock, facing each other and forming a heart with their hands over a large teal heart. The male mouse holds a pink rose while the female mouse wears a pink skirt and bow. Above them is a die-cut sentiment reading “You Are My Happily Ever After.” The card is styled on a turquoise background with greenery and heart-shaped chocolates, created with the Spellbinders Steamboat Willie Duo and Classic Mouse Love Etched Dies.

Classic Mouse Love Etched Dies

13 January, 2026

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Hi card-making friends! Spellbinders has a bunch of BRAND NEW RELEASES, and today I'm playing with one...

A handmade winter birthday card with a teal, blue, and green watercolor-style background created using Lindy’s Magical Powders and the Simon Says Stamp Wonderland Snowflakes embossing folder. White snowflake designs are embossed across the panel, and a layered “Happy Birthday” sentiment in white cardstock and vellum sits in the center, giving the card a soft, snowy, elegant look.

Simon Says Stamp Winter Birthday Card

10 January, 2026

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Hi, card-making friends! I'm so excited to be joining Simon Says Stamp today for Day 2 of the Heart...

Die-cut handmade card featuring a colorful hummingbird hovering beside a pink flower over white daisies and layered green grass, framed with a postage-style border on a teal background with a simple “hello” sentiment at the bottom.

Spellbinders Hummingbird Delight Die Cut Card

09 January, 2026

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Hi card-making friends! Today I'm excited to share this Spellbinders Hummingbird Delight Die Cut Card,...

Handmade Valentine shaker card with a white embossed heart background, a lavender and aqua layered heart frame, and a cute blue peacock holding a purple heart in the center. Pink heart sequins fill the shaker, and the sentiment reads, “Proud as a peacock to be your Valentine.”

Simon Says Stamp Sweet Peacock Valentine

07 January, 2026

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Good evening, crafty friends! Tonight kicks off the brand-new Simon Says Stamp Heart to Heart release,...

Decorated MemoryDex card holder box created with AALL & Create products for the MemoryDex Card Challenge. The box is covered in bright mixed-media collage papers with words like “Sunshine” and “Love,” and features whimsical die-cut images including a colorful girl with a flower crown, a small white dog, a sun and cloud, and a pink “Kiss” label. The box is photographed against a teal background with the sandimaciver.com watermark at the bottom.

AALL and Create MemoryDex Card Holder and Challenge

07 January, 2026

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Hey card-making friends! I have something super fun and a little bit different to share with you today. ...

A handmade fan-shaped card created with the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month “Sunny Stems” set. The card features five arched black panels outlined in pink, each decorated with layered die-cut flowers in pink with bright green stems and leaves. A curved center panel includes a white heat-embossed sentiment that reads “hope this card brightens your day.” The card is photographed upright with greenery in the foreground.

Spellbinders Sunny Stems Shaped Card

06 January, 2026

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It's the 6th of the month, and you know what that means - NEW SPELLBINDERS Club Kits! Whoo-whoo! I...

Handmade greeting card created with the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Postage Frame Die Set. A die-cut dachshund mail carrier runs across a white postage-edge panel with a teal border, carrying letters in a teal mailbag. A small pink tulip postage stamp embellishment sits in the top right corner with the sentiment “Special Delivery” stamped beside it.

My Monthly Hero January 2026 Cards

05 January, 2026

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Send smiles, hugs and heartfelt hellos with the January 2026 My Monthly Hero Kit: Happy Mail, inspired...

Handmade greeting card created with the Postage Box Die Set from the NEW Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Subscription program. A teal die-cut mailbox with a scalloped postage-stamp style frame is filled with colorful flowers in pink, yellow, and coral, with a tiny white envelope on top and a small bird perched on the flowers. More florals and greenery decorate the mailbox and a bundle of rolled newspapers below, all set against a teal background with coordinating metal dies arranged around the card.

My Monthly Hero Die Cut Postage Box Card

01 January, 2026

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Yes - you read that right! My Monthly Hero from Hero Arts is back.....YAY! I'm absolutely thrilled...

Handmade winter birthday card with two cute die-cut birds wearing teal hats perched on green branches over a light aqua embossed snowflake background, framed with a teal arched card base. A small black and white “Happy Birthday” sentiment sits below the birds, with glittery snowflakes and gems scattered around.

Happy Winter Birthday with Simon Says Stamp Birdies Dies

29 December, 2025

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Hey cardmaking friends! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and are enjoying a little creative downtime. ...

Colorful Memory Dex die card featuring AALL & Create products, with a whimsical Christmas scene on a teal and green background. The card includes a hand-colored Miss Merry character in a red dress and striped tights, pink houses along the top edge, green trees, small birds, holly leaves, snowflakes, and white paint splatter. The words “sweet season” are centered on the card, and the project is photographed among evergreen branches and bright holiday ornaments.

AALL and CREATE Miss Merry

22 December, 2025

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Oh what fun! I have something new for you today -- AALL & CREATE Miss Merry. Sometimes it's just...

Three handmade die-cut snowman holiday gift tags in pastel blue, purple, and teal, featuring layered snowmen, snowflake accents, twine ties, and one shaker tag, styled on greenery with white snowflake decorations.

NEW VIDEO - Step-by-Step Snowman Gift Tags

19 December, 2025

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Welcome back, crafty friends! Today's video is a bit different - and a lot of fun. I'm playing with...

Handmade Christmas card featuring bright green embossed holly leaves with raised texture and stenciled details, accented with dimensional pink berries on a white background. Black sentiment strips read “Sending Cheer,” with paint splatter details and a festive pink backdrop.

Simon Says Stamp Gathering Holly

18 December, 2025

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Wow, December 18th already! The days are absolutely flying by as we race towards the holidays. I have...

Handmade card featuring two adorable panda bear slippers nestled together on a blush pink background embossed with the Sweet Stems Embossing Folder from the Spellbinders December Club kits. Die-cut flowers and leaves decorate the card, with a coordinating sleep mask above the slippers and a black-and-white sentiment that reads “Let’s do nothing together.” Card created using the Spellbinders Deluxe Caboodle Bonus Gift of the Month.

Spellbinders Dec 2025 Club Cards

16 December, 2025

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Hi cardmaking friends! Today I have five Spellbinders Dec 2025 Club Cards to share with you. I spent...

Handmade stitched felt Christmas ornaments created with new Simon Says Stamp dies, including a snowman with scarf, a teal and white bird, a black-and-white penguin with green scarf, a teal mitten with snowflake, and a holly berry sprig. Ornaments displayed against snowy bottle-brush trees and greenery.

Simon Says Stamp Holiday Felt Ornaments

12 December, 2025

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I have something super fun and a little different to share with you today - Simon Says Stamp Holiday...

Handmade Good Fortune Horse card with an ink-blended background in pink, orange, and purple distress oxide inks, embossed with the Distress Mix 3D embossing folder and highlighted with gold and white paint. The horse is die-cut from carrot-orange cardstock with gold mirror mane, tail, and saddle. Card displayed on a pink surface with coordinating dies and a black fountain pen beside it.

Good Fortune Horse Die Cut Card

10 December, 2025

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Hey card makers - welcome back! Today I've got a quick and super fun project to share: the Good Fortune...

Handmade felt gnome standing on greenery with a pinecone staff, teal coat, and stitched leaf embellishments; Woodlands Fergus project created using Spellbinders dies.

Meet Woodlands Fergus the Gnome - Spellbinders Felt Stitching Project

09 December, 2025

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Hi crafty friends! Welcome back to my blog. Today, I'm thrilled to introduce you to Woodlands Fergus...

Handmade Valentine’s card featuring two red stitched coffee mugs with pink heart centers created using the Spellbinders Stitched Die of the Month “A Perfect Blend.” The mugs meet in the middle with white steam forming a heart above them. The sentiment “love you” is die-cut in red with a pink banner reading “Let’s Chat Soon.” The aqua card front is embossed with the Unlock My Heart 3D Embossing Folder and layered on red and aqua cardstock, surrounded by greenery and white berry accents.

Spellbinders December Valentine's Club Cards

06 December, 2025

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Hey cardmaking friends! Welcome to my second post this morning - I know, I'm on a roll! LOL! It's a...

Resting Dove Die-Cut Christmas Card

06 December, 2025

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Welcome to Day 2 of the Simon Says Stamp DieCember® Blog Hop! DieCember truly is the most wonderful...

Handmade Christmas card featuring a bold “MERRY” cover die cut from white cardstock and backed with vertical strips of lime green and teal. A cute stamped snowman wearing a green-and-teal hat and scarf is sledding across the bottom right corner. Card is displayed upright on a white snowflake stand with evergreen décor and a blue ornament in the background.

Striped Die-Cut Merry Christmas Card

03 December, 2025

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Welcome to DieCember® - the biggest die-cutting party of the year over at Simon Says Stamp! With fabulous...

Handmade landscape stair-step Christmas card featuring a die-cut Santa mug and three layered Christmas trees. The card is created using Spellbinders Cocoa Wonderland dies and sits on a red card base with a snowflake-patterned aqua background created with the Snowflake Shimmer BetterPress Plate. Santa has a white layered beard, pink cheeks, and a red handle with Christmas Decor popping out. A “Merry Christmas” sentiment is displayed on the front step along with a small die-cut bow and gift. The coordinating card in the background also features Christmas trees and the same snowflake aqua background.

Cocoa Wonderland Stair Step Card

03 December, 2025

Comments: 10

Well, I had so much fun playing with the Spellbinders Cocoa Wonderland die set last week that I couldn't...

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