     | | newsletter signup | store directory | bulletin board | calendar | surveys | shop online | coupons | digital designers | Card Making with Sketches -- Article I’ve been creating handmade cards longer than I’ve been scrapbooking. Not much longer, but that’s where my creative passion started and now 7 years later I still make all my own greeting cards. Whether it’s to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, holidays or just to simply say “Hi”. One thing I learned early on in cardmaking is that it can be quite time consuming (like all hobbies), one way to make this simpler is to use sketches!
Halloween Invitation -- Article Pumpkins, spiders, and ghosts, oh my! It's that time of year again...time for Halloween! It is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the weather, the decorations, the costumes, and most important - the candy! Prepare for a ghoulish party with this fast and easy invitation that is sure to scare up some fun.
An Exaltation of Butterflies -- Article Here's a card using my new mini butterfly stamp.
Tooled Paper Leather -- Article Here’s a card I made decorated with a tooled paper leather frame. The process is quite simple but it does require some time. The resulting product looks and feels like aged tooled leather, great for decorating cards or making frames. The cowboy in the picture is my dad or my dad’s brother. Either way, it’s fun to see a little piece of our Colorado family history.
Festive Birthday Cards -- Article I like to give a personalized birthday card for my family and friends. I began to scrapbook cards. My first one was very simple, but since then I have done a lot, the great majority are birthday cards.
A Lesson in Distressing -- Article So often ravens are not looked upon as lovely, but when given a little highlighting, even these black birds can be beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder isn’t it?
Butterfly Pin Cards -- Article There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a butterfly. They represent so many things. When I see a butterfly, I think of spring, shorts, flip flops, and content days ahead. These cards were made for friends in need. I wanted my friends to feel like better days were ahead, so I dug out my 3D Butterfly die. The soft colors and cute butterfly is bound to put a smile on anyone’s face!
Cards Galore! -- Article Just like the name of the card, 'sweet' covers the colors used on it as well. Playing with papers from the same line makes it easy to match them together. I was inspired by the coming of spring when making this card; hence the little pearls to represent dew drops.
Gecko Gifts -- Article I was trying to make a card like an idea I saw, but it just didn’t work out that way. So, I quit playing and decided to keep the parts I did have and make a card from them another day. The next day I sat down and within no time this whole new card was born. And this time it worked!
From Scraps to Cards, part 2 -- Article Card making is a great way to use up your leftover paper scraps, buttons, ribbon, and other paper crafting items. Follow some of these techniques to create fun and interesting cards.
From Scraps to Cards, part 1 -- Article Card making is a great way to use up your leftover paper scraps, buttons, ribbon, and other paper crafting items. Follow some of these techniques to create fun and interesting cards.
Party Puzzle Invitation -- Article Here’s a fun way to get the word spread about a holiday party. It’s an invitation-as-a-puzzle, and the invitation is slowly revealed, as those on your invite list have fun assembling it to decipher your party details! The puzzle invitation is very easy to create using Avery Dennison’s Clean-Edge Business Cards and their free downloadable Holiday Wizard software with your personal computer and desktop color printer.
3-Dimensional Holiday Card -- Article Make your holidays “POP” with these easy-to-make 3-D Holiday Greeting Cards. And they are super easy to assemble because Avery’s products don’t need any special trimming! Using Avery Dennison’s free downloadable Holiday Wizard software with your personal computer and desktop color printer, you can create eye-catching cards that they’re sure to remember.
Mosaic Cards -- Article Fall leaves are a wonderful inspiration for card making, personal journals or photo embellishments. Combined with beads and paper they can lead to a serious addiction of creating amazing mosaic patterns. Who knew that simple walk in park could be such an exciting journey.... but wait till you get home with a beautiful bouquet of leaves and start playing with beads creating wonderful mosaics.
Surprise Pop-Up Card -- Article An easy to make fun card that opens in a surprising way, this pop up card is sure to bring a smile to anyone’s face. Simply follow these step by step instructions and prepare to dazzle your friends and family.
Card Making: Rock and Roll -- Article Rock and roll isn’t just for music fans! If you are a stamper and you are looking for a way to add depth and a little pizzazz to your images, then the rock and roll technique is a simple way to accomplish this. This technique works best with solid stamps as opposed to outline images.
Very special wedding invitations -- Article When our eldest son, Toby, and his fiancée, Charlotte, were planning to marry in Venice, Italy 2 ½ years ago, they asked me to make their wedding invitations. I was simultaneously honoured and nervous. I obviously wanted to make something special for them, but I was also worried that they wouldn’t like my ideas. Fortunately everything worked out well, they loved the first design I came up with and, as the wedding party was only a small one (all of us flying to Venice for 3 days on a bright, cold December day) I only had to make 12 invitations.
Cards Galore! -- Article Kelly Cranfill provides us with a variety of ideas and cards for nearly every situation. Her bold style and interesting use of shapes combine to make some spectacular projects. Follow her lead by trying to create your own personalized cards for the special occasions in your life.
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