Alex Syberia Designs “Christmas In July” Release Blog Hop and Giveaway

Hi crafty friends! We’re celebrating Christmas in July with another new stunning Alex Syberia Designs release! Hop along to see all the inspiration so you can get started early on your christmas cards, and of course, don’t miss out on the giveaway!

Alex Syberia Designs “Time To Choose Magic” April Release Blog Hop and Giveaway

Hi crafty friends! I’m so happy to be back with some new release inspiration for Alex Syberia Designs! Giveaway information can be found below along with a video sharing amazing die cutting hacks for alphabet dies.

Set of Birthday Cards

Hi crafty friends! I’m back with a great hot foil trick for your cover dies! You can also watch the video linked below for more information.

Reverse Confetti Blog Hop

Hi crafty friends! It’s time for another Reverse Confetti Blog Hop, and this time I have a very summery circle card to share! As always, you’ll find all the information in the video below!

Jane’s Doodles Release Hop

Hi crafty friends! Time for another Jane’s Doodles release and fun blog hop with all the great perks that come with celebrating a new release (giveaway, sale… all info below!).

Reverse Confetti Hop

Hi crafty friends! It’s time for another great Reverse Confetti hop! Today I’m showing my favorite hot foiling trick with dies on my YouTube channel. Check out the video below!

Reverse Confetti New Release

Hi crafty friends! It’s a new release at Reverse Confetti so hop along to see inspiration with all the gorgeous new products!

New Release Hop Jane’s Doodles

Hi crafty friends! There’s a new release at Jane’s Doodles and of course we’re celebrating with a hop! You can also get 35% off your purchase all through the weekend at the Jane’s Doodles shop!

Jane’s Doodles Release Hop

Hi crafty friends! It’s that wonderful time again where we hop along to celebrate a new Jane’s Doodles release! Please make sure to leave comments on each stop of the hop for a chance to win a stamp set of your choice!

Reverse Confetti Blog Hop

Hello crafty friends! Another month, another Reverse Confetti Blog Hop! Such a fun thing to look forward to every time. I will have a video linked below this video if you want to see how I made this card!

Quick Floral Cards

Hi crafty friends! We all love a good floral card, but I’ve found between coloring flowers and fussy cutting them out, they tend to take a bit longer to make. So here’s a couple of ways to make quick floral cards that don’t skimp on the color either!

Shaped Cards

Hi crafty friends! It’s been a while since I’ve blogged outside of blog hops and I’m going to catch up on my backlog of cards by making longer technique posts. This one is all about making shaped cards!

Sky High Friends Miss You

Hi crafty friends! Today I’m trying an emboss resist technique that I saw on Jennifer McGuire’s YouTube channel to make this gorgeous night sky.

CASual Fridays: Happy Mail Die Cut Stencil

Hi crafty friends! I’m going to try to make more Clean and Simple or CAS cards and I figured, why not make a series out of it?

Mini Slimline Space Shaker

Hi crafty friends! I’m totally hooked on mini slimline cards and on flat shakers. And I got to use this fun die set by Brutus Monroe, so I couldn’t resist making two cards today.

Partial Die Cut Gatefold Card

Hi crafty friends I’m back with a simple colorful gatefold design using some dies by A Pocket Full of Happiness.

Rainbow Roses

Hi crafty friends! I’m so happy to share this fun rainbow stamping technique with you today, I absolutely love how these flowers turned out.

Two For One Butterfly Design

Hi crafty friends! Today’s card design is a two for one. You can do this with any inks and any larger stamps in your stash, you’ll get a mixed media looking one-layer card and a CAS card, super fun!

Tropical Paradise

Hi crafty friends! Today I made a card that only involved die cutting, no stamping. Which is so rare for me, but I discovered this new company and absolutely fell in love with their dies.

Flat Vellum Christmas Shaker

Hi crafty friends! It’s Christmas in July over at Streamside Studios so I made this fun no-bulk shaker card with one of the gorgeous fairy digi stamp sets.

Mini Slimline Stenciled Butterflies

Hello crafty friends! I’m back with another mini slimline card, this time for the Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge, which is all about butterflies.

Gold Glitter Butterfly

Hey crafty friends! I’m back with another way to stretch your digi stamps! Have you ever turned your digi stamps into stencils? It’s super fun!

Nightsky Slimline Boxcard

Hello crafty friends! It’s been so long since I made any kind of interactive card or box card but I finally got around to it again.

3D Carousel

Hi crafty friends! Today I have a super simple card design, with a fun 3D element to it that you can make with any symmetrical die cut!

Ombre Stamping On Vellum

Hi crafty friends! For this slimline card I used a couple of beautiful Brutus Monroe products and I tried a new technique: ombre stamping on vellum. 

Ombre Pattern Stamping

Hello crafty friends! I’m so excited to be guest designing for Crafty Meraki for the next three months. This is my first project and I love how it turned out.

Dino-corn

Hello crafty friends! I’m back with another cute card for Streamside Studios. This time I’m using the newly released Dino-corn set and doing some paperpiecing. Yes! You can absolutely do paperpiecing with digi stamps!

Stained Glass Butterfly

Hello crafty friends! I’ve done a couple of faux stained glass cards using a gorgeous die cutting technique, but today I got a similar look using stamping to get this stunning butterfly. It didn’t take long either!

Colorful Shadow Stamping

Hello crafty friends! I’m back with one of my all time favorite things to do with clear stamps: shadow stamping. I’ll also finally give all the beginners out there a straight answer on which stamp sets you should get to start with.

Technique: Easy Faux Watercolor Background

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a spring card to share and a really fun background technique you can do with any stamp and your water reactive inks. So let’s get into it!

Bookmark Card

Hello crafty friends! Today I’m inspired by one of Jennifer McGuire’s videos (I know… shocker). I’m making a bookmark and then create a card to hold it so it makes a nice little gift for a penpal.

Watercolor Peonies

Hello crafty friends! For this card I’m combining very quick loose watercolors with gold and a must-know basic technique to pull it all together.

Kintsugi On Embossed Vellum

Hello crafty friends! As you know, I love playing around with my supplies and with techniques to find different ways to use things I already have. Today’s experiment went wrong and I thought of kintsugi, the Japanese art of fixing pottery with gold.

Raining Cats and Dogs

Hello crafty friends! I’m back with another card for Streamside Studios. A fun interactive one this time. Yes, you can make interactive cards with digi stamps and without any dies. So buckle in.

Digi Stamps Sentiment Pattern

Hello everyone! Today I have a fun technique to share that you can do with any digital sentiment stamp and makes a fun backdrop for your cards!

Quick Two-For-One Design

Hello everyone! Sometimes I just love to mass produce some cards without too many complicated steps. I’ve been trying not to do it too often, because honestly I already have more cards than I could ever use. But today I did it on a small scale, I ended up with 4 cards and I think

Dinosaur Wiper Card

Hello everyone! I got my hand on the new release from Mama Elephant and just had to make this fun interactive card with these cute dinos. It was not quick, but it was definitely worth it!

Loose Watercolor Emboss Resist

Hello everyone! I have another super simple card for you guys. I finished this one in under an hour and it really packs a punch. So get out your watercoloring supplies and your embossing powder and let’s get into it!

Dimensional Background

Hello crafty friends! Today I have another fun and colorful floral card for you guys. I stamped and fussycut a bunch of tiny floral images and propped them up on foam squares for a dimensional background. Want to know the shortcut? Read on.

Stencil Techniques: Adding Outlines

Hello everyone! The best part about stencils (especially layering stencils) is how easy it is to color an image and that no-line look is so beautiful. It doesn’t work for every card though, does it? For this card I used the Daisy Wreath stencil again, but made the stenciled daisies look like stamped and outlined

Stencil Techniques: Paper Piecing

Hello, crafty friends, today we ask ourselves the very important question: is there such a thing as too much bling on a card? And we have a lot of time to think because this technique requires a little bit more patience, although not quite as much as you think because I have a good hack

Stencil Techniques: 3D Embossing

Hello everyone! Today’s stencil technique is a really fun one to do with your layering stencil sets. Have you tried dry embossing with your stencils? With layering stencils you can create a very cool 3D effect and you don’t even need a diecutting machine to do it!

Stencil Techniques: Pattern Sketching

Hello everyone! I’m back with another stencil technique today and it’s a fun one that you can do with basically any stencil in your stash. It adds a fun little something something to your background, so check it out!

Stencil Techniques: Off-Set Stencil Layering

Hello everyone! For the next 5 days, I’m going to explore some fun techniques that you can use to spice up your layered stencils. Today I’m starting off with an oldie but goodie: off-set stencil layering on dark paper.

Lucky Shaker

Hey everyone! Today I finally made a card featuring one of the adorable Colorado Craft Company stampsets designed by Anita Jeram. Want to know how I turned this cutie into a shaker card? Read on!

Lift The Flap Valentine Card

Hello everyone! Today I have a fun little interactive slimline card featuring some Mama Elephant products and a bit of pattern paper.

Stained Glass Card

Hello everyone! Today I have another faux stained glass card to share with you guys. I made cards like this before and I’ll link to the other examples I have for you below.

Transparent Card: Little Llama Agenda

Hello everyone! I’m back with another transparent card. I love making these because they’re different enough that there’s a certain wow factor to them and they’re still very easy to make.

Technique: Stencils and Patterned Paper

Hello everyone! Today I tried something new that would be really fun to do with a couple of those fun layered stencil sets that have come out recently.

Ombre Stamping

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a cute little card that uses two very fun techniques: pop up diecutting and ombre stamping. Which are both excellent and easy ways to spice up a simple card, so stick around if you want to find out how I did that.

Advent Challenge #25 – Floating Floor Pop Up

Hello everyone! Today I’m doing a more involved card design, a pop up design, to finish up the challenge here on my blog. I loved creating this card but it took me a while to figure out the mechanism that worked for me.

Advent Challenge # 7 – Fun Wiper Card

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a fun wiper card design to share with you. I absolutely love interactive cards, especially when a fun die makes it super easy to make!

Transparent Cards

Transparent cards are really easy to make and still something that will surprise the recipient. I have two examples for you today that are quite similar, but you can do this with any supplies you have on hand!

Sentiment backdrop

Hello everyone! Today I have a fun technique to share to get more out of your sentiment stamps. I personally love to buy sentiment stampsets because you can use them on every card, but sometimes it’s a little difficult to justify the price when you know image stampsets include some sentiments as well. So this

Shadow Stamping

Hello everyone! Today I want to show you a bunch of cards I made with one very simple and very versatile technique. Shadow stamping is a super quick way to make your own patterned paper for your projects and can be used for almost any kind of card. I’m going to show you how you

Stained Glass Effect

Hello everyone! Today I’m sharing how I made these stunning stained glass cards. The front is completely transparent, but there’s still plenty of space to write a personal message on the inside.