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    Christmas Candle Cards
    • Nov 5, 2019

    Christmas Candle Cards

    Hi everyone, today I’m on The Crafter’s Workshop Blog with a fun and easy set of Christmas cards. I love it when my supplies are versatile and this gorgeous stencilled background is great to create fun bases for some Christmas cards (but can of course also be used for other occasions). -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. This post contains affiliate links. -------
    Whimsy Stamps Spring Bringer Birthday Card
    • Aug 23, 2019

    Whimsy Stamps Spring Bringer Birthday Card

    Hi everyone, today I have a fun birthday card for you all, featuring Whimsy Stamps “Spring Bringer”. I stamped this cute fairy onto some Copic friendly paper with Memento “Tuxedo Black” ink and started colouring with my Copic (Sketch) Markers. I used the following Copic marker colours: Skin: E000 / R00; Hair: E50 / E13 / E17 / E27; Other colours: R43 / RV25 / R39 / RV 91 / V93 / BV11 / RV10 / RV17 / B0000 / E42 / E55 / G40 / YG17 / YG06 / G94. When I finished colouring I die
    LSG July Color Challenge: Sympathy Card
    • Jul 12, 2019

    LSG July Color Challenge: Sympathy Card

    Hi everyone, today I have another colour challenge project to show you featuring some gorgeous Lindy’s Stamp Gang products. Sympathy cards are one of these cards that mean a lot to the recipient but are not a lot of fun to make when you need them on short notice, that’s why I always have one of two at hand to grab. These are the colours of this month’s mood board: Somehow these colours made met think of a sympathy card, so that’s what we are creating today! Step 1: I started
    LOTV Boy Birthday Card
    • Jun 28, 2019

    LOTV Boy Birthday Card

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you this cute boy birthday card. I always find it harder to create cards for boys/men then for girls/women, but I also feel that by steering away from the flowers and bling section of my craft room it usually ends well! So, to get today’s card started I stamped the image from the Lili of the Valley stamp set called “Little Folk - Just Chilling“ onto Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface paper using Versafine “Onyx Black“ ink and clear heat
    Elegant card with modeling paste moulds
    • Mar 15, 2019

    Elegant card with modeling paste moulds

    Hi everyone, today I’m on The Crafter’s Workshop Blog with another card on which I used moulds created with The Crafter’s Workshop “Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste”. I couldn’t get this particular mould to work with air dry clay because of the very intricate design, and I was so happy that it worked very easily with the “Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste”! Of course you can also use these moulds on other mixed media projects besides cards! -------------------------------- The Craft
    Wintry Birthday Card
    • Jan 8, 2019

    Wintry Birthday Card

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you another quick, fun, masculine and wintry birthday card! It contains some colouring, a bit of stamping and then you can already put this card together. Let’s get started! I inked up a Lili of the Valley stamp called “Snow Shovel“, using Memento “Tuxedo Black“ ink, then I wiped away the ink from the licence plate of the car (that reads X-MAS) with my finger, and stamped the image on Copic friendly paper. With a Copic MultiLiner (0.1)
    Graciellie Design Guest Project: Traditional Christmas Card
    • Sep 27, 2018

    Graciellie Design Guest Project: Traditional Christmas Card

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you my second guest design project for the month of September for Graciellie Design. This month’s release is totally suitable to create some fabulous Christmas cards! Today I’m showing you one idea. Let’s get started! Step 1: I started my card project by printing several of the leaf branches from the new “Keep Growing“ digital stamp set and the poinsettia flower image and also one of the sentiments from the new “A Christmas Hello“ digit
    Monoprinted Tags
    • Jun 21, 2018

    Monoprinted Tags

    Hi everyone, today I’m on The Crafter’s Workshop blog with a set of fun gift tags created with the use of Grafix Arts “Monoprint Plates“. -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. This post also contains affiliate links. -------------------------------- About the Grafix Arts “Monoprint Plates“: - they come three in a pack; - they are transparent, durable, lightweight, t
    Mermazing Summery Cards
    • Jun 15, 2018

    Mermazing Summery Cards

    Hi everyone, today I’m on The Crafter’s Workshop blog with these fun, shiny and summery cards. The background looks amazing and it’s really easy to make! -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. This post also contains affiliate links. -------------------------------- To get these cards started I die cut a square panel, in the size that I wanted, from some white card s
    Lily with Tulips Mother’s Day Card
    • May 10, 2018

    Lily with Tulips Mother’s Day Card

    Hi everyone, today I would like to show you a fun and cute card that I created for Mother’s Day, which is this weekend (at least where I live)! To get this card started I stamped an older Joy Crafts stamp called “Lily met Tulpen“ (Lily with Tulips / 6410/0009) on some Strathmore “Toned Tan“ paper using Versafine “Onyx Black“ ink and my MISTI. Next I coloured the image using coloured pencils: I choose some Holbein Artists‘ Colored Pencils, some Prismacolor coloured pencils and
    Colour Crazy Guest Designer - She Wolf
    • Jan 12, 2018

    Colour Crazy Guest Designer - She Wolf

    Hi everyone, today I’m showing you’ll the card that I created for my first guest design post over on the Colour Crazy Challenge Blog. If you don’t know what a challenge blog is then definitely go and check it out! I started my card by printing this gorgeous digital stamp from The Paper Shelter called “She Wolf“ onto some Canson 1557 paper (I like this particular paper because it takes coloured pencil well, it’s white and it’s thick enough but not to thick to run it through my
    Reindeer Christmas Cards
    • Dec 15, 2017

    Reindeer Christmas Cards

    Hi everyone, today I’m on the Crafter’s Workshop Blog with a set of fun Christmas cards that I feel are very suitable for the men in your life. I created three different colour/material options so that you can choose the one that you like best or the one that fits the materials that you already own. -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. -----------------------------
    Glitter embossed Christmas cards
    • Nov 17, 2017

    Glitter embossed Christmas cards

    Hi everyone, today I’m on the Crafter’s Workshop blog with another fun idea for your Christmas cards. These cards are very easy to make, don’t take a lot of time (so you can create a bunch of them) and they have a gorgeous sparkle to them! -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. -------------------------------- First I will describe the technique that I used and then
    Tannenbaum Christmas Cards
    • Oct 13, 2017

    Tannenbaum Christmas Cards

    Hi everyone, today I'm on The Crafter's Workshop blog with this Christmas card project! Both of today’s cards are created in the same way, just the colour combination is different. -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. -------------------------------- There aren’t many steps for creating these cards but in case you would like to follow along you can (the pictures ar
    Hello Color Doodle Card
    • Oct 11, 2017

    Hello Color Doodle Card

    Hi everyone, today I have a fun doodle card for you all. Did I draw these doodles myself? Nope, it’s a stamp! I was crafting at my friends house a while back and she had this Stampin‘Up stamp set called “Hello Color”, so I started colouring this image that night but wasn’t able to finish it, but since I brought my own coloured pencils I finished it at home. To get this card started I stamped the image on some Strathmore “Toned Tan“ paper using Versafine “Onyx Black“ ink and m
    Rebel
    • Sep 8, 2017

    Rebel

    Hi everyone, today I have a card for you featuring a gorgeous digital stamp from The Paper Shelter. I love The Paper Shelter images because they have a lot of genres to choose from, there is something for everybody’s taste, and today I have this beauty for you, she’s called “Rebel“. I started my card by printing this image onto Clairefontaine Digital Colour Printing (DCP) paper (190 gr). Then I die cut around the image using one of the rectangle nesting dies from my Crea-Nest
    How to get your Christmas cards started?
    • Sep 1, 2017

    How to get your Christmas cards started?

    Hi everyone, we card makers usually like to start a bit early with our Christmas cards, so today I have some fun and easy Christmas cards for you to get your mojo flowing! I created two cards: the base for both cards is the same, the second card is taking the first card a little further. -------------------------------- The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own. -------------------------------- There ar
    Sending Butterflies
    • Aug 11, 2017

    Sending Butterflies

    Hi everyone, today I'm on The Crafter’s Workshop blog with my first project as a design team member. For today's project I would like to show you how to create a set of cards using the so called “dry embossing with stencils” technique. When I think about stencils I usually also think about paints, inks or embossing paste, for today’s technique you don’t need any of these products! What you do need is a die cutting/embossing machine. And the best part about this technique is:
    Almost one layer card with Roses
    • Jul 19, 2017

    Almost one layer card with Roses

    Hi everyone, today I'm on the Kennedy Grace Creations blog with this easy and fun roses card: I started this card by stamping the roses from the awesome Kennedy Grace Creations “Splendid Roses” stamp set onto Cornwall Aquarel paper (Grain Fin, bright white) after die cutting a stitched rectangle with one of my nesting dies. For stamping I used Versafine “Onyx Black” ink and my MISTI stamping tool (this aquarel paper is fairly smooth but to get even black lines I needed to ink
    Christmas in July
    • Jul 7, 2017

    Christmas in July

    Yes, you read that right, I made a Christmas card today! Usually I start with Christmas cards after the summer holidays, but I was colouring this image yesterday evening and she wanted to be a Christmas card! So, I had no choice! This cute digital image is from The Paper Shelter and she is called “Cozy Winter Wishes”. I printed her on regular printer paper and coloured her with my Faber Castell Polychromos. I used the following colours: 132, 189,219, 225, 166, 165, 172, 186
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