Here is a handmade greeting card for Mother’s Day. Hope you enjoy it! I used the Our Love Song collection papers and an oldie but a goodie stamp from Hero Arts called, “Celebrate Everyday.” This card took less than ten minutes to put together, but I think it’s bright and cheerful and lots of fun.
Here is a list of supplies I used to make this card. I am an affiliate with Scrapbook.com so I will receive a small percentage of anything you buy using these links at no extra charge to you.
Today, I have some inspiration for you. Perhaps you can use it to create a handmade greeting card for your mom on Mother’s Day. The products shown in the image are linked below in my affiliate links. I love the high contrast between the black background and colorful stripes. Here are a few things I love about my mom. She always has time for me no matter what. Even though I’m a grown woman, she still will put everything aside to talk to me or help me when I need her. She knows how to make me laugh and she isn’t afraid to laugh at herself. She gives unconditionally. She loves Jesus and that has blessed me immeasurably. She cares about others. She is kind. She is selfless. Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there. May your love and devotion return to you in waves and waves of many blessings.
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Bella Blvd – Our Love Song Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Daily Details: https://shrsl.com/42bjp
Bella Blvd – Our Love Song Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Borders: https://shrsl.com/42bjq
If your looking for a new stamp set to create birthday cards or decorations, the Simon Hurley Birthday Basics set from Ranger and the coordinating die set from Spellbinders are perfect. Both items can be purchased at Spellbinderspaperarts.com along with many other Ranger and Spellbinder’s products.
I’ve created three cards with these products: two very colorful and bright ones, and one more elegant and fancy. That’s what I love about stamp sets like this one, you can choose the style you want to create! Another great thing about this set is the balloons. There are two stamps for the balloons, one solid and one outline. You may use them separately or together.
With the coordinating dies from Spellbinders, you can create beautiful focal images of balloons for your birthday or celebration cards. I’ve used foam adhesive on my balloons to give the card on the left some dimension. I stamped the balloons with Versa Fine Clair ink in the colors summertime, cheerful, charming pink, verdant, and paradise. I used the color warm breeze to stamp the greeting: CELEBRATE. Finally, I finished the card by adding some white highlights with a white gel pen.
To create backgrounds for the focal images, I used the Deckled Rectangles LG die and the Essentials Arches die from Spellbinder’s. To add some interest to the backgrounds on these cards, I chose to emboss one background and stamp a pattern on the other (refer to the middle and last card in the image above). On the middle card, I used the confetti stamp from the Birthday Basics stamp set along with some Zig Clean Color brushes. For the last card (on the right), I used the Loops embossing folder from Spellbinders along with the Curved Borders Two die to create a background. The cardstock I used on these cards is the Color Essentials Cardstock from Spellbinders. They sell a pack of assorted colors, which makes it easy to create colorful cards.
For the last card on the right, I heat embossed the greeting with Ranger Holographic embossing powder. The birthday cake is also heat embossed in the holographic powder. Spectrum Noir alcohol markers were used to color the cake and candles.To finish off the card,I placed three self-adhesive pearls (from Spellbinder’s) on the card.
Please enjoy the video below:
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Christmas is on the way and so it is time to start making Christmas greeting cards. Since I love cute die cuts, these sweater dies, which are so adorable and versatile, will be perfect for some playful and sweet Christmas cards. Links to the supplies I used are below the video. Please enjoy watching me make these cards. I hope it sparks some new ideas for you and inspires your creativity.
The Paper Studio Glam Glitter Paper from the Hobby Lobby
Honeybee Stamps Santa’s Village stamps and dies: https://shrsl.com/3tcic (These are on sale at honeybeestamps.com for less money, but when they are gone, they are gone).
The card for today is made with supplies from the October 2022 SCT Sampler and from my craft room. I love the bright yellow frame, which I created with a die set from Spellbinders. As the holidays approach, I’m running behind schedule and so I will simply leave the video below so you can see the card being made as well as links to the products below the video. Enjoy!
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Today, I’m making a Thank You card with supplies from the October 2022 SCT Sampler. This is a monthly subscription with lots of papercrafting goodies that I just love. They always have either stamps or stencils along with a die in addition to samples of patterned papers from current companies in the industry. As I’ve said before, this subscription is a great way to build up your supplies and get fresh inspiration once a month. I don’t work for them and I pay for this subscription with my own money. I think it’s a great value.
My card features a two layer thank you die cut with a shadow background die cut. I think layering word die cuts make them stand out which brings more interest and dimension to the card. You can see the word die and shadow die in the image above and below.
The die cut was cut from 65lb weight cardstock from the Astrobrights Dreamy Cardstock Pack Assorted Colors and the pink background is also from this pack. The patterned paper is from the Print Shop Collection by Vicki Boutin over at American Crafts. There are lots of other goodies in this collection as well, such as pre-printed notecards and envelopes, ephemera and stickers, etc. The flowers were created with a die set from Spellbinders called, “Blooms” in their Be Bold collection.
You may notice the dots around the edge of the butterfly patterned paper. Those are actually perforations made with the Spellbinders Pierced Rectangles die set. This set is an older set I’ve had for a while and it’s no longer available at Spellbinders, but you may be able to get it on eBay or Etsy.
I embellished the card further by adding some iridescent border stickers along the top and bottom of the striped cardstock which mats the thank you word die cut. If you don’t have those, you can use a glitter glue such as Stickles.
Please enjoy the video of the card being made:
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Today’s card features a layering stamp set from LDRS Creative called, “Grateful for You.” There is a cute little critter holding an acorn in this stamp set. I received it in the Scrapbook and Cards Today sampler subscription, which comes monthly and includes samples of many goodies from various companies in the industry. It’s a great way to add to your supplies or build them up if you are just getting started with papercrafting, cardmaking, or scrapbooking.
The patterned paper you see above came in the SCT Sampler for October 2022. You can purchase it elsewhere, such as Scrapbook.com or Amazon.com. (I am an affiliate at these two locations and will receive a small portion from any sale made using these links – at no extra cost to you). It is from the “Welcome Fall” collection by Carta Bella. They always have beautiful, quality paper with a gorgeous texture to them. The photo above doesn’t do them justice. Watch the video below to get a better view.
I started by cutting the leaf paper to an A2 size, 4.25″ x 5.5″. I adhered that to my cardbase of the same size made from Neenah Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock 100lb weight. The polka dot pattern paper was cut to 3.25″ x 4.5″ and the white cardstock with the squirrel stamped on it is 2.75″ x 4 and 1/8″.
The squirrel stamp is a laying stamp. The ink for him is the Memento Dew Drop ink in “Rich Cocoa” and the “Peanut Brittle” for the acorn.
All in all, a simple card. Of course you can spruce it up by adding more embellishments or even using more shading on the squirrel by using more than one brown color to give him some life and dimension. Be sure to watch the video below to see the card being made.
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Welcome Fall by Carta Bella: https://shrsl.com/3rqmj (I used the Fall Foliage paper, the back side of the Hello Fall Signs paper, and the back of the Autumn Blooms paper)
If you’re looking to make a quick greeting card by hand, patterned paper is a key ingredient! Today, I’m making just such a card using supplies from the October 2022 SCT Sampler, which is a monthly subscription from Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine that includes amazing samples of products from the industry. It is a very economical way to add to or build up your supplies since there are always reusable items such as stamps or dies in the subscription. I purchase this subscription myself so I am not receiving anything from them to promote or advertising for them, I just love the products! Here is the card I made.
This particular card features patterned paper from Carta Bella called, “Welcome Fall.” I just used my paper trimmer to cut it to the sizes I needed. This is a very traditional looking card with everything centered.
To embellish the card, I used the orange enamel dots that came in the sampler. Of course you can certainly add more embellishments if you’d like. Perhaps you could use some foam tape to pop up the ‘Hello Fall” panel. I didn’t do this because I want to be able to send it through the mail without extra shipping, but I did adhere a piece of cardstock to the back of the “Hello Fall” panel just to give it a bit of dimension.
Finallly, I used the back of the patterned paper to cut a tiny tag because I thought the card needed something else. Placing it on the bottom, right corner of the panel helps draw the eye to the inside of the card.
Red tag draws the eye.
Once the front of the card was complete, I added the leftover strip of patterned paper to the inside.
Take a look at the video of the card being made:
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I am in love with the card I made today using the Spellbinders Layered Geometric Flower Stencils. It is just so lovely! This product coordinates with their glimmer hot plate, “Geometric Flower Background.” I used both on my card today, which you can see below.
This card has three layers. The top layer is the ornate tag with the glimmered/foiled greeting. The tag was cut from the Spellbinders Renaissance Tag Two dies using Punchy peach cardstock from Astrobrights. I used the Sealed Glimmer Sentiments Glimmer Hot Foil Plates to glimmer/foil my greeting: “You’re a great Friend.” I used foam tape to adhere it to the front of my card so it would stand out.
The second layer is the heat resistant acetate with the glimmered/foiled Geometric Flower Background design created with the Geometric Flower Background hot plate and glimmer hot foil in blush color.
The bottom layer is the card panel with the colored flowers. They were colored using the Gelatos Metallic colors by Faber-Castell.
To adhere the acetate to the card panel, I cut the acetate to a size a bit larger than the card panel. I scored it at the top at about 1/4″ to create a flap to fold over the top of the panel. I used scor tape to adhere the flap to the back of the panel.
Please enjoy the video of the card being made:
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GLIMMER HOT PLATES / FOIL Geometric Flower Background Glimmer Hot Foil Plate: https://shrsl.com/3rcpv
Hello and welcome! I’m making some elegant cards today with the new release, “Sealed by Spellbinders.” This collection is all about wax seals, but it includes gorgeous glimmer hot foil plates as well as coordinating stencils to help you color them. Of course there are dies, I mean it’s Spellbinders! They also have some beautiful brushed cardstock and envelopes in navy, silver, white, and rose gold. Go check it out: https://shrsl.com/3rctk. I used pearls and gemstones to embellish the cards, which I colored using alcohol markers to match the cardstock.
The background on these cards were foiled using the Geometric Flower Background Glimmer Hot Foil Plate, which imprints the design into the cardstock as well as foiling it. This created a gorgeous debossed look you don’t get with regular hot foiling. The sentiments were done with the Sealed Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil Plates. I used glimmer hot foil in blush color.
The cardstock is from the Astrobrights Dreamy paper pack which includes assorted colors of cardstock which are acid and lignin free. I chose the Punchy Peach, Bubble Gum, and Gray colors for my cards. I purchased this cardstock from Walmart. I love how the colors work so well together.
The cards feature elegant pearls, which I colored using my Spectrum Noir alcohol markers which I’ve had for years. In fact they make different ones now. The pearls on the peach card were colored with the FS4 marker. The pearls on the peachy pink card were colored with the FS6 marker, and the gems on the pink and grey card were colored with the PP2 marker. You can get the pearls already colored at Spellbinders.
The oval with the sentiment was cut with the Nestabilities Small Classic Ovals Dies. I created a frame for the oval by stacking two dies together.
I then decided to add some blush foil to the frame, however, it didn’t foil well because the dies I chose to use also emboss the shape. Since the recessed areas were not able to be foiled, I would recommend using oval dies that do not emboss to create the frame. You need a flat surface to get a solid foiling. I achieved the foiled frame by using a solid hot plate. I used the Glimmer Essentials Solid Arch, but you can use any shape of solid hot plate you have as long as it’s large enough to cover the oval frame.
I added some flower and leaf die cuts to embellish the oval. They were cut using the Be Bold Etched dies from Spellbinders. I added some color to some of them using my alcohol markers and some sparkle to some using the Zig Wink of Stella glitter brush pen in clear.
I hope you were inspired to create something of your own. Please enjoy the video of these cards being made on YouTube:
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Spellbinders NEST-S4-112 Nestabilities Small Classic Ovals Die: https://amzn.to/2XVjyJx ( I recommend using a different oval dies that do not emboss for the oval frame if you plan to foil your frame.)
