Shabby Chic Tea Card

As you may have noticed, I like to send tea bags over the mail by way of sending someone sort of a ‘warm hug’. I’ve done several of these cards before, and I try to come up with new designs once in a while.

This week is such a time. I designed a way to tuck your customized tea bag envelope onto the front of your card so that it remains easily removable, yet fixed in place.

The papers used are Shabby Chic 6×6″ pad by Studiolight, and a sheet from the Wonderland collection by Stamperia.

I hope to have inspired you to send someone such a fun hug-in-a-mug yourself after watching this week’s video 🙂

See you next week and let me know what you think!

 

Two Cards with Spring Market

This year’s fun, colorful and on-trend Spring Market collection by Cartabella caught my eye, so I was very happy that Wendy, with the Scrapwereld (or Scrapworld) papercraft store (selling internationally as well!) very generously offered to sponsor my work with this lovely collection. I ended up creating four projects with it: my Double Take Mini Album, my Double Take Micro Album, and the two cards I’m sharing with you this week.

One is a lavishly decorated double card, the other an elegant tri-panel card, showcasing the lovely colors & patterns of the collection. For the second one I mainly used die-cuts and labels from the collection, but of course you could also add one or more pictures or personal sentiments instead.

Enjoy the video and find some inspiration! And please don’t forget to click the like & share buttons underneath this post 🙂

Creative Card Tip (for when you want a break from papercrafting but… not)

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’d like to do some creative work, just not actual papercrafting. Then here’s a new card making tip for you: try digital scrapbooking. Granted, you’ll need at least a little bit of affinity for working with some kind of photo app, and you’ll have to gather at least like 100 digital elements to work with. But once you’re there, you’re good to go.

You can of course create nice scrapbooking layouts like you would with your normal 12×12″ paper, like this one:

Now imagine printing that, but as a 6×6 sized picture. Now you can either mat a piece of folded cardstock to create a card, or print it on a 6×12″ piece of white paper and fold that in half.

You don’t have to use photos of course, you can also go ‘all digital scrapbooking’, like these cards:

And last but not least, you can print them yourself, but you can also have them professionally printed.

Check out the video for show & tells of all of these examples!

Several of the cards in the video are available for you as professionally printed cards, plus envelopes!

So, have you got any experience with digital scrapbooking – and if not, would you ever consider trying it? Let me know in the comment section! 🙂

 

Unicorn Card & Summer Announcement

In this week’s video I’m sharing a nice quickscrap project: a unicorn card, created without cardstock, using the wonderful Unicorn sheet from the Wonderland collection by Stamperia.

Also, a summer announcement: this summer I’n doing a four-part series called Scrap With Me, with four basic papercrafting technique tutorials, starting next week! 🙂

Enjoy your summer!

 

 

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Card with Upcycled Front

The other day I bought new bed linens – very colorful ones of course, as I generally tend to feel attracted to colorful things. They were packaged in plastic with a cardboard wrapper which displayed a picture of what the linens would look like once unpacked. And it was that cardboard picture I used to create this card!

The colors were simply amazing and I embellished only a little here and there. Did have to mat the inside and backside of the card of course, and for this I used some Studio Light papers.

In the video you can see the actual linens by the way 🙂

So anyway, this week my tip is to look beyond your design paper pads and check out other options – like cardboard wrappers of bed linens 🙂

 

Photo Showcase Birthday Card

Sometimes it’s nice to be able to send some great pictures of you and your friend along with a birthday card for said friend. This card design is perfect for showcasing 2-4 pictures, together with a nice birthday wish!

It’s based on my wallet card design that’s explained in tutorial #22so check that out of you’d like to create it yourself. It’s easy and fun!

This time I worked with Bo Bunny’s Rose Cafe collection, to coordinate with the color scheme automatically dictated by the pictures that I used 🙂

 

 

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How to Use a Cutapart Sheet: 2 Cards with G45’s Safari Adventure

This week’s tip is about how to best utilize that cut-apart sheet you have lying around – for instance when you’ve used up most of your papers but can’t bring yourself to throw out that one last sheet. Here’s the good news: you don’t have to! (ever! I promise).

Instead, cut it apart into all its bits & pieces, combine these with some simple-patterned coordinating papers and get your Layering on 🙂

Extra bonus tip: enlarge your paper real estate by making my so-called scrap mats – just check out the free tutorial below the first video!

 

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Pocket Easel Card – Plus Two Bonus Ones

I’ve been fascinated by this thing called ‘easel card’ for a while, but I hadn’t actually made one myself yet. The front of an easel card has a movable part, which enables it to stand up  – like a painting on an easel I guess.

Of course I gave it my own Creator’s Image Studio twist, and designed what I’m now calling a Pocket Easel Card. Check it – and two regular ones – out in the video.

Let me know if you’d like me to share this little invention with you all by way of a (free) tutorial (even years after this post is fine with me, just drop me line or leave a comment – I’m always in for new blog and/or video ideas 🙂 ).

Christmas cards: What to do with your stickers

So, I’ve got a lot of stickers – through no fault of my own mind you 🙂 They’re usually added complimentary to a paper collection or some such. Or they come so incredibly cheap that I simply cannot help myself 😳

I find that although I like the idea of them, I don’t use very many of them. I mean, what do you do with those flat sticky things that in most cases turn out not to be even that adhesive in the long run.

Since I had an especially large number of stickers to go with my All is Bright paper collection (by My Mind’s Eye), I decided they should be used up – or at least 75% of them anyway.

So, here are some ideas for those of you who, like me, don’t know what to do with their darned stickers. 🙂

 

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Love is a Four-Legged Word Card

I truly loved Graphic 45’s Raining Cats & Dogs collection, and used up every last scrap I could find to create this one last card with it.

In doing so I came up with four tips, that I’d like to share with all of you card makers out there:

  1. Don’t throw out your leftover 4×6″ ATC cards but fit them onto a 6×6″ square card;
  2. Decorate on the side of the card, and leave your ATC card uncovered, showcasing its lovely graphics;
  3. Use a scrap mat on the inside to use up your scraps – check out my free video tutorial for that;
  4. Combine with other collections that coordinate well with your almost-gone main collection.

By the way, just after I had concluded that I would now never be able to craft with these lovely papers ever again, Graphic 45 announced their new Deluxe Collector’s Edition, which was…… you guessed it, Raining Cats and Dogs! ?

Have fun using these tips, enjoy the video! 🙂

 

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Tea Gift: Swing Bag Card

Tea bags are – in my experience – a fun gift to send with a Welcome Home card. This week I’m sharing my idea to send two, by way of what I’ve since dubbed a swing bag card: a double card with a swinging bag hanging from its ‘nook’ fold 🙂

The very sturdy double-sided design paper I used was perfect to use as is, with no cardstock at all. The sheet is called Rooster Row and it’s from 49 and Market’s latest collection, Cottage Life.

I also created a little stand to prevent the card from being pulled down by the weight of the suspended tea pouch.

All in all a pretty simple card, yet with an original design element. Let me know what you think in the comment section below! And of course, like & share! ??

 

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Salty Kisses Summer Card

In my last post I shared an XXL album with you, created with Kaisercraft’s Salty Kisses paper collection. As is most often the case, I had some papers left over. So I created a lovely summer-themed birthday card, combining a Kaisercraft sheet with the awesome die-cuts of Studiolight’s Summer at the Beach collection and a fun sentiment stamp by Crealies.

And by the way, cards also make great mini album page inserts! So there’s a bonus idea for you 😉

 

Card – or Mini Album Page Insert!

 

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