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4th of July project: 1-sheet Multipocket Card

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One of my new favorite brands is Mintay Papers, and even though I only bought one sheet of their beautiful red-white-blue Berrylicious collection, I think I managed to squeeze the absolute most out of it! 🙂

I created a multi-pocketed interactive 1-sheet card – Tutorial #9 in my shop – and this time I used cardstock as a base and matted with the double-sided Berrylicious sheet (instead of design paper only/no cardstock).

The color theme of this paper collection makes it ideal to celebrate national holidays – (if those are your national colors) – without having to work with actual flag-themed papers. Like this week, if you’re an American and celebrate the 4th of July. Or when you’re in the Netherlands like me, and celebrate Liberation Day (5th of May).

Mintay Papers, Berrylicious, MT-BER-01

Or you can totally ignore any national theme and simply enjoy the bright, fun colors and homely images and patterns, and send it to your mom for Mother’s Day – which is what I did 😊

Enjoy the video – and if applicable: Happy 4th of July! 🎉

Happy Birthday Wallet Card

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A wallet card is a great category of cards if you want to send out something more elaborate and interactive than the regular single card or folded card. I’ve designed several versions of wallet cards, among which this type, which has two deep pockets, a flap and a belly band. You can add tags with sentiments, pictures and one time I even sent out a small bag of flower seeds in one of the pockets.

They are of course suitable for any occasion and you can choose your papers accordingly. This week I’m sharing a birthday version in bright and happy summer colors. For decoration I added several die-cuts, stamping, fussy-cutting, Stickles (glitter glue), enamel dots, washi tape and even some heat embossing. The inside flap has a punched border with cute birthday presents – thanks to a great Martha Stewart punch. The back flap sports a tiny orange umbrella brad that in itself has nothing to do with birthdays but that I simply fell in love with. In the pockets I tucked two large tags on which I printed some fun birthday sentiments.

All in all quite an elaborate card full of nice little nooks and crannies – and still relatively flat, so easy to send out in an envelope.

Hope to have inspired you to create some wallet cards of your own! And if you want to make this particular one, simply go check out my tutorial!

Have a great week, enjoy the weather and celebrate the eased lockdowns everywhere.

Papers used: 2 sheets from the double-sided Birthday Bash collection by Pink Paislee:

Craft With Me: A Layered Spring Card

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When time constraints are plaguing you and you still want to send out a lovely handcrafted card, try only decorating the front. And layer to your heart’s desire!
Keep the bulk down though, if you want it to fit in its envelope.

This week’s card was created with papers & punch-outs by Studiolight and some leaf dies by Crealies. I also used two of the latest Stickles glitter glue colors.

Layering is mostly about two things:

  • Placement of elements
  • The order in which to glue everything down.

In this week’s video I’m letting you into my ‘craft kitchen’ so you can craft with me. Enjoy!

Valentine’s Times Two

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Nothing says “I like you” more than a Valentine’s card. You can send them to your beloved, your friend or even that secret crush you’ve got your eyes on 🙂

So this week I’m sharing two Mon Amour Valentine’s cards, one regular sized and one XXL for that extra special dearest one.

Enjoy!

Deconstructed Envelope Card – Part 3

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I’m still having fun designing what I call Deconstructed Envelope Cards – by which I mean fold-out cards that when closed, resemble envelopes. In previous posts I already shared a square one and a rectangular one.

This week I’m playing around with flaps of different sizes to create a whole new effect. I sized them to exactly fit some Graphic 45 cutaparts, which brings me to another tip: you only have to buy 3 sheets of double-sided paper to get a lot of bang for your buck, as long as one of them is a cutapart sheet!

Paper collections used:
* Graphic 45’s Mon Amour
* Graphic 45’s Midnight Masquerade

Enjoy!

Deconstructed Envelope Card – Version 2

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Last week I shared my first Decontructed Envelope Card – this week I’m showing you a different variation of that same design category. This one is actually easier to create, for it doesn’t have any slanted edges like the previous one.

As usual I only modestly decorated, for imho less is still more, most of the times. 🙂

Let me know if you have any questions!

A Deconstructed Envelope Card

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This week I’m pleased to share my latest design category with you all: Deconstructed Envelope Cards. By which mean fold-out cards that when closed, resemble envelopes. This is the first of what will probably be several more variations of this design.

Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

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Gelukkig Nieuwjaar – Happy New Year!

Thank you all for your support and encouragement in 2019! I wish you many blessings, inspiration and of course creativity for 2020 – may at least one of your dreams come true!

Papers used: Graphic 45 – Midnight Masquerade collection

Techniques used: matting, layering, die-cutting, stamping, corner punching, inking around the edges

Extra interest items: dimensional tape, glitter glue, corner chomper

Quick & Easy Card Tip!

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#stillintimeforchristmas 🙂

If you’d love to create your own Christmas cards and don’t know how, or simply don’t have the time to spend several hours on only one card, this week’s post is for you!

The concept is so simple that I felt I couldn’t even make an entire video around it. So, in this blog exclusive, I’m basing my idea on two of my earlier tips: 1. Digitally designing your own patterns and layouts, and 2. using a printed picture instead of design paper.

This week’s project combines those two tips. I first designed a digital collage around a baby girl theme. For this I always use collections of digital elements I purchase from designers, and then combine these elements into unique collages with an app on my iPad, in this case PicCollage. You could also use other apps, or work with Powerpoint on your PC.

I then have my digital collage printed at a professional photo printing service. You could of course also print it yourself.

The final step is to mat the picture onto a nicely colored double card.

Easy peasy! 🙂

I did mine up as a baby card, but this would of course also work perfectly for Christmas!

How to Create with a Cut-apart Sheet

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This week I’m sharing a free video tutorial again, on how to create a quick & easy card using only 1 cut-apart sheet and some cardstock. The paper I used was from the When We First Met collection by Piatek Trzynastego, a Polish brand.

Near the end of the video I’m sharing a bonus idea on what to do with the one leftover piece of your cut-apart sheet: easy, make another card! 🙂

Enjoy the video, hope you’ll find it inspiring!

One cutapart leftover? No problem, create a whole new card with it!

Craft Life Update & Video Tutorial

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Hello everyone!

So I’m back after a 3-month hiatus… Check out my update, and also my latest project, two tri-fold cards with Studiolight’s Celebrate Spring papers – which I’m not just sharing with you but also showing you how to make at the end of this video!