This week I’m sharing how to use your most beautiful photos and post cards – instead of design paper – to mat your cards! It’s not only lovely, but also very quick & easy. Think last-minute birthday cards, Christmas cards, etc.
Check out the video below and share your thoughts with me in the comments! ☕️
Sometimes I only buy 2 or 3 sheets from a design paper collection, mostly when I like the idea of it, but not the entire collection. This was the case with Kaisercraft’s Cottage Rose collection, which had lovely soft colors and some great graphic designs, but which overall I found too generic and boring to buy in its entirety.
So, I chose the sheets I liked the most, and used them all up in one go.
I turned them into four cards, one of which I’m sharing with you this week: a deconstructed envelope card. Also great for Valentine’s Day, btw 🙂
If you’d like to make one yourself, you can check out my free video tutorial!
My friend told me her 13-year old daughter (hi Mia!) was on the lookout for papercraft projects to create herself, especially since the lockdown measures have been keeping all of us mostly at home the past months. So I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be fun if she had not only an idea offered to her, but also the materials to create it, together with an actual project example to learn from.
So I chose one of my card designs that would be fairly simple to imitate, and set out to make one. After which came another fun part: rummaging through my (quite elaborate) stash and finding all kinds of bits, pieces and ephemera for her to use to create her card.
There were some things she would not be able to imitate, like the stamps and die-cuts I had used, so I stamped and die-cut several elements for her and added them to her gift box.
Finally I decided that she could use some extra supplies, since she might want to create even more cards on her own.
I had a lot of fun with this ‘reverse haul’ – giving gifts always makes me happy, it’s so much fun to think about little details that capture what you know about someone, even if that isn’t very much 🙂 So I hope this video inspires you to go look for that same kind of happiness, by creating your own gift box for someone you know (or their teen).
By the way, stay tuned for my next blog post, in which I will show you my step-by-step proces of creating the large butterfly. 😉
You can know a design theoretically, but there’s nothing like actually seeing it in your hands, with design paper and decorations! Especially if you make different versions, with different colors, themes, occasions and recipients.
So this week I’m sharing the pretty well-known shutter-card design, done in two different ways: one is masculine, the other feminine.
Enjoy! And if you want a third variation, check out my Christmas version!
Hi everyone,
This week I’m sharing my enthusiasm about Tim Holtz’s 2016 Dapper paper pad. As per usual when I really like a paper collection, I leave it in my stash for quite some time before I can bring myself to cut into it; hence the 2.5 year (!) delay between it being offered on the market and me actually creating something with it…
Anyway, I chose to use one of Dapper’s 6×6″ sheets, plus a 3×4″ sheet. They all come in one big double-sided 12×12″ pad – which I find a brilliantly creative invention – a characteristic shared by all Tim Holtz’s paper pads alike.
The double card I created is about 6×6″, and I grunged everything up by actually distressing all of the papers’ edges, using no inks whatsoever, to enhance the effect. Also, I added in some layering and of course embellishments – and there you go, a card with a distinct masculine feel!
Do you like the Dapper collection as much as I do? And which are your favorite masculine papers for creating projects for the men in your circle of family and friends?
Let me know in the comment section below.
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!
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 🙂
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! 🙂
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!
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 🙂
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!
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!