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Shabby Chic Tea Card

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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

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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)

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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

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

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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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Don’t Give Up – a Serenity Card

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A lady asked me to create a card incorporating a specific sentiment and with some meditative overtones. I immediately thought of the Serenity paper collection by Bo Bunny, which would be perfect with its Asian-themed graphics and choice of many lovely colors.

For my previous Serenity teabox projects I had used the reds, teals and blacks, but this time I chose the soft greens and whites. I printed the requested sentiment in a dark green color onto a piece of design paper, then used a circle die (by Crealies) to cut a nicely rounded label.

Let me know what you think in the comment section! And please like & subscribe to not miss any of my weekly projects 🙂

 

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Three cards with 2½ sheets of PS I Love You papers

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Sometimes I like newly brought out design papers but don’t necessarily want to buy the entire collection. This is why I only bought two sheets of Kaisercraft’s recent PS I Love You (double-sided) collection, so I could still savour their gorgeous new design patterns, wondering what I could make with them.

As it turns out, 2 entire sheets with 2 extra 6×6″ pieces are enough to create three lovely cards, matted on the front, the back and the inside 🙂

So hopefully you find this as encouraging as I – for now you can perhaps also more easily enjoy more of these gorgeous new design paper collections that come out evert month! (yea!)

 

Love & Home Card

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Here’s a spring-colored card I made for my friend’s new home, using StudioLight’s lovely Love & Home collection and die-cuts.

Studiolight, ScrapLH02 (12×12″)

I love the Studiolight collections for their lovely themes, the life-like graphics, and the many die-cuts and cutaparts they have available with each paper collection. I’ve done a couple of other projects with some of their collections, and I’m sure I’ll create more in the future.

For now, this card: I used a 12×12″ sheet as a base and built on top of that, mostly with die-cuts but also with some other things, like a very fitting knitting charm – since my friend is an avid knitter. 🙂

This way you can fairly easily and quickly make a beautiful personalized card for someone, which I highly recommend for you can put much love and tender care into a handmade card.

 

 

Card for a Guy with A Proper Gentleman

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This week I’m sharing a card for a guy – with some extra embellishment tips! I used Graphic 45’s wonderful A Proper Gentleman collection, which I still can’t get enough of 🙂

Enjoy the video!

 

Also check out my Man About Town sturdio album, which I made with the same paper collection!

 

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Two Modern Patchwork Cards

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I tried out a new die set, called Modern Patchwork, which lets you create your own, well, patchwork of papers. 🙂

I really like the results, these cards were fun to create, give you a totally different look and as a bonus they are perfect to use up those beautiful scraps of paper you’ve got lying around everywhere because you can’t bring yourself to throw them away 🙂

So here’s the video! (and please don’t forget to click the like button 😉 )
The die-set’s product number is CLMP02 by the Dutch company Crealies. I used Coral Couture papers by DCWV.

 

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Really Mini File Folio! (Kaisercraft Exchange)

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Not too long ago I participated in Kaisercraft’s brand new international snail mail project called Kaisercraft Exchange, which I really enjoyed. You send out anything you created with Kaisercraft products to someone around the world you don’t know, and likewise you receive something – from someone else entirely. Kaisercraft functions as the trustworthy middleman to swap all of the addresses.

It was so, so much fun to participate the first time! So when they announced their second run of this worldwide surprise swap, I was game!

This time I used the Lush design papers, a Kaisercraft paper collection from 2010, of which I had also miraculously still been able to find the rubons. I designed something completely new (well, to me at least): a Mini File Folder, or Mini Collection Folio if you will. I was absolutely engrossed in designing and creating this project, it really scratched all of the right itches for me, especially after finishing a larger project (coming up soon…) 🙂

So without much further ado, here’s the video. Enjoy, let me know what you think, and do participate in Kaisercraft Exchange next time! Who knows, maybe I’ll be sending you something! 🙂

 

 

 

My Entry for #kaisercraftexchange!

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Last May Kaisercraft announced their Kaisercraft Exchange project, aimed at sending and receiving Happy (snail) Mail to and from people around the world, without knowing anything about them except their name and address.

I immediately signed up, for it’s always a lot of fun to create specifically with someone else in mind!

I chose the Be-You-Tiful collection and designed a new wallet card, to be sent to a lady called Kirstie, in Pacific Pines in Australia (hi Kirstie, hope you’re reading this! 🙂 ) I also added a small a mini album to keep pictures of her loved ones, to keep in her purse.

For both of these designs together I only needed 2 sheets of 12×12″ cardstock and 5 sheets of 12×12″ double-sided design paper (including two cutapart sheets with some lovely sentiments).

I also wrote a 29-page tutorial for the wallet card, which you can find in my Etsy shop for a small price, to help me keep doing what I do.