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

Posted on March 9, 2018 by CraftKatie

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

Posted on February 23, 2018 by CraftKatie

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

Posted on December 16, 2017 by CraftKatie

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

Posted on October 29, 2017 by CraftKatie

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:

Don’t throw out your leftover 4×6″ ATC cards but fit them onto a 6×6″ square card;
Decorate on the side of the card, and leave your ATC card uncovered, showcasing its lovely graphics;
Use a scrap mat on the inside to use up your scraps – check out my free video tutorial for that;
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

Posted on September 29, 2017 by CraftKatie

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

Posted on September 14, 2017 by CraftKatie

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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How to add glitter to a sentiment

Posted on August 18, 2017 by CraftKatie

Ranger’s Sticky Embossing Powder is great for adding very precise glittering or foiling, for instance on a very detailed and delicate (stamped) picture or a (stamped) sentiment. In this week’s (free!) video tutorial I’m showing you how it works – and sharing a very important tip that will help you avoid the mistake I made…! 😉

The card in the video is the Twist & Pop card I shared some blog posts ago in a tutorial of its own, so check that out if you’d like to create one yourself.

Enjoy the tutorial and glitter away! ?

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Gift idea: Mini Album Card!

Posted on August 11, 2017 by CraftKatie

Special occasions require special cards, and with this interactive wallet card you can go many directions. To give you some examples, my first card of this design had an Encouragement theme, the second version commemorated the first year since my father’s passing.

This week I’m sharing a third way you can use this card: as a mini album card, to send (or give in person) someone some pictures of dearly remembered moments you shared with them! Which is perfect for someone who really already has everything they ever wanted – I mean do you really need to give them more ‘stuff’? I’m convinced that memories in the form of pictures – nicely done up – will always be much appreciated, and also add that extra personal touch to your gifts.
This design offers room for 6-8 pictures and of course a personal message.

So, hope to have inspired you, let me know what you think in the comments! 🙂

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Don’t Give Up – a Serenity Card

Posted on July 22, 2017 by CraftKatie

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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Low Budget Tip: Picture Card

Posted on July 15, 2017 by CraftKatie

Hi all,

Today I’m sharing with you another Low Budget Tip, in other words how to create wonderful projects and presents that won’t cause a significant dent into your household budget. 🙂

There’s more where this came from by the way, check out all posts on this blog tagged Low budget!

This week’s tip is to create a picture card. For this type of card you won’t need much design paper for on the front the focus will be a picture you took (any occasion possible!), and on the back you will simply use cardstock or even printer paper of a different color than your base card.

You can keep the embellishments to a minimum by only using some glitter glue to trace around the picture and/or the journalling spot on the back, or you can add some simple decorations as I have, which still won’t have to cost a lot – especially if you’d die-cut the flowers and leaves.

So I hope you’ll enjoy this tip, let me know if you’d like to see more!

Four Seasons, Four Sentiments

Posted on July 7, 2017 by CraftKatie

A lady asked me to create four double-layout cards for her, one for each season. She also provided me with four seasonal sentiments to incorporate. What a fun challenge that proved to be! 🙂

I also used four brands by the way, so I really saw all four ? corners of my craft supply room. Here’s the collections I used:

Spring: Graphic 45, Time to Flourish
Summer: Kaisercraft, Fly Free
Autumn: Bo Bunny, Autumn Song
Winter: Studiolight, Frozen Forest

Let me know what you think!

Tag die set by Crealies:

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Twist & Pop Card Tutorial

Posted on June 24, 2017 by CraftKatie

Time for another free video tutorial to start the Summer season! 🙂

This time we’re going to create a so-called Twist & Pop card, you’ll find all measurements and materials in the video. If you’d like to watch more of my free video tutorials, click here.

More detailed tutorials on a growing number of projects are available in my Etsy shop.

So, enjoy your Summer and have fun crafting! ☀️

Created with Studiolight’s Flower Delight collection.

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