2014 Calendar and Note Pad Tins

Over the last several months I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking when the 2014 Calendar and Note Pad Tins and the refills will be back.  We are excited to announce that we are running a pre-order from August 9/13 – August 23/13. Please note that we have a free video tutorial on how …

Free Project of the Week: Happy Birthday – 07 12 2013

Welcome to this week’s Free Project of the Week. Today’s project is this Happy Birthday card.  In this card we show you how you can cut out portions of your patterned paper to create visual depth and dimension.  You can watch a video on how this card was made and download a pdf handout below. …

Free Project of the Week: Make a Wish – 06 21 2013

Welcome to this week’s Free Project of the Week. Today’s project is this Make A Wish card, which features a paper pieced ice cream cone as the focal point.  Paper piecing is a great way to add color to an outline image stamp when you don’t want to color it in using inks.  You can …

Free Project of the Week: Papillon Miss You Card – 06 14 2013

Welcome to this week’s Free Project of the Week. Today’s card is an easily reproducible design that doesn’t require a lot of materials – you can pretty much use any image in place of the butterfly, and swap out the sentiment for whatever is relevant to the occasion you are creating for.  You can watch …

Free Project of the Week – Ribbons, Buttons and More – 05 10 2013

This week for our Free Project of the Week we have this Ribbons, Buttons and More card.  We’re heading into summertime and summer makes me think of gingham.  So, with the summertime theme, I headed for my May Arts Gingham ribbons.  I chose three colors of Gingham ribbon to stand out and be the focal …

Free Project of the Week – Thanks – 05 03 2013

This week for our Free Project of the Week we have this Thanks card. This card features a masking technique using various lace ribbons.  I started by laying a piece of lace along the bottom of the White CS.  I then spritzed directly over the ribbon using Dylusions ink spray.  I repeated this two more …

Free Project of the Week – Funky For You – 04 26 2013

This week for our Free Project of the Week we have this Funky For You card.  I just love how this card came together.  I chose the patterned paper first then wanted to figure out how to use a few of the funky patterns.  I thought pop them!  So I die cut a few circles to …

Free Project of the Week – You Make Me Happy – 04 19 2013

This week for our Free Project of the Week we have this You Make Me Happy card.  I absolutely love the colors and patterns in the Park Bench Collection from Fancy Pants Designs.  The patterns and colors are so easy to work with.  I started with the greeting and with the addtion of the Park …

Free Project of the Week – Floral Gratitude – 04 12 2013

This week for our Free Project of the Week we have a Floral Gratitude card I created which features these small five petal ribbon flowers using May Arts ribbons.  The flowers were super easy to create and yet are so cute.  They may a perfect accent not only for cards but would also look great on …

Free Project of the Week – Wonderful Birthday Card – 04 05 2013

This week for our Free Project of the Week we`re featuring a masculine birthday card which uses the Fancy Pants Swagger Collection that we featured a few weeks ago.  It`s such a fun collection to work with because there are a multitude of elements that you can mix and match to create.  For the base …