Tag: Mailable Cards
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Elements of Floral Composition
One of the Altenew Academy classes that I recently completed has to do with the elements of design. The class is taught by Jaycee Gaspar. He is an Altenew Design Team Member, as well as an Altenew educator. Jaycee makes beautiful cards using watercolor with stamped floral images. His work is gorgeous! I took this…
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Venetian Neighborhood Using Three Different Coloring Techniques
This Hero Arts stamp is an amazingly detailed large stamp that is perfect for many types of coloring techniques. I could have chosen more but stuck with three very different ones to showcase very different looks. And one of them is kind of a failure. The stamped image is a Venetian neighborhood. I wanted something…
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A Quick Colorful Card
Sometimes you need to make a card quickly. This colorful card is straightforward to make and only takes a short time to assemble. To make the crisp center square I used the alignment tool’s square mask and ink blended all around it. All the die cuts were made with one set of dies, cutting…
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Honey Bee Hugs Card
Honey Bee Hugs Card Making a mailable card with dimension One of my favorite ways to add dimension to a card with almost no effort and little bulk is to use a cover plate die cut for the background. Though the card is layered, it doesn’t weigh enough to increase the postage cost. Also, if…
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Last Minute Easy to Make Christmas Cards
A stack of Christmas cards bundled for a gift to give to someone to send This post may help if you are still trying to get a handmade card out in the mail for this holiday season. These are very quick, down-to-the-wire, last-minute, easy to make Christmas cards. 1st – Choose an embossing folder that…
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Second Interactive Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendar Card
I had so much fun with the card that I posted here, that I thought I’d make another one. This second interactive Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendar Card took a little less time because the numbers were cut from washi. Instead of stamping a greeting under each door I thought it would be fun to…
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Christmas in July – Countdown to Christmas Advent Card
Hero Arts Presents Background Stamp with Peek A Boo Doors Die to create an Advent Calendar Card On the one hand, I love Christmas so I think it is great to get a headstart on crafting for the holidays as soon as Christmas is over. On the other hand, I feel a bit overwhelmed if…
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Quick & Easy, Clean and Simple Die Cut Cards
Hero Arts Die-Cut Butterflies from Glitter Paper Are you a fan of Clean and Simple (CAS) cards? I love that they can be impactful in their beautiful simplicity. These quick and easy die-cut cards did not take very much time to make. However, I don’t think they suffered for their ease. Penny Black Die-Cut Framed…
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Smile!
Penny Black Timeless Stars and Circles Die with Pinkfresh Studio Smile Die Just popping in with a new card made with two dies. There is no stamping on this very fast and easy card. My grandbaby moved in with us a couple of weeks ago. This means that I have been having too much fun…
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Washi Tape as a Background with Diecuts for Cards
American Crafts Houndstooth Glitter paper cut with Altenew Caps Bold Alphabet Dies It turns out that I have a lot of washi tape. It is beautiful and I love it. But it mainly sits in a drawer. As I was putting away some alphabet dies from another project, (pictured above) I decided to make a…
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