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October Card Making Class Coming Soon!
Want to learn awesome new techniques and take your card making to the next level? Plan now to join my October Card Making Class October 8, 2015! The official class announcement will go to my newsletter...
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Happy Birthday, Everyone Hostess Exclusive Stamp Set
I’m going to be honest with you for a minute. The last several years, I haven’t been totally impressed with Stampin’ Up!’s offering of exclusive hostess stamp sets. I mean, they’ve been okay, but...
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October Card Making Techniques Class!
Registration is now open for the October Card Making Class! At this class, you’ll learn several exciting new techniques: Awesome Ombre WOW (White on White) Stamping Embossing with a die (instead of...
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Awesome Ombre
Have you ever created an ombre background for your cards? What’s ombre, you say? Here’s how Webster’s defines it: having colors or tones that shade into each other —used especially of fabrics in which...
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Embossing With A Die
We all know that dies cut, but did you know that they can emboss too? Until recently, I didn’t know either! I’d love to show you the method for embossing with your Thinlits and Framelits dies. And at...
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October Card Making Techniques Class Reminder
Registration is now open for the October Card Making Class – Don’t forget to sign up by September 28th! At this class, you’ll learn several exciting new techniques: Awesome Ombre WOW (White on...
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WOW White On White Stamping Technique!
White On White, or WOW!, is one of those techniques that isn’t especially hard to do, but it can be hard to do well. At my October Card Making Technique class, you’ll learn the basics of how to do...
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October Card Making Techniques Class – 5 Hour Warning!
Registration for the October Card Making Class closes at 9m EDT TODAY! Sign up now – you won’t want to miss this information packed class! At this class, you’ll learn several exciting new...
View ArticleHow To Re-Ink New Firm Foam Stamp Pads
With the new 2012-2013 Annual Catalog, Stampin’ Up! introduced a new style of stamp pads – Firm Foam – to replace their linen stamp pads. Now that your firm foam stamp pads are a couple of years old,...
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Katie’s Top Ten Card Sketches
When you’re creating a card, what part do you struggle with the most? Which stamps to use? Maybe color combinations? For me, the hardest part is deciding on the layout – you know, where to put all the...
View ArticleBaby Wipe Stamp Pad Technique
I’ve been asked several times recently how to do the baby wipe stamp pad technique. You ask, I answer! This is a fairly simple (but sometimes messy) technique. Basically, you start by placing a couple...
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What Do You Do With Stamping Mistakes?
DON’T THROW THEM AWAY! When I’m stamping & I make a mistake, I’ll usually try to “save” the card by adding an embellishment to cover the boo-boo. I’ll say, “That’s a perfect place for a bow!” – or...
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Tall Ice Cream Cone Card
I scream, you scream, we all scream for… an ICE CREAM CONE BIRTHDAY CARD! Cards for kids can sometimes be challenging. I’m not talking about toddlers or preschoolers, but the grade school through...
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Reflection Stamping Technique
Have you ever seen a handmade card and wondered “How’d they do that?” I have – all the time! And I will sometimes spend hours, scouring the internet, watching countless videos on YouTube, wasting...
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Welcome Living Dayton Viewers!
If you’re here because you saw me on Living Dayton today, thanks for watching and welcome to my blog! This is the Get Well card that I shared with you on the show… …with that fun pop-up tissue box...
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Stamping On Patterned Paper
Do you have a stash of gorgeous patterned paper, but you’re not sure what to do with it? Here’s an idea for you – stamp on it! That’s right, you don’t only have to stamp on solid colored cardstock. You...
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Birthday Present Card
Oh my gosh, you guys! How cute is this? A birthday present, right on the card! I was playing around with some ideas the other day when this hit me! Why not wrap up a square piece of patterned paper...
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Cardstock Colorblock Technique
The Cardstock Colorblock Technique is a fun way to add lots of color to your card, and it’s SUPER easy to do, too! Want to see what I did with balloon #2? Make sure your name is on the email list...
View ArticleHow To Use A Circle Punch To Round Cardstock Corners
So, you’re making a card, and you decide that you’d like to round the corners of your cardstock, but you don’t own a corner rounder punch. …Or, you have a corner rounder, but you’d like bigger,...
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Chalkboard Box Valentines Card
WOW! This card has soooo many techniques all together in one place! This is definitely a Valentine for someone special! For the main panel, I used the Chalkboard Technique on Basic Black Cardstock – I...
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