Birthday

Two colorful birthday cards featuring Spellbinders' New Release on a wooden table.

Are You Interested In Spellbinders’ New Release?

Spellbinders’ new release, Birthday Celebration Collection, is out today. They are awesome! Get yours ordered here before they run out!! What isn’t to love about rainbows and birthday celebrations? What a set! This is quite a lengthy article because these great products are so fun to work with. And as a result, you can make […]

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A special card with the word friend on it.

Need A Card Idea For A Special Friend?

Learn how to create a special card for a special friend using rainbow blending and silhouettes. Read on for step-by-step instructions. Who doesn’t love rainbows? And the contrast between the colors of the rainbow and black and white is magnificent! The inspiration for this card is one that @GinaKrupsky from Gina K Designs showed how

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Three greeting cards displayed on a wooden surface: a "Happy Birthday" card with floral design, a "Happy Birthday, Sweet Friend" card with daisies, and a "With Sympathy" card with yellow flowers – perfect entries for any white-on-white challenge.

Are You Up For a White-on-White Challenge?

Using white-on-white in a card can have awesome results. Join us in making these 3 cards step-by-step. We’re doing something a little different in this article. We are participating in Altenew’s March 2022 Inspiration Challenge to create a card using white-on-white. Why don’t you join in the fun? The challenge is to use a color

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A birthday card featuring an optical illusion and a happy birthday message.

How To Create Optical Illusions With Graphite

Learn how to use graphite on your greeting cards to create optical illusions of depth and dimension. Step-by-step instructions are here. We’ll begin making the card by doing some partial rainbow blending with a stencil. We’ll do this by taping the A2 card panel to Altenew’s Woven stencil from the backside. Then, we’ll begin to

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A set of astronomy-themed cards, perfect for astronomy enthusiasts or as gifts.

How To Make Gifts Using Cardmaking Techniques

Learn how to make gifts using cardmaking techniques with step-by-step instructions and links to supplies, and, supplies for 5 gift tags too. Gifts Using Cardmaking Technique #1 – Planet Trading Cards What 8 or 9 year old doesn’t love cards to play with? I made these trading cards for my nephew who plans to be

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Four fantastic masculine cards are displayed on a wooden surface. The cards read: "Everything happens for a reason,” "Happy Birthday,” "Happy Anniversary,” and "Love you!

How to make 4 Fantastic Masculine Cards

4 fantastic masculine cards and step-by-step instructions on making each of them are right here in this article. It’s a long article. Fantastic Masculine Card for Birthday The techniques used for this card are simple stenciling, heat embossing, and “twists.” Altenew’s With a Twist online class challenges us to use methods different from what we

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Beautiful silhouette card with rainbow ink blending which makes it perfect for birthday card inspiration.

Birthday card inspiration: 3 Cards

Need some birthday card inspiration? Read on to see three beautiful birthday cards with supply lists here and links to more. Blended Rainbow Birthday Card Inspiration I recently attended the Crop and Create Delivered Cardmaking (@CropandCreateDeliveredCardmaking) event where Gina Krupsky (@GinaAurelioKrupsky) taught us how to make this beautiful card. It has a beautiful contrast between

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