Question from Yesterday: DonnaK asked where I buy Twinkling H2Os. I bought mine at Marco's Paper, a brick and mortar store in the Dayton area. But you can find them at the big craft stores (Michael's, Hobby Lobby, JoAnn's) and buy with a coupon! Now on to today's post, which hopefully Blogger will post in a timely fashion.... Today's Tip is one of those that, on the one hand, seems like a no-brainer, but, on the other hand, makes life so much easier! After getting sick of doing the same math over and over, I made a simple, handwritten index card, which I posted on my bulletin board right over my workspace, with a list of dimensions for cutting stamped panels to matte evenly on a standard 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card. It lists the sizes for cutting panels in quarter-inch increments. (Those of you who live in countries where "standard" is different can easily adapt this idea for yourselves.) I typed it up for those of you using American measures. Hopefully, you can save it and print it for your own use. If I cut a 4 1/4" x 3" stamped, panel, for instance, all I have to do is move up a quarter inch to get the measurements for a 1/8" matte all the way around the stamped panel. For a thinner 1/16" matte (as on yesterday's card), it's easy enough to just add 1/8" to the dimensions of the stamped panel. I hope this makes sense. And here is a happy CAS card that utilized this little chart. Design Discussion: Please note how I rooted the flowers in the open space provided by the sentiment. I just love the way that looks!!!! Supplies stamps: Shady Tree Studio ink: Memento paper: PTI white, SU brilliant blue accessories: dimensionals. Personal News: My son Jack, who has high-functioning autism, was released from private occupational therapy Wednesday! After four years, he's finally functionally appropriate for fine motor and hand-eye coordination! YIPPYYYYY! He continues to receive OT through our school district, but this is a wonderful milestone for him to meet...and one less regular therapy session to cart him to! His developmental pediatrician saw Jack yesterday and is blown away by his progress. Jack truly has blossomed in the past six months. He's even one of the best readers in his regular 2nd grade class! Needless to say, we're on Cloud 9 around here right now, and I just had to share!!!

I have 5 different simple notecard designs to share with you! I'll show you them designed using the Stampin' Up! Inked Botanicals Suite Collection, however, you can make with any Designer Series Paper and a few stamps, ink, and paper! That's the beauty of these card layouts, follow the templates while creating with your favorite card making products!

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Need a guide for card sizes? Me too. Most of the cards I make are A2. But, I have a stash of envelopes that are for various card sizes. So, here's a chart that I created with the measurements for the most commonly used card sizes. A1 3 ½ × 4 ⅞ 3.5” × 4.875” A2 4 ¼ × 5 ½ 4.25” × 5.5” A6 4 ½ × 6 ¼ 4.5” × 6.25” A7 5” × 7” Biz 3 ½ × 2 3.5” × 2 Square 5 ½ × 5 ½ 5.5” × 5.5” ETA: I figured it would be nice to have measurements for the corresponding layers. Here you go: Card Size Card Measurements Layers Measurements A1 3 ½ × 4 ⅞ 3.5” × 4.875” 3 ¼ × 4 ⅝ 3.25” × 4.625” A2 4 ¼ × 5 ½ 4.25” × 5.5” 4 × 5 ¼ 4” × 5.25” A6 4 ½ × 6 ¼ 4.5” × 6.25” 4 ¼ × 6 4.25” × 6” A7 5” × 7” 4 ¾ × 6 ¾ 4.75” × 6.75” Biz 3 ½ × 2 3.5” × 2 3 ¼ × 1 ¾ 3.25” × 1.75” Square 5 ½ × 5 ½ 5.5” × 5.5” 5 ¼ × 5 ¼ 5.25” × 5.25”

One more card with the Thoughtful Journey Designer Series Paper for our May Stamp Share card swap. Carol S. made this pretty card: THOUGHTFUL WISHES BUNDLE (ENGLISH) $55.75 THOUGHTFUL WISHES CLING STAMP SET (ENGLISH) $25.00 THOUGHTFUL WISHES DIES $37.00 THOUGHTFUL JOURNEY 6 X 6 (15.2 X 15.2 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER $12.50 SO SWIRLY EMBOSSING FOLDER $10.50 BRUSHED BRASS BUTTERFLIES $10.00 Colors: Boho Blue, Misty Moonlight ___________________________________________________________________________________ Shop my Online Store – click HERE Please use the current HOST CODE shown at the top of my blog if your order is less than $150 (if your order is $150 or more, you get the Host Rewards) Check out my Customer Rewards – click HERE Follow me on Pinterest – click HERE and Facebook – click HERE Happy Stamping! Dena

Hi Stampers, Happy Monday friends ! It's card sketch Monday and this week we are on # 184. WOW ! Here we are creeping up on #200, can you believe it ? This week is another fun one . I had a lo

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Hi Stampers, Happy card sketch day friends ! Today's card sketch is super cute and very similar to last weeks sketch but I did change it a bit . This week I made two differen

"Where is your most favorite place in the world? Well other than Ireland (oh how I love that country...another story for another day) My favorite place would be the beach and the ocean. I love and am fascinated by anything and everything that has to do with sand and saltwater! So let's dive deep and

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Hello friends! I have impatiently been waiting for the Queen & Company Happy Harvest Fall kit to be released. It's finally here!!! And it is definitely worth the wait. Of course, I am a huge fan of making autumn cards. This kit is a shaker kit and there are enough foam pieces to makes a

Hi Stampers, Happy Friday friends ! I Thought I would give you an update. I posted about my flare up with my hands and a few other places this past Sunday . I'm happy to report I seen my RA

Hi Stampers, Happy Monday friends ! Today is card sketch day and we are on card sketch # 134. It's unbelievable but we have been doing the card sketches for almost 3 years now ~ can you b

I came across this awesome graphic on Pinterest and I thought I would post it here for you .. I thought you might be looking for some new and exciting ways to fold and create cards like I am! I was thinking what I will do is start creating a card with one of each of these designs as soon as I am done stamping all my Stampin' Up! Convention swap cards... so watch for samples on my blog using these great fold ideas in the coming weeks! Which one will YOU try? Shop Online Anytime and Earn

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Once I had figured out the way in which to create a Stepper Card I decided that I wanted one a particular size. After a few attempts that...

Last month we introduced the tag feature on our blog and this month we would like to introduce a new theme with you...Cards. Cards are a way to share your feelings, love, and emotions with others. They can convey a happy birthday or a welcome...

Hi Stampers, Happy Monday friends ! Hope you had a wonderful Easter with your family yesterday . Here is this weeks card sketch . It's another fun one plus I used the gorgeous Hydrangea Haven

Look as this yummy texture achieved by using Kosher Salt. The size of the salt crystals are just perfect for layouts and/or your mixed m...

A few weeks back during one of my videos I showed my Card Templates. You may be wondering what they are and what the fuss is all about or what even are Card Templates? Since that video I have had so many messages and emails asking me where the link to my card templates and how to find the images, so I knew that it needed it's own special post for us to be able to find and share with others that you think will help. To explain: Card templates are - a template of the layer you would like to put onto your card or the card base that have the measurements written on the layer or card base. WHICH TUTORIAL DO I NEED TO PURCHASE? US & CANADA - Letter Cardstock - Inches Rest of the world - A4 Cardstock - Either Metric or Inches (whatever you prefer) PURCHASE KYLIE'S CARD TEMPLATE TUTORIALS How do Card Templates help card makers? Great for beginners to learn the measurements they need to start simple card making. We all can remember the time we look back and we had no idea how to even cut into the cardstock to make a card! It was overwhelming and at times very frustrating. If you are a demonstrator, have them made up and give them to your new card makers and help them make their own so they always have templates with the sizes there to use whenever they want to create. Those that want to use the card templates as a visual layout. I know that I love Card Sketches as they get my creative ideas flowing and ideas start happening. You can do the same with your templates. Lay them on the card to get the idea of what measurements are going to work. Then once you have picked your layers cutting out is easy as they have the measurements written on them. Makes crafting less frustrating, accurate and fast! Because you have the measurements written down on a visual template - no more guessing! So you make them once and then BOOM you are done. The exciting bit is that you can keep adding to your card templates as you find new ideas and cards that you like. For those that are doing Tutorials and needing to work out the measurements for both Imperial and Metric, it makes life so much easier when you can SEE what you are working with in measurements. You can't simply convert the sizes with Imperial and Metric cards - they are a COMPLETELY different sized card, and all the layers that go with it. So these card templates are fantastic to help you work out the measurements. Check out my video here and an example of some of my card templates I will put below the video. WHICH TUTORIAL DO I NEED TO PURCHASE? US & CANADA - Letter Cardstock - Inches Rest of the world - A4 Cardstock - Either Metric or Inches (whatever you prefer) PURCHASE KYLIE'S CARD TEMPLATE TUTORIALS I would love to hear about how you have found the Card Templates have helped you creatively! Please let me know whether you have made some for yourself or how it has helped others in your classes or workshops. Feel free to share this information with those that you think will benefit from this idea of having card templates.

Once I had figured out the way in which to create a Stepper Card I decided that I wanted one a particular size. After a few attempts that did not work I think I now have it cracked. What is a Stepper Card? Well it is a card which has a full size section and then smaller steps (usually 3). Here is one I made earlier J My card has a Full Size section on the left and Steps on the Right, however you could have any combination of Steps and Full Size Sections, here are a few examples. Here is my explanation for creating my Stepper Card, I have shown my measurements in Blue. Card Size The card size will be determined by the size of your steps, so you will need to do a quick bit of maths first, if necessary you can then tweek the size of the steps until you get the finished card size you are after. 1st Step (Smallest ) – decide on the size of your smallest step & multiply by 2 (2cm depth x 2 = 4cm) 2nd Step (Middle) – decide on the size of your middle step & multiply by 2 (4cm depth x 2 = 8cm) If you add both of these measurements together this will then give you the height of the card (4cm + 8cm = 12cm) 3rd Step (Tallest) – this is the height of your card divided by 2 (12cm divided by 2 = 6cm) The size of card you will need for your Card will be the height multiplied by 2 (12cm x 2 = 24cm), the width of the card it up to you to decide (17.8cm). The card blank I used was 5 x 7 inches (12.7cm x 17.8cm) as the height of my steps was 12cm I needed to trim 0.7cm from the height of the card. The width of the card is up to me to decided, I kept it at 17.8cm. Now you have the size of your card and your step sizes you will now need to decide which Stepper Layout to use… On the back of the card you will be using to create your card you will need to take a pencil and draw the lines to show the border between full size and stepper. One half will be a full size card, the other half will be used to create my steps I am using my Hougie Board to score as it makes life so easy, but you could also measure and then score. For each Stepper section you will need to score each of the fold points (I will score at 2, 4, 8, 12, 18cm)… At the middle point (12cm) you will need to score across the width of the card (I have marked my score lines in pen) Turn your card over and score again on the other side – this will ensure that you can create nice crisp folds on your steps Next take a ruler and knife and cut along the border between Full Size & Stepper… ensure that you do not cut the first & last scored section (again I have shown this in pen on my card) Fold the steps and create the main card fold You are now ready to decorate your Stepper Card I hope that is How to… is useful and you can now create stepper cards at ‘Any Size’ you want.

The lovely Kate asked me to make a set of cards using Kaisercraft's Whisper Collection. I decided to make a set of ten cards. You can see and watch the Free Card Making Class on the video below: Kaisercraft Whisper Cards Video Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKfHBZ_VJY Kaisercraft Whisper Cards Materials Needed CD512 C6 Kraft Card Pack PP1060 Whisper Paper Pad CT953 Whisper Collectables DD992 Leafy Die and Stamp Set CD142 Ballet 12x12 Card Stock Large Honey Paper Blooms, Small Honey Blooms, Large Dusty Pink Blooms. Bark, Chocolate, Chestnut and Cotton Candy Ink Pads. The Whisper collection is available online at www.kaisercraftshop.com.au For

The following is a list of My Favorite Things (all new products) in the Stampin’ Up! 2016-17 Annual Catalog which began June 1. It’s never easy to narrow down my favorites. However, I hope this list is helpful and includes what I believe will be popular, versatile ... More Photos & Full Details

Hi everyone, following on from the Tower Block cards I made a few weeks ago, I’ve made these Easy Pinwheel Cards! You can make these any size you like and with as many sides you want! My favo…

Hi there, today I have a new card style to share. I’m calling this a Staggered Z-Fold Card. This is a great twist on the standard Z-Fold card and a great style for using up your card scraps. …

Card Sketch # 287 This weeks card sketch is a case from the annual catalog . Look on page 75 the top center card . This was my inspiration for this weeks sketch . My team asked me how I get the

Hi everyone, today I’m sharing these sweet Pop-Out Gatefold cards I made with my Nan a couple of weeks ago. My Nan came to visit so I organised some crafting time with her. She really enjoyed…

Card Sketch # 287 This weeks card sketch is a case from the annual catalog . Look on page 75 the top center card . This was my inspiration for this weeks sketch . My team asked me how I get the

Wanna learn how to make a sunburst card? It's a fun and easy design technique and I have 2 different ways you can use it in your card making.

Doodlebug Design did it again and made a 6x6 paper pad I just couldn't resist. The collection is called Hello. It's full of lovely pinks and blues with a few sheets of gold foil accents. (I really like the gold foil.) There are lots of cheerful florals, birds, and my personal favorite, cameras. Even PINK cameras! So

The Ethereal Grove Quilt can be made in the 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, 7x7 or 8x8 size hoops. This new quilt will feature a new block each month over a 12-month period. It is a mystery quilt so maybe if you are unsure about the style of the first block you could wait until a few blocks are released before you dive into purchasing. 🙂However, each block is only discounted from it's release day to the release day of the next block.  We recommend making eight of Block 2: The blocks will release on the first Wednesday of each month in 2023 (with the final block releasing on the 6th of December 2023).  We organise a sew along via our Facebook Group. Please come and join the fun here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/350023842423286  The other blocks in the collection can be found at the link below: https://swpea.com.au/collections/bom-2023-ethereal-grove-quilt Approximate Dimensions of the Finished Quilt: 4x4 – 84cmW x 84cmL (33” x 33”) 5x5 – 107cmW x 107cmL (42” x 42”) 6x6 – 132cmW x 132cmL (52” x 52”) 7x7 – 152.4cmW x 152.4cmL (60” x 60”) 8x8 – 168cmW x 168cmL (66” x 66”) Full photo instructions and directions on how to sew the block are included with your purchase.  It is our intention to offer you the best service always and for our designs to be of the highest quality. Designs are provided in 8 different embroidery formats. The formats included are: DST, EXP*, JEF, PEC, PES, VIP, VP3 and XXX. *BMP and INF files are also provided, these are recommended to be used with the EXP files for Bernina machines.  SVG files are included for cutting machines. Please note the SVG format can be converted to FCM within the Brother Scan n Cut software if required.  Sweet Pea Machine Embroidery Designs Cutting Files Disclaimer - click here Instruction are provided in English. We test and review each of our designs to ensure the highest quality. Depending on what hoop, fabric and stabiliser combination you are using, results may differ.

Finally finished this bag that I had planned for a long time. I made the straps, then it took a while to plan the layout and sew them together. I’ve been tossing around how to do the finishing, li...

Yay - It's done! What's done? Measurements for the NEW Dies from the Stampin' Up! 2021-2022 Annual Catalog. It takes a community to get this project done - from measurements, to graphics to PDF's and more! Thanks to all that helped me this time around. I know that many of you like to print out a PDF to keep with your dies, so here you go: PRINT: 2021-2022 Annual Catalog Dies Measurements PDF - NEW ONLY 155371 Artistic Dies (4 May 2021 - 2 May 2022 Annual Catalog) 155456 Expressions in Ink Bundle & Save 10% with Expressions in Ink...

These Slider cards were really easy and so much fun to make... I love these cards at the moment, I'm sure you can tell when you see them all. Though I must admit I am missing one from the collection, which I left behind for some to use as a guide (it was was one of my favourites too). So of course I did use this card for a workshop project, and yes...everyone loved it! No, this wasn't the workshop project, though I did bring it along to show the versatility of the card. I Just loved the idea of putting the car on the slider and now I'd have to say this is probably my most favourite one. (This is not my stamp set by the way, I borrowed it from my wonderful friend Shari, who shares everything, lucky for me) Stamps: White Christmas Card Stock: Whisper White & Pool Party Blendabilities: Cherry cobbler, Old Olive, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake & Smoky Slate. Ink: Pool Party & Tuxedo Black Memento Techniques: Masking, Sponging & Colouring ( Belndabilities) Stamps: Endless Wishes Colours: Pool Party, Whisper White & Silver Extras: Labels Collection Framelits, Frosted Sequins, All is Calm dsp & Washi tape. Techniques: Embossing, & Piercing Stamps: Endless Wishes Colours: Lost Lagoon, Pool Party, Whisper White & Silver Extras: Labels Collection Framelits, Frosted Sequins, All is Calm dsp & Washi tape. Techniques: Embossing, & Piercing Stamps: Four Feathers & Sassy Salutations Colours: Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Soft Sky & Sliver. Framelits: Four Feathers & Apothecary Accents. Extras: Clear Buttons, Silver embossing powder & silver ribbon. + Print Poetry dsp Techniques: Embossing, Masking & Sponging. This was actually the very first one of these I made, & I'm sure you can tell, it's very basic. Stamps: Sassy Salutations & Holiday Homes. Colours: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso & Gold Extras: Apothecary Accents Framelits, Gold embossing powder & Print Poetry dsp. Techniques: Embossing This was the first one I started to experiment with (by "experiment" I mean adding embellishments other than a greeting to the moving/sliding tab). Stamps: Holiday Homes Card stock: Basic Black, Whisper White & Garden Green. Ink: Tuxedo Black- Memento, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Versa- Mark & White Craft. Blendabilities: Daffodil Delight, Old Olive & Cherry Cobbler. Extras: Holiday Homes framelits, Clear Embossing Powder & White Embossing Powder. Techniques: Embossing, Brayering, Masking & Sponging. This one seemed like a good idea at the time... but I didn't quite pull it off, I guess that's what happens when you stay up too late working on the wrong projects : / Stamps: Holiday Homes, Lovely as a Tree & Good Greetings. Colours Basic Black Whisper White, Night of Navy & Daffodil Delight. Framelits: Holiday Homes & Chalk Talk. Techniques: Masking & Sponging. I just wanted to mention here that if you want to save on card stock just cut the length of card to 8 1/4" instead of 81/2". This way you'll get two out of a sheet of A4. You will need change one other measurement though, instead of cutting the slot 1 1/2" from the edge you'll cut 1 1/4", you'll also have a smaller section to stick the card together with ( 1/4" instead of 1/2"). I found changing to these measurements was quite easy to adjust. I just wish I had thought of it before I had drawn up the measurements and instructions... Dawn's Stamping Studio - Slider card Video

A beautiful set of 5 art postcards featuring cyanotype impressions of real British Seaweed collected from shorelines of Cornwall, UK. Perfect as thank you note or mini art works for your walls. The postcards feature delicately pressed seaweed impressions on the front, using the cyanotype technique to produce intense, indigo silhouette images. The back of the postcards have plenty of space for a hand written message and a recipient address.  • A6 size (105 x 148mm) • Made in the UK from FSC certified paper • The postcards are enclosed in a single brown, string tie envelope. NEED EXTRA ENVELOPES?  If you would like 5 extra envelopes ( brown kraft paper), pease select from the option above before checking out.  View our full collection of Postcards

Mixed-media art, art journaling and scrapbooking by polish artist and teacher Anna Dabrowska aka Finnabair.

PLEASE READ FULL DESCRIPTION for this class..... For this listing you are not receiving any physical item. This is for a online video instructional class. No item will be shipped to you. Upon purchase you will receive your link to the online class within 24hrs, generally much sooner. I hold my online classes through Ruzuku. Upon purchase of this class, you will be sent a link for this class, within 24 hrs, generally much sooner. I have also made the class available for download, if you desire to do so. This is only available to you, after you accept the link for the class and sign into the online class at Ruzuku. You will not be downloading anything from Etsy. There is no physical item for this listing. This listing is an online video instructional class that I have created, on one of my fabric books and it is an original. This book project measures roughly 5 1/2 x 7. You could make this book, any size and shape that you wish to, from the steps that I walk you through. In this class, I will teach you how to make a beautiful, one of a kind fabric book. The book project, measures roughly, 5 1/2 x 7. You can make this book any size or shape that you wish to. By changing the colors, design, size, papers, etc., each book will reflect a unique and one of a kind look to it. There are 11 segments to this class, which is about 2 1/2 hrs of instructions. In this class, I will show you, that by taking discarded, vintage, old and recycled items, you can create a one of a kind book. I will walk you through the steps and teach you how to make the luscious fabric spine, the bezel, patina your bezel, sewing pages/signatures, incorporating various fabrics scrapes into your book and how to distress your papers, with acrylics and inks. Have you ever wanted to learn, how to make handmade fabric books from the ground level up? How about taking pieces of fabrics and create luscious layers, that causes the viewer to want to investigate your book further? Then this is the class for you! I love creating books, that allows you to be able to journal, sketch, watercolor, scrapbook, etc. A place that allows you, to record that special event, memory or moment, that you can revisit and cherish for years to come. I have also made my classes available for download. Please keep in mind, that to be able to download the videos, you may find that your download speed is too slow. If you find that you are having a hard time downloading the videos, this may require you to find a spot(business) that allows free use of their wifi and has faster download speed or contact your internet provider and see about obtaining faster speed. Also, sometimes firewall protections and image blockers, will prevent you from downloading videos. ***PLEASE NOTE*** I still hold the copyrights to my videos and photos, even though I allow you to download them. The videos are for your personal use only. You do not have my permission to copy the videos or photos and resell them for any purpose. ****When you purchase this class here on etsy, I will notify you within 24 hours, with the information on how to access my class*** Once you are in the class; it starts immediate and all of the course lessons are available at once. ***important**** You will want to make sure that if the email that you pay with, isn't where you want me to send the invite link to my class, that you let me know. Otherwise, the email that is listed on your payment receipt, is where the invite link will be sent to. ***All classes sales are final*** ***to view more of my art, please visit my blog*** www.earlymorningthoughts.typepad.com Website; https://nelliescreativetouch.com Pinterest; vintage123 Instagram; Nellie Wortman

Hi Stampers, Happy Monday friends ! Here is this weeks Card Sketch # 114 . I love this weeks sketch ! Once again you can design your sketch to go in any direction you want. I kept mine the same as

Three different, and easy to make, card layouts designed with DSP that you can make. Card making project features the Flowering Zinnias DSP, but you can create with any patterned paper.