Author: Jessica V

Jessica started her papercrafting journey about 20 years ago when introduced to stamping by her aunt. Since then, it has become a passion of hers, and she loves creating all different types of papercrafting projects. She loves die cutting as well as using her Silhouette Cameo to personalize handcrafted items for friends and family. You can find her on social media @purple_puppy_papercrafting
Shaped Birthday Card

Shaped Birthday Card

One way to stretch your dies is to use them to make shaped cards! You can even use smaller dies to make mini cards to tuck into lunch boxes or bags as a little surprise or a loved one! I love using dies to create shaped cards. I have had this large bone die for…

Floral Wedding Card

Floral Wedding Card

The Metallic Cardstocks at Cut Cardstock are perfect to create elegant, beautiful wedding cards. I used four different colors on this card today: Gold, Fairway, Rose Quartz, and Virtual Pearl. With just a few colors, and some alcohol markers you can create shading on your die cuts. To start with, I cut a piece of…

Pawsitively Adorable Bookmarks

Pawsitively Adorable Bookmarks

Valentine’s Day projects need sparkle and glimmer and shine! The Stardust Metallic Cardstocks and Glitter cardstocks from CutCardstock are perfect for any Valentine’s Day project. The Stardust Metallic cardstock hot foils beautifully and this just adds on another layer of shine! I used the Stardust Metallic Silver cardstock for the bases of my Valentine’s bookmarks….

Hot Foiled Metallic Card

Hot Foiled Metallic Card

Nothing says the holidays better than metallic and shimmer! I made a card today using gorgeous metallic cardstock from Cut Cardstock and some hot foiling. I started by cutting out a piece of Stardream Metallic Lapis using a stitched rectangle die. This is going to be my card base panel. I wanted to do my…

Shimmer Strips Christmas

Shimmer Strips Christmas

I love making Christmas cards, because it is the perfect time to add a little shimmer! I combined a 3D embossing folder with some shimmer and regular cardstocks to create this clean and simple card. This was a quick card to put together, but makes an impact with all that texture and shimmer. I used…

Thank You Notecard Set

Thank You Notecard Set

One of my favorite handmade gifts to make for people are notecard sets. Cut Cardstock makes it so easy because they have card sets of all different colors – and then notecards are already cut and scored! The matching envelopes are beautiful and high quality as well. For this project, I used the Aqua Basis…

Best Fishes!

Best Fishes!

I love making my Dad birthday cards with a fishing theme! This year I wanted to make a shaped card, so I looked on the Silhouette Design Store and found the perfect fishing card – and then pulled out some of my favorite cardstock from Cut Cardstock! These cardstocks cut so beautifully on the Silhouette!…