Metallic cardstock is gorgeous, especially when you can pair it with embossing and ink blending! For today’s card, I used a combination of dry embossing, heat embossing, and ink blending to make this beautiful card. To start with, I pulled a 3D embossing folder from my stash that has coordinating stencils. I am using the…
Do you love vellum as much as I do? I love using vellum, but struggle with how to use it on my cards sometimes. Today, I have a project using it with a background die and some partial die cutting. For this card, I used the Stardream Metallic Fairway for the card base and the…
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…
I love ink blending – how about you?! I especially love ink blending on textured cardstock – the effect is gorgeous! For today’s project, I made a new beginnings/encouragement card using ink blending on the Wedding Cake White Textured Cardstock. I used the 12×12 sheets, which let me get my focal image and my card…
Sometimes simple monochromatic cards are the most elegant. For my project today, I used two shades of teal from the Stardust Metallic cardstock line – Aquamarine and Lagoon. I also used one of the pre-scored and precut 110# card bases. I LOVE having these card bases on hand, it is so great to have them…
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…
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….
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…
Holiday crafts are so much fun! I know a lot of us give gift cards at the holidays and I’m always looking for new ways to present them. For my project today, I made a tag with a gift card holder. These are great to hang on the Christmas Tree or even hanging on to…
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…
For this card, I used the Basis Folded Card set in Aqua – but I didn’t use the Aqua for the card base. I love having these sets and using the colored cardstock for accents on the card and then use a white card base. Then you still have the perfect matching envelope for your…
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…