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Fun Ways To Use Glitter In Your Card Projects
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today to share a couple of fun ways to incorporate glitter in your cardmaking. With different color mixes, finishes, and sizes of particles, Art Glitter gives you tons of options for adding sparkle to your projects. Here I show four of my favorite ways to use glitter on cards and some tips for containing the mess so you can feel confident using it too! One of my favorite ways to add sparkle is creating glitter die-cuts. I like to adhere a small piece of Spellbinders White Liner Double-Sided Adhesive Sheet to white cardstock and then…
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Christmas Stitching in July!
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some projects with you using the new Stitched for Christmas Collection. This beautiful collection features lots of stitching dies to create beautiful handmade stitched projects. Not into stitching? You can also use these dies without stitching, they still make beautiful projects! CHRISTMAS POINSETTIAS My first card uses the beautiful Stitched Poinsettia & Holly Etched Dies. I die-cut the poinsettias from Poppy Field Cardstock (both the stitching layer and back layer) and the holly from Peridot Cardstock. I then added ink blending to the layers using Distress Oxide Inks and blending brushes. I stitched the poinsettias and holly leaves using DMC Color Essentials Floss…
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Mainly Monochrome With Michelle Short
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share three projects with you using the new Glimmer Cardfront Sentiments Collection. I don’t know about you, but I often struggle with picking out color combinations. Whilst there are different ways to combat this (like using a color wheel), I often like to forget about combinations and go monochrome instead. Or in this case mainly monochrome, as I did add in green for the leaves! FULL OF HUGS For my first card, I am using the This Card is Full of Hugs Glimmer Hot Foil Plate. I love the quirky font on these sentiments! It was foiled onto a panel of white cardstock using…