Carmen’s Butterfly Spinner Easel Card

   Carmen DeBruce recently created this totally awesome spinner easel card and I had to share it!  She CASEd a project that is shown at Sharon's Scrappy Space: check out the Butterfly Spinning Easel Card – Part 1  and Part 2 videos for details on how to make your own! The butterflies are made of …

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Flower Fest Colored Embossing With Burnishing

I had a great time with my Stamp Club on Friday night!  I always do!  We tried out the new Flower Fest stamp set, along with the new colored embossing powders, all featured in the Summer Mini Catalog.    I CASEd this card from the sample card on page 8 of the Summer Mini.  I …

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Retiring Sense of Time – Emboss Resist Card

So, here I am again, looking at my pile of soon-to-retire stamp sets and wondering, "Why, oh why, didn't I use these babies more?!"  Seriously!  Some of these sets I simply "had" to have, and here they sit, barely mounted and never used!  That has to be some sort of stamping sin I've commited!  Are …

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Pastels Mother of Pearl Technique

I found the coolest card recently, with the coolest background, so I just had to CASE it and use it for one of my May Stamp Club projects!  The card I saw was created by another demonstrator, Joanne French, and I found it on Stampin' Connection (that's an exclusive, demo-only website with 1000s of project …

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Framed Tulips Nature Walk Card & A Winner

   Here are a couple more cards that I did at my workshop last weekend. This time we used the Nature Walk stamp set from the Occasions Mini, paired with the Framed Tulips Impressions Folder.  So pretty!  I was inspired by Ann Schach's Nature Walk card. Too Cool How-Tos After running my 4" x 5-1/4" …

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Vintage Wallpaper Faux Patina Embossing

I love the look of antiqued, layered, and distressed backgrounds, so one of my favorite things to do is experiment with textures, colors and techniques to see what Too Cool effect will emerge! Today's cards combine both heat and dry embossing with lots of sponging to create a beautiful background reminiscent of metal with a …

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