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From the Heart: DIY Valentine’s Day Card Crafted with Love

Valentine’s Day is a great holiday for paper crafters who want to share some love. If you are looking for some inspiration, here is a beautiful heart card for the occasion. Created with stamping, die-cutting an embossing this card is a great example of some simple techniques that can make a stunning and elegant card. Send your love to someone this Valentine’s Day with a card like this and they will be sure to know how much you care.

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January 31, 2014

Showcase: Holiday Snowflake Card

Embossing dies are a great way to emphasize the beauty of a paper and Gloria Stengel has taken embossing a step further, with this card, to bring out the dimensional look. The Medium Berry Red Card Stock has been lightly inked with a white Chalk Alabaster on the raised design in order to bring out that extra dimension.

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November 25, 2013

Know the Score…on Folding Paper

Folding paper can be the bane of both printers and designers. Nothing is more aggravating than seeing a beautiful design project brought to its knees by a lousy fold…cracking its way deep into the fleshy folds of your psyche…ouch. In the next few paragraphs, I’m going to share some simple and very useful information about the proper folding and scoring of paper, to help you successfully complete your projects as planned.

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November 11, 2013

Grain direction…the long and short of it.

Will you fold, score and bind your paper, or will you crush, break and warp your paper? That is the question. Proper folding, scoring and binding of paper are mostly a matter of understanding the major properties of paper fiber. One of the most important properties to understand about paper

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October 11, 2013

Crafting Halloween Fun: Learn How to Create an Embossed Pop-Up Card

The ‘trick or treat’ pop up inside is an easy way to make a fun card with a die cutting machine. Just die cut the pattern and fold it. This card is given an elegant look with embossing pattern seen throughout the design. A few purple bats and a paper flower on the front make this Halloween card quite a treat!

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September 30, 2013

The Art of Embossing: Glamorous Creations with Elan Metallics

The elegant shine of the Elan Metallics paper used in this card is brought out in multiple ways. The embossed front plays with the highlights and shadows as light hits the card and the flower gives a complimenting look with a subtle shine from the roughened texture. The three dimensional look of the embossing is enhanced with an extra layer on front achieved with foam tape under the embossed card stock.

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August 20, 2013

Onion Skin Paper…Peeling Away the Mystery

Onion skin paper is an intriguing paper on many fronts. Once, Onion skin paper was most commonly used as a typewriter paper, tracing paper and to hold carbon paper in place while making copies, and it was loved for its light weight, which was perfect for airmail letters. Today, this

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August 5, 2013

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