Author: L V

Card Making

Tips & Tricks

• When you line up your top cutting plate, be sure to look at where the cutting edge is and make sure you leave some of the bottom edge uncovered (so it doesn’t get cut)
• You can also put your die cutting-edge up on your paper and draw two reference lines — one at the bottom of the die (so you know where to line up your dies) and one where the bottom cutting edge (so you know how to line up your top cutting plate to avoid cutting the bottom edge)
• It’s best if you can leave at least 2-3 spots across your die still attached at the bottom to give it extra stability.

I don’t think I’ve ever used stencils as extensively as I did during this craft session. 🙂 It really did remind me to pull out my stencils more often. Stencils are great for making gorgeous backgrounds. These backgrounds can also stand centerstage with just simple sentiments to finish them off.

Tips & Tricks

• When you clean your stencils, if you use a wet wipe you can wipe the stencil onto a fresh piece of cardstock to get a second background for free.

I was really looking forward to this box and it was rather hard to find. In fact, the only place I found that has it available as a one-off purchase is HSN.com. Many of the other boxes you can find on sale on a variety online retailers so you can often get it at a good price if you catch a sale.… Read the rest

This Shaker Card Box Kit is really fun beyond just making shaker cards. Not only do you get nested dies in different shapes, but there’s a very generous amount of shaker bits too. You’ll be making shaker cards for days! What’s great about the shaker bits that come in the kit, is you can use it for embellishments as well.… Read the rest

These Peek-A-Boo dies come in two varieties — the Christmas and the Everyday. I don’t have the entire Christmas set, but I did get the full Everyday set when it went on sale. The unique aspect of these stamp and die sets is that you get stamps for the front and the back of the characters.… Read the rest

This is such a fun kit! The dies are pretty unique to anything I have in my stash. They actually do a partial die cut and there are several different sizes in butterflies and flowers. The butterflies just cut the wings but leave the body attached to the card. The flowers also have some extra dimension that’s created with some partial die-cutting.… Read the rest