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An eclipse card with a twist! (and new products from Kristina Werner!)

Today I’m sharing a really cool eclipse style card with a little twist! There is a new release out today from Kristina Werner and she has graciously sent me many of her new products and today I’m using some of them for this card.

I am using her Wavy Lines Background Stamp for my design, along with the A2 Thin Frames Dies, a really fantastic basic die set that also comes with two word and shadow dies, hugs and hi.

All I did to add a twist was literally flip my eclipse panel 180° so ...

Swanderful new products from Waffle Flower

Today I’m sharing two lovely swan-themed cards featuring the new release from Waffle Flower Crafts. And if I may… they are SWANderful.

Seriously though, I love the designs so much! Here is my tutorial showing you how these cards came togegther:

The Intertwined Swans are really fun, right? And then they open to reveal the greeting. Plus, the Overlapping Hearts Stencils is such a basic, all-purpose stencil set that you could use for many occasions.

And even though I...

CATHY MAKES A CARD LIVE—THE GIVEAWAY POST FOR THIS WEEK’S YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

Today’s card is going to Polly W. and if you watch the replay you will see why.

Here’s the livestream:

I love how this card turned out!

Thanks for watching my live!

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New dies from CZ Design to kick off DieCember®

Happy DieCember®! That’s right, crafty friends, around these parts we referred to the month of December as DieCember! It’s a month-long celebration of all things die cutting from Simon Says Stamp! I have some fun new releases that are part of my CZ Design collection and I will show you all of them below and then share a premiere video at 11 a.m. central time on December 1 where I’ll show you how this card pictured above came together!

The premiere will be on YouTube and I will be chatting...

Swatch your stamping inks! (plus a free tag download for you)

Swatching your stamping inks is one of the most useful things you can do when it comes time to pick the perfect colors for your next card or crafty project. Lately, I’ve been using a tag from Waffle Flower and I’ll share some of what I have done in the past, as well. All ways of doing this can work, depending on your preferences! Check out my video and my free title tag download is below.

If you want to use the Waffle Flower Tag I am using, you can download and print out the sheets ...

CATHY MAKES A CARD LIVE—THE GIVEAWAY POST FOR THIS WEEK’S YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (November 27,24), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by noon tomorrow.

Here’s the livestream:

I love how this card came out!

Thanks for watching my live! And to those who are celebrating Thanksgiving, here’s to a peaceful holiday with friends or family, or both!

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How to pick colors for your cards using the Color Cube

The Color Cube by Sarah Renae Clark is a great tool for choosing color combos, but I think many of us crafty people get it, and forget about it. At least that’s what has happened to me! But today, I’m sharing how I use her cards to help me pick color palettes I would never normally gravitate towards. The stamp set I’m using is the Soda-Lighted stamps (and dies!) which is perfect to illustrate how great these cards are when you need to choose more than just a few colors.

Here is my tutoria...

Emboss then stencil… or is the other way around? Let’s test ’em both!

Today I’m sharing a simple but very all-purpose stencil and embossing folder combo and testing out what order works best for me. Emboss then stencil? Or the reverse? I have an answer for that in my tutorial. Check it out:

So how do you do it? I’m definitely going to try this out with more combos and see if it holds up! I really think this turned out nicely.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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CATHY MAKES A CARD LIVE—THE GIVEAWAY POST FOR THIS WEEK’S YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (November 20, 2024), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by noon tomorrow.

Here’s the livestream:

I really love how this card turned out and… I hope that bit at the end helped to explain some of my better design choices!

Thanks for watching my live!

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Beautifully foiled dahlias for your card projects

For today’s card project, it’s all about foil and Poly-Glaze! Gina K. Designs has a new release out today, including a new card kit and a coordinating Poly-Glaze Set that matches one of the stamp and die sets from the kit.

Here is my tutorial showing you how this project came together:

It’s so hard to photograph foiled projects. I try to show the shine but… it’s truly something you can see best in the video.

Gina’s new kit is called You Are So loved and contains all of...