I have a love affair with heat embossing. It can be used on sentiments, layers, stamped images or used sparingly in accents on your cards. In this video, we’ll use Heat Embossing in three different ways as accents to take your card making up another level! How will you incorporate …
5 Ways to Use Cover Plates
Have you fallen in love with the versatile cover plate yet? I am pretty smitten with these background making bad boys and thought it would be fun to look at all of the things you can do with them! So here are 7 Ways to Use Cover Plates. Ready? GO! …
Angel Wings and Color Bursts Video Tutorial
When I started playing with our Catherine Pooler for Ken Oliver Color Bursts it was quite a mess in the clubhouse! We puffed color and sprayed water endlessly to see what kinds of amazing textural results we could create! Once I got going, I knew I wanted to pair them …
4 Ways to Use Sunflower Stamps Video Tutorial
For the past 4 weeks, I’ve premiered a new video tutorial on my channel on Sunday night at 8 PM Eastern. A premiere let’s us watch a new video tutorial for the first time together and talk, ask questions and hang out together in the chat box. I have been …
3 Card with Background Stamps and Heat Embossing
Join me for this video where I create three cards made with background stamps and heat embossing for hand made holiday cards. Leave me a comment and let me know which card is your favorite! Ink blend a background, then heat emboss glitter over the top, finish off with a …
Inking Techniques with Sangria
You know at CP Designs we love celebrating, so lucky us that every 6 weeks we have new product releases which is the best reason to throw a party! At the end of October, with our newly released ink and 10 years on YouTube celebration, we partied big! It was the perfect excuse for a taco bar …
5 Cards, 2 Stamp Sets: Club Sursee
Friends! If you are new to the Club Sursee program, this is a great time to check it out! The deadline for subscribing to the next round is November 14 at 11:59 Eastern. We’ll be shipping by the 20th and we can’t wait to see what you create. So what …
Holiday Card with the Merry Mini Cover Plate
The Man with the Beard Stamp is a favorite of mine! The sentiments were hand lettered to fit in between the Santa hats and beards in place of a face and has such a fun and whimsical look. I stamped and die cut a bunch of beards and hats to …
Holiday Collection: Angel Wings Stepped up 4 Ways
The It’s All About Christmas Release is about to hit the shop! Here are some things you need to know: BUNDLES: There are 5 different themed bundles of product. If you’ve missed the reveals, visit the main blog page here and scroll through the posts from September 11 through now …
2 Cards using the Sum-Sum-Summertime Patterned Paper with Lisa
Hello friends, Lisa here! Catherine invited me to share a couple of cards today featuring the yummy 3 Scoops Stamp set. Let’s throw chocolate and vanilla to the curb and reach into our bright colors for a fun, fruity twist on our ice cream today. First up, I …
2 Cards with Clear Emboss Resist Technique and Color Bursts
These Color Bursts having been lighting up the scene so much that we’ve placed multiple reorders for them with Ken Oliver! We are beyond thrilled that you all are loving them as much as we do! So if you hop over to the shop and see that they are sold …
Using Die Cuts to Create a Textured Background with Kristie
Hi everyone! It’s Kristie here with a guest post just for you! I created a fun background on my card today using dies to create texture. The sentiment piece was created using re-inkers and water. I started by die cutting a bunch of the flip flop dies from white …
Mixing Embossing Powders
The video hop celebrating the Unsinkable Collection is happening! In my video, I made two cards…one with this really cool iron look on the anchor which I achieved by mixing embossing powders. And the second one with a stencil technique on a really simple card. Be sure to view the …
Unsinkable Product Release Blog Hop
It’s time for our Unsinkable Release! We’ve been sneaking and playing and creating fun ocean and nautical themed cards all week long! The best part is NOW because you all get to jump in the shop, choose your favorites and you’ll be creating in no time. We can’t wait to …
Stamping in the Clubhouse
Our ballerina friend, Anna, visited us in the Clubhouse this week! We were so excited, because since she learned about stamping last summer, her mom has sent me pictures and videos of Anna watching my Youtube videos. Anna has dabbled a bit into stamping and knows the basics, so I …