Posts tagged paper craft

Classy cards using the inlay technique with a twist

Hello my fellow crafters, Today I am making two cards for you using the inlay technique. the second one using the left overs. this technique is simple to do but has such a high impact and looks really luxurious! To color the background I used the Elizabeth Craft Designs Water Color pallet. This stuff keeps amazing me as it is so pigmented! It’s crazy. In this project I show you how to use it for smushing. if you want to see how I made these cards, please visit my YouTube… Read More

Mixed Media February dashboard

Hello my fellow crafters, welcome to my blog. Today I am working in my 2022 planner again. In the Facebook group ECD planners & journaling we have monthly challenge. The challenge for this month was numbers. Just that. and yes, there are a lot of different dies we can use but it got my creative juices flowing. SO… I made a stencil out of yupo and created my own, unique back ground. I created the background by using crackle paste on the paper, toping that with embossing powder and let… Read More

Very cool Retro Bus turned in to a Card!

Hello my fellow crafters, welcome to my blog. Today I have a fun little project for you. if you have visited my blog before you know that I am a fan of the new Retro Bus Special kit from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I had this idea in my head to turn it in to a card and I love how this turned out. This set is intended to make planner pages or smaler booklets but, as it turns out, can also be used for a card! If you want to… Read More

Playing with the NEW pocket pages

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. Today I am playing with the brand new Planner Essentials Pocket pages by Elizabeth Craft Designs. Full disclosure, when I received these I had my doubts about these. I thought, what’s the fun in just sliding photo’s in. How wrong could I be! I made 4 different pages today and show how you can combine it with different dies from the Planner Essentials collection. I am however also using roses from the Beautiful Blooms collection. So have a look in your… Read More

My first ever Art Journal!

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome! Today I am going to work on my first ever art journal page using the dies and album from Elizabeth Craft Designs. This was fun! I will defiantly do more with this and complete the month challenges from the Journal with us Facebook group. The prompt for this month was Corrugated Card stock but I took it one step further. While thinking about this project I went on line and looked for “January colors” and found this picture: These are color combinations for each… Read More

Beautiful blossem card

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. Today i am playing with the Elizabeth Craft Designs Beautiful Blooms Blossom. below you can find a step by step of how i made this card. I used a lot of different media to make this. At the end of this blog you can find a full list of products that i used. The next step is to choose a sentiment. Once cut out i colored it with the same colors as the flowers. Than i glued it on a mat… Read More

simple and clean 2 for one card

hello my fellow crafters, welcome to my blog. Today I am sharing two cards that I made in one go. so two for one. I got inspired to do this technique just by looking at this beautiful background die. It’s a stunner and I love it. Making this two cards was so quick and easy that I just had to share it with you. if you want to see a step by step tutorial on how to make these cards, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/r2_RZ3BVsow Products used for this… Read More

Stunning stained glass effect using shimmer powders

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog. For today’s project I finally made a card again! I have been so busy with my ambassador ship for Elizabeth Craft Design Planner Essentials that this got pushed back a bit. But today was time for a card. And oh wow how I love this card. It was my first time ever playing with the Nuvo Shimmer powders and they are stunning. It is like magic happening on paper. Now when yo start it doesn’t look like much but once you… Read More

Retro bus mini booklet!

My name is Devid, and I am honored to be a new Band Ambassador for the Planner Essentials collection. It is a great collection, and I am completely hooked. This is my first ever blogpost here for Elizabeth Craft Designs and I am super excited! In this blog I am working with the fantastic new Retro Bus Special, in this case I am making a mini book.  Step 1: Die cut all the pieces you need out of the cardstock.  Step 2: I used cardstock with a colored core. Using… Read More

Monochromatic planner page

Hello my fellow crafters and welcome to my blog!in today’s blog I will show you the first page of my planner for 2022. I have this idea in my head and that includes 4 quarters, 12 months and 52 weeks. So this first page is going to be my quarter 1 page. For this page I used a monochromatic color scheme. all shades of blue. To start I made a background with my Gell press and acrylic paint. this resulted in a beautiful layered look with a lot of depth…. Read More