Category: Tutorials Card-making

  • Simple Ombré Christmas Tree Card

    Simple Ombré Christmas Tree Card

    These simple ombré Christmas tree cards are an ode to the paint chip cards I use to easily find at my local grocery store. During the pandemic, the entire paint section was reduced to an aisle and the paint chips disappeared. I didn’t think much of it until I found a cute tutorial on how…

  • Make a Watercolor Postcard . . . Without Watercolors!

    Make a Watercolor Postcard . . . Without Watercolors!

    This watercolor postcard method is so easy you can teach your kids to do it. Which is exactly what I did the last time I was with my nieces. They were drawing away and saw that I was making watercolor backgrounds in my art journal. The fact that I was not using watercolors intrigued them…

  • Make a Get Well Card

    Make a Get Well Card

    I saw a get well card similar to this one years ago at the grocery store except the band-aid had little googly eyes. It was so cute, I stashed the idea away in my head to make someday, and today’s the day. 🙂 This is definitely a project that kids can help make, since it…

  • How to Paint a Recipe

    How to Paint a Recipe

    Want to learn how to paint a recipe? It’s such a fun project and makes a cute card too! Wow, I can’t believe the majority of the summer is behind us already. I’ve been busy with the What Creativity Looks Like series as well as releasing my new book (eeek!), and so the craft posts…

  • Toddler-Friendly Salt Effect Watercolor Cards

    Toddler-Friendly Salt Effect Watercolor Cards

    I LOVE these cards. Last year I discovered salt effect watercolor cards but for some reason I never got around to making a tutorial. Maybe I thought it was too easy? (Or most likely, I just forgot about it.) Whatever the reason, I thought it would be fun to share this project for the last…

  • How to Make a Remember When Card

    How to Make a Remember When Card

    A “remember when” card is one of my favorite kinds of cards to make for someone. It’s pretty easy to whip one up, takes a minimum of supplies, and packs a nice “ah!!!” punch. 🙂 Rather than write out all of the steps for you to take, I recorded a video so you can watch…

  • How to Make a Super Simple Pop-up Card

    How to Make a Super Simple Pop-up Card

    Who doesn’t love a pop-up card? It’s mail with a sweet surprise all wrapped up in one. Maybe you’ve wanted to try to make one before but the thought of spending quality time constructing such a piece has left you disheartened. Or maybe that’s just me. You see 90% of my crafting/writing/painting/everything-creativity time is during…

  • Five Fun Ways to Decorate Envelopes

    Five Fun Ways to Decorate Envelopes

    As a part of letter-writing month, we wouldn’t want to forget the envelopes! After all, that’s the first thing your friend will see when they open their mailbox. You could absolutely send a plain envelope and no one is going to begrudge you that (after all, it’s REAL MAIL!) but I thought I’d compile five…

  • How to Make Gorgeous Butterfly Cards

    How to Make Gorgeous Butterfly Cards

    Thank goodness for Anthropologie catalogs. I’ve used those beautiful pages for more projects than I can count, and today I’m going to share the world’s easiest butterfly card tutorial using the lovely pictures found in an older Anthro catalog. Now, of course, you can use any magazine you’d like, but the reason I especially like…

  • Say Hello With This Fun Watercolor Card

    Say Hello With This Fun Watercolor Card

    Today I’m excited to introduce you to Maggie, the blogger behind Maggie’s Butterfly Kisses. Her blog is packed with card-making tutorials, and I’m so glad she agreed to writing a tutorial for our #30DayMailboxLove challenge. Enjoy! ~Jennie I didn’t purposely plan to do a card involving watercolors just because I know Jennie loves them as…