Jackie Bolhuis

Card Making For Beginners – The Complete Guide to Getting Started

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Complete Guide to card making for beginners. Learn how to use stamps, ink and paper to create handmade cards.

Card Making for Beginners – Start With a SIP So you are ready to start stamping and making your own hand-made greeting cards.  But where do you start?  What do you need?  I know it can be confusing and overwhelming with so much information and so many ideas out there. It doesn’t have to be … Read more

In Under 10 Minutes You Can Make 4 Simple Note Cards!

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Ready to make simple note cards? I’ve got 4 design ideas you could make in under 10 minutes using my SIP (stamps, ink, and paper) method. These simple note cards start with a pack of the ‘Basic White Note Cards & Envelopes’, 3 ink pad colors, and the Stampin’ Up! Sweetest Cherries Bundle. I started … Read more

Easy to Create Simple Card Design Ideas

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I can’t wait to share these simple card design ideas that you can use over and over. All you need is a few paper strips, a basic shape, and 1 focal point. Your card will always look great with this layout and it’s a design that you can use with any stamps, paper, and ink!

Are you someone who struggles to think of simple card design ideas? My best advice is to take a basic design and use it with your stamps. Each card does not have to be unique or have a completely different layout!

I hope you love this simple card design and give it a try.

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This layout is super easy and the possibilities are endless. Need any tips for putting on the diagonal pieces? Be sure and watch the entire video where you can also see the cards up close– pictures just don’t do them justice.

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Fun Fold Cards Vol. 4 | Ideas for Year-Round Card Making Fun!

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Are you ready for Fun Fold Cards Vol. 4? Let’s kick off this month with another 4 templates that you can add to your collection. If you have been joining us each month, this will give you 16 fun-fold templates! We designed all the templates to be used with any stamps, paper, and inks you … Read more

Make Use of Your Free Card Template & Make This Partial Flap Fold Card

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Are you ready to learn how to make a partial flap fold card? This easy and fun card will definitely make you smile. As you work on making your collection of Fun Fold Templates, you will find that I sometimes go back and pull a template that I already shared and create a new card with it. This will help you see the value of making these templates, as well as how to use and re-use them.

The partial flap card I’m sharing today is from class #2 (July.) If you made the templates, you already have all the cutting and scoring details.

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This flap fold card also shows you how you can change the orientation of your template (portrait or landscape).

The Storybook Gnomes Designer Series Paper is my feature designer paper today and it’s used for almost every element on the card. The greeting is the only stamping we have on this one.

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Heron Habitat: How to Create The Perfect Watercolor Background

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The Heron Habitat stamp set by Stampin’ Up! begs for a watercolor background! And I have a guest stamper today who is going to teach you how to create this easy look. She is using the Heron Habitat stamp set, and, if you’re like me, you’ll fall in love with this stamp set.

Pat Fairless is my guest today and she is one of my fabulous Klompen Stampers team members and her cards are amazing! Over the summer (maybe longer if you like me having guests) I am featuring someone from my team once a month. It is fun to see what others make and get different tips and ideas from another stamper.

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Pat made a video for you showing how easy and fun this background is to make. The details for the card she made, the complete list of supplies needed to make these Heron Habitat cards, plus several other cards from Pat are included today. You will have lots of ideas to create with this stamp set.

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Handmade Wedding Card You Can Make For A Beautiful & Lasting Impression

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A handmade wedding card is a keepsake that will leave a lasting impression. Think it’s hard to make this greeting card? Let me show you that it’s not! I did some very simple watercoloring on this card and I know you can do it too!

It is so easy because you first emboss which gives the image some “ridges” that hold in the watercoloring. I love doing this and it’s so quick and easy. Want to learn how to make a handmade wedding card that’s this beautiful yourself? Keep scrolling for the video, measurements, and supply list to make both of these cards.

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This stamp set is perfect for handmade wedding cards. It’s elegant, yet super easy to use. The video gives you all the instruction you need to accomplish the watercoloring!

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1 Main Reason Why I Love This DIY Gift Card Holder…

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I love a DIY gift card holder tutorial that can be used year-round for all occasions.

I love giving gift cards for many different occasions. Whether it’s a birthday, new baby, wedding, or more, sometimes they are the perfect gift. But I don’t want them to be boring so I have an easy DIY gift card holder I’m going to teach you how to make.

Select stamps, inks and papers that are appropriate for your gift giving occasion, and personalize your gift card holder!

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This is 1 of the 6 different Gift Card holder designs that are in this month’s VIP Tutorial!

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Embossing Folder Card Ideas | Will This Be YOUR New Favorite to Make?

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What I love about embossing folder card ideas is that they are a quick and easy way to make elegant or simple greeting cards. Let the embossing folder do all the work, and then just add a greeting! Keep it simple and make many cards to share with friends and family!

These embossing folder card ideas allow for such simple card making! There are so many gorgeous folders that it’s hard to pick a favorite. In today’s video, I have tips for using embossing folders as well as tips for adding the greeting to your card. Give this idea a try!

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Are you ready to see how fun these embossing folder card ideas are to make? Scroll down, watch the video for all the tips, then keep scrolling for all the measurements.

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Fun Fold Card Ideas & Templates To Love | Vol 3 Fun Fold Cards

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Ready for some more fun fold card ideas and templates that you’ll fall in love with? It is the first Friday of the month and that means it is our FREE FUN FOLD TEMPLATE CLASS! We are making 4 more templates that you can add to your collection. This month I have Volume 3 for … Read more

Sale-A-Bration Deals You Don’t Want To Miss

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There are some great things happening during Sale-a-Bration so I wanted to take a break from my normal video and card sharing and take a few moments to share the great things about Sale-a-Bration. First, during the July and August Sale-a-Bration period you can take advantage of all the ways to get FREE products! Looking … Read more

Background Collage Stamping: Your Guide To Make a Fantastic Card 

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Have you ever tried background collage stamping? If not, today is the day to learn how easy it is. And we have lots of fantastic cards for you featuring the Nature’s Prints bundle.

It’s time again for a Klompen Stampers Featured Stamper and she is going to show you how easy it is to create background collage stamping. Juli Baca is a fantastic stamper and I love everything she makes. She is a member of my demonstrator team and I wanted to share her with you today! I know you will love Juli and her background collage stamping.

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This is the card that Juli will show you how to make. I am so excited to share her with you!

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