C.C. Blog — Rick Adkins

Friendship cards are a wonderful way to let someone know you are thinking about them, and this design combines cheerful pattern paper with a sweet stamped focal image for a card that feels both playful and polished. Rick is back with another project to share with everyone, featuring the Stars Hollow Clear Stamp Set, pattern paper and Tombow Dual Brush Pens. Along the way, we'll look at how stamping, coloring, fussy cutting, and thoughtful layering can work together to create a balanced handmade card. Project Overview This friendship card starts with a simple layered layout and lets the patterned paper add...

Hello crafty friends: it's Rick back with you again today to share another project with you.  Today I am sharing a cute little card using the Winter Mice Stamp Set.   For my card today I created a simple winter scene.  I stamped and colored the mouse on skates and the mouse nibbling on the cookie from the Winter Mice Stamp Set.  Once I had the two images colored I did a little fussy cutting for the mice.  I also took a pencil and a scrap of white cardstock and sketched out a simple snow mound.  I used my paper snips to...

Good morning crafty friends; it's Rick here with you today to share a little inspiration using the newly released Winter Mouse Stamp Set.  I created a clean and layered card design to share with you to help add a little inspiration for your holiday crafting. I stamped and colored the little mouse with his snowman in the wheelbarrow and then did a little fussy cutting (or cussy cutting) depending on your view on that LOL. I then took and created the perfect little winter background for him that allows for plenty of white space and makes the main star of the...