Happy Birthday to you…

Happy Birthday to you….

Happy Birthday dear Kimber…..

Happy Birthday to you!  How old are you now…..Did you like my singing voice? I will stop now while you still have ear drums!

Welcome to the Core’dinations Blog! We are celebrating a very fun day here today for our very own Core Teacher…

Kimber McGray!!!

Hope it’s a great day for you, girl!

Here is a card that I made to celebrate this festive day.  I was looking for my lordy lordy looks who’s forty stamp but I must have misplaced it

Next up is Celeste Smith’s blog so make sure you head on over there next!

While you are visiting…….

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Happy Fourth of July!

Here in the States we are CeLeBraTiNg the Fourth of July, our Independence Day.

We are kicking off this week with a fabulous layout from April Derrick using the Fabulous Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions. Don’t you love how April used the large scalloped sheet? Fabulous!  And that strip of photos???? Love it!

And Debbie Standard created this gorgeous card using stamps and Core’dinations. The Woodgrain Embossing folder from Tim Holtz is perfect for the background for the cute little birdhouse.

Beautiful!

Have a wonderful Holiday and be safe!

Happy Father’s Day Week!

This week we are celebrating Fathers and Family here on the blog!

We are kicking it off with two layouts from Debbie Standard. Debbie packs her layouts FULL of  amazing details so grab your coffee and be ready to get inspired!

For this first layout, Debbie sanded a sheet of My Mind’s Eye Core Impressions.  It looks beautiful with the bright blue embossed Core Essentials.  And check out the fun details from the 4×6″ mini My Mind’s Eye collection pack!  They go perfectly together. And of course those fun photos of the kids playing around  with their Dad. They just make you smile!

Next up, Debbie shares with us another layout about family. For this layout Debbie scored her Whitewash background . Such an easy and quick way to make your own background!

The flowers are stamped. All you need to do is turn your Core’dinations over and stamp on the backside for a nice, smooth finish.

AND…yes, there is more!  Debbie printed her clouds from her computer using a digital image directly on some Whitewash and the sanded.

Easter Cards

Good Morning!

We have some Easter Cards to share with you from our Design Team today!  These will definitely get you inspired to create some festive projects this week while you wait for the Easter Bunny to arrive.

First up we have a super cute card from Design Team Member Cari Locken.  Cari used Core Essentials, Gemstones and Whitewash Cardstocks and some Queen & Co. pearls along with the Cricut Expressions & Spring Holiday Cards Cartridge.

And here is a fun card from Design Team Member Linda Beeson. Check out all the cute details on here, including the gorgeous stamping on the Core Essentials and the Core Impressions Woodgrain on the cardbase.

And can you ever get too much Gemstones on one card? NO WAY! Check out  this beautiful card from Design Team Member Debbie Standard using layers and layers of Gemstones.

Have a GREAT week everyone!

We will keep you updated on the Design Team call as well.

Tuesday Tutorial

Today’s Tutorial comes from Linda Beeson. Remember the gorgeous house she created with Tim Holtz Core’dinations Cardstock, stamps, inks and other goodies? Well, Linda put together a wonderful tutorial for you today including the dimensions needed for your own house!

This is a little bird house made of cardstock.  It can be created from a 12” x 12” piece of cardstock (right click and save  the image below to your computer then print out. You will need to recreate the dimensions on a 9 1/2 x 11″ piece of cardstock) .  For my bird house, I cut out a circle in the front and lined that with a piece of acetate this way it can hold a little gift of candy and the window shows you the treats inside.

Here is the pattern for the base created from a 9 ½” x 11” piece of cardstock.  Note: This pattern can be altered though to make the house in the size you want.  Keep the 11” side the same, just adjust the size of the middle and/or top sections to make the house taller or shorter.

I wanted my bird house to be created from embossed cardstock but the Cuttlebug or Sizzix embossing folders are not big enough for the entire bird house at once, so I created a base bird house with plain cardstock and then embossed pieces to glue to the sides of the bird house and then additional pieces to create my little roof.

Score on the score lines and crease those folds with a bone folder.  Here is a photo of what all of the folds and cuts will look like.

When all of the lines are scored and creased, the paper folds to form a box.  Glue along the edge of the extra tab.  Here you can see how the roof should come together.  You can give the roof folds scored lines too or use your fingers to give the correct creases.

I used my Coluzzle circle cutter to cut my hole in the front of the house.  Then, I cut a piece of acetate and glued that to the inside of the house.  This is optional.  I filled my house with candy. If you aren’t going to do that, the top can be stapled or glued together and use some kind of a paper clip so that it can be easily opened.

Now, I measured each of my sections and cut embossed pieces of cardstock and glued those in place.

Remember if you need tips on embossing to check out our videos here.

Here is another view:

We hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial. A HUGE thank you to Linda for putting this together. It’s gorgeous!!! We would love to see yours if you create one so make sure you link us up.  Have a great week!

Tim Holtz Design Team Projects

Today we have some awesome Tim Holtz projects from the Design Team that were displayed at CHA!

Here are a few of them up close. Make sure you check out the amazing details!  All of these projects were created with the Tim Holtz Core’dination Collectin in addition to his other great inks, stamps and embellishments. YES! We said  stamping.  Our cardstock is great for stamping on the textured side or the smooth side.

Linda Beeson:

A layout from Debbie Standard:

And an altered Journal from Ellen Sosnoski:

Day 11 of the 12 Days of Techniques

Wonderful Wednesday

Boy did we have fun last week! Thank you, thank you for all of your wonderful comments.  Reading them was a lot of fun and we enjoy your feedback. We will post a winner tomorrow of the wonderful give-a-way so stay tuned for that.

I will leave you with to more projects we spotted in the gallery with some Imaginisce and Core’dinations. These are just bright and summery, just like the weather here today!

Here Frei used a fun mix of Vintage Cardstock and Jenni Bowlin Core Impresions on this layout {and take note how she printed direction on her Core’dinations cardstock}:

And this card by Debbie Standard is just loaded with amazing details! From the layered Spellbinders die-cuts, to the stamping and sanding, you can’t take your eye off of this one!

Basic Mondays

Happy Monday!  We hope you had a great weekend. It is Monday again and time to share some great ways you can use Core’dinations as your go to cardstock.

Today’s tip comes from Kandis. On this layout, Kandis turned over her cardstock and used the backside!  We LOVE our backsides here at Core’dinations. And doesn’t it look great paired with some Cosmo Cricket Core Impressions? Don’t be afraid to mix and match the different lines of Core’dinations like Kandis did on this layout:

And don’t forget your rubons. Core’dinations Cardstock works great with any kind of rubons, too.

Basic Mondays

Today we are going to be sharing some more creations featuring ways to use your Core’dinations as your go-to cardstock. Remember, you an print on our cardstock, stamp and use your markers as well!

Debbie Standard does this beautifully on these cards. Notice how she uses the Textured side of her Core’dinations when she colors.

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