Category Archives: Card Making

Happy Mother’s Day with Real Wood

We love our moms and are excited to celebrate all the mothers in our lives this coming Sunday. We love the look of wood layered on wood and also how great our Wood paper holds cut details from an e-cutter. This card marries those two loves and we hope expresses to mom how much we LOVE […]

Love You Wood Decor with Smooch Spritz

We had so much fun this April showing you how well Wood and ClearSnap products partner. Thank you ClearSnap! This week we’ve created a home decor art piece that would make a great gift for Mom using Wood and Smooch Spritz. Spritzing wood is a great way to add subtle or bold color. We played […]

Real Wood and Zig® woodcraft markers

We created these simple Easter egg notecards using Cherry wood paper and Zig Woodcraft markers. Zig Woodcraft markers work great on all of our wood finishes. You can use these woodcraft markers to decorate or write directly onto our wood paper. These high opacity markers allow for many coats of paint with little bleed-through. Supplies for Wood Easter […]

Lucky Day card and tag with Real Birch wood

We love to use wood in our paper crafting and in our gift giving. This week we’ve combined both with these projects perfect for St. Patrick’s day. Both Lucky Day projects feature Birch wood paper. Supplies for the ‘Lucky Day’ card and ‘Lucky’ tag: Birch wood adhesive paper, Lucky Day download, electronic cutting machine, green card stock, […]

Wood You Be Mine – Real Wood Valentines

Handmade Valentines are a great way to show someone you care. We created these tongue and cheek Wood Valentines using Cherry and Rustic Cherry Wood sheets and the “wood you be mine” pun. Supplies for ‘Wood You Be Mine’ Valentines: Rustic Cherry 6×12 Adhesive Sheets, Cherry 6×12 Adhesive Sheets, Cherry Wood Tape, scallop notecards and envelopes, electronic die cutter, heart cut file, Valentine rub-on image transfers, flower […]

Embossing Real Wood – Fall Card

It’s been a while since we shared some card inspiration. This week’s fall card features Cherry and Birch woods. Real Wood embosses amazingly well! You can add more visual dimension to any Real Wood sheet with a little texture embossing. On our Hello Fall card we dry embossed a sheet of Birch wood with a […]

Real Wood & World Card Making Day!

It’s October 4th and today is World Card Making Day! Yes, a day just for us card makers. We joined in on the card making fun and created a ‘World’ themed card using Rustic Cherry Wood, Cherry Wood and Birch Wood papers. For more information about WCMD visit the World Card Making Day website. We […]

Real Wood Butterfly Mixed Media Canvas

Hello! We are back this week with more mixed media inspiration to share. As we mentioned in a previous mixed media blog post, we love to incorporate wood into our artwork. The ‘Butterfly’ home decor piece we are showing you this week was created on canvas using a variety of inks, papers, and finishes. In […]

Shadow prints with Real Wood & SolarFast

This week we got a chance to try our Wood papers with Jacquard SolarFast dyes. SolarFast dyes work great with paper and natural fabrics and we found these dyes are also great to use on wood paper! We did a few image and time tests and ultimately created some shadow prints with leaves and twigs. […]

Real Wood Friend Card

This week’s project is a small notecard which features both Cherry wood and Rustic Cherry Wood. We love how our Cherry wood layers with our Rustic Cherry Wood. Tonally they match well and each accent the other nicely. You can get a similar effect when pairing White Birch Wood and Rustic White Birch Wood. Supplies for […]