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Hello everyone! Welcome to day 3 of Faber-Castell and Waffle Flower Inspiration Week! We team up with our friends at Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft to bring you an entire week of mixed-media inspiration! We have Mayline here today! Hello everyone, it’s Mayline here today to share. Faber-Castell has amazing products; there are watercolor pencils, Crayons, Pastels, Pens, and so on. I believe that the most innovative product from Faber-Castell is Gelatos. Gelatos are very buttery so you can easily blend them like Pastels using fingers without water. They are also watersoluble so they can be used to create watercolor effects. How great is that?! I am fully...

Hello everyone! Nina here again with another post in our on-going series: The Missing Manual for Card Making. I am one of those people who reads every word in a user manual and hopes there is one for everything, haha! While I am still learning new things everyday, I want to go ahead and document what I’ve learned. I'm sharing simple bite-size tips in the hope that they will be useful to you too. Today, I'm sharing some simple ways to go beyond on your normal clean and simple cards! CAS (clean & simple) cards usually utilize a strong focal and a lot of white space. It does not mean that the...

Hello everyone! Tessa Wise here! My girls love these glow-in-the-dark stars and wanted to include them in their valentine's this year.  I tucked them away in some embossed vellum bags and decorated the outside using an out-of-this-world galaxy technique done with our Starry Night Stamp Set and Surface-Tag Die- Starter Kit. One in a Million Treat Bags [Video] Galaxy Background Technique Watch it below or in HD on Youtube http://youtu.be/vsZiU-7ya9A Here is a closeup on the tag: SUPPLIES Starry Night Stamp Set Surface-Tag Die- Starter Kit

Hello! Its Sabrina sharing an idea for silly valentine’s with you today. I can never get enough puns, especially at Valentine’s time! There are just so many cute ones like this “I love you this……..much” sentiment included in the On My Mark stamp set. When combined with the coordinating die, it really makes for some cute mini cards!   The cat and dog images are already long and stretched out but adding an accordion folded mid section makes them extra silly!   There is room inside to tuck in a small treat if you wanted to hand something like this...

Hello everyone! Welcome to another Watch It Wednesday! Tessa is here to share her tips and tricks on how to create the fun texture on the "rocks" here: Stamp Set used: Rock My World Stamp Set Watch it below or in HD on Youtube. http://youtu.be/C-2ur0CbHbs Now who's ready to give some spray mists love? :) Here is Tessa's finished project: We love how she used stickers on the "rocks" for her title! Thank you, Tessa, for sharing your talent with us! Stamp Set used: Rock My World Stamp Set Thank you for stopping by! Happy Crafting!  

Hello everyone! Nina here! I'm super excited to start this new feature on Waffle Flower Blog today! Watch It Wednesday Starting this month, we will have a video tutorial on every 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesdays! Sabrina and Tessa will join us every month for this feature! Rise & Shine Card From Start to Finish I made the card on the right for our new release. It was my favorite but I made a few small changes to it and made the card on the left. I shared why and how I made the changes in the video. I also shared some tips and tricks...