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Quick Tips For Creative Corners & Sale-a-bration Ideas!

23 Jan

When you’re making card projects, how often do you look at them and think, “It still needs something…” In my craft area, this happens often, which is why I love sharing ideas for adding just a little something to your cards. Today, I want to share ideas for adding something special to the corners of your cards and card layers. These are quick and easy ideas you can use on any project you make. I’ll also be featuring Sale-a-bration products, which you can get for free right now with a minimum purchase. Let’s take a look at these quick tips for creative corners!

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

Sale-a-bration 2025

Right now, if you shop in my online store, you can earn free items including stamps, beautiful paper packs, dies, embellishments and more! You can also get your choice of either $155 in products of your choice OR over $200 in products (some which are preselected for you) for just $99 with our Starter Kit special. Get all the details here.

Quick Tips For Creative Corners Video

Watch along here as I share lots of ideas for creative corners! At the end I’m sharing about the special diet I’ve been on called the GAPS diet and how it is very different from what we have been taught is healthy for us.

Easy Ways To Spice Up Your Card Corners

Here are the ideas I’ve come up with for fun corners!

1. Score And Fold Them

I forgot to include this in today’s videos, but you can get all the details here. I just love this idea!

Click for a trick for making fancy corners on your card project! Try this on your next handmade card. Ideas feature the Stampin Up Citrus Blooms bundle.

2. Use A Corner Punch

Many punches are designed specifically for corners, such as the punch I used on this card.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

3. Get Creative With Your Punches

Have you ever thought about using regular punches to create nice corners? For this card, I used a star punch to create the nice ends on the white strip.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

For this card I used the To The Point Label punch to create the nice ends. If you like ideas for creative ways to use your punches, make sure to take a look at this link.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

4. Draw Patterns On Them

Grab a pen or marker and start drawing! Here are a few ideas for patterns to add to your corners.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

And here is the card I created with this idea.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

5. Stamp A Design

I used the Corner In Bloom stamp set to stamp this pretty corner design. This stamp set is actually what inspired today’s projects, and it is available for free right now with a purchase of $120. If you don’t have a stamp set made specifically for corners, you can use a small stamp and use it repeatedly around a corner.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

6. Stamp & Trim

This is similar to the previous idea, but I trimmed around the design with my favorite scissors.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

7. Trim Angles

I love doing this on my cards! It’s easy to trim off small corners by hand. Don’t worry if they’re not exact…no one will ever notice. I keep them small, because when I try to cut larger corners, they end up obviously uneven.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

8. Use Blending Brushes

Typically when I add ink around the edges of a project, I do so all around. For this card I only added ink at the corners and I like the result.

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

Tell me your ideas for creative corners!

Click for 8 simple ideas to spice up the corners on your handmade cards and the layers on your card projects.

Materials List

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I hope you can use these quick tips for creative corners on your upcoming projects!

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  1. Rita says

    January 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM

    Hi Anna! Really enjoyed your presentation and was pleasantly surprised when you spoke about the GAPS diet you are on. Several years ago when I was having digestive issues, I did an online search and came across some great testimonials about the gut healing benefits of the GAPS diet. I ordered Dr. Campbell-McBride’s GAPS book as well as the Specific Carbohydrate Diet book by Elaine Gottschall (the book title is Break the Vicious Cycle). Dr. McBride built the GAPS diet from the earlier research by Elaine Gottschall’ …… so it is very interesting to read both books and learn the full history. Both of these books came to be because these women had children who were suffering from major digestive problems and, as concerned Moms, they diligently searched for answers to helping their children. I am so thankful that I followed the GAPS diet and found healing and I’m so glad to learn that you are also being greatly helped by the GAPS diet. I’m sure the Lord lead me to this diet and I feel sure He did the same for you. Blessings!

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