Let’s keep those flower projects coming! Flowers are good at any time of year, but they really explode during spring. Deb Duty shares how to make this stamped flower card using a stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. She used … Read More...
Freebie | Printable Watercolor Menu for Mother’s Day
Use this lovely+ watercolor menu for a Mother’s Day lunch, or for any party this Spring! You can customize the JPG file in Photoshop or an online tool like PicMonkey or Canva, and add the details of your menu. Pair … Read More...
Tutorial | Scrapbook Paper Covered Pencils + Printable
Looking for sweet and simple teacher’s gifts? Here’s a neat idea from The Casual Craftlete and The Crafting Chicks. They show you how to cover pencils with patterned paper, and gift them in a coordinating pencil tin. The circle gift … Read More...
Tutorial | Embroider a Scrapbook Background
The Paper Curator shows how simple it is to add a custom touch to a scrapbook page with an embroidered background. First you sketch your desired pattern, in her case diamonds, then punch holes, and finally stitch it up! Such … Read More...
Freebie | Mother’s Day Gift Tags
Top off your Mother’s Day gifts with free printable gift cards from A Joyful Riot. You can get them in three different designs, and they come with embellishment tags too. Print the PDF on cardstock and cut out, and you’re … Read More...
Tutorial | Garden Seed Envelope Gift
Give flower seeds in handmade envelopes! This is a super sweet idea for sending a thoughtful gift to a gardener friend, or someone who wants to try out gardening. Heather shares how to make these seed envelopes using an original … Read More...
Tutorial | Cupcake Holder Flowers
Michelle from Elegance and Enchantment shares how she made these delightful peony flowers from cupcake holders and Styrofoam spheres . She followed instructions that she found at Lia Griffith, and made the flowers for her monthly creative challenge. Michelle shares … Read More...
Top 10 Posts for Week Ending April 25th
Saturday Inspirations Week 8
I really loved this slanted design from a publicity poster for this documentary about the Eames’. Here’s my page
The page title and journaling were inspired by this article that I read around the same time. Hope this sparks some … Read More...
Tutorial | DIY Gift Card Envelopes
Stash gift cards in these funky envelopes to creatively gift them to loved ones. Andre used the Punch Board Party collection from We-R-Memory-Keepers to whip these babies out in under 30 minutes. Not giving gift cards? These envelopes would work … Read More...
Freebie | Printable Envelope Liners
Did you know that April is Letter Writing Month? Me neither! Thanks to for letting me in on that information. We still have 9 days left to send out some snail mail, and we can do it in style with … Read More...
Article | Printing Blog Posts For Your Scrapbook
Christina Elyse explains why she started to print out blog posts to include in her Project Life Albums. She does a loose version of Project Life (an idea I LOVE) and decided to make the blog posts a more tangible … Read More...
How to Make Tissue Paper Flowers
Get the instructions for making three types of paper flowers from tissue paper, and have beautiful blooms whenever you want! This gorgeous bouquet will be absolutely lovely for a Mother’s Day brunch or luncheon, and they will last much longer … Read More...
80 Mother’s Day Quotes to Show Mom You Care
The folks at ProFlowers have set up an interactive page for finding quotes to go along with your Mother’s Day flowers, cards, gifts and scrapbook pages. You can search for quotes in different categories like funny, inspiring, mom advice and … Read More...
Saturday Inspirations Week 7
This week’s inspiration comes from the design blog of Fast Company called Fast Co.Design.
What’s not to love? Usually when using an inspiration piece I will choose just one bit of it to use, but in this case I loved … Read More...
Tutorial | How To Digitize Your Design Work
Mikko is sharing a great follow up tutorial to her popular How to Fake Calligraphy video. Once you’ve created your artwork, you might like to have it in digital format so you can use over and over again. You’ll … Read More...
Tutorial | DIY Origami Flower Curtain
Even more flowers! This time of year I can;t help but be attracted to the abundance of flower tutorials out there. Paper flowers just speak Spring to me, plus they work really well for Mother’s Day decor. And of course … Read More...
Cute Mother’s Day Gift Idea and Printables – Pretty Providence
Adorn a Mother’s Day gift of a paper bouquet with this lovely free printable vase label. Accompany your gift to Mom or grandma with the appropriate Mother’s Day card, also a free printable from Pretty Providence. And those flowers? … Read More...
Freebie | Spring Paper Flower Garland
I love this paper flower Spring garland, and think it would be lovely decor for a Spring themed event or Mother’s Day luncheon. Lia provides both SVG cut files and a PDF for hand cutting the flower petals. Once cut … Read More...
19 Paper Flower Tutorials for Mother’s Day
Spring and Mother’s Day are synonymous with flowers, and paper flowers are a great way to gift a bouquet that will last a little longer. Some of these are also good to use as embellishments on a scrapbook page or … Read More...