Crafts, DIY and Handmade Ideas
Art Impressions has many stamps that give a hand drawn look especially when using watercoloring techniques. Kate shares how she used markers to watercolor this sweet fox sleeping on a snowy bench card.
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Need more space to keep some of your travel memories? Why not try a memory box. Spardha decorated a lovely box using stencils, paste and paint to keep her items in. She also created a travelers notebook to go along … Read More...
You can easily transform simple brown paper bags into colorful presents with some quick stamping. Sandy Allnock stamped some cute winter owls and added just a touch of red to their hats of scarves with a few white snowflakes for … Read More...
How lovely is this Christmas layout from Terhi? I love how she created her background with wide strips of text pattern papers, the scattering of poinsettia, the large “ho ho ho” title and swirls of twine behind the photo.
Have you heard of Artist Trading Coins? They are similar in idea to Artist Trading Cards (ATC’s) in that you make them and trade with other crafters but instead of baseball card sized they are round but still fit inside … Read More...
Katherine used two sheets of the same scrapbook paper, cutting out the images from the 2nd sheet to pop up with foam tape over the first sheet for lots of great dimension on this adorable winter village scrapbook page.
These wonderful vintage printables would be perfect to create an old fashion style scrapbook layout or Christmas cards this year. They are FREE to download from My Memories.
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I love using non traditional colors for holiday or winter cards. I think the pink behind the snowflakes on the sweet card from Maureen gives it a bit of a cool retro look. She’ll show you how she used die … Read More...
Short on time or making tons of cards this Christmas? Try assembly line stamping. Lisa Foster has some tips on making multiple cards at once along with an easy but stunning silver star card you can make in batches.
Take your memories out of your scrapbook and hang them on your wall to look at and enjoy all the time. Photos, tickets and ephemera can be laid out similar to a scrapbook page but added in a frame for … Read More...
These fun coloring pages use festive words to shape traditional holiday images. Dover Publication 5 of these whimsical pages to download and color for FREE.
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Hand stamped tags can add a special personal touch to presents. I made these fun Santa and Mrs. Claus gift tags with the Signs of Santa stamps and matching dies from Stampin’ Up. They are pretty quick and easy to … Read More...
Pocket pages make for quick and easy scrapbook layouts. Nathalie trimmed down 6″x6″ pattern papers for her accent cards, added photos and a few embellishments and created her sweet Christmas pages.
Paper crafting kits are perfect for making lovely cards, scrapbook pages or home decor projects without spending a lot of time and around the holidays this is a must. Most include everything you need to create many different paper crafting … Read More...
Chomas Creations offers an adjustable pen holder that works with your Cricut Maker and Explore electronic die cutting machine. And in addition to using it to write out texts and titles with pens or markers you can also use the … Read More...
Need to make some holiday cards quickly? These stunning woodland deer digital images are already colored, so just print, cut and assemble. There are deer images, trees, skys and backgrounds and greenery as well. And they are FREE to print … Read More...
How cool is this snowman themed party decor!? Using pattern papers and dies from Lawn Fawn Elena created a wreath, bottle wraps, cake picks, a banner, gift boxes and more. It’s perfect for a winter celebration!
Many couples choose to get married around the holidays so why not use that as an inspiration for their wedding card. Like with this sweet owl couple card from Stephanie. She used a winter stamp set for her design. I … Read More...
How adorable is this snow globe with Rudolph inside? This fun printable would be perfect added to scrapbook or planner pages or for a quick and easy Christmas card. It’s FREE to download from Prettygrafik.
By roughing up the edges on her pattern paper and adding cheesecloth over top Rachel got a great shabby chic look on this cozy card. I love the punny sentiment too!
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