I love using pattern papers in my scrapbooks, it’s a great way to find a color scheme and to inspired the style of your design as a jumping off point. I also love digital designs because they are easy to … Read More...
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12 Valentine’s Day Handmade Treat Bags and Boxes
Chari used stamps and dies from Lawn to make treat bags decorated with adorable die cut gum ball machines filled with different stamped candies to hold her Valentine’s Day treats in. She also added a cute little tag tied on … Read More...
Knit a Hot Air Balloon
I’m fully willing to admit that the headline on this post sounds weird. And maybe it is a little weird to knit a hot air balloon.
But you know what? After seeing this pattern from Butterfly Love1 on Etsy, I … Read More...
16+ Handmade Card Ideas with Hearts for Valentine’s Day
This beautiful card from Charlene uses a heart shape for a wonderful shaker card for Valentine’s Day. There’s layers of die cut flowers springing from an envelope and a stamped sentiment too. Notice how she kept to a color theme … Read More...
12 Cute Handmade Valentine’s Day Card Ideas
Samantha created her own pretty pink stripes using colored cardstocks for the background of this darling lion card. The stamped lion colored in orange tones really pops against all the pink. Visit the My Favorite Things blog for a closer … Read More...
12 New Year Scrapbooking Layout Ideas
This beautiful layout from Heidi celebrates counting down to the New Year with large die cut and chain stitched letters for the big title. Her diagonal embellishments around the letters include Mandalas, stars, rainbows and a stenciled background. Take a … Read More...
12 Handmade Valentine’s Day Card Ideas
These cool cards from Laura are a throw back to the 70’s with groovy, colorful die cut letters that spell Love, backed with vellum. The background uses a wavy heart stenciled for ink blending and dry embossing. Watch her … Read More...
Panda Pull Tab Birthday Card Tutorial
The latest release from Lawn Fawn features lots of adorable Pandas. Samantha used several Pandas hanging out in a Bamboo grove celebrating a belated birthday for a fun interactive card.
When the tab at the top is pulled a Panda … Read More...
Christmas Ornament Learning Activities
These learning activities don’t use actual Christmas ornaments, but they do use the shapes of ornaments to aid in learning, or making an ornament with an educational twist.
Look We’re Learning has a set of printable worksheets using Christmas ornaments … Read More...
Playdough Learning Activities
Playdough is a classic kid’s toy, and it is so great for learning and developing motor skills. It gives you another way to introduce material, from forming letters and numbers to learning colors and just making fun pieces of art. … Read More...
10 FREE Happy Birthday Digital Stamps
I’m sure everyone who makes cards is like me and needs to make so many birthday cards each year, right? So we’re always on the look out for birthday sentiments and images. So here’s both in one with 10 different … Read More...
Inside Out Cross Stitch Patterns
With the new Inside Out movie recently being released, I thought it would be a good time to stitch up some Inside Out cross stitch patterns. These characters are colorful and fun to stitch, and a great way to get … Read More...
12 Scrapbook Layout Ideas with Die Cut Titles
Andrea used die cut letters to fill the top half of her layout cut from the same backing paper for a subtle texture and design. Then she cut her title from bright pink cardstock so it really pops! Take a … Read More...
12 Easy Handmade Birthday Card Ideas
Carly added color the this darling birthday card by using colored cardstock for the die cut sentiment. Just a touch of color was added with markers to the party hats of the cute critters for this simple card. Visit the … Read More...
12 Summer Travel Scrapbook Layout Ideas
Adri used lots of travel related items for this dynamic page. There’s map paper, a globe, hot air balloons, compass, planes and lots more. There’s also loads of dimension from chipboard, washi tape, rub-ons, stickers and ephemera. Learn more at … Read More...
12 Red, White and Blue Card Ideas
Joy used dies to create a pretty jar full of greenery, flowers and small American flags. Notice how she used vellum for the jar to give a semi-transparent look. And I love the addition of light teal blue instead of … Read More...
Fireworks Cross Stitch Patterns
I know fireworks are kind of controversial because they are loud and be difficult for some people to tolerate for lots of reasons, but you can’t deny they’re colorful and fun to cross stitch. Here’s a collection of fireworks and … Read More...
Fourth of July Crafts and Projects
Fourth of July and other patriotic holidays are lots of fun to make crafts for, and pretty easy to plan for since anything red, white and blue looks like it’s made for the holiday.
I’ve shared a lot of crafts… Read More...
Designer Spotlight: The World in Stitches
The thing that drew me to The World in Stitches’ Etsy shop was all the bright and cheerful color. The shop, which is based in the UK, has a header (as of this writing anyway) that shows four different colorful … Read More...
Knitting Patterns for Your Summer Picnic
I was thinking about sharing some patriotic knitting patterns going into Memorial Day/Flag Day/Fourth of July, but I’ve done plenty of those in the past (see: patriotic knitting patterns, and more patriotic knits and some more here).
But … Read More...