Follow this pictorial tutorial to make a whole swath of paper butterflies for decor or as page embellishments. The blog post is in German, but the photos are very clear. You can also try using Google Translate. Imagine how … Read More...
Top 10 Posts Week Ending May 2nd
Saturday Inspirations Week 9
I loved the patterns at the top so much! The word Play made me want to use a playful photo, and I remembered Kieran flying his kite that summer. Perfect!
The first patterned paper I saw peeking … Read More...
Giveaway Reminder: Card Kit
Hurry, you still have a couple of days to enter to win a Paper Pumpkin card making kit from Stampin’ Up! Click here to visit the original post and enter there to win.
-Heather
A DIY Storage Tip For Studio
Turn an uninteresting cutlery drainer into a pretty, sectioned storage basket. You can easily customise this to any room in the house, just by using different colors or themes for your patterned paper. Yes, this is made with paper! You’ll … Read More...
DIY Accordion Photo Book
Are you looking for a meaningful gift to give for Mother’s Dqay, or maybe you just want to put together a quick album too document some recent memories? try making this accordion mini-album from scratch! You can use fabric or … Read More...
Tutorial | How to Make Washi Tape Feathers
If you love feathers and washi tape, this post is for you! These feathers are simple to make and will showcase your creativity. it’s also a great craft to do with older kids. You just need washi tape and scissors! … Read More...
Tutorial | 15 Minute Spring Garland
Pressed for time, but still need some fresh Spring decor? You can whip up this garland using felt stickers in about 15 minutes! Drag out your stash of flet flower and leaf stickers, some baker’s twine and mini-clothespins, and get … Read More...
Tutorial | Flower Card
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...
Tip: Die Cut Background
Add some interest with die cuts. Melissa Phillips shows how to make a beautiful background design for tags and greeting cards using various die cut borders cut from different pattern papers. Visit her blog LilyBean Paperie for more info.… 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...
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...
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...