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...
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...
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...
Project: Mini Boxes from Scrapbook Paper
You can turn a pretty piece of heavy weight scrapbooking paper into a cute little box buy using and envelope punch board. The Ginger Snaps Crafts blog has scoring and punching directions for making these sweet little gift boxes, click … Read More...
Tip: Coloring Texture Paste
Texture paste is a great product to use with stencils, when applied with a pallet knife over the stencil it gives not only the shape of the stenciled design but also depth and texture. But this paste usually comes in … Read More...
Tutorial | How to Make Crepe Paper Flowers
Here’s a beautiful way to adorn a Mother’s Day gift, card or scrapbook page: crepe paper flowers! These delicate looking beauties, are pretty simple to whip up. You’ll need crepe paper, scissors, a brad, and something to cut out a … Read More...
Techniques: 10 Ways to Use Ink Sprays
Ink sprays and mists are so much fun to play with and they are so many techniques you can do with them, they can be used on cards, scrapbook pages, collage art and home decor projects using papers and fabrics.. … Read More...
Saturday Inspirations Week 5
I loved the combination of the photo, vintage page and handwriting. I knew exactly how I wanted to use this inspiration.
I had fun with painting the background with some spray inks. Doilies and butterflies were a must! You can … Read More...
Tutorial | Welding Fonts in Silhouette Software
If you love fonts, type and lettering, you’ll love finding out that with a Silhouette machine you can use any of the fonts installed on your computer to create wonderful designs like those shown above. heather Greenwood explains exactly how … Read More...