Valentine Greeting Cards
Share Love this pop-up card. Classy, simple. Love the color ~ not pink for a change, with a universal message that any lover will understand. Perfect. Best of all, it comes with a free template. You will need some precision scissors however to cut this perfectly, but if you do, you’ll have a stunning [...]
Merry Christmas
Share Just taking this opportunity to wishing you all a peaceful Christmas. Hope you are enjoying the thousands of creative holiday projects we have been doing together over the last month. May You all be Merry & Feel Blessing in your Heart
Christmas Cards
Share “Not too late yet”, says our site sponsor, greeting card specialist TinyPrints. Still plenty time to get gorgeous, personalized photo holiday cards made and delivered in time. “Plus” they say …. “two more days left to get 20% off” their gorgeous photo holiday cards. Given their top quality, professional designs and outstanding personalization, they’re [...]
Halloween Giant Cat Template
Share Hi all. Just came across one of our earliest posts, Fall & Halloween-themed Crafts (elementary school kids) , which has great 3 classroom decorating & craft ideas. To help teachers (or parents) make the Halloween Card project for kids, I designed a huge, mean black cat template which the kids can use to decorate [...]
Birthday Reminder Tag Board
Share Absolutely darling is this scrapbooking tag board by Jaime Lyn at Crafty Scrappy Happy to help her poor memory in celebrating the birthdays of those around her. Best of all, she shares the how-to with us on how to make our own. source: http://jaimelyn11.blogspot.com/2011/07/have-hard-time-remembering-birthdays.html
Thank You :: Free Greeting Cards
Share A selection of 6 fresh, fun and free printable ‘Thank You’ greeting card designs with decorated envelops have arrived here for you. A big ‘thank you’ goes out to Do-It-Yourself Invitations who is so kind to share these with us. Download here Greeting Cards More Free Downloads, how-to’s & Ideas Mothers [...]
Call for Artists :: Christmas In July #2
Share Win a unique, personalized prize by participating in this special Holiday Crafts linky party. Call for Holiday Crafts: Submit Your Best Project Plans WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO THIS YEAR FOR THE HOLIDAYS? I love to hear about YOUR BEST craft projects, and so I am doing a contest / round-up of what [...]
Spring Craft: Butterfly Pop-up Card
Share First day of Spring, let’s do something happy. Make this Spring greeting card with a cute paper-cut butterfly, within minutes. So simple to make, so lovely to get. How-to Make this Pop-up Greeting Card Fold a regular sheet of craft paper in 2, and again in two. Fold it back open [...]
Vintage St. Patrick’s Day Postcard
Share Oh, this vintage St. Patrick’s day postcard is so cute, it just have to share it with you. Click on the image for the large, printable version. Free: now that’s lucky. ha ha. The picture reads: ‘Only a bunch of Shamrock gay From the Emerald Isle so dear But ‘t will bring [...]
Shamrock Stamp: Make Your Own Luck
Share Typically, just how lucky are you???! Well, you’re in more luck now: Inspired by having loads of unfinished projects, I felt inspired to make something I could start and finish in one sitting and have ever lasting fun with…. What would that be? A Shamrock Stamp (btw. LaGraine makes some excellent [...]
Free Chinese New Year eCard 2011
Share Chinese New Year this year will be February 3, 2011. It will be the Year of the metal Rabbit, a lovely year indeed, as bunnies are considered lucky! Well, lucky you are as I made a new Chinese year greeting card for you, that you can download for free. The Chinese symbol on [...]
Holiday Photo Cards
Share OK. Time to get the Christmas cards ready. Now. I know that my top 10 favorite people always get their Christmas cards either late, or on the day, because I’ll give them handmade Christmas cards by yours truly. And because they love me back, it’s ok that they are late-ish. However, for my wider [...]
Free Halloween Polka Dot Background
Share I’ve decided that our Halloween decorations all are going to have Polka dots. So, I just designed a full sheet of Halloween / Fall colored polka dot specialty paper. I am going to use it for our Halloween party invitations Guest masks Party glass tags Halloween scrapbooking Gift tags Ribbons for my pumpkin splash [...]
Paper Embroidery Greeting Cards for Baby
Share Figuring out ‘How to Make Your Own Greeting Cards’ is not hard at all. I think you have all you’ll need here to make your own unique cards, in a mum of time. I’m kick-off this DIY tutorial for handmade baby announcement cards with a video that shows you how to hand stitch a [...]
Photo Birth Announcements
Share Sometimes us creative folks get so sucked into the thought that we can do anything ourselves. (Which is probably true, up to a point. ) However, when the date arrives that the new born pops out, there is seldom enough time in the day to get everything done. Let alone designing new birth announcement [...]
4th of July Paper Craft GiveAway
Share I thought to share two great giveaways today for fun paper art & craft projects to help you celebrate 4th of July in the craftiest of manners. What better way to celebrate independence day with a vintage map of the USA and Lady Liberty holding up the American flag? How-to Use these 4th of [...]
Best Gift for Fathers Day
Share I have given you free Fathers Day Cards plus free bookmarks to download as my presents for your Dad. Now it’s your turn. Here are ideas for you to find him a ‘real’ gift. For the free ‘Fathers Day Cards’- series I identified 10 different type of dads, and designed a card for each [...]
Mothers Day Card with Jewels
Share Happy Mothers Day! Greeting Card Step-by-step 1. Doodle along making pretty jewels on paper 2. Pick the best 4 and cut them out 3. Glue them onto a new craft card, or recycled cardboard that’s clean on the back (we did the latter here) 4. Write ‘I love you, Mommy’ [...]
How to Draw a Simple Rose ~ Flowers for Mothers Day
Share If there is one day of the year, that moms like to get flowers, it’s on Mothers Day. It’s easy & fun to be creative with this general notion of flowers though. …. You could make a her a pillow with flower embroidery/embellishments, start some daffodils into a handmade basket for her ahead of [...]
Original Easter Craft Ideas
Share No matter what your craft medium might be, here are 5 original ideas for you: 1. SEWING: Carrots for the Easter Bunny Free Tutorial These great looking carrots give a fun whimsical note to your Easter Brunch table. You can fill them with chocolates and give them as gifts to guests. Or [...]
Original Valentine Cards
Share Oh, the pressure of Valentine, year after year…. Most men dread the day or rather the implied obligation, I think. Looking beyond the social obligation, however, I think all want to do something kind and ideally, we’re all looking for some real originality? Something really NON-frilly, yet romantic? This is tough to find [...]
Chinese New Year Card
Share At the end of February 14, Valentine’s Day will be over, but Chinese New Year will have just began! It’s a whole week! This year, 2010, will be the year of the Tiger. To celebrate both the New Year day and every 365 days in this upcoming Year of the Tiger, enjoy my free [...]
Download Free Love Book Template for Scrapbooking
Share Yep. You get to create your own book of love…. That is: you can use it as a Valentines Book with love verses, lovely Baby Album for photos, or Affirmation Book with notes. No matter how you’ll use it, I ‘m sharing with you the ‘how to’ for a craft a lovely scrapbook project! [...]
Handmade Valentine Cards Ideas
Share Need to whip up an easy Valentine greeting card, or clean and simple stamped note cards? Good. What I want to show to day is how easy it is to make lovely cards with minimal tools. Easy Valentine Craft These rubber stamped cards with hearts, squares & rectangles will do the trick for [...]
Handmade Valentine Card for Friends
Share Ah, Valentine’s Day’s coming, and as I now live far from some of my North American friends, I better start early making some lovely cards. Yesterday I took the Scrapbooking books, tools and tootles out and look what I found that I had: a lovely illustrated tutorial on How to scrapbook a Friendship [...]
Free, Handmade Christmas Presents from Recycled Materials
Share My state: REALLY INSPIRED. I just read this story about this young man who actually tried living without money. Inspired, however, I can’t just pack up and live in a caravan, completely without money (nor do I want to). (photo: Benjamin Earwicker) When I finished my economics degree, I equally came away with [...]
Free Thanksgiving Coloring Pages To Print: Really Cute Turkey
Share It seems that I start designing with the unconventional and them move on to create a really good traditional version of things. I did this with the free Thanksgiving wallpapers, moving from unconventional to conventional, and now I find myself doing the same thing here with these free Thanksgiving coloring pages. With the creation [...]
Make Your Own Andy Warhol Christmas Card
Share Did you know that Andy Warhol made some other kind of artwork than that ’4 images in different color scheme’ kinda thing? In the beginning of his art career, Warhol was a commercial graphic designer for retail. For this job, he created fun, whimsical artwork, particularly for the Christmas holidays. This image here is [...]
Happy Birthday (Gorgeous Free Greeting Card)
Share For a fellow blogger with whom I share some of my creative interests, here is a free downloadable greeting card, designed today, just for you. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! Click on the image to downloadyour free birthday card.* Top up your greeting card with an instant Birthday Gift Card from Amazon Other [...]
Halloween Stencil: Haunted House Silhouette Drawing
Share I don’t know what got into me, but this simple haunted house stencil for Halloween just wanted getting more and more detail. I love it. It became a wonderful picture that tells a spooky story!! Personally, I think it’s so pretty now, what I want to do with it, is simply framing it in [...]
