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

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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 Day Card
Happy Birthday Cards
Fathers Day Cards
Birth Announcements
Get Well Greeting Card (howto #1) and Get Well Greeting Card (howto #2)
Valentines Day Cards and more Valentines Day Cards for adults; and Valentines Day Cards for kids
Thanksgiving Greeting Cards
Christmas Cards
Photo Cards with Holiday Season Greetings
Happy Chinese New Year Cards
Happy Chinese New Year Cards – Year of the Dragon

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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 craft projects you are/will be doing during the holidays this year.
 
It is an opportunity for you to showcase your art and craft. I’m sure many readers would love to see your work also. So, what is that favorite craft project that you’ve done/are doing this year?
 

Best Holiday Crafts

Your Best Holiday Crafts – How to Submit

Submit your links below in the linky party. All qualifying posts must include at least one picture and instructions/explanations showcasing your work of art. Perhaps you like to include a free tutorial or a range of ideas for the people who will visit your site. You can submit up to ten holiday craft projects, and the linky will stay open from now till the Christmas – New Year period.

Grab Your Batch & Stand on Your Soapbox

On your blog, please feature your submission in your blog post, show your ‘Holiday Crafts’-badge and link back to this post, so your readers can join in as well!

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Not into XMAS just yet, but made something beautiful and wrote a tutorial for it?

Show it to our readers so that they can find your blog at our other, ongoing, themed  DIY craft tutorials party.

Contest Prizes

The first, second and third prize winners all get to choose your own, personalized ‘Valentine’ cards. I will design them just for you, in your favorite colors.

You will be able to download for free and print them on your own color printer, over and over again (as long as it’s for personal use).

 
These will be exclusive designs and not be made available to others! How do you like that!? 

The official deadline is December 20th, however, I’m planning to showcase some interim favorite submissions, … for inspiration.

 
Good Luck and I look forward to hearing from you and seeing all those great project. I can’t wait!

Christmas In July

 
(Christmas In July post #2.
Click here for Christmas in July post #1 with free clipart for you)

 

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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 and cut the paper in half. Now you have your card.  Fold the crease a bit more firmly with either the back of a spoon or a special scrapbooking / card making device called a ‘ bone ‘.

• In a contrasting color (I used a color on the opposite side of the color wheel, aka purple versus yellow), cut out nearly square rectangle of about 2 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. Does not have to be exact.

• Fold the purple paper in half and imagine a butterfly shape, half of it that is.  You can first draw it with a pencil onto the paper, or start cutting right away.  I cut right away. 

• Once you’ve cut the basic shape, fold over parts of the wings so you can make tiny cuts.  A bit late in the design stage, I wanted to embrace heart cutouts, so with my heart cutout device, I make 2 hearts, one on either wing. If I’d thought of this earlier, perhaps I would have used a few more hearts, but this I didn’t, so it is what it is.

• Trim the outside of the butterfly a bit more to add more details and make it less boxy

• Fold the butterfly back and add glue from a simple glue stick on the center body of the butterfly and attach it to the card. Let it dry one minute and then start flapping up the butterfly wings.

More Butterfly Craft Ideas for Spring

For a variety of butterfly craft shapes & home decor applications, visit

• our butterfly craft overview page with about 20 different craft projects, designs & tutorials on it,
• our own butterfly mirror mosaic,
• the butterfly paper wall art, (which has a beautiful template you can USE for this greeting card project also)
• Recycled Garden Craft
• Simple desk calendar with butterflies
•  how to make your own butterfly book cover, 
• our unique zippy butterfly Fathers Day card, and
• many other butterfly craft ideas.

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this vintage St. Patrick’s day postcard . So cute, I 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 you luck on St. Patrick’s Day

That will last you through all the year.

THE TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU.”

ahh…

design by Ellen Claspsaddle

source: via graphicsfairy

Want more??

Click this link to find  other St. Patrick’s Day Free Printables, Templates and Crafts

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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 wines)

Materials Needed

1. Recycled card stock

2. Glue

3. Heart punch

4. Scissors

5. Ink for stamping

6. Fun & Fantasy.

How-to: Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Punch out 16 hearts.

As you can see on the back of my puncher, my heart shapes were too pointy. So I had to cut the bottoms so the hearts would lay close together and four of them would make a clover shape. This was not an exact science, just to snips on either side of the heart bottom did the job.  Approximate turned out to be just fine.

2. Find an old champagne cork or otherwise ‘just perfect’ surface to make a hand-held stamp out of.

3. With some glue, make a four-leaf clover.

4. Glue on four layers of shamrock leaves in total. Fiddle with them to line them up, if need be, so they look like a perfect clover.

5. Wait to let it dry a bit.

6. Use your ink and stamp away. 

Stamping tip: to get a ‘perfect’ looking stamp, make 20 or 24 hearts and add two more layers. These extra layers will result in a tidier finish.

I liked the ‘happy go lucky’-look of mine, so the fact that my clover was not raised as much suited me.

Creative Shamrock Stamping Options

Stamping options galore: Make it into a card, wrapping paper, as the background for yours handmade desk calendar, celebrating St. Patricks’ Day for a whole month, shamrock garland, stamp it on the hands of your friends on St. Patrick’s Day giving them each a stamp of approval and a dose of good luck, or whatever else you can think off. 

Have fun stamping.

PS 1:  Of course this stamp is of use, year-round, for all your scrapbooking projects. Makes great foliage when paired with tiny flowers.  Also, kids will love to use your stamp, once you’ve made it. Kids can make their own but may need a bit of parent or teacher support if you have rounder shaped heart puncher, so that the hearts do not need to be cut.

PS 2: Creative Craft with 100% recycled materials: I like it.

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