Curly Grosgrain Ribbons for Valentines Day Wreaths
Share Something nifty today: Curly grosgrain ribbons! So cute! I happen to fancy doing this today. Besides making darling wreaths with them, curled grosgrain ribbons are ideal to embellish a bunch of creative projects I’m working on. You need them too? How to Curl Grosgrain Ribbons The traditional recipe of baking curls [...]
Free Christmas Gift Tags
Share : The Christmas countdown’s almost over. The house is probably already decked out, and last minute gifts bought just now. To wrap everything up, I have some free printable Christmas gift tags for you today and tomorrow. To make your gift giving special, and especially easy. From Dardik: cute tags which will [...]
Scrapbooking Projects + Supplies Up to 50% off
Share I don’t know about you, but this season is the time of the year that I find myself doing some sort of scrapbooking activity nearly every day. It’s that cozy indoor season where I want everything to be pretty and happy. Hence, I decorate everything. Don’t you? I bet you do too. Therefore, I [...]
Calendars 2012
Share That time of the year again: the creative calendars for 2012 are out. Calendars, desk organizers and day planners make the best Christmas gifts, don’t they?! BEST MUM’S CALENDARS & PLANNERS FOR 2012 Anne Taintor 2012 Wall Calendar Mary Engelbreit’s Hats Off!: 2012 Weekly Planner Calendar Life Is Sweet with Mary Engelbreit: 2012 [...]
Thanksgiving Dinner Place Cards
Share Let’s plan ahead. This Thanksgiving I would like to have a number of people over for dinner. As this is a bit daunting to me, I usually like to have all the small details, such as the artsy & crafty decorative elements as well as the main dish to be made well ahead of [...]
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
Free Clipart ~ Christmas In July #1
Share I’m going to see that I’ll send you up to 10 Christmas freebies this summer to get a head-start on a fun Winter Holiday season this year. This will be my first of these 10 ‘Christmas in July’ posting. Let’s begin with this fun free clipart, which you can transform into paper bunting, [...]
Vintage Wedding Clipart
Share Planning a wedding? Two great free ideas for you. Wedding Tip 1 Cathe Holden’s free, printable wedding labels and ornate vintage clip art will suit a variety of your paper wedding accessories & decorating needs. Click here to obtain Your Own Set of Vintage Printables source: Cathe Holden Wedding Tip [...]
What a Little Ribbon Can Do…
Share So, you thought that ribbons were only to decorate the Christmas tree or making simple ribbons bows. Well, in contrast, ribbons have to be one of the more versatile craft materials around that can be used in scrapbooking, fashion sewing, or any other craft, DIY or home decorating project ranging from fun embellishments for [...]
Butterfly Prints
Share Just added some great summer art prints to our Butterfly Crafts collection. This gorgeous vintage butterfly clip art originated from a 1880’s Natural History Butterfly print (four stages of butterfly transformation). Butterfly Craft Resources Collection How to Make a Simple Butterfly Mosaic (free tutorial) Butterfly Soap (for inspiration)
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 [...]
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 [...]
Personal Valentine Gifts
Share Simple inspiring heart desk gift set. 100% Recycled. Sometimes simplest is best: this easy-to-make Valentine Gift is great. Paper Craft How-To (Step-by-step instructions) 1. The tall box: cut a rectangular cookie box at an angle, as in the picture. First cut the lowest side, then the diagonally-cut side, then the top [...]
Kids Room Decorating Ideas
Share What’s the verdict: are your kids’ rooms tidy or trash? Or is that toy room driving you nuts? Scream no more. I’ve just made some free and dare I say, gorgeous labels for a princess’ palace tidiest abode. (it was about time, i hear you grind… ha ha). Seriously, by giving kids pretty organizing [...]
Hopeful Home
Share Halloween in Fall …. lots of scary things & fear about (In N. America, that is; Here in the Italian country side, we’re mostly celebrating All Saints Day & All Soul’s Day, the days after Halloween; Literally none decorates her house for Halloween, except we do)…. Well, with all this fear & scary things [...]
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 [...]
How To Decoupage Wooden Bangle Bracelets
Share To me this is a great summer craft: making decoupage wooden* bangle bracelets. It’s so easy & fun, and your decoupaged bangles will be ready to wear within a few hours. * Note: I am talking about wooden bangles here. However, let’s use that term liberally. You could use use plastic, paper or [...]
How to Make Paper Flowers – Part 2
Share My post ‘How to make paper flowers’ is one of our most popular step-by-step craft tutorials at Fine Craft Guild. I made some new paper flower designs for a recent party, using recyclable materials. Given paper flowers’ popularity, I thought to show you how I made them. And while I’m at it, I’ll show [...]
Fathersday Scrapbooking :: Dad Album :: Free Template
Share Nope. You haven’t ran out of time yet to make something personal for fathers day this year. Here’s Rose coming to the Rescue. Last year, one of the Fathers Day projects I (Rose) had in mind was to share a little DAD book with you. It took me until now to finally made one [...]
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 [...]
50+ Cool Green Crafts for Earth Day – part 1
Share Earth Day is (Thursday, April 22), so we’re treating you to 50+ new ideas for crafts made with recycled materials and cool eco-design. Crafting with recyclables is hip. In fact, some of the things we’re going to show you are best made with recycled materials rather than with new material, as [...]
Lucky St. Patrick’s Day – Free Printables
Share Here are some fun ‘So Lucky’ St. Patrick’s Day gift bags. The gals from the Daily Digi dreamt them up, and are offering free downloadables for you, so you can print your own and steal the show with ease. These free St Patrick templates are grouped together for you in a zip file, so [...]
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 [...]
Wooden Heart Frame
Share Sunday and … nothing to do??? Well, you don’t need to bring the ‘Cat in the Hat’ in the house for entertainment. You can just embellish a wooden heart frame. What you’ll need for this Valentine frame: Foam hearts sequins white glue a picture of yourself, a lovely photography, or some Valentine [...]
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 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 [...]
