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 has been around for ages:

• wrap ribbon around long pin & secure,
• soak in water,
• sprits starch
• bake in oven for 1/3 hr. 

and VOILA: a mountain of curly grosgrain ribbons.

Doesn’t that look tidy?

Ode to Nikki !!

Nikki, In Stitches, explains how to make curly grosgrain ribbons in some more details on her blog, Nikki in Stitches, and then shows how to make your ribbons into whimsical Valentines Day Wreaths.

In one word: adorable.

Image credit: Nikki’s.

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: 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 be fun to stick on your holiday gifts.

From Love vs. Design: unique feather gift tags. 

Never seen feathers as a theme for the holidays before.

I like how these gift tags are wrapped around the packages, as opposed to taped or hung.

From Love vs. Design : traditional happy tags

For last minute Christmas wrapping.

From Brooklyn Limestone: fun and original  ’Naughty or Nice’ printable gift tags

All these holiday gift tags are free for you to download. Just click on the image and you’ll be landing at a space where you can print ‘m.

Click here for more….

Christmas Craft Resources

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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 want to remind you of some of the scrapbooking ideas I’ve featured in the past, as well as share with you some scrapbooking supplies deals that are on now. Yes, sharing my scrapbooking wealth! :

Project Ideas & Tutorials

Scrapbooking Calendars 2012

Scrapbooking Sewn Name Place Cards

Scrapbooking Birthday Card Board  (makes for great XMAS countdown /advent calendar too)

Stamps Used 10 Ways

Ribbon Craft

                                …. [ MORE SCRAPBOOKING ]

Scrapbooking Supplies

As well, I thought you might like to know about these scrapbooking supplies deals that are now up to 50% off:

Elmer’s All-Purpose Glue Stick, Large, 0.77 Ounces, White (E515) by Elmer’s List Price: $3.99 Price: $2.75 You Save: $1.24 (31%) Sold by: J N M Supply

Cricut Expression 290300 Personal Electronic Cutter List Price: $299.99 Price: $189.68 You Save 37%

Cricut 29-0001 Personal Electronic Cutting Machine by Cricut Price: $184.99 Sold by: Secret Deals

Sheaffer Calligraphy Maxi Kit (SH/73404) by Sheaffer List Price: $29.49 Price: $21.60 You Save: $7.89 (27%) Sold by: ToysNGamesEtc

Cricut Cartridge, Create a Critter by Provo Craft & Novelty/ Cricut List Price: $69.99 Price: $27.08 You Save: $42.91 (61%)

Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Medium Point Pen Set, 10-Pack by Sakura List Price: $13.90 Price: $10.30 You Save: $3.60 (26%) Sold by: TCP Global Corp

Gingher G-7P 7-1/2-Inch Pinking Shears by Gingher List Price: $48.70 Price: $34.87 You Save: $13.83 (28%)

Diecuts with a View Match Makers Neutrals 12 Inch by 12 Inch Cardstock Stack by DIECUTS WITH A VIEW List Price: $19.99 Price: $13.94 You Save: $6.05 (30%) Sold by: ScrapbookingAlley

Cricut 29-0003 6-by-12-Inch Adhesive Cutting Mat, Set of 2 by Cricut List Price: $9.99 Price: $6.50 You Save: $3.49 (35%)

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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 Day-to-Day Calendar
Mum’s Family Calendar 2012 (Wall Calendar)
Our Best Bites: Mormon Moms in the Kitchen

BEST SCRAPBOOKING CALENDARS 2012

Karen Foster Design Scrapbook Blank Wall Calendar Retail $12.99 Now $7.60
Scrapbooking 2012 Calendar Kit from Basic Grey Retail $ 20 Now $14.32
Calendar Kit: 8" x 8-1/2" by DCWV Retail $14.99 Now $ 9.11
Karen Foster Design Scrapbook Calendar Creations Creative Kit Retail $24.99 Now $17.05
Easy Scrapbooking Crop-a-Day: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar Retail $14.95 Now $10.19
Card Calendar: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar Retail $14.95 Now $10.94

BEST SEWING, CROCHET, KNITTING & CROSS-STITCH CALENDAR 2012

365 Knitting Stitches a Year Perpetual Calendar $17.95 (save $2)
365 Crochet Stitches a Year Perpetual Calendar
The Art of Sewing 2012 Wall Calendar
Quilt, Knit and Sew 2012 Wall Calendar
Quilting: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar
Easy Cross Stitch: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar

Art Calendars 2012

Shells Engravings Prints Large 2012 Calendar
Paris Photographers Black White 2012 Wall Calendar
Paris by Night 2012 Wall Calendar

… [more calendars]

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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 time.

So, here then are the inspiration for this year’s name cards.  Designer Linda from LindaMade just put these together in a whim. They came out great, and I’d like to use her tutorial as an input for our own set of cards. 

Incidentally, I think it makes total sense to make a set of cards that are non-themed and truly whimsical that would work year round and have them on hand for any kind of (smaller) dinner party. That way spontaneous dinner parties on Sunday can also look glam.

Materials

- Scrapbook paper: in solid colors and in patterns. Tip: 8 x 8” paper is most practical & economical, as each card is a square of 4×4”.
- Ruler
- Scissors with straight & decorative edges

- Pre-cut/self-cut felt flowers, paper flowers, or flower stickers

- Sewing machine
- White Gel Pen or letter stamps and white pigment ink

Color Choice is Key to Seasonality

Tip: to Choose a celebratory Fall Color scheme to make these suitable for a Thanksgiving Dinner party. If you happen to come across this post in July, you can use beach shell motives with pastel blues, greens, ochres and whites instead.

Step-by-Step Project Tutorial

Step 1: Cut 4″ x 4″ squares from patterned scrapbooking papers to the number of table place setting cards you’ll need.

Step 2: Fold each square in half, so that the place cards can stand up.

Step 3: Now, cut an equal number of 3.5″ X 1″ rectangles from  solid craft papers with decorative scissors. These smaller rectangles will be used to write the names on.

Step 4:  For each card, center your solid-colored rectangle over the bottom-half aka the front half of your folded square. Look at the picture.

Step 5: Next comes the fun bit: laying out the flowers. Place them on top of your double-rectangles into a pleasing arrangement. Leave a good piece of the solid rectangle open so that there’s still room for (long) names.

Step 6: Put it all together under your sewing machine needle and stitch around the name rectangle with a long stitch.

TIP: If you’re nervous about the flowers and papers moving while you sew, you may secure them with a glue stick, just make sure the glue dries before you sew so your needle won’t get sticky.

source: image / idea: Linda Made, who made these cards exclusively from upcycling materials already found around the house.

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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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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, wrapping paper, as a background for your iPhone, iPad, computer desktop or screen saver, or to decoupage various table setting & decorative items for the holiday season.

Here’s your free printable Christmas clipart to download. ((This link will be active for a week or what, after which you’re best to subscribe to our newsletter as I’ll have all ‘Christmas In July’ items ready for you after you click the link within the confirmation email that I’ll send you.))

clipart designer: Renate Kalloch

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