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Two Pocket Inserts
Two Pocket Inserts Just two folds and plenty of opportunity to explore the creative options for this very fast two
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Envelope Pocket Inserts 12×12’s
Envelope Pocket Inserts This pocket insert features two pockets on the back and an envelope in the front. Folds very
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Double Pocket Inserts 12×12’s
Double Pocket Inserts Want to learn a new pocket style? This project makes two double pocket inserts. This cute corner
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Tab Pocket Toppers
Envelope style pockets and single tab pocket topper, lower right. Envelope style pockets and single tab pocket topper, lower right.
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Ephemera Folder 12×12’s #10
unique front side tuck pocket Ephemera Folder This unique single sided paper folder with pockets, envelope and versatile design page
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Book Holder Album 12×12’s
Book Holder Album I've updated this album to hold a hidden journal instead of binding book pages into the back
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How To: Embellished Frames
Embellished Frames These embellished frames are a great scrap buster project that begins with a tab as a base and
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One Sheet Mini Album
One Page Mini Album Once you learn this simple binding method you'll be making a bunch of these mini albums
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Interactive Folio 12 x
Interactive Folio You'll love this interactive folio with a bonus envelope inside and although not bulky it also features a
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Masterboard Page Tabs
Masterboard Page Tabs Masterboard are a favorite way to use scrap paper and embellishments. These quick make page tabs use
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Three Piece Set 12×12’s
Three Piece Set An easy three piece set with a folio, ephemera holder and pocket. Mix and match paper sides
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Interactive Folio 12×12’s #5
Interactive Folio This easy little folio has a fun interactive flip, enough pockets and space to customize. It folds nice
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Origami Plus Envelopes And
Origami Envelopes & More Do you have multiplying stacks of digitals or other papers that are still useful but not
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12×12’s #4 Pocket Album
Pocket Album This pocket album was inspired and the size is almost passport size, a comfortable little ephemera holder. It's
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12 x 12’s #3
P.S. Note: After watching, yes, I should've folded my center pocket differently, toward the inside, gluing three sides would not
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Embellished Page Tabs
Embellished Page Tabs This project embodies the fun of clusters and collage but also has practical function for use as
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12 x 12’s #2
Three Page Mini Album This versatile three page mini album is sure to please paper crafters for junk journals, happy
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Series 12 x 12’s
Series 12 x 12’s One Sheet Paper Crafts #1 Join me for a new series that will help use 12"
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Fast Fun Tags
Fast Fun Tags This fun paper design doesn't need a lot of extras so for this tag project I just
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Matchbook Treat Holder
Matchbook Treat Holder A new spin on matchbook paper crafts. This quick and easy treat holder uses a matchbook design
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Easy Specimen Slides
Easy Specimen Slides Join me as I make easy specimen slides ephemera using beautiful floral designs as the base for
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Layered Labels
Layered Labels These inspired layered labels were a nice reminder to keep layering as many elements on ephemera as possible
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Painted Embellishments
Painted Embellishments How I make mixed metal and shabby chic embossed embellishments from scrap card stock or repurposed inked and
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Greeting Card Bookmarks
Greeting Card Bookmarks A new way to repurpose, recycle and reuse greeting cards that is a little different from making
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Pocket Hearts
Pocket Hearts Super easy and versatile pocket hearts. Use as a journal tuck, pocket, tag, card front, journal stuffer or
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Tiny Tags
Tiny Tags What to do with tiny bits of paper and book pages that may be piling up in your
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Valentine Pop Up Card
Valentine Pop Up Card Holder Want a cute and versatile Valentine paper craft? Last week's gift card holder was so
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Valentine Card Holder
Valentine Card Holder A cute little pop up card holder with a lot of potential for tucking the usual gift
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Yearbook Photo Cards
Yearbook Photo DownloadAntique Ice Skates Download Yearbook Photo Cards Start 2024 with a blast from the past and make these
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Stencil Masterboard Cards
Stencil Masterboards A common craft room tool can turn not so great backgrounds into something new. Two surprise cuts make
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Wallpaper Journal Cards
Wallpaper Journal Cards Wallpaper is a durable and common item that offers a variety of creative applications. Journal cards, stickers
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Create With Me Christmas
Christmas Tea A Christmas tea or treat envelope set. A new create with me video tutorial and a thank you
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Magazine Lifting With Tape
More transparent tape effects below using some scrap kraft card stock, retro style Christmas paper and a mixture of both
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Graphic Book Page Journal
Book Page Journal Cards I was inspired by a greeting card and created these neutral book page journal cards using
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Hidden Paper Clips New
Hidden Paper Clips My new favorite way to make hidden paper clips. Double clips and a notch seems to give
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Vintage Wrapping Paper Journal
Wrapping Paper Journal Cards A scrap buster project with a few ideas for using your cherished wrapping paper. Use old
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Ideas Old Unwanted Photos
Old Unwanted Photos Do you have old unwanted photos that you don't quite know what to do with? I have
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Typographic Stripes
Typographic Stripes Do you like graphic styles? This project uses magazine typestyles instead of whole words to create abstract graphic
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Old Photo Journal Cards
Old Photo Journal Cards Have you considered some unique sources to create journal cards? This was an inspired idea to
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Button Dangles
Button Dangles Do you like to make dangles? A Pinterest photo inspired me to create these dangles that I thought
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Bobby Pin Flower Clip
Bobby Pin Embellishments Are you looking for another idea to rid yourself of those pesky die cut left over pieces?
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Nature’s Keepsakes Perfectly Preserved
Perfectly Preserved I found some leaves I had preserved from 2022 and decided to revisit preserving nature's keepsakes. Gathering leaves
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Shabby Scrappy Rag Pins
Shabby Scrappy Rag Pins Get out your fabric, trims, charms, lace, ribbon, buttons and whatever else you can think of
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Envelope Book
Envelope Book This little envelope book will be purely functional for me but the idea is great for making an
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Hidden Paperclip Ideas
A part one video, why and how I am tackling my scrap pile up after storing instead of using for
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Mini Books
Mini Books A great little project to clear out scraps, especially those 12" strips and/or paper you don't love. No
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Journal Bookmark Bellyband
Including the previous post tutorial on how to make these bookmarks. Bookmark as Bellyband If you've mastered the stocking stuffer
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Stocking Stuffer Elastic Bookmarks
More ideas:I've adapted this bookmark to make a junk journal bookmark/bellyband. A quick show and tell video is below. Stocking
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Marker Prints
Marker Prints Would you like to learn a basic printing technique using styrofoam? I promise this one is a little
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Craft Show September 2023
Highlights from my first craft show.St. Catherine’s Fall Festival The 2023 Fall Festival will be held in McGivney Hall of
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Pocket Tags
Craft Show 2023 Craft show gallery items, pocket tags. Assorted shapes, these hold a gift card, money or tea. I
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Marker Play
Marker Play A new marker play.I learned that I can make some really bright and beautiful collage fodder but when
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Marker Batik
Marker Batik Do you want a quick technique to create background papers without the fuss of paints or alcohol sprays?
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Framed Florals
The framed sculpted paper flower pieces for the craft show, September 2023. Some odds and ends flowers helped add some
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Olde World Charms
Olde World Charms Do you love the look of olde world vintage? Make dozens of these richly textured charms almost
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Embossed Charms
Embossed Charms Ever wonder what to do with scrap card stock strips? Make charms of course. These charms were easily
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Tile Charms
Tile Charms Who says a charm has to be one shape? Layer tiles of different sizes to create some unique
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Jasper Charms – Inspired
Jasper Charms This charm project was inspired by jewelry, jasper stone earrings. An authentic junk recycle creation made with packaging
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Paperclip Charms
Paperclip Charms A new charm for me, paperclips. So many options, use book pages, scraps, labels, tickets, words, ephemera or
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Lace Charms
Lace Charms These lovely lace charms were inspired by jewelry cabochon pendants. A scrap buster project essentially comprised of five
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Charm Tags
Charm Tags Inspired by jewelry. This tag project wraps up the tag series for now with a combination of ideas,
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Tags – Buttons And
Tags - Buttons And Ribbons I was happy to find a new way to jazz up ribbon by using a
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How To Vintage/Age Any
Tips:If backing your image make sure wax soaks through or it will be splotchy. Don't worry you can still write
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Tag Tops
Tag Tops Beyond a ribbon and a hole think different about what you can do on both the top or
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Matchbook Treat Holder
01 treat holder 02 treats or objects Matchbook Treat Holder Quick and easy summer time paper craft or craft show
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Bow Tags – All
01 gift tag set 02 gift tag set A peg board type bow maker is a good investment.More tutorials on
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Window Tags
More inspiration Crafty by ToniCraft Show Items Accordion Tag Book How To Window Tags Are you looking for something new
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Accordion Tag or Ephemera
01 accordion tag book 02 02 tag book and tag pocket How to videos Crafting With PaulaIn this video, you
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Quick and Easy Summer
Tip: For the craft show item my front flower is adding stability to the front cover so the inside can
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Dry Mixed Media Techniques
You can win! 1000 YouTube subscriber celebration giveaway! This week's video post features my first giveaway in celebration of reaching 1000
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How To Camouflage Digital
I believe Uniquely Ella is generally credited with scrap paper page edges/tabs. I saw the stamp text technique on Bohemian
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Master Board Frames –
master board frames Tim Holtz style Master board frames Second in the scrap buster fast frames series, I came up
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Fast Frames
01 scrapbuster project 02 variety of embellishments Versatile Scrap Buster For the days when you just want something small to
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Ice Emboss Your Ephemera
An assortment of postcard and ephemera creations using wax paper. This ephemera was created using printed and scrap images but
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Craft Show Gallery
stories in photos 01 gift set 02 tea holder envelopes 03 tea or treats - how to make it link
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Wax Paper Emboss –
Wax Paper Emboss Another in the series of wax paper ideas. Embossing wax paper after applying to black card stock
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Faux Resin With Wax
Wax Paper Faux Resin Embellishments inspired by resin pendants. A clean up operation got interrupted by inspiration as I was
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Creative Ways With Wax
Wax Printing Transfer Did you know that you can use the resist of wax paper to transfer not only the
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Faux Glassine – Wax
Faux Glassine A scrap buster experiment led to a stronger wax paper that I found works much better for bags
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Wax Paper Lamination
Tips, Tricks, My Applications Wax paper led to this wax paper lamination technique using my Sizzix. This technique can be
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Wax Paper Vignettes –
Wax Paper Vignettes A staple in the craft room and my love of wax paper led to making these embellishment
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Embossed Book Page Bags
Embossed Book Page Bag While I was just wanting something new to make and had bags on my mind, a
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Momigami Paper Charms And
Visual Texture When I find a technique I like such as Momigami I like to explore potential, this time I
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Momigami Paper Flowers
More momigami I have really been enjoying exploring momigami paper and all of the things I can create with it.
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Momigami Button Clips
Momigami Button Clips...Tactile Dimension During exploring how to use my Momigami paper I came up with these dimensional button clips
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DIY Momigami – Japanese
Faux Momigami I am always in search of paper techniques to use for mixed media and I am often disappointed
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Create With Me –
New create with me Remember the February fun you had with your little box of Valentine's that your Mom bought
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Recycled And Make It
Recycle Box I have a box of paper craft items in a recycle box similar to items shown at left
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Romantic Hearts
Romance is in the air... After Christmas, Valentine's Day has to be the season where over the top glamour and
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Mini Collage Book –
A mini collage book.... A little book project inspired by Cat Hand using scrap book papers only. This book helps
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Scrappy Scribble Flowers
Inspired by..... A Finnish singer-songwriter Jukka Poika has a song called “Potentiaali” (potential). It says that there’s a garden somewhere
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Let’s Mass Make Ephemera
Mass Make And Versatile If you struggle with creating enough cohesive ephemera or making card sets this may be a
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ATC Masterboard – Mixed
Something new.... Are you finished with Christmas crafts yet? I am.... almost. I can't believe I have a few more things
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Origami Envelopes And Mini
Versatile Holiday Project Another little paper project from pinkstrawberryz. She's a lifesaver when you are running out of time but
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New Create With Me
Create with me.... I’ve added a new playlist to my YouTube channel called Create With Me. My goal is to
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Revive Your Digitals To
Inspiration - Gatherings When you are in the craft doldrums it helps to shake it up and try something you've
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Repurpose, Recycle, Reuse –
Christmas Card Recycle Christmas card repurpose, recycle, reuse. This is something I normally do each year but this year I
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Pocket Pouches – Gifts,
Versatile Holiday Project Love this little project from pinkstrawberryz. Have made it three times and it is just the ticket
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Scrap Tiles – Mini
Tiles of fun Have you ever wondered what to do with random orphan scraps that don't seem to relate to
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New Create With Me
Christmas spirit... It's time for glitter and bows and the abundance of joy that the holidays bring.With the addition of
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Scraps Book & Etsy
Ultimate scrapbuster If you've been looking for a scrap buster project for any of your paper scraps whether it be
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Mix Match Envelope Pockets
More scrapbuster projects I'm pretty happy about how fast I've been able to make headway in clearing 13 stacks of
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Specimen Cards – Scrapbuster
Paper crafter on a mission I thought it was time to reduce the scrap hoard before the heavy paper crafting
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Faux Transparent Stickers –
What began as.... This project began as some of the best scrap buster projects I have seen in a long
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Inspired By Polymer Clay
Inspiration - Gatherings You may remember... way back when... I embarked on an inspired by jewelry paper craft project to
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One Sheet Wonder
Travel Book I'm finally back, feeling much better and have begun another autumn travel book as we'll probably take a
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Re-purpose, Recycle And Re-use
House Cleaning I think 80% of paper crafting involves house cleaning of some sort and these combined posts and projects
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Colorful Embossed Embellishments
Inspiration - Gatherings Back to my inspiration board Pretty Little Paper Crafts for some more mass making embellishments. I am
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Easy DIY Wax Vellum
Place the separated napkin on your surface and on top of a sheet of blotting paper. Place the parchment paper
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Old Jewelry – No
Make shapes My old jewelry project was such a fun one that I thought I would create some pieces for
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September Mood Board
Moods A FB group isn't possible for me at this time. Having been an administrator for other groups in the
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Old Jewelry
Inspiration - Gatherings Old Jewelry I like to create my own ephemera as often as I can instead of buying
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Memory Book Includes One
Two projects in one I like projects that combine elements and this single project includes some very versatile projects, one
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Junk Journal Ephemera –
Make Your Own Ephemera Webster's Dictionary defines ephemera as something of no lasting significance. I have the same popular ephemera
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Simple Binding Board Book
A Versatile And Easy Book Style For Any Level Last post I combined two simple projects from Ceri The Crafter
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Simple Bind Mini Board
Just For Fun I hope everyone is enjoying the last months of summer. I have been out and about spending
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Gatherings – Out Of
Inspiration - Gatherings I bought this new farmhouse paper pack from Hobby Lobby just to take me out of my
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Combining Techniques – Labels
ATC Postcard Summer can either be a time for light paper crafts or a busy time if preparing for the
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Collage Your Labels
A different motif There are a lot of different things you can do with labels as shown in a previous
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Dress Up Your Labels
Embellish Labels If you are like me you have tons of labels. I just made a short video in the
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Ten Things You Can
Ten Things You Can Do With Labels Are you loaded with labels? Here are ten things you can do with
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French Rose Quilt Card
Inspiration - Gatherings Quilts and quilt cards are a great inspiration and this is my second attempt at a card
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Loaded Tag
Bookmark Corner I make corner bookmarks all the time as they are so versatile for pages and embellishment spots.In this
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Faux Junk Journal Jewelry
Hidden Paper Clip - Bobbi Pin Brooches I have a previous post on making these faux junk journal brooches by
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ATC Cards
Inspiration - Gatherings I love Graphic45 and Stamperia paper and these ATC cards and pocket letters inspired me to create
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Staggered Edge Keepsake Book
Keepsakes I was inspired by a nature themed keepsake mini album to create my own staggered edge ephemera piece. This
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Hidden Paperclip Brooches
Necessity Is the mother of invention I couldn't find a clip on earring that was suitable enough for a closure
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Collage Cards
Theme Cards I've been toying with the idea of collage cards for quite a while. I kind of missed the
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Accordion Tea Holder
Simple Boxes & Mini Card This is an amazing little accordion style box tea, treat, gift or ephemera holder. Can
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Very Versatile Paper Wallet
Versatility Paper Project Mini album creations designed by scrapbookers offer a lot of design inspiration for making your own journal
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Gatherings – Crazy Quilts
Inspiration - Gatherings Reinterpreting Fabric DesignsI save designs from many types of crafts in my paper craft and card design
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Findings – Glenda’s World
Inspiration - Findings My second post for Findings where I create a paper craft from one of my free resource
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Sweetly Inspired
Inspiration - Gatherings Welcome to my third Gatherings post where I invite you to join me in my creative journey
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Tag Show – Variety
Variety Show I didn't think the simple tags in recent posts here and here were interesting enough to do a
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More Pretty Little Tags
A Quick Little Tag As I was coming up with shape designs for this post on tag making without a
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Inspiration – Gatherings
Inspiration - Gatherings I have five new cards to make so I thought I would take you along with my
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Pretty Little Tags Without
Using What You Have I get my craziest ideas just before sleep. In my last journal I had to create
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Stampin Up Inspired Birthday
Inspiration - Gatherings Birthday Card Ideas This is another card on my list if you've been following these new feature
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Mini Journal
New Mini Journal This journal evolved from another card project as shown here.I was going to keep it the size
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Letter Pocket Fold
Nature Beckons If you saw my Easter Monday post you might remember we got a sudden snowfall. Thankfully it has
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Plenty Of Time For
Spring Wonderland Oh no, I wish I was kidding. Here is it April 18 and we got a snowfall. It
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Tea Time & Treats
A little something... I guess I have tea on my mind after my last post... actually I just haven't been
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Findings – The Art
Inspiration - Findings If you scavenge Pinterest as much as I do you'll often run across many freebies. I've been
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Baby Makes Three
Going Astray It's been a long time since I've had a new baby card to send. I had been searching
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Shabby Flowers II
Alcohol Ink And Water For Quick Shabby Chic Another project I've been wanted to do for a long time is
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Bohemian Flowers
Colorful Style Bohemian eclectic is probably one of my favorite design styles. I am always saving card designs like the
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One Sheet Cover And
Mini Journal Inspiration It's been quite a while since I've had a project worth doing a video for but I
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One Of The Most
More Mass Making A quick post about one of the most versatile products I've run across in a long time.
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One Of The Most
More Mass Making And Organization Like the glitter that never gets vacuumed it seems it took forever to clear my
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One Of The Most
Cutting To Size One of the most frustrating things about paper crafting is the tremendous amount of paper that accumulates
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Color Layering With Stamps
Creative Stamping Color layering is a stamp technique that caught my eye recently. I found some examples on Pinterest and
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March Birthday
Birthday Card It's always fun to explore new techniques in stamping and I was inspired by some layered color stamp
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New Cards
Best Laid Plans Well you know what they say about the best laid plans for mice and men.... I haven't ventured
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January Paper Crafts
A few whatnots... I've been organizing. When the office and my craft room begins to gather too much clutter that
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Stylized Heart Cards
Inspiration - Stylized Hearts I was inspired by some stylized heart cards that seemed to be made with die cuts
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Hearts And Hugs
Valentine Fun I thought some scrappy hearts might be a good way to use all of these quilt card strips
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Sending Smiles
Another year approaches I've been missing in action. I've taken off almost an entire month. Not due to anything in
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Are We There Yet?
Just a few more cards.... I have to admit I was ahead of schedule for once regarding my Christmas card
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DIY Vellum II
Multi Use Technique I use DIY vellum in many ways, flip downs, elegant cards, die cutting, sometimes I even use
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Card Countdown
Let's Begin I think I've finally rounded up all of my supplies for this year's Christmas cards and have begun
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Shabby Flowers
No Frustration Tearing If you love the look of shabby flowers/roses etc. but are like me and would take half
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Scrapbusting
Smart Organization This has been a light craft week, only a card or two but mostly getting organized. I guess
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DIY Labels Part II
Found Objects How to make your own labels without stamps or dies, this time postal stamps included and finding more
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DIY Labels – No
Handmade Labels It's seems labels are very popular as of late. I've watched many videos of inspirational additions to digital
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Inspiration Journal
Creating A Journal Plan I so admire some journal creators and while I don't journal in the traditional sense of
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Shabby Stamps
Shabby Stamps I set about to do a quick project for ephemera and for video experimenting and just came up
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Pocket Project And Free
New Finds On YouTube This week I had the unfortunate and fortunate time to peruse new creators on YouTube.I'll leave
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Lace Treasures – Scrapbusting
Lovely Keepsake Project This project literally began as something else. A new die set that I wanted to use in
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Book Page Ideas –
How To Hide Graphic Content A lot of times I buy books just to use the hard cover for making
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Quilt Cards
Quilt Card Bases Did you ever have a creative slump?While it doesn't happen too often I just found my creativity
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Peek-A-Boo Pockets
Quick Ephemera Super quick scrap buster ephemera project tutorial. 4-5 pockets one letter size sheet. Can be used inside journals,
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Postcards
Postcards - Scrap Buster Project A recent video inspired me to tackle some larger scrap paper pieces that likely won't
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Retiform Technique – Show
Recent Projects Trying new techniques. I've recently had the opportunity to make some new cards for family and friends and
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Showcase – Flower Shaping
Shadow Boxes Just finished these floral shaping birthday gifts for cousins who happen to be twins.Was pleasantly surprised to find
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Make Something Right Now
Use Every Scrap Challenge Spring cleaning has been making me reassess my craft habits. Not only do I have things
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Make Something Right Now
Declutter, Reuse, Recycle and Change Habits After my daughter outgrew kid projects but before the family craft room became my
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Floral Tags – Shaped
Special occasion tags I was inspired by a vintage rose project from Heartfelt Creations (a very inspirational channel) which had
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How To DIY Use
Repurpose Your Machine Embossing and die cutting offer many opportunities to take your paper crafting to new levels but you
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Shaped Paper Roses
More Shaped Paper Flowers From Circles If you can cut out paper circles you can easily make these shaped paper
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Shaped Paper Flowers –
Video Tutorial I was overjoyed to get my new die cutting/embossing machine for Christmas and so far I have had
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Showcase – Shaped Paper
Shaped Paper Flower Project I have been enjoying making these paper flower creations for gifts and embellishments. I used die
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Paper Charms
Scrap buster project One of the best ideas I've come up with for using my scraps, which were getting out
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Mini Pocket Folder
Sweet Nothings I often try to create multi-purpose paper crafts that can be used for junk journals or planners but
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Meditation Books
Mini Book Styles It's a rare occasion when I make something for myself. I had a lot of fun making
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DIY Wax Vellum
Super Easy DIY Wax Vellum Vellum paper is a beautiful addition to any paper project. I came up with a
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Display Valentines
Display Valentines I've had a lot of fun making Valentines lately. With just a few more gifts to make the
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Tag Flip Valentines
Vintage Valentine Cards Remember Valentine's Day of old? Rounding up all of your doilies, paper and glue to spend a
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Valentine Envelope
Sweet Heart Project A quick Valentine project that is super fun to decorate. Use as an ornament for a Valentine
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CD Sleeve Pocket
Junk Journal Embellishment I made this simple pocket from a CD sleeve that can be used as a junk journal
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Paper Ornaments
Inspiration I was inspired to create some ornaments after watching one of my favorite paper crafters on YouTube. The ornaments
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Paper Flowers
Paper Flowers Paper flowers are a hot embellishment right now but there is no need to worry about buying multiple
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How To Make Vellum
Making Vellum Paper Vellum paper is a beautiful way to add an extra touch to your design projects. Now there
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Journal Layout Inspiration: Using
Magazines For Inspiration Magazines offer great ideas for junk journal page layout inspiration. Being designed for both reading and attracting