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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

Findings – Glenda’s World

Inspiration - Findings My second post for Findings where I create a paper craft from one of my free resource

Sweetly Inspired

Inspiration - Gatherings Welcome to my third Gatherings post where I invite you to join me in my creative journey

Tag Show – Variety

Variety Show I didn't think the simple tags in recent posts here and here were interesting enough to do a

More Pretty Little Tags

A Quick Little Tag As I was coming up with shape designs for this post on tag making without a

Inspiration – Gatherings

Inspiration - Gatherings I have five new cards to make so I thought I would take you along with my

Pretty Little Tags Without

Using What You Have I get my craziest ideas just before sleep. In my last journal I had to create

Stampin Up Inspired Birthday

Inspiration - Gatherings Birthday Card Ideas This is another card on my list if you've been following these new feature

Mini Journal

New Mini Journal This journal evolved from another card project as shown here.I was going to keep it the size

Letter Pocket Fold

Nature Beckons If you saw my Easter Monday post you might remember we got a sudden snowfall. Thankfully it has

Plenty Of Time For

Spring Wonderland Oh no, I wish I was kidding. Here is it April 18 and we got a snowfall. It

Tea Time & Treats

A little something... I guess I have tea on my mind after my last post... actually I just haven't been

Findings – The Art

Inspiration - Findings If you scavenge Pinterest as much as I do you'll often run across many freebies. I've been

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

Shabby Flowers II

Alcohol Ink And Water For Quick Shabby Chic Another project I've been wanted to do for a long time is

Bohemian Flowers

Colorful Style Bohemian eclectic is probably one of my favorite design styles. I am always saving card designs like the

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

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.

One Of The Most

More Mass Making And Organization Like the glitter that never gets vacuumed it seems it took forever to clear my

One Of The Most

Cutting To Size One of the most frustrating things about paper crafting is the tremendous amount of paper that accumulates

Color Layering With Stamps

Creative Stamping Color layering is a stamp technique that caught my eye recently. I found some examples on Pinterest and

March Birthday

Birthday Card It's always fun to explore new techniques in stamping and I was inspired by some layered color stamp

New Cards

Best Laid Plans Well you know what they say about the best laid plans for mice and men.... I haven't ventured

January Paper Crafts

A few whatnots... I've been organizing. When the office and my craft room begins to gather too much clutter that

Stylized Heart Cards

Inspiration - Stylized Hearts I was inspired by some stylized heart cards that seemed to be made with die cuts

Hearts And Hugs

Valentine Fun I thought some scrappy hearts might be a good way to use all of these quilt card strips

Sending Smiles

Another year approaches I've been missing in action. I've taken off almost an entire month. Not due to anything in

Are We There Yet?

Just a few more cards.... I have to admit I was ahead of schedule for once regarding my Christmas card

DIY Vellum II

Multi Use Technique I use DIY vellum in many ways, flip downs, elegant cards, die cutting, sometimes I even use

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

Junk Box 2 –

Pinterest Inspiration I don't know where time goes but like summer and quickly disappearing autumn it just seems gone in

Shabby Flowers

No Frustration Tearing If you love the look of shabby flowers/roses etc. but are like me and would take half

Junk Box

Watch What I Create From My Junk Box Paper This is the box where I throw all of my unused

Thank You For Being

Afraid that the friends of her younger days were slipping away, Gina Hamadey wrote them notes of gratitude - and

Scrapbusting

Smart Organization This has been a light craft week, only a card or two but mostly getting organized. I guess

DIY Labels Part II

Found Objects How to make your own labels without stamps or dies, this time postal stamps included and finding more

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

Inspiration Journal

Creating A Journal Plan I so admire some journal creators and while I don't journal in the traditional sense of

Shabby Stamps

Shabby Stamps I set about to do a quick project for ephemera and for video experimenting and just came up

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

Lace Treasures – Scrapbusting

Lovely Keepsake Project This project literally began as something else. A new die set that I wanted to use in

Book Page Ideas –

How To Hide Graphic Content A lot of times I buy books just to use the hard cover for making

Quilt Cards

Quilt Card Bases Did you ever have a creative slump?While it doesn't happen too often I just found my creativity

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,

Postcards

Postcards - Scrap Buster Project A recent video inspired me to tackle some larger scrap paper pieces that likely won't

Retiform Technique – Show

Recent Projects Trying new techniques. I've recently had the opportunity to make some new cards for family and friends and

Showcase – Flower Shaping

Shadow Boxes Just finished these floral shaping birthday gifts for cousins who happen to be twins.Was pleasantly surprised to find

Make Something Right Now

Use Every Scrap Challenge Spring cleaning has been making me reassess my craft habits. Not only do I have things

Make Something Right Now

Declutter, Reuse, Recycle and Change Habits After my daughter outgrew kid projects but before the family craft room became my

Floral Tags – Shaped

Special occasion tags I was inspired by a vintage rose project from Heartfelt Creations (a very inspirational channel) which had

How To DIY Use

Repurpose Your Machine Embossing and die cutting offer many opportunities to take your paper crafting to new levels but you

Shaped Paper Roses

More Shaped Paper Flowers From Circles If you can cut out paper circles you can easily make these shaped paper

Shaped Paper Flowers –

Video Tutorial I was overjoyed to get my new die cutting/embossing machine for Christmas and so far I have had

Showcase – Shaped Paper

Shaped Paper Flower Project I have been enjoying making these paper flower creations for gifts and embellishments. I used die

Paper Charms

Scrap buster project One of the best ideas I've come up with for using my scraps, which were getting out

Mini Pocket Folder

Sweet Nothings I often try to create multi-purpose paper crafts that can be used for junk journals or planners but

Meditation Books

Mini Book Styles It's a rare occasion when I make something for myself. I had a lot of fun making

DIY Wax Vellum

Super Easy DIY Wax Vellum Vellum paper is a beautiful addition to any paper project. I came up with a

Display Valentines

Display Valentines I've had a lot of fun making Valentines lately. With just a few more gifts to make the

Tag Flip Valentines

Vintage Valentine Cards Remember Valentine's Day of old? Rounding up all of your doilies, paper and glue to spend a

Valentine Envelope

Sweet Heart Project A quick Valentine project that is super fun to decorate. Use as an ornament for a Valentine

CD Sleeve Pocket

Junk Journal Embellishment I made this simple pocket from a CD sleeve that can be used as a junk journal

Vintage Santa Christmas Junk

Junk Journal Freebie I used this sheet to create a pocket page, easy and quick. Directions: You can download the

Paper Ornaments

Inspiration I was inspired to create some ornaments after watching one of my favorite paper crafters on YouTube. The ornaments

Paper Flowers

Paper Flowers Paper flowers are a hot embellishment right now but there is no need to worry about buying multiple

Paper Bows

Recycle Paper Strips Are you looking for new ways to use your paper strips left over from trimming paper or

Homemade – Paper Craft

Paper Tags Paper tags aren't just for embellishing junk journals. There are myriads of ways to create tags that add

Paper Scraps

Use Your Scraps Sometimes paper hoarding has its drawbacks. Often you end up with piles of itsy bitsy scraps that

Yesterday’s News – Newspaper

Newspapers For Graphic Elements One day the bold number graphics and other elements in my newspaper caught my eye. I

Five Minute Showcase

Five Minute Showcase Sometimes you get so busy with work that time consuming projects are off the table. For those

Latest Projects

Birthday Card A birthday card using vellum for the text overlay. Birthday Card Sometimes memories help create beautiful images and

How To Make Vellum

Making Vellum Paper Vellum paper is a beautiful way to add an extra touch to your design projects. Now there

Journal Layout Inspiration: Using

Magazines For Inspiration Magazines offer great ideas for junk journal page layout inspiration. Being designed for both reading and attracting