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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

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

Master Board Frames –
master board frames Tim Holtz style Master board frames Second in the scrap buster fast frames series, I came up

Fast Frames
01 scrapbuster project 02 variety of embellishments Versatile Scrap Buster For the days when you just want something small to

Ice Emboss Your Ephemera
An assortment of postcard and ephemera creations using wax paper. This ephemera was created using printed and scrap images but

Craft Show Gallery
stories in photos 01 gift set 02 tea holder envelopes 03 tea or treats - how to make it link

Wax Paper Emboss –
Wax Paper Emboss Another in the series of wax paper ideas. Embossing wax paper after applying to black card stock

Faux Resin With Wax
Wax Paper Faux Resin Embellishments inspired by resin pendants. A clean up operation got interrupted by inspiration as I was

Creative Ways With Wax
Wax Printing Transfer Did you know that you can use the resist of wax paper to transfer not only the

Faux Glassine – Wax
Faux Glassine A scrap buster experiment led to a stronger wax paper that I found works much better for bags

Wax Paper Lamination
Tips, Tricks, My Applications Wax paper led to this wax paper lamination technique using my Sizzix. This technique can be

Wax Paper Vignettes –
Wax Paper Vignettes A staple in the craft room and my love of wax paper led to making these embellishment

Embossed Book Page Bags
Embossed Book Page Bag While I was just wanting something new to make and had bags on my mind, a

Momigami Paper Charms And
Visual Texture When I find a technique I like such as Momigami I like to explore potential, this time I

Momigami Paper Flowers
More momigami I have really been enjoying exploring momigami paper and all of the things I can create with it.

Momigami Button Clips
Momigami Button Clips...Tactile Dimension During exploring how to use my Momigami paper I came up with these dimensional button clips

DIY Momigami – Japanese
Faux Momigami I am always in search of paper techniques to use for mixed media and I am often disappointed

Create With Me –
New create with me Remember the February fun you had with your little box of Valentine's that your Mom bought

Recycled And Make It
Recycle Box I have a box of paper craft items in a recycle box similar to items shown at left

Romantic Hearts
Romance is in the air... After Christmas, Valentine's Day has to be the season where over the top glamour and

Mini Collage Book –
A mini collage book.... A little book project inspired by Cat Hand using scrap book papers only. This book helps

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

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

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

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

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

Revive Your Digitals To
Inspiration - Gatherings When you are in the craft doldrums it helps to shake it up and try something you've

Repurpose, Recycle, Reuse –
Christmas Card Recycle Christmas card repurpose, recycle, reuse. This is something I normally do each year but this year I

Pocket Pouches – Gifts,
Versatile Holiday Project Love this little project from pinkstrawberryz. Have made it three times and it is just the ticket

Scrap Tiles – Mini
Tiles of fun Have you ever wondered what to do with random orphan scraps that don't seem to relate to

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

Scraps Book & Etsy
Ultimate scrapbuster If you've been looking for a scrap buster project for any of your paper scraps whether it be

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

Specimen Cards – Scrapbuster
Paper crafter on a mission I thought it was time to reduce the scrap hoard before the heavy paper crafting

Faux Transparent Stickers –
What began as.... This project began as some of the best scrap buster projects I have seen in a long

Inspired By Polymer Clay
Inspiration - Gatherings You may remember... way back when... I embarked on an inspired by jewelry paper craft project to

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

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

Colorful Embossed Embellishments
Inspiration - Gatherings Back to my inspiration board Pretty Little Paper Crafts for some more mass making embellishments. I am

Easy DIY Wax Vellum
Place the separated napkin on your surface and on top of a sheet of blotting paper. Place the parchment paper

Old Jewelry – No
Make shapes My old jewelry project was such a fun one that I thought I would create some pieces for

September Mood Board
Moods A FB group isn't possible for me at this time. Having been an administrator for other groups in the

Old Jewelry
Inspiration - Gatherings Old Jewelry I like to create my own ephemera as often as I can instead of buying

Memory Book Includes One
Two projects in one I like projects that combine elements and this single project includes some very versatile projects, one

Junk Journal Ephemera –
Make Your Own Ephemera Webster's Dictionary defines ephemera as something of no lasting significance. I have the same popular ephemera

Simple Binding Board Book
A Versatile And Easy Book Style For Any Level Last post I combined two simple projects from Ceri The Crafter

Simple Bind Mini Board
Just For Fun I hope everyone is enjoying the last months of summer. I have been out and about spending

Gatherings – Out Of
Inspiration - Gatherings I bought this new farmhouse paper pack from Hobby Lobby just to take me out of my

Combining Techniques – Labels
ATC Postcard Summer can either be a time for light paper crafts or a busy time if preparing for the

Collage Your Labels
A different motif There are a lot of different things you can do with labels as shown in a previous

Dress Up Your Labels
Embellish Labels If you are like me you have tons of labels. I just made a short video in the

Ten Things You Can
Ten Things You Can Do With Labels Are you loaded with labels? Here are ten things you can do with

French Rose Quilt Card
Inspiration - Gatherings Quilts and quilt cards are a great inspiration and this is my second attempt at a card

Loaded Tag
Bookmark Corner I make corner bookmarks all the time as they are so versatile for pages and embellishment spots.In this

Faux Junk Journal Jewelry
Hidden Paper Clip - Bobbi Pin Brooches I have a previous post on making these faux junk journal brooches by

ATC Cards
Inspiration - Gatherings I love Graphic45 and Stamperia paper and these ATC cards and pocket letters inspired me to create

Staggered Edge Keepsake Book
Keepsakes I was inspired by a nature themed keepsake mini album to create my own staggered edge ephemera piece. This

Hidden Paperclip Brooches
Necessity Is the mother of invention I couldn't find a clip on earring that was suitable enough for a closure

Collage Cards
Theme Cards I've been toying with the idea of collage cards for quite a while. I kind of missed the

Accordion Tea Holder
Simple Boxes & Mini Card This is an amazing little accordion style box tea, treat, gift or ephemera holder. Can

Very Versatile Paper Wallet
Versatility Paper Project Mini album creations designed by scrapbookers offer a lot of design inspiration for making your own journal

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

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

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

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

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