Posted in tutorials, valentine, tagged crafts, displays, photos, tutorial, valentine on February 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Traditional photo cubes are a fun way to display family photos outside of a picture frame. Here’s a new version I created as a Valentine/spring decoration. You start with 2 in wooden cube.
Wooden children’s building blocks would work and it would be fun to use the letters on the blocks for your project. But if [...]
Posted in tutorials, valentine, tagged altoid, cardstock, crafts, kid, minibooks, recycle, tin, tutorial, upcycle, valentine on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a great project because it’s an easy way to recycle a candy tin, fairly quick, uses scraps and other little bits, and is adaptable to just about any theme you’d like.
Supplies: Altoids tin (or similar)
10 photos, corner rounder, paper punches, card stock, patterned paper scraps, paper trimmer w/scoring blade
ribbon, stamps, Crystal Effects, [...]
Posted in kiddies, tutorials, tagged children, crafts, felt, tutorial, upcycle on January 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the plastic butterflies fell off of my little girl’s barrette so I thought I’d use my felt flowers and a button to fix it. This is probably not a new idea, but it was fun and my little girl thought I was a hero for fixing her barrette!
From 2009 cards
I layered the flowers [...]
Posted in cards, tutorials, tagged cards, cardstock, stamps, tutorial on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I first started making cards, I had no idea about sizes. I made up a design, created the card and then I tried to find an envelope to fit my custom card. Sometimes I would make an envelope from templates I found in magazines. This took too long so many times I would skip [...]
Posted in cards, paper crafts, technique, tutorials, tagged cards, embossing, tutorial on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The best made things are happy accidents. Or the best laid plans are those that aren’t made. These are my own versions of some of the many inspirational quotes floating around. I’ve been playing with embossing some of my favorite images and trying different inks. I hadn’t embossed in a long time so I looked [...]
Posted in old photos, tutorials, tagged albums, tutorial, vintage on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last summer my Grandma Florence moved out of her house into a mobile home on my parents’ property. She was 89 and lived on her farm which is pretty isolated and my parents were worried about her being by herself. I went and helped her pack some of her things up for the big move. [...]
Posted in minibooks, paper crafts, sketch, tutorials, tagged minibooks, scrapbooking, sketches, tutorial on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Father’s Day I decided to make a mini album of my favorite pics of my hubby with the kiddies. I had this great red album from Stampin Up! that seemed just right.
This is my 3rd 6×6 album I’ve made. First I really love the size, so easy so quick. And then I love how [...]
