quick easy cute fun: projects for paper crafters
Need to scare up a cute little idea for Halloween this year? Allow me to suggest this worried wraith. (Click on the image for a close-up view of the project.) Hiding in a scrap on your desk perhaps even now, he’s only waiting for you to pull out your punches and liberate him from his cardstock confinement. But why does. . .[Read More]
If you’re like me, every time the ol’ craft room gets straightened up, there’s always a pile of patterned paper scraps that are just too pretty to throw away. Don’t agonize over those tidbits–just grab your trusty 3/4″ square punch! With a few scraps of coordinating cardstock, you can whip up a 9-patch quilt block card. . .[Read More]
Look at the lovely card that recently graced my mailbox! (For a close-up view, click on the image.) This beauty is from Barb F., the newly crowned RAK Queen at VCRocks. It seems like almost every day, that girl has just come back from a post office run to mail another batch of cards. She is. . .[Read More]
Every year, the holiday season seems to arrive sooner than expected. This year, take the stress out of sending cards by joining a Christmas challenge. We’ve got a Just a Few Cards a Month challenge going at Stampin’ Addicts to make one or more cards a month and stash ‘em away for December. My goal is 10 cards per month. . . .[Read More]
How do you thank someone who is always there for you, no matter how tangled a web you’re caught in? You know, the one who carries the jumbo bags of potting soil that you can’t even budge over the the trunk’s lip. . . . . . installs the rain barrel in just the right place–which can only be pinpointed. . .[Read More]
Do you ever look at patterned paper and see something more than just the pattern on the paper? I do. And when I looked at the white-on-black scrolls pattern in Love Letter, I saw butterflies. Lots of them. Everywhere. Day after day. 24-7. So I created this. That got the fluttering flock out of my. . .[Read More]
Sooner or later, everyone has the occasion to send some fan mail. And since today is one such day, I whipped out a punch and the Petal Cone die to whip up a card with a punch art fan. (Click on the image for a separate view of the project. Then click again for a. . .[Read More]
At the breakfast table today, HL (that’d be Handsome Lambchop–but that’s another story) casually mentioned that this is National Engineers Week. I admit, my first thought was ‘There’s a week for that?’ Which, Newtonianly enough, immediately triggered the opposite and equal–but fleeting, because of course there isn’t–thought ‘Huh, wonder if there’s a national lawyers week?’ But. . .[Read More]
--Holly & The Dog
