Category: Paper Craft
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Clean Up My Desk Card #3 – Mailable Cards Week
Last week I mailed 8 cards at the post office. Because of my love of layering, 7 of the 8 needed extra postage. Hence, the Mailable-Card-Week, self-challenge I am engaged in this week! Cards can still be very nice without requiring more than regular postage. 🙂 This card uses some leftover snowflakes cut using the…
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Clean Up My Desk Card #2 – Mailable Cards Week
5 1/2″ by 4 1/4″ Standard Size Card The clean up continues! There were several different diecuts leftover from when I was playing with the Artiste Cricut cartridge. These were all made with the Avonlea paper, which is too pretty to throw away! So they made it onto this simple, mailable card. CTMH Colonial White…
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Clean Up My Desk Card – Mailable Cards Week
After working on a few projects, I end up with several usable pieces of stuff that did not make it into the original project. I prefer to work at a clean desk and try to tidy up after each big project. Sometimes I am in a bit of a hurry and a little pile of…
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Frosted Designs Twine and Ribbon Challenge
Paint Splattered On Textured Honey Cardstock Thank you for visiting today! Frosted Designs has a fun challenge beginning today using twine and/or ribbon. Please join us by making a card, layout or off the page project and link it up here. Dresses Cut From Cricut Artiste Cartridge On this layout, I used white baker’s twine…
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Life On The Farm – Art Journal Page
Could Have Been Tacked Inside the Barn My family moved to a rural area of Iowa when I was in elementary school. It felt far away from everything and very hodge-podgey to me. Nothing seemed to ‘fit’ together on The Farm. As we lived there, things continued to get cobbled together, just to work until…
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It's Your Day Double Stamp Set
To celebrate National Stamping Month in September, CTMH is bringing back the popular double stamp set promotion! You can get the exclusive, new My Acrylix® It’s Your Day double stamp set for just $5 when you place a minimum order of $35 in full retail products from August 15 through September 30, 2012. You’ll love…
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Mini Albums – Interactive Elements
CTMH Cricut Artiste Collection 3 3/4″ Album Mini-books are more playful than traditional scrapbooks because of their diminutive size. They seem to lend themselves to the use of lots of interactive elements as well. This video shows many examples of folders, tags and pockets that were included on the pages of the mini album pictured…
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Mini Albums – Tips for Mini Books: Tied Bindings
Happy Monday! Here is a video with some tips for binding mini-books. Here are some suggested materials for tie-binding mini books: Ribbon Yarn String Twine Hemp Jute Leather Cords Pearl Cotton Shoelaces Wire Nylon Cable Ties Twill Tape Pipe Cleaners Twist Ties Ric Rac Seam Binding Tulle Lace Fabric Strips Cording (for piping, drapery or…
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10 Minute Card – Suitable for Mailing Sympathy Card
Butterfly is Negative Cut From Cricut Artiste Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a very quick card. Unfortunately, sympathy cards usually fall into that category for me. I would love to be able to send an ‘over-the-top’ card to everyone who receives a card from me, but realistically that is not always possible.…
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Faithbooking Friday!
I am so excited to announce a new class that I am teaching that starts today and is FREE! This has been in the works for quite some time. It seemed like it took me forever to figure out how to be able to offer this to EVERYONE who might be interested. So, without further…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 