Category: Paper Craft
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Harvest Happiness Ornaments Video
Gift Bow/Topper or Ornament These pretty decorations are made by stamping images onto corresponding cut shapes, folding them and gluing them into 3 dimensional shapes. Here is a video tutorial showing how to make them: The stamp shapes for Harvest Happiness correspond with the Art Philosophy cartridge. The shapes on the posts here and here correspond…
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La Belle Vie Baby
CTMH La Belle Vie B & T When I saw this new paper, I thought of the picture above, taken about 22 years ago. Dark colors are not usually found on typical baby layouts. But this is no typical baby. She was a delight from the moment she arrived, but very pensive. A sweet and gentle…
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Two-Step Stamping
CTMH Rosy Regards Stamp Set One great way to get depth in stamped images is by using different colors on the same shape. This can be accomplished with a variety of techniques, but the easiest and fastest is probably two-step stamping. Here is a short video demonstrating how to do this. Supplies are all CTMH:…
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Avonlea Cards – August Bonus Projects
CTMH Avonlea B & T Paper The three cards on this page all used patterned paper from the Avonlea collection. The top two are 6 x 6 square cards and the bottom one is a standard 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ card. The top one has a Parlor Velvet Rub-On for a little added texture,…
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Avonlea Note Board – Serenity Prayer
Glass Fronted Frame For Message Board Almost every time that we get home from the grocery store or Costco one of us remembers something that we needed to buy, but we had forgotten. I decided to take a big picture frame and turn it into a message center so that we can hopefully avoid these…
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Frosted Designs Color Challenge – Another Art Journal Page
It has been a long while since I posted about the art journal that I made out of white denim fabric or shared any of the pages inside. The Color Challenge at Frosted Designs seemed like the perfect opportunity to work on some things that had been kicking around in my head for a few…
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Ornaments From Cardstock
CTMH Cricut Artiste Page 53 – Accent 2 Folding pretty cut papers into prettier shapes is one of the things I love about papercrafting. To take a flat shape and turn it into a 3-dimensional object is so coo!. These ornaments or gift toppers or scapbook page embellishments are really fun, no matter what you…
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Using the Negative Space from Cut Images
CAS Butterfly Card Sometimes it is hard to throw away the scraps from cut images. This butterfly was one such cut for me. It is about 3 inches tall and I knew it would look great with the Watermelon cardstock behind it. After looking at it for a couple of minutes I decided to stamp…
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Christmas In July – Gigantic Ornaments
Huge Paper Ornaments Hanging From Doorway There is nothing like big objects to make a bold statement. These ornaments are almost a foot tall! Hard not to notice these. Even my husband saw them. Here is a video if you prefer to watch about the project instead of read about it: The written instructions are…
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La Belle Vie Gift Box and Card
5 Inch Tall Box With Card Under Bow This gorgeous paper is perfect for so many beautiful projects; it is hard to choose just one to make. As it turned out, making a box, an envelope and a card took care of the dilemma of having to decide on only one thing. Starting in August, CTMH is…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 