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Light up this holiday season with 75+ designs for handcrafted greeting cards, gift tags and Christmas ornaments! Create unique greeting cards and gifts for everyone on your holiday list with festive designs crafted from paper, clay, fabric, canvas and favorite … Read More ...
Amber used translucent embossing powders from Wow to create an amazing chameleon color changing effect on these holiday cards. The embossing shows a different color depending on what it’s over top so by ink blending her card background with different … Read More ...
Are you working on Christmas in July paper crafting projects? If so Cathy Z has a few quick and easy ideas. She’s made some simple tags and a card using dies, heat embossing and glitter paper. The simple trick of … Read More ...
What says Christmas in July better than a Surfing Santa? If you like to get a very early jump on the holidays Dover Publication has got you covered. These 6 Tropical Christmas Coloring Pages are FREE to download.
Chalkola recently sent me a set of their 30 Chalk Markers to try and it was so much fun incorporating them into my paper crafting. I created some card samples and filmed a product review sharing all about these markers … Read More ...
Wow, the bold red and shiny gold on this card are really stunning! Kelly used a no-line coloring technique for a beautiful red rose on red cardstock colored with alcohol markers and added touches of gold using gilded flakes. She … Read More ...
If you’ve got a small gift or gift card to give this Christmas? Jazz it up with a fun decorated tin. Heather Nichols used small metal hinged tins and covered them with pattern papers, stamped sentiments and die cut embellishments … Read More ...
If you need to make a bunch of small gift for teachers, class mates or office co-workers these wreath shaped Treat Ornaments are the perfect idea! Lindsay, aka The Frugal Crafter, will show you how to create this sweet project … Read More ...
I love cards and boxes that are interactive. This project is a bit of both. When you pull out the top of these pretty gift boxes a panel holding a gift card is revealed, how fun is that?! Amy R … Read More ...
Need a special, custom bag for a gift this year? Using products from La La Land Crafts Cristena shares how to cut, score and fold double sided pattern paper to create a sweet gift bag for the Holidays. Add some … Read More ...
If you’re bringing some wine or champagne to a Holiday Party or giving one as a gift this year dress it up with a fun gift tag. Lorena made tags to go over the neck of the bottles and they … Read More ...
I think, hands down, this is my favorite card I’ve seen this Holiday season! Marine gave Mrs. Claus the reins to the sleigh and it’s pulled by unicorns, how freaking adorable is that!? She used stamps and dies from Hello … Read More ...
I mentioned last week how Gnomes are a very popular theme this winter and here’s another super cute card to prove it. Laura used stamps and dies from SugarPea to create her fun Snow Globe Gnome card. I love this … Read More ...
Yana used the festive Nordic Tree stamp set from Hero Arts to create 3 different cards. With this versatile stamp set she mixed it up with colored stamping, embossing, adding multiple trees, stamping backgrounds and layering up different colors for … Read More ...
