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Decorate your house this holiday with a fun mixed media on canvas project. Combine pattern paper, paints, ink and washi tape for an artsy project this Christmas. Find directions over on the Homegrown Hospitality blog.
-Heather
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Add these cool 3D paper trees to your holiday decor this year. Put a few under glass, scatter them around a table or line your mantle with them. You’ll find direction for making these trees from pattern paper over on … Read More ...
Sequins are still all the rage in paper crafting, there’s so much you can do with them! Here’s a clever idea using sequins from Kristina Werner, she arranged her sequins into a wreath shape and added a stamped sentiment on … Read More ...
Christy Gets Crafty has a video tutorial showing how she stamped, colored, die cut and assembled this adorable holiday card. I think that cute puppy might get to those cookies before Santa arrives! Click here for Christy’s video tutorial.
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Add some fun drifts of snow to your stamped cards with these easy snowy Christmas cards. The Mam’s Dreaming blog will show you how to make them using glue and confetti snow, click here for the tutorial and lots of … Read More ...
The Creative Live blog has 21 awesome ideas for unique holiday gift wrapping, from traditional stamping, potato stamping, using washi tape and book pages to chalkboard paper, you’ll find tons of ideas using your craft stash to make your packages … Read More ...
The new Mint tool from Silhouette allows you to turn your own images into a custom stamp, even photos! They’ve got detailed directions on how to turn a photo into a stamp with the Mint. These stamps make wonderful gifts … Read More ...
If you like the look of vintage ornaments and handmade decorations you’ll love making these DIY ornaments. You’ll find several templates with images to print, score and assemble along with complete instructions for making these wonderful Vintage diorama ornaments over … Read More ...
Getting your Chritmas presents wrapped? Need some tags? Download a set of 8 fun and festive plaid gift tags for free over on the Happiness is Homemade blog. These are perfect for masculine gifts!
-Heather
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Add a touch a glitter and sparkle to your stamped holiday cards this year with your own custom colored glitter glue. Combine Gloss Accents with glitter and marker refill color, it’s perfect for card backgrounds or to accent stamped images.… Read More ...
Got lots of roll of washi tape
? Here’s a great gift tag idea, lay down strips of different prints of tape onto cardstock and die cut into a tag shape, lay a die cut tree shape over top and … Read More ...
This pretty Christmas shadow box was made with several different coordinating pattern papers die cut and layered to make a frame, perfect for your family holiday photo. Place your photo inside and give it as a gift (keep it for … Read More ...
Santa’s enjoying this first snow fall in this cute card from Holly Endress. She’s got a video tutorial, start to finish how to stamp color and die cut this fun card over on the Mark Pop blog, click here to … Read More ...
This wonderful Charles Dickens inspired tags are perfect if you’ve got a vintage style going for the holidays. Die cut pattern Christmas papers in tags and shapes and layer them up, add some scrapbooking stickers and velvet ribbon and you’ve … Read More ...
Add a rustic feel to your holiday cards this year with this colorful faux wood grain background technique. Stamp garlands, trees or Nortic border designs over top for a trendy Christmas card. The Paper Artsy blog has directions for this … Read More ...
