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I’m contributing over at Craftzine today with a fun crafty project for lighting up Halloween night. These Paper Bag Luminaries lead the path to some scary tricks and yummy treats!
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This giveaway is now closed. Thanks for entering. The winners of the 3 books are: Christy D, Maureen, and Ashley F. I’ll email you paper crafting winners and get you your books! Congrats!
Patricia Zapata from A Little Hut has just come out with a fabulous new craft book called, Home, Paper, Scissors: Decorative Paper Accessories [...]
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Recently I received this fun paper cutting machine from Cricut to try out and craft with. They’re in partnership with Today’s Mama, spreading the word about their fun contest “Cricut Golden Ticket” starting July 1st! Cricut is an electronic paper cutting machine. With their computerized machine and cartridges, there are fun fonts, shapes, and images [...]
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Playing with the empty wrapping paper rolls has been just as much fun as the toys wrapped inside the paper! Here’s what we’ve been crafting with our Empty Wrapping Paper Rolls:
Darth Maul Light Saber – black “gorilla” tape, red marker, and craft foam stickers as the power buttons
Banister Blaster – tape onto the banister and [...]
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Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Since it’s on the last day of October, we like to decorate and celebrate all month long. To help in this process, we’re counting down the days until Halloween. We made a classic paper chain counter, but turned it into a paper chain pumpkin man.
Supplies for Paper Chain [...]
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We brought back some sand from our trip to the beach, crafting with it to help us remember our fun vacation. We used this sand like glitter to make sand pictures. They turned out so cute that I’ll be framing them to hang in my beach themed bathroom.
Supplies for Glitter Sand Pictures:
Sand – you don’t [...]
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I learned how to make fun pop-up cards in college. It is a fun way to really make your card pop out.
First, draw 2 lines on the edge of a folded card, or simply cut them, about 2 inches apart. You can make your cut for the pop out larger or smaller, fat or skinny. [...]
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It is amazing what kinds of creations look like hearts. This is a fun activity to do with your kids that will help decorate your house for Valentines.
You will need to cut out A LOT of hearts. All colors and sizes. I did most (okay all) of the cutting, but I did try to help [...]
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Here is a classic and fun way to enjoy the snow inside your house too. Or if you live in a warmer climate, you can still act like it’s winter where ever you are.
Paper snowflakes are fun to make, you never know how they will turn out when you open them up. Really you can [...]
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