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Bloomin’ Handmade Greeting Cards You Can Plant

by Little Birdies

You’ve might have seen seed paper recently. It is homemade paper with flower seeds in it. When it is planted in the ground and given lots of TLC it will bloom into beautiful flowers you can enjoy. Here is a tutorial for a project using seed paper.
First, you need to make the paper.

Use paper you [...]

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Quick and Easy Sewn Paper Garlands

by Little Birdies

Paper garlands are a beautiful accent for any party or home decor. They are really easy to make and can match any theme.
First, you will need to start with cardstock punched out in your desired shape. You can use punches, die cut machines, a Cricut, or just plain scissors.

Next, you will need to use your [...]

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Pumpkin Turkey Centerpiece

by Heather

I still had a couple of uncarved pumpkins left over from Halloween, so I thought it would be fun to use them for a Thanksgiving centerpiece. I think this would be cute at the kids’ table on turkey day. My three year-old son helped me with this project (mostly with gluing and cutting up my [...]

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Light Up the Halloween Night

by Marie

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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Interview & Giveaway by Patricia Zapata

by Marie

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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Crafting with Cricut, Win a Golden Ticket

by Marie

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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Empty Wrapping Paper Rolls

by Marie

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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Counting Down to Halloween

by Marie

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.

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Glitter Sand Pictures

by Marie

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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Cards That Make You POP!

by Marie

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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