Archive Category: 'Paper Crafts'

• Free Vintage Valentines: {Printables For 2010}: Here is a new batch of vintage valentines from my collection of ephemera for this year’s Valentine’s Day (2010), I believe these are from the 1940s and 1950s. You’re free to download them and print them off to use in scrapbooking, as gift tags or whatever else you like. These are so charmingly retro and [...]
• Paper Flowers: 35 How-To Instructions & Templates: Here’s a lovely assortment of paper flowers to make, I’ve organized them in a few sections for easier browsing: Bouquets & Centerpieces, Tissue Paper, Crepe Paper, Origami Paper and the rest under general tutorials. Many of these have free templates to download and most are surprisingly easy to make! Just click the picture to visit [...]
• Free Recipe Card Download + Mailing Label: {Printables}: Today’s feature is from The Small Object with this lovely set of freebies to download – Triangle Label + Recipe Cards: The labels can be used as address, gift or plain old labels. Print them on full sheet adhesive paper for stickers or on cardstock for a cute gift tag. And the matching set of [...]
• Make Your Own Bookmarks: 32 Crafty Ideas & Printables: If there’s one page full of creative and gift-worthy bookmarks to keep on hand, this is the one! All kinds of free printables and crafty ways to make lovely bookmarks for yourself or as a gift. 32 Crafty & Printable Bookmarks To Make Fabric Bookmarks: Use pretty scraps of fabric to cover cardstock (with rubber cement). Super [...]
• How To Make Crepe Paper Flowers: {Fundamentals}: First Steps In Flower Making The instructions here teach you the fundamental principles of crepe paper flower making. When you have learned these basic steps and assembled a few flowers, you will find it very easy to duplicate any real flower in crepe paper. If you have never worked with crepe paper, it will be helpful to [...]
• Free 2010 Calendar Printables {Lovely}: Some fantastic freebies here! Many of the designs shown below are just a sample of what each calendar offers and there’s quite an assortment here to suit everyone’s preferences. You’ll find monthly calendars, year-at-a-glance, desktop cd case calendars and even a wall pocket. Don’t miss the bottom section where I have a lot of resources [...]
• Free Printable Recipe Cards – A Nice Collection: {Updated For Holiday Gift Giving!} Here’s a collection of free printable recipe cards I’ve gathered from around the web. There are hundreds (thousands maybe?) available online, but I thought these were some of the best designs I came across. If you’re giving away home baking or food items, attaching a recipe card is a nice [...]
• How to Make a Mod Paper Snowflake Garland: {Crafty}: Today’s feature is from Chrisjob at Curbly with this tutorial for How to Make a Mod Paper Snowflake Garland: So this season, grab your scissors and hang up some comfort and joy with this retro-inspired, mod paper snowflake garland. You could wrap it around your tree, drape across your mantle, or simple let it flow on [...]
• DIY Wrap Up: 101 Gift Tags, Toppers & Wraps: Newly updated for 2009! New freebies added, dead links have been pruned. Everything you need for wrapping and presenting gifts with a little homemade flair is on this list. Enjoy! Gift Tag Printables Adorable Penguin Gift Tags: Seriously.Cute.Printables! Mitten Gift Tags and Background: The scatter of mittens was designed to be a pattern on the reverse of the [...]
• How To Make Personalized Mailing Labels: Tutorial: Now here’s a treat! It’s soon time to get things organized for holiday card mailing and here’s a super easy way to design your own personalized mailing labels online (for free!). A few highlights: You can make address labels for everyone on your mailing list as well as make your own personalized return address labels. Once you’ve designed [...]
• Book Page Wreath Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Living With Lindsay with this charming Book Page Wreath Tutorial: At the same booth, we came across a pair of simple, but stunning wreaths made from book pages. The vendor told me that she made them sitting in front of the television. That’s my kind of crafting. I honestly don’t remember how [...]
• Mini File Folders & Labels: Free Printables: Today’s feature is from Vale Design with DIY: Free Printable Mini File Folder & Labels: I realized that I still have a lot of loose paper notes laying around and other miscellaneous pieces. I needed somewhere cute to store them. What is cuter than mini file folders?! These FREE PRINTABLE folders are roughly 4.5″x6″. I have [...]
• Canning Jar Labels: Free Printables: Canning Lids Download: A set of 12 cute printables for canning jar lids, pdf download available. Vintage Design Labels: Nice printables on pdf that you can edit to add the contents or your name, whatever you like. Gorgeous! Alenkas Printables – Labels Templates: Both circular jar toppers and rectangular labels available, type your info right on the [...]
• Seed Packet Printables & Templates {Free}: Here is a lovely collection of free seed packet designs and template printables I’ve found online, use these to collect and organize your seeds and to give the seeds you’ve harvested from your garden as gifts. A few of the sites offer more than one design (I’ve noted those in the descriptions). Free Seed Packet Printables *Click [...]
• Paper Mache: Recipes & Tips: You can make all kinds of crafty items with paper mache (not just the school volcano project): Decorative paper mache masks, bowls, ornaments, Halloween & Christmas decorations, you name it–you can likely make it with paper mache. It’s a very economical craft and with a little practice, you can create some pretty amazing pieces! Here’s [...]
• Paper Crafts Saturday: Freebie Printables (List 3): FREE Download of Mini File Folder Make A Booklet With A Pocket Round Labels for Spice Jars Kind Over Matter Fortune Cookies Recipe Wrap-Up Project Paper Dolls Downloadable Party Favor Cone Paper Cake Tutorial Tags, Stickers & A Notepad Printable Calling Cards Pretty “Quiet Please” Door Hanger Chick Chic Bookmark Colorful Book Plates Pretty Garden Seed Packets Recipe Cards With A Little Fuji Flair Free Printable Snail Stationery Set DIY: FREE [...]
• Days Of The Week Tags: Free Printables: Today’s feature is from Living Locurto with these clever Days Of The Week Tags: Here is an idea I came up with to keep my son organized and ready for school. We picked out clothes for each day of the week and hung them on a low rack for him to reach. Then I designed some cute [...]
• Magic Boxes: How To: Today’s feature is from Life As Lou with Magic Boxes: A Life As Lou Online Class: You need six sheets of matching paper (preferably a heavier weight). Choose one for your outside, a contrasting one for your lid, and 4 to create the inside boxes. … Once the glue is dry (I do recommend a liquid glue to [...]
• Tutorial: Brown Paper Bag Recipe Cards: Today’s feature is from Crafting A Green World with Tutorial: Brown Paper Bag Recipe Cards: These easy and quick recipe cards were inspired by the Brown Paper Seed Packet Business Cards. I loved the idea of repurposing brown paper bags, but didn’t really need business cards. What I needed was recipe cards to fit in a [...]
• Vintage Valentines: Free Printables Download (2009): Here are a dozen vintage valentines from my collection of ephemera, I believe these are from the 1940’s and 1950’s. You’re free to download them and print them off to use in scrapbooking, as gift tags or whatever else you like. These are so charmingly retro and although they’re older than I am, they sure [...]
• Paper Crafts Saturday: Freebie Printables (List 2): Hanger Labels: Hang Monday-Saturday tags with ribbons on hangers to keep everyday dressing Fuss-free. Both daily tags and blank tags available via jpg file. From No Fuss Fabulous. David Suzuki’s Green Recipes (pdf): Recipe cards for house cleaning, home remedies and more. Candy Bar Wrappers: Take your pick. Customize candy bars for any occasion! From Rachel Ray. Placecards [...]
• How To Make A Soft Cover Wrap Around Notebook: Today’s feature is a cute little project from Rosemary Travale Super Blog with How To Make A Soft Cover Wrap Around Notebook. How cute are these! These would make cute gifts or even a small journal for notes or travel. Tutorial features lots of pics and notes. Supplies Needed: 25 sheets of paper paper cutter bone folder sewing machine a press two pieces [...]
• Pretty Paper Sachets: Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Simple Studio with this tutorial for Paper Sachets: Place approximately 1 tablespoon of potpourri in the center of the sachet (don’t over-fill, potpourri needs room to breathe). Fold in petals, working to the right. Tuck in the last petal and firmly press over the whole sachet to secure. Using a free Hexagon Petal Card [...]
• Adorable Bookplate Printables: Free Download: Today’s feature is from Sweet Jessie with these super adorable Bookplate Printables: Print them out – cut them up – and give them as wonderful little gifties (or keep them for yourself)! There are six different designs available, each with a blank line you can fill in for the book owner’s name. The designs remind me of [...]
• 2009 Calendars: Freebie Printables: Happy New Year! Here’s a selection of calendars that are free to download and print (plus a few planner pages listed at the bottom). Enjoy! Free Printable 2009 Calendars Free Printable 2009 Desk Calendar: The calendar pages will fit into any cd jewel case (just flip it inside out to make a stand). Just print, cut on [...]