Projects with Video
Easter Candy Toppers
Easter toppers for treats, bags, cake and cupcakes, or just as tags! All made with files from the craft room!
15 Minute Projects
Build A Bouquet: Lily of ...
It’s Build A Bouquet week here on the blog. All this week we are sharing dimensional paper flowers. A few designs will be featured each day and by the end of the week you will have a full bouquet perfect for Mother’s Day festivities. Design Team member Heidi Edwards is joining me today as we build our bouquet. She created this beautiful Lily of the Valley, which is perfect for Easter too, by the way! I'm excited to create this bouquet for my mom for Mother's Day. I think sometimes as paper crafters we take for granted how cool it is to make a dimensional object out of paper. People not involved in this paper world are absolutely blown away when they see what we can make out of a flat piece of paper. Give a bouquet away to someone and let them think you are a paper magician!
Build A Bouquet: Bluebells and ...
It’s Build A Bouquet week here on the blog. All this week we are sharing dimensional paper flowers. A few designs will be featured each day and by the end of the week you will have a full bouquet perfect for Mother’s Day festivities. With Spring blooming, pick these two cute flowers to create next for Build A Bouquet Week.
Build a Bouquet: Daffodil and ...
It’s Build A Bouquet week here on the blog. All this week we are sharing dimensional paper flowers. A few designs will be featured each day and by the end of the week you will have a full bouquet perfect for Mother’s Day festivities. As we continue to build our bouquet this week, we are adding a beautiful daffodil and a fern stem so we will have some beautiful greenery to add a more realistic feel to our bouquet. Daffodil
Build A Bouquet: Tiger Lily ...
We have a fun surprise for you! It's Build A Bouquet week here on the blog. All this week we are sharing dimensional paper flowers. A few designs will be featured each day and by the end of the week you will have a full bouquet perfect for Mother's Day festivities. We've had fun coming up with these designs and hope you will love them. It's always amazing to me that a flat piece of paper can become something amazing, so let's get started. Tiger Lily
Clothespin Puppets
Make these little clothespin character puppets to help keep little hands busy. This is a great way to take existing cutting files in the Craft Room and turn them into puppets too!
Easter Serving Tray
Turn a plain white tray in to an Easter serving tray with a little vinyl and these bunnies from the craft room library!
Spellbinders Digital Dies Launch Party: ...
As we finish up our chat in the Member Chat Area, we have our last inspiring Design Team project by Angie Contreras. Stop by the blog in 1 hour (2pm MDT) to see the Spellbinders giveaway and get your entry in. Giveaway will close Friday April 11, 2014 at midnight MDT. Angie's Blog In need of a quick card? Layer the Spellbinders Digital Die files as you'd like them to appear on the screen and select the colors for each piece. Then simply print them out as images on your home printer. Use the technique in our Print And Cut video to cut around your printed image and you have a beautiful card. Use glitter glue, rhinestones and other embellishments to dress up your card.
Easter Cross Card
An elegant Easter card made by layering the individual layers of the Cross Collection from Spellbinders digital dies.
Hot Tamale Treat Topper
I was so inspired by Amanda’s So Lucky To Have You Treat Topper that I turned it into a treat for my hubby. With just a few changes and his favorite candy it came out so cute. First, I changed the Lucky wording to Hot Tamale and then changed the Pen Tool writing to read "You are one". I added a couple of hearts and hot tamale candies, then some stickles to fancy it up a bit. He’s going to love it!
Wedding Anniversary Gate Card
Yesterday was my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary. Being married for 50 years is quite an accomplishment and I wanted to make them a special card to go with our gift. Our Fun Folds Cutting Collection has been very popular and I love to use the card bases when an extra special card is called for. In this case I used the Panel Gate Fun Fold file and welded the 50 to the top of the inside flap. I added some roses made with the Twirled Flowers files to the front and a monogram made from gold glitter cardstock, since the 50th anniversary is the golden anniversary.
Spring Party Banner
I love this cute spring banner that can easily be adapted for any event! Made with files from the Craft Room Library!
Strawberry Jam Jar Gift Tags
I remember when I was about 10, being in the kitchen with my great grandmother. We called her "Granna". I remember the smell of fresh strawberry jam and helping her to mash the berries. It’s a memory that has stayed with me forever, and so every year I make my house smell just like hers. Fresh strawberry jam is something my family has always loved, and for a few lucky people they get to live that memory with me as I give out the jam. This year I used my Inspiration to make my labels. I first cut three 3" circles for the tops out of a plaid pattern paper. Then I used the Deckled Edge Classic Ovals from the Spellbinders Cutting Collections.
Easter Party Spring Cupcake Wrappers
Four spring-themed cupcake wrappers - a bunny, bird nest, basket, and flower pot. If cupcakes aren't your thing, fill with candy or healthy snacks instead.
Gold Nugget Sucker Covers
Make these golden nugget sucker covers for your friends and family and celebrate St. Patty's day in perfectly green fashion. Let them know how lucky they are you love them.
Butterfly Pops Party Favor
Today I have made a quick 15 minute project, a Butterfly Lollipop Holder using my Pazzles Inspiration. I love butterflies and when I saw this 3-D Butterfly in the Craft Room Library, I just knew I would be using it for one of my projects. I imported the file into my Pazzles software and deselected some of the layers, as I wanted to use a combination of different patterned papers. I duplicated the butterfly and set it to one side. Taking the first imported butterfly I deleted all the layers except the largest base layer.
Front Door Vinyl Signs
Driving through my neighborhood the other day I saw that my neighbor had added her last name to her front door with vinyl. I instantly wanted to be a copycat. What a cute idea! Sometimes it's the simple things we can do with our Inspiration that we overlook. Since I can't create all of your last names for you in fun fonts, I did the next best thing and made several generic front door signs ready to cut out in your color choice of vinyl. I don't know why I never thought of this before, but I think this might be my part of every gift I give this year. What a cute idea for newlyweds or a small gift for a teacher, or neighbor.
Make A Wish Birthday Card
Winter reminds me of snowflakes and mittens. With this in mind I got an idea to create a winter birthday card. I started with a 5" x 7" base card, and then went ahead and created a scalloped border using the making scallops video. The video makes it so easy to create any size scalloped borders. I used the Mittens cutting file found in the Craft Room Library and created an outline for the mittens. I also created two basic circles and printed the Make A Wish sentiment.
Coffee Cup Circle Card
I wanted to create a special birthday card for a friend who loves coffee. I decided to create her card using the coffee theme. I used the Scallop Sunshine cutting file, Coffee Cup and the Let It Snow file, all of which can be found in the Craft Room Library. I enlarged the sunshine cutting file to 6 inches and mirrored and welded it to create a shaped card.
Office Folder Valentine Mailbox
I loved Valentine's Day as a kid. Waiting for candy and cards to fill my carefully decorated cereal box adorned with pink and red hearts was such fun! My favorite was waiting to play "Heads up Seven Up" during our classroom party. Those are truly treasured memories. Create this file folder Valentine and let coworkers fill it with Post-It note greetings. It's a perfect mailbox for the office. Don't forget to check and see if "You Got Mail"!
Tic Tac Toe Valentine
Tic tac toe game valentine. Put a personalized note inside with the Xs and Os and tuck the heart shaped tab closure to close the envelope.
Folded Heart Card
Pick a special person to be your Valentine and create this little belly band card to wrap your sentiments of love in.
Heart Treat Cup
This fun little cup is very quick and easy to make. You just need to fold and glue, then add a special treat. I chose to use just a solid card stock and then use twine to put the tag on.
Tic Tac Treat Boxes
Tic Tac heart boxes make a quick class Valentine treat.