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  • Repurposing Christmas Cards

    Sometimes you get a Christmas card that speaks to you. What can you do with this card, to use it from year to year and keep it where you can enjoy every Christmas Season? I have a few ideas to get you started. Idea 1: Table Stand-up Remove the back half, and use the card [...]

  • 5 Creative Uses For Wallpaper

    Wallpapers are ideal for customizing the appearance of the walls in your home. New materials and manufacturing techniques have made them easier than ever to put up (and take down), and there are so many lovely designs to choose from. However, just because they are usually used as wall decor doesn’t mean you can’t use [...]

  • Cupcake Fabric to Create a New Experience for Your Child

    If cup cakes are your child’s favorite eatable other than the venerable chocolate, it is possible that it will make a great theme for his room too. You can give everything in the room a twist cupcake and create a whole new world for him. An important part of the design is the bed sheets, [...]

  • Making Paper Beads

    Paper beads are made by winding a strip of paper around a solid core, like a toothpick or thin knitting needle, or around a drinking straw, usually the bar kind. You can use regular drinking straws and even the big, super size drink straws if you like, but the resulting beads has a large hole, [...]

  • Fortune Cookie Paper Craft

    What can you do with your favorite fortune cookie fortunes? Let’s think about this for a minute. Small slips of paper, usually not substantial in the nature of the paper, fortune cookie fortunes can be decoupaged onto any wooden or papier mache form that can be decoupaged. A wooden box, with a Chinese red pain [...]

  • Valentine Crafts Paper Doilies

    Here it is, Valentine’s season again. Need a Valentine for someone special? Want to make it yourself, for that added value of the handmade? A homemade Valentine is easy to make, using time-tested Valentine paper crafts. Materials: red and/or white valentine crafts paper doilies, some in heart shapes if possible. Construction paper or scrapbook paper [...]

  • Contact Paper

    by a Guest Author What is it? Contact paper is a material that has an ornate surface on one side and a highly adhesive substance on the other. Contact paper sticks to the desired surface with nominal effort. When and why is it usually used? Contact paper’s main function is to offer a protective and [...]

  • Easy Easter Paper Craft Project

    by a Guest Author You don’t have to go to a lot of trouble to make Easter craft projects with your kids or to decorate your home, if you know this simple trick: free vintage Easter clip art or vintage Easter cards can make the basis for great crafts! By using these classic images, even [...]

  • Paper Lace

    Paper lace could be considered the big brother of the lace edges of paper doilies. Available at craft stores, this is fairly strong paper. You will find it rolled on a cardboard spool or in a flattened roll in a cellophane bag. It is usually available in white and pastel colors: blue, pink, yellow, maybe [...]

  • Paper Doilies

    Paper doilies, made to place between desert plate and sherbet cup or under pastries are great for paper crafts. They are usually white, but can also be found in metallic red (Valentine’s Day), green (St. Patrick’s Day), gold and silver. Usually round, they are also found in heart and shamrock shapes.  There may well be black [...]

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