If you follow me over on Pinterest, you’ll see that I have a slight love affair with stamps. I love the idea and making your very own carved stamps. I used some store-bought ones, but my hand-carved stamps are quickly becoming my favourites to use. Especially in my art journal pages. I started with the…
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Ways to Use Foil Printing in Art Journaling
If you’re on Instagram or Pinterest and follow any hand lettering/calligraphy accounts, then you know that foiling is all the rage right now. It looks SO satisfying, doesn’t it? I’m not much of a calligraphy buff, but once I saw this stuff I immediately wanted to use figure out how to apply foil printing…
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DIY Artsy Christmas Envelope Art
It’s the season for sending out Christmas cards to everyone on your list to wish them Happy Holidays and provide your annual photo of the kids. I probably should be actually sending out my Christmas cards instead of sharing all these fun Christmas envelope art ideas, but I like to live on the edge! …
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Easy DIY Watercolor Christmas Cards
Since Christmas is just a mere 6 weeks away, I figured it was time to get started on some cards. If Christmas is in 6 weeks, that also means that I only have 6 weeks until I’m having this baby and I want to be totally done with all my stuff well before then!…
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Create Bleached Paper for Art Journaling
I love finding new ways to create interesting papers to include in my art journaling pages. It seems like I’m forever ripping, printing, cutting, painting on various papers to figure out something new. My collection of paper ephemera is large and out of control, yet I’m always adding to it. It must be the same…
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DIY: Upholster Your Box Spring
I saw the idea of upholstering our box spring about a year ago on Pinterest. I pinned it, then about 6 months ago I finally purchased fabric to do it. The way our bed frame is, you can see about 5″ of the box spring. Of course, ours was that typical beige mattress fabric…
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DIY: Envelope Notebook
This nifty little envelope notebook is super quick to make and great for keeping in your purse! I’m an obsessive list-maker which means I usually have like 345 post-it notes stuck everywhere including my purse. I’ve been trying to de-clutter as much as I can, so this little notebook is my attempt…
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DIY Stitched Card
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t make Valentine’s Day cards for the peeps in my life. I only give a card to Jason and he prefers a funny card from the store. Actually, I really like those silly cards too. We never get each other sentimental cards. It’s not really our style.…
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DIY Valentine Onesie
This is Liberty’s first Valentine’s Day so of COURSE I had to make her something. She’s either going to love that I will always make her stuff or grow to hate it. Either way, I’ll probably still make her stuff. This onesie is super easy to make & was easy on the wallet. The…
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DIY Stamped Placemats
I was hunting around for some placemats a while back for our table but couldn’t find anything I liked. So like the good crafty person I am, I just decided to make some. These hand-stamped placemats are a great way to customize your dining table and have your table linens match your style. Plus, who…