With Mother's Day fast approaching, I designed these super quick and easy Mother's Day cards. They were the perfect use for some special fabric scraps from the Loyal Heights range by Jera Brandvig for Lecien Fabrics. If you would like to make … [Read more...]
Happy Scrappy Cards
Handmade cards are the perfect finishing touch to a handmade gift! I love to challenge myself to use the fabric scraps left over from a new project design. These little Happy Scrappy cards are a great scrap buster project and can be quickly … [Read more...]
Make Cards With Candles
There have been a lot of birthdays in our extended family recently and our card supply was getting low. I was inspired by this card that I spotted on Pinterest to make a series of cards featuring birthday candles. I raided my birthday candle … [Read more...]
Quick Fabric Cards
Our fabric scrap pile is growing out of control. We have recently started sorting our scraps by colour into shoeboxes in an effort to organise them better and hopefully use them in more projects. We seem to generate scraps faster than we can use … [Read more...]
Christmas House Gift Cards
This Christmas we have made simple gift cards with a Scandinavian influence. Using quality white card, we attached a die cut house (from the Cricut Folk Art Festival Cartridge) and added a Christmas greeting using a Dymo embossing label maker. God … [Read more...]
Snowflake Gift Tags
We have made a good start on our Christmas shopping this year. As we have been a bit time poor we have done a lot more online shopping - there are so many lovely gift items on Etsy, and best of all you are supporting small business and the handmade … [Read more...]
Easy Birthday Cards to Make
With lots of milestone birthday's coming up in our extended family, I have been working on a number of birthday cards. Nothing beats a home made birthday card where you can personalise the colours and design to suit the person. I have been playing … [Read more...]
Fathers Day Craft
Even though Fathers Day isn't celebrated in Australia until September, I couldn't resist making this Fathers Day craft project. The business shirt gift bag would be fun to make for Fathers Day, a graduation gift, or a male birthday. It can be hard to … [Read more...]
Tea Card
A Tea Card, with a little pocket for an individual tea bag, would make a lovely invitation for a High Tea or special celebration; or a cheerful little treat for a friend. We first made Tea Cards several years ago. Recently a lovely reader asked us … [Read more...]
Easter Scavenger Hunt
We have an Egg Hunt every Easter. Now the kids are teens, they still like to participate but we make it more challenging with cryptic clues to guide them in their search. To make it more fun this year, we have made some Mini Envelopes, decorated with … [Read more...]
