Embroidery on paper may sound somewhat complicated, but it’s surprisingly easy to do! Whether you’re looking to make an embroidered greeting card or you’re just wanting to explore a different material, this tutorial will...
Scrapbooking, card making, die cutting, stamping
Teach your children about the night sky with cards made to show the constellations for kids! They're printable and perfect for any astronomy lesson for kids
This simple math game with Uno cards can be used to help children revise number facts and times tables, and to practise writing mathematical equations.
Embroidering greeting cards is a great craft for all ages and skill levels. Express your creativity easily and inexpensively.
This fractured card, or faux shutter card as it is sometimes called, looks complicated but it really easy if you do it the way we are showing here. This truck
Start your fine motor skills task box collection with this free set of playdough activity cards! This freebie also includes a label and instructions.
Get a Free Printable Father's Day Card to color for kids. Choose from 6 different printable Father's day card themes!
Looking for cool business card ideas? We look at 40+ business card designs that are innovative and clever enough to get you noticed.
Welcome to my blog. Today I want to share a technique that is an oldie but goodie. The wax paper resist technique. It works amazing with distress inks. This tutorial will be featured on the Distress Ink Technique page on facebook. I am one of the admins and we take turns to post a tutorial on there every monday, the technique of the week :-) Well let me explain this particular technique. You will need an old iron to do this technique, or one you don't use for your fancy clothes ;-) This is what you need: an old iron, two pieces of card, a piece of wax paper and an embossing folder. Oh and an embossing machine obviously lol. I dry embossed the sheet of wax paper using an embossing folder and a piece of card to add more pressure. Here you see the pattern embossed in the wax paper. I cover the front and back with my pieces of card stock, and put this sandwich inbetween two sheets of cheap copy paper. You iron over the cheap copy paper to get the wax to melt onto the card stock. It goes very quickly. I put my iron on the highest setting and just move it over the sheets a few times. You can barely see it, but the wax print is on there! Trust me ha ha ha. See, I told you it was there. Here you see the difference between the embossed and the debossed side of the wax paper imprint. Left is the embossed side and on the right the debossed side. I inked over it with stormy sky distress ink and an ink blending tool. I turned them into two christmas cards with some embellishments and stamped sentiment. I stuck the card onto a card blank after I trimmed it to size and inked the edges with some walnut stain distress ink. I had this ATC laying around for ages, so I decided to use it as a card topper. Then stamped my sentiment in black and after that completely dried, I stamped it again but with embossing ink and heat embossed it in silver. On this card I stamped the sentiment in archival ink and after it dried I wrapped some baker's twine around the card stock befor I stuck it to the card blank. I added a little red jingle bell to give it a more festive look. I painted a wooden snowflake silver and adorned it to my card and it is done! Thank you so much for taking the time to have look and I hope you are going to give this technique a try :-) Have a great day, and keep your craft on ;-) Take care, Freddie Xox
Grab a set of marshmallow and toothpick geometry cards to print and build with your kids. It is such a fun way to learn geometric shapes!
Teaching a farm-themed lesson? Check out these cute farm animal pattern block cards for kids! They are a fun activity for teaching math and shapes.
Free printable indoor movement activity cards. Fun images direct kids to act like animals, plants, vehicles, and more to burn energy and move
Follow the life cycle of a seed with these colorful sequencing cards. (Black and white cards are also included.) *This set now includes a digital Easel activity so that students can sequence the pictures on their own devices* This is a sample from my "Taking Care of Plants" Science Unit There are several ways that you can use these pictures: ✿ The students can cut out the pictures and then glue them onto paper in the correct order. ✿ Cut the pictures out ahead of time and laminate them. Mix up the cards and have the students sequence them. ✿ Print two sets of the pictures, cut them out and laminate them. Use the pictures to play a matching game. (If the students find two of the same picture they have a “match” and get to keep the cards. Play until all the pairs are found.) This game works well when played with a partner. Click to see my entire Science Curriculum
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Canon. All opinions are 100% mine. When I was a kid I absolutely LOVED secret message paper. In fact, I remember I ...
I don’t know about you, but I always seem to write my Christmas cards at the last minute! But this year I really wanted to design and paint some of my own watercolor cards for friends and family. So if you’re looking for inspiration and some guidance how to paint your own merry little cards,
Do you know how to tie a square knot or flat knot? Feeling frustrated with these craft ribbons? Let me show you the easy way to make these.
It always helps to have a plan. If you can fit all the day’s tasks on a single 3 x 5 card, that’s a big step toward organizing your priorities. The front of our undated Here’s The Plan cards divide each day into sections for Morning, Afternoon and Evening—just circle the day of the week at the top and jot down your appointments and goals. The back of each card is ruled for more extensive notes. Set of 90 cards, 30 each in pleasing shades of Slate, Tan and Charcoal. Find more unique organizational tools like these in our Perfect Timing collection.
I recently rediscovered the charm of little paper flexagons, known in the cardmaking world as never-ending or infinity cards. I find it fascinating to unfold each page, revealing the card maker’s vision beneath, until I magically end up back where I started. Infinity cards also make an ideal mixed-media substrate. I use them to make…
Hello There! It’s been a while since I have written a blog post but I’m back and will be posting more freebies regularly. I’ve been working on a TON of ha
full photo tutorial - how to make a pretty paper orb
This is the BEST paper tube Koi Fish, and one of several other Lunar New Year Animal inspired art lessons that we offer. This fun DIY craft is an original idea from ART CAMP Studio. It's a great year round project for all ages.
25 different clever and fun ideas to use craft punches in projects. Think outside the box and use craft punches in newand surprising ways!
Have you ever taken the time to pick the perfect birthday card from the store only to turn it over and discover it’s really overpriced? You could just send an…
How to Make a Twirling Paper Butterfly: I saw this here: http://www.youaremyfave.com/2012/05/08/wind-up-paper-butterflies-are-my-fave-guest-post-from-amelia/, on Pintrest. The idea was wonderful, it reminded me of my Dad’s favorite April fool’s joke. He called it Rattle Snake…
Use these DIY bingo card free printables with printable calling nubers to play bingo at home, church, or for a fundraiser.
Encourage kids to explore and discover the world around them with these free printable Vintage Inspired Science and Nature Flash Cards.
I cannot believe how much fun my family has been having ever since I made these card kitties! Seriously. Well, first my kids didn't know what they were... Connor must have thought they were... mega s
Wind-Up Paper ButterFLY: Delicate! Enchanting! Magical! This wind-up paper butterfly will flutter into your heart and make you want to create more! It is a perfect addition to a card or invitation, or can be placed in a book for a neat surprise. This butterfly doesn’t take …
Here You'll Find Dog Sympathy Cards To Let Others Know That You Are Thinking Of Them In Their Time Of Sorrow.
Are you wondering how to teach fractions to your first grade or second grade students? Check out these 15 hands on ways to teach fractions.
Introducing our first ever layered dashboard set: a versatile set of 4 minimal planner dashboards that can be layered and interchanged as you wish. With a mist-coloured weave textured card and three sheer vellum dashboards, you have unlimited options of how to style your set. Either place each dashboard throughout the planner separately, pair them into sets, or even layer them all on top of each other in your favourite order... they're designed to fit perfectly together no matter what you choose. Section Planner Dashboards Set Information • Set of one mist-coloured weave textured card and three vellum dashboards • Thick vellum paper for premium quality pages • Made from premium quality papers • 6-hole punched in A5 or Personal Size (please choose from the dropdown). • Proudly made in the UK, shipping worldwide
Let's sew up a playing card caddy today! This is a fun and easy beginner sewing project that will be fun to use around the house.
One thing that is fun about embroidery is that you don’t need to be limited to stitching onto fabric. In fact, you can stitch into anything that has holes in it. Yep - metal, wood, plastic, paper and so much more! One of the amazing artists I’ve come across who does most of her stitching on anything
SPRINGY THINGY CARD TUTORIAL It's time for me to share my weekly Tuesday tip or technique. This tutorial fell out of my tips/techniques book as I moved it last night and so got chosen for today's effort. It makes a card front that the receiver pulls open and the card opens out like a spring to see an inner 20cm square area. Images of a completed card using this technique are below these instructions. Practice this on some scrap paper first. MATERIALS 20cm square piece of card stock or decorative paper of your choice. Pre colour the card if you wish. I'll use white card stock so you can clearly see what to do. Pencil, rubber, ruler, craft knife, craft mat and bone scorer. HOW TOO 1) On all sides measure and make a light pencil dot at the 5cm, 10cm and 15cm mark. On my sample I will use a black marker so you can see what I did easily. 2) From the 5cm mark at the left and right side measure and mark a dot at the 10cm mark 3) From the 10cm mark at the left and right side measure in and mark a dot in at the 5cm mark from each side 4) From the 15cm mark at the left and right side measure and mark a dot at the 10cm mark. These dots make a large diamond. 5) Score between all these dots. In my image I have drawn dashes to show you were to score 6) At the top 15cm mark score down to the right side of the diamond. At the 15cm mark at right edge, score across to the bottom of the diamond. At the 5cm mark on the bottom edge, score up to the left side of the diamond. Lastly at the 5cm mark at the left edge, score across to the top of the diamond. See dashed marks I have marked for you on my sample. All these score lines will be mountain folds. That is you bend the scored line back on itself to make a mountain. 7) At the 10cm mark on all sides score into the points on the diamond. See dashed areas on my sample. These scored lines and the scored lines for the diamond are all valley folds. That is you bend the scored line in on itself to make a little valley. Here is my sample with all the scored lines bent to their respective mountain and valley folds. 8) Now all you do is gently fold the card in on itself. Start on one side and then work your way around. If you have all the scored correct lines and folds it sort of winds in like a spring. It should look like this at the front and this at the back. Rub off all marked pencil dots. After I made my sample above for you I painted the card stock with white gesso, sprayed it with various sprays. Stamped and added embellishments to turn it into a steam punk card. I then layered and stuck it to a base card. As mine is fairly embellished it doesn't fold completely flat. This is m Springy Thingy Card open Some close ups of the folded card part. Hugs Annette In Oz
Easy to make paper bat decoration that can be hung from the ceiling or attached to the wall. Learn how to make cute and easy origami bat and use them as
These free beginning sounds clip or cover cards are perfect for phonological and phonemic awareness. Download your free set today!
These Halloween string art cards are so much fun to make! Pick a Halloween template and use embroidery floss to create a pattern. It's such a fun way to send a personalized Halloween greeting this fall! DIY String Art for Fall These Halloween string art cards are SO FUN and require only a few simple supplies. Choose a Halloween template and form the shape with embroidery floss. It's so cool to see each card come together in a unique way! With string art, every card is different, even if you're using the same shapes and colours. You can make your
You can make your own floral paper and then use it to make the prettiest cards, bookmarks, and more. This activity is great for all ages!
