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Groovy craft projects, crafty recipes and other artsy stuff. Resources: Tutorials for Card Making, Craft Techniques & Projects - Splitcoaststampers. Paper Crafting Templates: Carolyn's Rubber Stamp Store. Chia's Rubberstamp Art Galleries. How to Make a Valentine from an Onion. January 25th, 2013 Email 689 users recommend The lowly onion is much appreciated in combination with other foods but often abhored on its own.

How to Make a Valentine from an Onion

On Valentine's Day some feel the onion is a perfect metaphor for the single life. I disagree. Jeff Rudell From tears come beauty? Be Mine: a box of inspiration; a reminder to appreciate the world as it is (not only as you wish it were); an affirmation that being alone can be as romantic as being with someone else. Card Making : Description: All the projects featured at Mmmcrafts are totally gorgeous, especially the cards.

Card Making :

Craft Link: Fabric Backed Card Tutorial Read More: Card Making or Home Description: Just cut and paste using the pdf template, and you’ll soon have this delightful pair of cards. I usually prefer patterned papers for cards, but these solids blend together wonderfully. Craft Link : Mmmcrafts Cards Read More : Card Making or Home I saw a video a couple of weeks ago on making mini books from a single slice of paper. The stickers and windows were not part of the original tutorial. How to Make Holly Holiday Cards. November 25th, 2013 Email 135 users recommend In this approach to reverse appliqué, colorful fabric scraps back cut-out shapes.

How to Make Holly Holiday Cards

Kayte Terry. 2 Sketches 4 You. Sketch Support: Card Sketches. CPS-Card Sketches. Scrap-by-Number Sketch Downloads (July/August 2012 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine) Acrylic Post-It Note Holder Project Tutorial by Beth Silaika. Christmas and Winter Craft - Christmas Card - Snowflake Card. Paper Roses. These Paper Roses look gorgeous attached to your cards and here is how to make them in easy to follow steps Can't find what you want?

Paper Roses.

Let the search box help you. Custom Search Beautiful flowers will always finish a card off to perfection everytime. To me they are the perfect accompanaiment to all your feminine creations, and one I am sure the girls will love. Buying them can work out to be costly, and so limit the amount of flowers you add. But there is a way to add these adornments without too much expense, as you will be using the scraps of paper that you have left over from making other cards.

As long as the scrap is large enough to fit the template then I won't throw it away. If you prefer watching then this video will show you how.. These are the Paper Roses we are going to re-create, and the pink one is on the card at the top. I have added other flowers around it but the pink one takes centre stage. So lets get started and make those roses. Making the Template Making the Paper Roses. Patchwork Cards, for your odds and ends. Patchwork cards are an easy way to use up all your favourite pieces of paper....the ones you can't bear to throw away!!

Patchwork Cards, for your odds and ends.

They can be brightly coloured with mis-matched papers, or subtly elegant with those that blend. The joins can be covered with paper ribbons, real ribbons and real or Faux Stitching. Cut some pretty papers into equal sized squares for your Patchwork Cards. I have made mine 5cms. I used some scrap card, 14 x 20cms, as my base, to build the squares on to. Make a small mark in the center of each side, and join them up. Where the lines cross is the center of the card. (This just ensures that your squares will be evenly spaced and not look crooked on your card.) From that centre dot measure out 3.5cms along each line and make a small mark. This is the distance across your 5cms square from each point, and helps you to postition the square correctly. Get Paper Weaving, to use up all your favourite scraps of paper. Got the last remains of your favourite scraps?

Get Paper Weaving, to use up all your favourite scraps of paper.

Well try Paper Weaving to use them up, and feel really pleased with yourself in the process. Can't find what you want? Let the search box help you. Custom Search This pretty card has a paper weaved panel attached to the front, and all the colors blend for a rather good effect. The strips used to make the panel are, roughly, 2 x 18cms and I have used 9 of them to make it up. Card Making Tutorials. Card Making Tutorials These Card Making Tutorials are made with you in mind, to help you achieve the results that you want If a picture paints a thousand words...then how many more can a video produce?

Card Making Tutorials.

I know many people prefer to learn by watching something being done as I too am a visual learner and so I hope these tutorials will give a clear step by step instruction guide, on how to achieve the subject covered. Crochet flowers. These very pretty attachments are Crochet Flowers and they can look really stunning on your projects.

Crochet flowers

This is very old craft and maybe you have seen your Gran or Great Gran do it and been fascinated as her fingers worked the yarn. I taught myself how to do it many years ago from ... in my teens ... by following the instructions in a magazine. I got hopelessly lost at first but once you understand the stitches it is easy to do. I have made all kinds of things.