Done. It’s 9:00pm. We have officially finished up our valentines-for-classmates preparations. Things I’m thinking: 1) I have a lot of children. 2) Those children have a lot of classmates. It turns out Colorado has bigger class sizes than New York. It took me until Valentines Day to notice. We used a clever idea I found on Kirtsy — via 24-7-365. I think they turned out great. To those who are up late making stuff: I salute you with my exacto knife. Paint chip greeting cards. Like most of you, I’m sure, I tend to go through a lot of paint chips when trying to decide on a color to paint a room. And when the project is done, I toss the paint chips into a box I keep in my craft room. They are the perfect “I’ll use these one day” items, right? Well I stumbled upon the box a few days ago and realized just how many I’d collected over the years. Oh the memories this pile brings back! There are the numerous shades of tan that I went through when painting the kitchen.
The blues and purples that I considered for the master bedroom and the greens we ended up with. And the rainbow samples from a toy chest project. No matter how I got this collection, I knew it was time to finally do something with them. Can you believe those were made from plain white cardstock and boring old paint chips? First I cut some ordinary 8.5″ x 11″ white cardstock in half crosswise, then folded it. For the green card, I cut all my green paint chips into strips of random widths. TrickLife.com.
Branches Papercut original handcut 30x20 paper by papercutsbyjoe. Crazy Domestic: Search results for quilled. I'm always on the look out for crafts that I haven't tried. While perusing the internet, I ran across a website called allthingspaper which absolutely inspired me. I was amazed at what you can make with a simple piece of paper. You can make something beautiful and not spend much more than pennies. My kind of project. I decided that I would have to try this new craft called Quilling. Now I call it new, but quilling is only new to me. Quilling has been around for ages. So...I bought some cardstock that was on sale and then some large darning needles to make my own quilling tool. The technique is actually pretty simple. You then take your cut strip, put one end in the eye of the needle and wind it tightly around the needle. I had bought some larger cardstock in brown for the background, but wasn't pleased with the color.
Naturally, I got carried away. I then propped the butterfly up so that the wings would be freestanding after the glue dried. Pop Up Card . Just Piece of Paper . Amazing Flower.