Hello everyone! Today on the blog I have a couple really easy projects to share with you. If you're anything like me, you love to buy pocket page cards (PL cards). They're all so cute and inexpensive! Since we tend to get a few duplicates of each, I decided that it would be fun to turn some of my extras into Valentine's Day cards. So I'll show you a couple examples on how to stretch your Project Life card stash! I hope you enjoy!




Besides the small glue fiasco I had, this card still turned out elegant (besides how crooked it is). I love the gold foiling on the window as well as the sequin movement behind it. I decided to frame the shaker window with a rose patterned paper from Studio Calico's Hey Day collection.

The first piece of inspiration for all of your Halloween crafts are these fun little 4x4 inch cards. I'll be giving these to my roommates for a little bit of Halloween spirit. They are all made out of a 8" x 4" heavy cardstock sheet that is scored at 4".



The gray cardstock on each card is cut to 3 3/4" x 3 3/4". Before starting any portion of the card, I grab my watercolor set and wet the black pan very well. Once you have a small brush with black paint on it, flick it onto the gray cardstock background. You'll want to make sure the area is clear for any rogue splatters. To get more "splats" than "spots" get closer to the paper and flick the brush harder. Let all of those pieces dry to the side.


While you're waiting for those to dry, we need to find pieces to make the focal point of the cards! In all of these examples, I use some reallllllllly old American Crafts remarks Halloween stickers. Since some of them seemed to blend in to the background, I grabbed a piece of this bright orange/yellow paper and used my 2" circle punch. Then, to make it all stand out even more, I used some foam adhesive squares.


Since our splatters are now dry, we can start assembling! Once you have every one of your paper pieces in place, we'll want to pick out which sequins or gems you'll want to decorate your card with. For this project, I used black sequins from Darice and some orange ones from Kat Scrapiness in the Tutti Fruti Mix.


All of these cards have a diagonal visual line across them. I like to do this because it helps add somewhere for the eye to go. If it was just the center piece it wouldn't be as fluid, but still just as pretty. Now that the cards are all done, let's move on to the tag pieces!


These tags are pre-cut white tags by 7 Gypsies. They are the perfect size to go along with the boxes you'll see later in this post! I did the same technique on these as I have on the cards. First things first, we'll want to get the splatters out of the way. Same technique on these with the different splats and drops. Once they are dry, we can decorate! I wanted to create a base, so I used black washi tape from Ikea and then a border strip that says "boo" from DCWV's The Bewitched Stack.




These beautiful boxes were made using a simple tutorial. Each box will use one 12" x 12" piece of paper and one 6" x 6" piece of paper. For the bottom of the box, you will score it on all side at the 3" and 6" mark. This will give you 9 boxes in total. You'll want to cut four of those lines in towards the center (but only to the length of one square). All lines should be parallel to each other. Check out a video tutorial if you're confused. Then, the same thing for the smaller bozes, except you'll only need to make 4 score lines at the 15/16" line on each side. Once it's all glued  together, you're done!


These little fun gifts are perfect for anyone in your life! I hope you enjoyed all of these spooky ideas! I wish you a happy and safe Halloween! Stay tuned for Saturday's video, as it is another holiday project! Thanks for stopping by!

Oh my goodness! Hello again! I have a very exciting project to share with you all today and it involves saving money and discovering new techniques! I have a video explaining it, but don't worry I'll have a similar explanation below as well. I ended up making a card with the outcome of my ink blending and really love the way it turned out.





To add some fun to the card I used some yellow ribbon, dimensional adhesive, and some black sequins. I also happened to use my Cuttlebug for the first time in forever and used the classic Swiss Dots embossing folder.


This little stamp was on clearance at Tuesday Morning and I have no idea the brand or anything. Just a cute little wood mounted stamp. I stamped it in my Staz-On black ink. I made another card using the flowers that I had leftover too. Both cards just scream summer time and sunshine!

Hello friends, thanks for stopping by. Mother's Day is right around the corner (May 8th!) and I have a unique take on how to create your Mother's Day card this year. Watercoloring can seem daunting, but no need to fear! I'll walk through how I made all of these flowers and how you can too.


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Tsukineko Full-Size Memento Fade Resistant Inkpad, Tuxedo Black

I created this birthday card for my lovely friend Courtney who has a birthday in April. I originally started knowing that I wanted the theme to be kraft, red, and gold. Then, I added a little white to lighten it up. To get a complete tutorial, check out my video below!

Happy weekend everyone (or  happy day)! I hope you are excited for this weeks video. Meanwhile, I am probably pretty thankful that I did this so far in advance because we just got back from vacation. Anyway today's post is about another shaker card, but I promise this one is better! Plus, with a video tutorial it'll be much easier to follow along.