Make Your Own Marble Magnets

For a fraction of the cost, you can create one-of-a-kind magnets. Here’s another great gift idea for you. Using the materials you have on hand, plus a few things you may need to pick, you can crate custom marble magnets. Make them to match your decor. Do fun kitchen ones, or something more elegant for…

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Autumn in the Woods Card

Walk into fall with this beautiful card. Simple stamping techniques and soft fall colors capture a walk in the woods as the leaves start changing colors. A list of all supplies used, and how to make this card are clearly explained. Go here and find the directions and see the rest of the photos for…

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Mini Heart Album

Make this mini heart album with simple supplies and no fancy equipment needed. Grab scissors, kraft colored cardstock, and whatever embellishments and photos you want. You can even make this stand up using a “frog” (florists use these all the time to get flowers to stand up tall). You should be able to find them…

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Ribbon Bow easy as 123

Use this common kitchen utensil to make perfect ribbon bows every time. Follow along with the step by step photo tutorial on how to make your own ribbon bows and stop buying them. Ribbon is pretty cheap and you can get quite a few out of a spool. So stop wasting your money on these…

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Art Journal How To’s

Coffee Art Pages made with simple scraps. Using scraps of paper, distress paints and ink markers, turns ordinary note pages into a masterpiece. This video shows step by step how to make this awesome looking Coffee Art Page that says “Take life one cup at a time”. A very fun project with clear directions. This…

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Easy Scrapbook Album Any One Can Make

Forget about fancy paper folding, or cutting or gluing. Pull this easy scrapbook album together in minutes. Any one can make this. Remember those file recipe holders that your mom and grandma had in their kitchen? Well , now you can turn that into a mini scrapbook album with pull out pages. This would make…

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DIY Matchbox and Template

Make your adorable matchboxes in two different styles. Be sure to scour your stash for some fun papers to make these cute matchboxes. Ready to be stuffed with a little gift or small card or both, these will delight anyone who receives one. Here are the instructions for the blue and black box featured here:…

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Mummy Drink Carrier

Get ready for Halloween with this cute drink carrier. The Mummy Walks! Or in this case, holds drinks or cones of treats or even bags of treats or would make a cute holder for goodies after a kids Halloween party. Love all the black spiders and the stamped “webs”. Here is a list of the…

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Halloween Haunts Layouts

Ghostly layouts for your Halloween Scrapbooks. Every year Disneyland and Disney World host Mickey’s Halloween Party on select days at the parks. You can pick up a special ticket, get treated to characters decked out in Halloween garb, snag yummy treats and basically have a grand old time “trick-or-treating” Disney style. These scrapbook page layouts…

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Fall Box Cards

Create awesome looking box cards for fall. Give these to someone and watch them swoon. Make a few more and set them up as part of your fall decor. Get ready for the compliments 🙂 Take a peek at the list of items needed for these. Supplies: Wavy Banners Metal Die Fall Banners Sentiment Stamp…

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Using Scrapbook Bundles

Grab a Scrapbook Bundle pack and have fun. You’ve all seen them at the local craft store. Cool packs of paper bundled with embellishments, stickers, cut-outs, chip boards, and various other things. Sometimes it’s hard to envision what to do with these. Here are a couple of Dad page layouts that use a scrapbook bundle.…

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Fabulous Fall Color

Fast and easy stamped fall leaves. Use your ink pads, sponges and a few other supplies to replicate beautiful fall colors. Make small leaves and have them “drop” down the side of your page. Use in a card like this one or punch holes in big ones and use as napkin rings for Thanksgiving. You…

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Use Punches for Disney Characters

Use a few punches to make an adorable Eeyore! Did you go to the Happiest Place on Earth this summer? Planning to take off and see the Halloween Party, or spend some time during Winter break and enjoy all the beautiful decorations ( it’s worth it to go just for that). If so, you need…

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Sweater Weather Cards

Learn how to align die-cuts for awesome projects. Grab your die-cuts and make some wonderful cards for fall. Here are 4 steps in the process. There are 7 steps all together. Step 1:  Die-cut approximately 22 diamonds from 4 to 6 different patterned papers.  I chose to add chalk ink to the edges to make…

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Pumpkin Tree Ornaments

Use up your scraps and make this pumpkin tree. Fall is coming and with it Halloween and Thanksgiving. While both holidays are fun and have great decorations for each, it’s nice to be able to make something that will last all fall and not have to be taken down in a month. This cute pumpkin…

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Shaking up a Shaker Card

Shake up a little with this shaker card. Get your pool goggles on and dive right in to this card. Fun fish, “bubbles” and little shaker elements make for a fun project. You could even make this for one of your scrapbook pages, just be sure to be extra nice to it so your fish…

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Flowers for Fall pages

Just in time for fall, hand crafted flowers to make. Grab all those fall colors and get ready to make some fun flowers to embellish your pages, cards or just to stick on things around the house. You could place a chop stick on the back and poke them into the base of your houseplant…

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Pansies Perfection

Cute adorable pansies made with a punch. These beautiful blue pansies are just gorgeous. With blue paper as the base, an ink pad, sponges, glitter and a brad, you can transform them into these cute pansies.   Use any color paper you have on hand. Form them into a bouquet or just scatter them around…

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Scrapbook Template two Ways

Think outside the box with your scrapbook templates. Every one has seen scrapbook templates. Easy to follow and quick to use, templates are a great time saver. But have you ever thought about using it in different ways? The original template was at a different angle with the “arrows” going in a horizontal position. I…

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Camping Card and Background

Learn how to make an awesome background on any page.   The amazing color blending on this camping card looks incredible. Think it took hours of applying and careful blending techniques? Think again. All you need is a couple of ink pads and a brayer. In this step by step tutorial, Split Coast Stamper Michelle…

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