Looking for sweet and simple teacher’s gifts? Here’s a neat idea from The Casual Craftlete and The Crafting Chicks. They show you how to cover pencils with patterned paper, and gift them in a coordinating pencil tin. The circle gift … Read More ...
Freebie | Mother’s Day Gift Tags
Top off your Mother’s Day gifts with free printable gift cards from A Joyful Riot. You can get them in three different designs, and they come with embellishment tags too. Print the PDF on cardstock and cut out, and you’re … Read More ...
Tutorial | Garden Seed Envelope Gift
Give flower seeds in handmade envelopes! This is a super sweet idea for sending a thoughtful gift to a gardener friend, or someone who wants to try out gardening. Heather shares how to make these seed envelopes using an original … Read More ...
Tutorial | Cupcake Holder Flowers
Michelle from Elegance and Enchantment shares how she made these delightful peony flowers from cupcake holders and Styrofoam spheres . She followed instructions that she found at Lia Griffith, and made the flowers for her monthly creative challenge. Michelle … Read More ...
Top 10 Posts for Week Ending April 25th
Freebie | Printable Envelope Liners
Did you know that April is Letter Writing Month? Me neither! Thanks to for letting me in on that information. We still have 9 days left to send out some snail mail, and we can do it in style with … Read More ...
How to Make Tissue Paper Flowers
Get the instructions for making three types of paper flowers from tissue paper, and have beautiful blooms whenever you want! This gorgeous bouquet will be absolutely lovely for a Mother’s Day brunch or luncheon, and they will last much longer … Read More ...
80 Mother’s Day Quotes to Show Mom You Care
The folks at ProFlowers have set up an interactive page for finding quotes to go along with your Mother’s Day flowers, cards, gifts and scrapbook pages. You can search for quotes in different categories like funny, inspiring, mom advice and … Read More ...
Tutorial | DIY Origami Flower Curtain
Even more flowers! This time of year I can;t help but be attracted to the abundance of flower tutorials out there. Paper flowers just speak Spring to me, plus they work really well for Mother’s Day decor. And of course … Read More ...
Cute Mother’s Day Gift Idea and Printables – Pretty Providence
Adorn a Mother’s Day gift of a paper bouquet with this lovely free printable vase label. Accompany your gift to Mom or grandma with the appropriate Mother’s Day card, also a free printable from Pretty Providence. And those flowers? You’ll … Read More ...
Freebie | Spring Paper Flower Garland
I love this paper flower Spring garland, and think it would be lovely decor for a Spring themed event or Mother’s Day luncheon. Lia provides both SVG cut files and a PDF for hand cutting the flower petals. Once cut … Read More ...
19 Paper Flower Tutorials for Mother’s Day
Spring and Mother’s Day are synonymous with flowers, and paper flowers are a great way to gift a bouquet that will last a little longer. Some of these are also good to use as embellishments on a scrapbook page or … Read More ...
Tutorial | Watercolor Scribble Flowers Card | Mother’s Day
If you love gifting mom with a handmade card this tutorial is for you! See how you can create a beautiful watercolor flower card using scribble cut outs. Deb used her scribble dies to cut the shape, but you could … Read More ...
Mother’s Day Gift Idea | Geometric Heart Poster
Give your mom or another mother your “heart” this year, by making them this geometric heart poster. You can make one out of colored paper, patterned scrapbook paper or maybe a treasured photo of you and your mom. Frame before … Read More ...
Freebie | Printable Mother’s Day Gift Tags
Adorn your mom’s giFts this Mother’s Day with these graphic gift tags in coral, blue and mustard-green. Because of the varying sentiments on the tags, you could also use them for the gifts you give to honor the other mothers … Read More ...