Each year I hand make the invitations for our Halloween Party. Â I enjoy doing it, and I usually try to come up with something a little different each time I make them. Â However, this year I was so pressed for time that I just did an even easier version of the Halloween party invitations I […]
Super cute, super easy DIY Halloween decor with American Crafts kits.
I am a pretty creative person, and I am of the opinion that everyone has at least a little bit of creativity in them, but it often surprises me how many people will argue vehemently that they are NOT creative. Â Nope. Â Can’t do it. Â My mind just doesn’t work that way, etc… Â I think sometimes […]
Make an easy scrap paper Christmas tree.
I wanted one more little Christmas tree for our buffet table. Â Just a little one… I also wanted to get rid of some of my scrap paper stash. This is the easiest thing in the world to do. Â If you can cut pieces of paper into squares, then you can do this craft. Here’s what […]
How to make an easy Halloween photo garland.
Yesterday I shared photos from our big Halloween party. Â Today I wanted to show you how to make this easy photo garland. I thought it would be fun to create a garland using photos from our previous Halloween parties, but you could easily do this for any holiday or special occasion. Â (Or you could even […]
Going Batty: Making over a bare wall for Halloween.
I have a wall in my dining room that is under-done 11 months of the year… but not in October. Grant loves to help me with the placement of the bats. Â (We like to make them look like they’re swarming towards a corner of the room.) This couldn’t be easier. Â Cut some bat shapes out […]
Re-cover chandelier shades with scrapbook paper.
Remember the upcycled lampshades I did with some cute fabric in the springtime? Â It’s fall so I was ready for a change… but this time I didn’t use fabric, I used houndstooth scrapbook paper. I had paper left over from my DIY gift bags, and I thought it would be perfect for these chandy shades. […]
DIY Halloween Party Invitations (For the non-scrapbooking, non-paper crafting types out there.)
We host a Halloween Party every year, and one of the things I really enjoy doing is making the invitations.  (Here are the invitations I made last year.  Super easy.)  While I did do a “Save the Date” over Facebook at the beginning of the month, I think there’s just something special about getting an actual invitation […]
Turn old shopping bags into gift bags. A paper craft DIY.
We all have them… a stash of shopping bags. It bugs me that they are usually the perfect size for a gift bag, but you can’t very well give the gift of Legos and put them in a Ann Taylor bag, now can you? Â (Because that would be weird.) Fortunately, it’s totally possible to turn […]
Handmade Valentine’s Gift… a relationship timeline.
Do you have one of those husbands or boyfriends who gets dates all jumbled in their heads? “That year we went to Such-and-Such… was that before or after we were married…?” or “Was that before we got together… or after we had the baby?” You know, there are just dates that women have a head […]
Recycle your Christmas cards into gift tags for next year.
Every year we receive beautiful Christmas cards. Every year I save a few special ones, but I hate to throw the rest away. The solution? Recycle them and make beautiful gift tags.