A while back, as I was busy practicing the art of Doing Nothingness (a.k.a standing-around-not-being-very-productivisity), I randomly came up with the idea of making roses out of tissue paper. I toyed with the idea a little, and pretty soon I had a small, red, easy to smash, tissue paper rose. In case you hadn’t noticed, I enjoy making long, silly, incomprehensible words and sentences, that include the extensive use of punctuation marks, predominantly the subtle, yet impactful character, the comma. 😉 If you would like to learn how to make a miniscule, scarlet, readily disposable, that which is made from […] Read more »
Make Your Own Envelopes {free template}
I love writing letters to my friends, so I enjoy using this as a way to make cards a little more special. We printed these templates out on differently colored pieces of paper, so that we could show you purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and white envelopes. The template fits correctly on an 8 1/2 – 11″ piece of paper (average printer paper). — Abbie How to Make Your Own Envelopes 1. Print out our envelope template, and cut out around the black lines. 2. Fold the two flat edged sides in. 3. Fold the two pointed edged sides in. […] Read more »
Cupcake Paper Flower Valentine
A few weeks ago, Abbie was tinkering around with some cupcake papers and made a flower. Knowing that a Valentine’s Day party is around the corner, I asked her this week if she thought she could take that flower idea and incorporate a chocolate kiss. She sat right down and got to work, and even added a way to include a message! Here’s what she came up with…. Materials 1 yellow cupcake wrapper 1 pink cupcake wrapper 1 green cupcake wrapper one dark chocolate kiss glue gun Instructions Glue the point of the kiss into the center of the yellow […] Read more »