Holiday Archive

  • Holiday: Easter

    Holiday: Easter

    That huge magazine stack that’s been collecting under your bed can be used in many ways. Try creating your favorite quotations from assorted sizes and colors of letters you have cut out: one of my favorite tricks! When cutting out letters, consider taking them...

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  • Holiday: Christmas

    Holiday: Christmas

    There are a lot of ways you can eventually use that big pile of magazines that has been gathering beneath your bed. A technique I love is to cut out different sized and colored letters and make sayings or quotes. Try snipping letters from various...

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  • Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Holiday

    Handcrafted & Finished Pieces: Holiday

    Now that big stash of periodicals that has been accumulating under your bed-frame can be put to quite a number of uses. Cutting out letters of varying sizes and colors, and then using them to make phrases or quotes, is something I enjoy doing. When...

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  • Holiday: Halloween

    Holiday: Halloween

    I am well aware that purchasing supplies from local art stores is not cheap, since I love scrap-booking and doing other craft work myself. You can save money on supplies, create unique projects by using the same methods which I have collected together. 1. You have...

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  • Holiday: Gingerbread Crafts

    Holiday: Gingerbread Crafts

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! With scissors and markers, a pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta can be painted and glued on as a decoration paper plates can be masks. Think openly about things around you. There...

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  • Holiday: Valentines Day

    Holiday: Valentines Day

    As a fan of creating homemade crafts and a devoted scrapbooker, I am all too aware of the expense of buying art supplies from stores at retail prices. So, here I’ve compiled all of the ways I’ve found to save on supplies and still be...

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