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How To: Recycle old envelopes into bags for small holiday gifts
You don't have to spend a fortune on expensive gift wrapping when the means to make them yourself are right at home! This tutorial shows you how to take a collection of old envelopes and recycle them into fun and cute gift bags for small holiday gifts.
How To: Make vintage style luminary boxes as a Christmas gift
This is a fun and festive craft you can use to dress up your home or give away as a gift. All you will need are some of your favorite vintage graphics, your chosen cardboard box, a craft knife and a hot glue gun.
How To: Make a steampunk style holiday snowflake ornament
This tutorial shows you how to make a snowflake out of washers and other bits of hardware to make it look like a steampunk Christmas ornament. This only takes a few minutes, and is an easy accent to any gift or tree.
How To: Airbrush onto a mini canvas using Copic markers
Looking for more interesting things to do with your Copic airbrush? This technique shows you how to master the art of airbrushing on a very small canvas, using markers that have been designed to work with this airbrush. Great for holiday projects!
How To: Make gift tags and photo corners out of cereal boxes
This is a great holiday project that also encourages recycling! Take a few old cereal boxes and repurpose them into either tags (which you can use for gifts) or glittery photo corners that you can attach in your albums or scrapbooks.
How To: Make your own embellishments with Peachy Keen stamps
This tutorial features the Peachy Keen stamp line, and shows you how to punch out, color and use your own embellishments. These make great accents, decorations and gifts, especially for the holiday season. All you need besides the stamps are your favorite paper crafting supplies.
How To: Create a vintage embosssed look using the burnt brown bag technique
This craft shows you how to use the burnt brown bag technique with some embossing and decorating techniques in order to create a distrseed, vintage look. A great craft project for a steampunk Christmas look, or as faux vintage decorations.
How To: Crafter supersized red paper flowers for Christmas
If you need to decorate your house fast for the holidays, then supersized decor is the way to go. Yeah, you could buy those tacky big Christmas ornament balls fastened with big red ribbons at the store, but if you're looking for elegant Christmas decor then making it is the way to go.
How To: Create a Christmas angel tree topper with paper plates & glitter
What's Christmas without a tree topper? To make your own unique tree topper, try this paper plate angel tree topper. Decorate however you like with glitter and markers, and you'll soon have a special tree topper that no one else hads. This is a great project to do with your kids.
How To: Make a piggy bank or money box out of paper
You can also use this as a method to make some easy gift boxes! All you need are three sheets of plain paper, some scotch tape, a pair of scissors, a knife and some markers (or your favorite paper decorations).
How To: Make a home made gift box for Christmas or holiday presents
These boxes are great for small gifts, and you can make them at home. You will need a craft knife, a square ruler, a cutting mat, heavy paper (approximately 6 inche by six inches) and Dura-Lar paper or sheets of clear acetate. Make a home made gift box for Christmas or holiday presents.
How To: Make an easy Christmas card
Want to make your Christmas just a little bit more personal? Try making Christmas cards this year instead of buying them. You'll save on money, and your friends and family will get the benefits of your creativity. All you need is paper and scissors to start.
How To: Make a series of six Christmas cards easily and quickly with a cricut machine
Don't rely on the iffy cards you can get from the store - make your own series of holiday cards! You will need a cricut machine with a few holiday themed stencils, as well as your favorite cardstock and designer paper.
How To: Make a beautiful handmade gift box for your Christmas presents
All you need is some stiff paper, like craft paper or card stock. Then follow this video to fold two pieces (make sure they are roughly the same size) into a lovely and easy gift box. Then wrap it and stick it under the tree!
How To: Make a mini album for Christmas out of paper bags
You don't have to be a scrapbooking wizard to make this! All you need are 32 brown paper lunch bags, and a small collection of paper crafting supplies. Make your own seasonal Christmas album, and record every day of the month!
How To: Create an "I Love You" Valentine's Day card
Want to show your love in a creative and heartfelt way? Make a handmade I Love You card using Ippity stamps! This tutorial shows you how to make a basic, flowery card to show the people you love how you feel about them.
How To: Make a little paper pilgrim out of a Top Note die and cardstock
You can use this little paper pilgrim to decorate scrapbooks, as place cards or to include with thank-you notes. You will need a Top Note die cutter, card stock in black, white, beige and brown and a few paper craft supplies as well.
How To: Make a sweet treat turkey out of paper and jelly beans
By using the Sweet Treat cups, cardstock and a few extra crafting supplies, you can incorproate delicious jelly beans (or any other small, autumn-colored candy) into a crafted paper turkey. This is a great little decoration to put on the kids' table this Thanksigving season!
How To: Make a mini basket for Thanksgiving as a table decoration or favor
The basket in this tutorial says 'Give Thanks', but you can always change the lettering and turn it into a place card instead. It's a mini basket that you can fill with anything, and give away as a favor or use as a table decoration.
How To: Make a specialty chisel tool for "papel picado" paper crafts
Papel picado is a traditional Mexican paper crafting (perforated paper), and it can sometimes be difficult to cut, especially when you are trying to cut fifty layers at once. To make cutting easy, you can use a chisel, and this video shows you how to make one with papel picado in mind.
How To: Make authentic (and totally eco-friendly) Mexican papier mâché paste
Forget using glue or wallpaper paste, the best recipe for paper mache uses nothing more than flour and water. There's no set ratio, just mix what you think looks right. The key to this recipe is boiling the paste after you have mixed it.
How To: Cut out intricate shapes on your Craft Robo with an SD card
While you can hook up your Craft Robo to a computer, you might sometimes want a little extra mobility. You can load your designs onto an SD card and cut out your favorite shapes directly from the card. No cords needed!
How To: Craft a spooky "Boo'd" Halloween box
Halloween just isn't Halloween without your fair share of spooks, frights, and spine-tingling delights. If you're planning to host a Halloween party this year, why not craft your own favor boxes? It's really not as hard as you think.
How To: Craft a vintage inspired paper flower
The biggest pro paper flowers have over real flowers is that they last a hell of a lot longer. So whoever receives your paper flower will be able to cherish the present for longer than a few days.
How To: Make a little house pop-up card
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a little house pop-up card. First, draw a cute little house on a flat plain with trees around it, then decorate the house! After this, fold it in half so the house shows on the outside and cut the paper along the roof and on the bottom, not on the sides. After this, bend that flap on both sides and then open up the card. Now, fold the card in so the little house pops out when you open it up! From here, put into your card and then color the entire thing t...
How To: Make Vincent Valentine's arm guard
This video explains how to make Vincent Valentine's arm guards in under 20mins. The supplies needed to complete this task include card paper, tape, gold spray, pencil and scissors. A ruler must be used to measure the length of your hand and fingers so you can correctly size the arm guards. Card paper is the cut into many small circles and placed around all of the fingers and then painted with gold spray. The hand portion is created by wrapping your hand with card paper and pulling tight befor...
How To: Make a chicks pop-up card
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a chicks pop-up card. First, draw a chick on the front of the card, with the beak in the very middle. After this, use your scissors to cut the beak in the middle around the top and bottom but not the sides. After this, bend the beak from side to side to make it pop out from the card. Then, open the card back up and fold it the opposite way. From here, color in the chick and then glue it to the inside of the card you're going to use and give to someone!
How To: Make a butterfly pop-up card
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a butterfly pop-up card. First, draw a butterfly on the middle of a paper and then draw flowers and smaller butterflies around it on the sides. After this, fold the card in half so the drawing is stick out and cut along the top and the bottom of the butterfly. From here, color in the entire character and then fold inwards and pop the middle out. After this, stick the insert into the card of your choice. Then, glue it down and you will have a cute butterf...
How To: Make a little duck pop-up card
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a little duck pop-up card. First, draw a duck on a 4x6 piece of paper. Simply draw the big head with the wings coming out at both sides. From here, fold it in half so it closes together. Then, make another small piece of paper that has the eyes drawn onto it and the beak colored in. Place this on the duck to get it in the right spot. Then, adhere it with glue on the top part and fold it in again. Now, when it opens up in the card, the beak will pop up, e...
How To: Make a pop-up book
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a pop-up book. First, take a piece of paper and fold it in half. From here, take another piece of paper that is the same size and fold it in half. Then, cut small slits in the middle where you folded it. Then, fold these slits into the middle and pop them out from it. Then, fold the paper again and it will be a stand for the middle. Add glue to the middle and then place what you want to pop up onto this. Let it dry and then fold it down. Then, glue the m...
How To: Make an elephant pop-up card
In this video we learn how to make an elephant pop-up card. First, draw a picture of an elephant on a 4x6 card. You can make this anyway that you want and put whatever other characters on it as well! After this, clip a small piece of paper into the shape of an ear. Then, glue the side of it and place it onto the elephant. The other half shouldn't be glued so it will flap up! Then, put this on the inside of a card and color it. When the person receives it, it will be a pop up card, enjoy!
How To: Make a bear pop-up card
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a bear pop-up card. First, draw a big bear face on a 4x6 card. After this, fold the card in half so the face is in half. From here, use scissors to cut along the mouth line up until you reach the nose. After this, bend that flap up and down so it's creased and will flip both ways easily. After this, open the card back up and push the nose of the bear into the top. Then, close the card again and the nose will pop up from the page, enjoy!
How To: Make a paper cup cake/muffin basket
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a paper cup cake/muffin basket. First, take a piece of paper and fold it in half. After this, curl the edges up from each of the corners until you end up with a small square in the middle of the paper. Use scissors to create slits where you will make the tabs to construct the box. After all the tabs are cut, push them together so you have a small basket with a neat line. To finish this up, add a handle to the top and push into the sides. Then, draw on an...
How To: Make an Easter pop-up card
In this video, we learn how to make an Easter pop-up card. First, draw a duck with a little baby duck on a 4x6 piece of paper. From here, fold it in half so you can see the image on the outside. After this, use scissors to cut the middle, where the little baby chick is at. Cut the top and bottom around it, but avoid cutting the sides. From here, bend that piece left and right. Then, open up the card and bend it into the middle. From here, take a piece of paper with eggs cut out of it and bend...
How To: Assemble a handy book to organize ribbon
If you're an arts and crafts fanatic then you probably have more than your fair share of ribbons lying all around the house. You snip off one long piece from the roll and then you have to go and tape it to itself again to keep everything in place, and then eventually you give up and the remaining ribbon ends up in an odds-and-ends jar.
How To: Make quilled Christmas bells for a card
Are you really into making your own greeting cards? Then you should definitely introduce quilling into your craft oeuvre. Quilling creates a rococo 3D effect that makes every design you adhere to a card more interesting.
How To: Craft quilled wreaths and candles for a Christmas card
When it comes to presents, take it from us: Homemade and coming from the heart is nice, but there's very little that can beat a brand new iPad sitting beneath the Christmas tree. While we do prefer our presents nice and shiny, homemade cards are another matter.
How To: Fold a beautiful Marie Antoinette paper doll
Queen Marie Antoinette was both loved and despised by her people, but there was one thing that was undisputed: Her exquisite (though often over-the-top style). Big poufy gowns with lots of underwire, towering white wigs, and frilly lace and ruffles made her look like a sparkly birthday cake.
How To: Fold an origami English rose paper doll
The English rose has traditionally been a beautiful young woman who glows with beauty and sensibility. Yet she is also very English and possesses a stylish and endearing quirkiness.
How To: Make a festive paper box with Dawn of Dawn's Stamping Thoughts
Looking for your next craft project? Why not a bright and festive paper box? This video guide from Dawn of Dawn's Stamping Thoughts will teach you everything you need to know. For all of the details, and step-by-step instructions, take a look.