{Love Note Birdie}

Leave your sweetie a love note delivered by a little bird.

Download the SVG file and make one of these cuties.

{Whimsical Scalloped Heart SVG}

{Christmas Frame Ornament}

{ Mini Scrapbook Album }

I really like anything miniature. 

Some of my favorites are mini scrapbook albums. They are cute, fun to decorate and you can use a lot of your smaller paper scraps for these!

Carry them with you and show to friends or family and brag about the newest grandchild or the best vacation ever! 

They also look great in a bowl placed on your coffee table so visitors can take a look at them. Make them as individual little gifts of captured moments with friends and family members.

In this tutorial I will show you how to make one of these little albums. I've seen these somewhere and have made many of them since.

You will need 4 pieces of card stock  each measuring 2 3/4" x 11"

 

On 3 of these strips you will make your scores at 3", 6" and 9".

(The 4th strip will become the album cover.)

 

After you scored your 3 strips you will fold your score lines alternately and then glue them together to make one strip.

First take a strip with a small section at the end and glue it to the back of the beginning section of your 2nd strip.......

 

Repeat with the last strip and the inner section of your album is already done!

 

Now we make the albums cover:

Score the 4th paper strip at "3", 3 1/2", 6 1/2", 7 and 9".

 

Fold the section at the 9" score over and glue it down.

This will be the closing flap and give your cover a little more strength.

 

Fold the paper at the other score marks as well.

 

Now line your cover and paper strip up and glue the beginning section of your cover to the back of the beginning section of your paper strip.

 

This is how it would look like glued together.

Now fold your paper strip alternately and close the cover around it.  Your basic mini album is complete!

Embellish your album sections and the cover as you wish.

{ Folded Flowers Wall Art }

 I've had this old perfectly square frame laying in my craft room. The thing was constantly in my way and finally I had enough!

It was time to place something in the frame and find it a home within my home so it would not be in the way anymore and serve a purpose. 

We just remodeled the last 2 of our guest rooms and they had absolutely nothing in them yet.

I figured this frame would be a nice beginning. The only thing I needed was some picture or something else artsy to place inside of it.

I decided on doing a paper crafty insert for said frame. 

It was painted a chocolate brown, and I started to fold 9 of these lovely flowers. They were adhered to this nice vintage sheet music paper and embellished in the center with a glass pebble. Tadaaa.....

If you would like to {learn how to fold these flowers} check out my tutorial and use them in your own projects.

{Spring Banner}

I've never really been into much paper crafting, but lately I begin to enjoy it more and more. Here is a banner I made for the fireplace to welcome spring. I made an SVG file to cut the banner on my Cricut and then embellished.

I'm pleased about how it looks and I think I will make some more for other occasions.

{Chicken Wall Art}

I've been practicing in making my own SVG cutting files for my die cutting machine and the SCAL or MTC programs to cut them with. Today I made this cute wall art project for my kitchen.

Download the SVG file if you would like this File to 

{ MAKE YOUR OWN CHICKEN ART }

{ATC Keeper}

I made this ATC { Artist Trading Card Holder } for a friend of mine. 

She collects these little works of art and I thought she might like one of these holders.

Very simple to make and lots of fun to decorate.