Stamping & Scrapbooking

How To Make Your Own Music Cards Like This Handmade Spongebob Card

My nephew Ryan recently turned 3 and he loves Spongebob Squarepants. He also loves those cards that play music when you open them.

A couple of years ago I found a store that was going out of business. They had the music cards at a ridiculously low price, and I bought several. Their sentiments don't match any occasions I have coming up, but that's not a problem. You can easily cover the cards with your own design to personalize them for your friends and family and still have the fun of the music!

For my card, my stuffed Spongebob was the inspiration.

I'll show you how I made my own Spongebob Squarepants music card...

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DIY Halloween Gift - An Idea That Could Be Used For All Kinds Of Seasonal Decorations!

One of my favorite things is making seasonal decorations for my house, as well as for friends and family.

I find that most people have plenty of decorations for major holidays -- such as Fourth of July or Christmas -- but many people do not have decorations for other seasonal festivities.

The reason for this could range anywhere from lack of money to decorate year round to the person or family just not having enough time to decorate.

This is where you, the creative friend or family member, comes in!

After all, you found this article, and there are caboodles of similar tips for making fun seasonal crafts on this site. So take note and make someone close to you smile this holiday season!

Following are the steps I used to make this spooky Halloween gift idea. The best part is, you could adapt this same idea to make any type of seasonal craft for any time of year...
 

Continue reading: Fun DIY Halloween Gift Or Decoration

How To Make A Fun Snowman Card For The Holidays

I made this Snowman Buddy card as my Christmas card for 2008. 

It's never too early to start thinking about Christmas, so I wanted to share this fun idea with you now.

I will be estimating card and paper sizes from what I recall using...

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Are You A Scrapbooker, Or A Life Artist?

So, I ask you... do you call yourself a scrapbooker?
 

Or would you rather be called a "life artist"?

I've been doing scrapbooks since my high school days in the 80s. Of course, those were the old-fashioned kind using products that were not archival.

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How To Make Scrapbook Embellishments With Your Printer

Make fun blocks, corners, and tags for your scrapbook pages using your printer.

It's easy and only takes 15 minutes using 8-1/2 x 11 photo paper.

Here are the instructions from HP: Black & White Scrapbook Embellishments

How To Organize A Stamp Swap

If you are like me, chances are you have several upon several rubber stamp sets sitting around your craft space that either already served their purpose or they have so much dust on them you can't even read the title on the package.

If that sounds familiar, then you are a great candidate for hosting a stamp swap!

Here's how to organize a stamp swap...

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How To Make Personalized Photo Playing Cards

As scrapbookers, rubber stampers, and card makers, we enjoy finding fun ways to utilize photographs in craft projects.

Here's a simple way to put 16 of your favorite photos onto a set of playing cards. All you need is some photo printer paper!

Instructions from HP: King of Cool Photo Playing Cards

Fun Ideas For Wedding Scrapbook Pages

Some links to help you make fun wedding pages for your scrapbook:

• How To Make Pleated Wedding Pages
   
• Wedding Scrapbook Must-Haves
   
• Beautiful Wedding Scrapbook Layouts
   
• How To Make A Digital Scrapbook Wedding Album
   
• Tips For Putting Your Wedding Memories Onto Paper
   
• Wedding Digital Scrapbooking Ideas
   
• How To Make A Wedding Scrapbook As A Gift
   
• Wedding Scrapbook Layouts
   
• Love & Wedding Scrapbook Layout Ideas
   
• Fun Things To Include On Wedding Pages
   
• Vintage Wedding Scrapbook Ideas
  
  
• Tips For Organizing Your Wedding Album Pages

How To Make A Handmade Glitter Birthday Card

This is a nice and easy birthday card, based on a 12x12 sheet of birthday paper from a DCWV paper stack.

The great thing about those value packs of paper is that each sheet is in there 3 times, giving you the option of creating several cards using the same design. This is great for making invitations or thank you cards.

I started this card with 8.5x11 purple cardstock folded in half.

My plan was to cut a large section of the birthday paper into panels for the top and to use one line of "happy birthday" from the card as the message at the bottom.

I started with the message...

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