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Your one-stop shop for creative inspiration! Find DIY ideas for seasonal decorations, handmade gifts, and fun activities for all ages. From scrapbooking to festive lanterns, explore crafts that spark your imagination and bring a personal touch to your holidays and celebrations.

Here are 7 fun things you can do with your rubber stamps to create gifts and decorations for Valentines Day.

Making a bud vase is very simple, and even very young children can do this with only a little help. Here are step-by-step instructions.

Here are some ideas for using Halloween rubber stamps to spice up your Halloween holiday. There are lots of fun ways you can utilize your Halloween rubber stamps in craft products and holiday decorating themes.

Crafts like scrapbooking and card making are wonderful hobbies and a creative outlets for many, but they can become very expensive. The cost of embellishments alone can cramp your style, but here's an idea for the do-it-yourselfer. Why not use all those fun papers, fabric scraps, and doo-dads to make your own embellishments?

Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cut-outs onto it. Each layer of paper is sealed with a glue or varnish before adding another new layer. You can use the decoupage technique to create a beautiful votive candle holder.

Watercolor resist is a technique that artists use to create interesting effects in their paintings. The basic idea is that wax or oil will resist water-based paints; the paint won't stick to it. You can use this technique to create beautiful paintings of ocean life or anything else your imagination can dream up.

While you're out enjoying the weather, collect some of those beautiful spring flowers to use in your arts and crafts projects. For pressing flowers, look for more flat flowers like violets, pansies, and daisies. Thicker flowers will work, but they take longer to dry. Here's how to press flowers...

One great way to start crafting with your kids is by making a box for your supplies. Here's how to make a very simple craft box for all of your craft supplies...

Here is a quick Easter treat bag idea, using punched-out flowers for a springtime feel. Plus links to other Stampin' Up Easter bags, pouches, boxes, and treat holders.

If you're like me you have sheets of rub-ons that are half-full -- in the same box as the half-used sheets of stickers. Now that Stampin' Up has rub-ons that coordinate with their stamp sets, there is a new technique using the new product.

Here is an idea for a Valentine Treat bag for giving away treats. If you have a small heart punch and some cardstock, you're ready. The best part is that it requires no stamping and can literally be done in less than 10 minutes!

Stamping handmade cards is a great way to show your friends and family that you care very much for them. Another way to use your stamps -- and other creative talents -- is to dress up your packages and gift tags.

How about some sweets for your Sweetie? This is easy, quick, and best of all - handmade.

The supplies for making holiday luminaries are cheap, and they're very easy to make...

If you knit... and you believe in doing random acts of kindness or leaving your mark on the world... then this is right up your alley. Even if you don't (I don't), you'll want to see what a renegade group of crafters are knitting and where they're knitting 'em!

I love giving out treats to coworkers and friends, but I really like to give something more personal than candy. So handing out these treat bags is the easiest way for me to do that -- while still providing some 'sweet treats'.

Here's a list of the many different ways that you can press flowers, plus simple instructions for how I press flowers.

Here are detailed instructions for knitting or crocheting a cupcake pincushion for holding safety pins, straight pin and needles. Check it out... It's too too cute!