Category: Handmade Cards
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In the Workshop: Santa Cheer
This month for the Create Inspiration Team at JessicaSprague.com, I crafted a Santa Cheer package. This DIY festive wine bottle served as a a perfect focal point to highlight two darling digital tags from the Aspen Frost collection. Here’s a peak at the process of making these simple paper cuties: Start with mini red wine…
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In the Workshop: Fast Christmas Card
I am having so much fun working mixing digital and traditional paper elements. Here’s a peak at a super easy card that can be created in under 10 minutes after you’ve gathered all your supplies: Steps to making this card: Print out the Santa card from the Very Merry Christmas Element Pack #2 featured on…
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In the Workshop: Congrats Card
Remember this post on my favorite new glitter technique? Here is one of the cards I made using this inspired process: The glittered leaves were the perfect addition to the background of this card. For a step-by-step guide on achieving this look, visit my post In the Workshop: Glitter Techniques!
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In the Workshop: Handmade Halloween
I’m so excited to share that I’ve been selected as a member of Jessica Sprague’s new Create Inspiration Team! Since joining The Dating Divas team over a year ago, I’ve really worked on my photography skills. Jessica’s amazing digital classes have been such a blessing to start learn the ins and outs of Photoshop to…
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In the Workshop: Glitter Techniques
Remember this teaser post? As promised, here is the scoop on one of my favorite new crafting processes: A Bit of Background Info When I was at the stamp convention in August, I spent quite a bit of time at The Stamp Doctor’s Booth. Mechele Rudd, the owner, demonstrated how to achieve this gorgeous result…
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Gender Reveal Party: Activities
*This post is part 2 of my Gender Reveal Party Series. To read about our decorations and theme, click here! To keep our guests entertained and mingling, our reveal party featured 5 different activities. Here are 4 tips for creating a memorable gender reveal party: 1. Encourage guests to cast their vote by wearing PINK…
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Glitter Sneak Peak
So, I might have spent the last week covered in glitter. I am absolutely thrilled with this new technique- stay tuned for the details!
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You Are My Sunshine Party Theme
When Olivia was discharged from the hospital, we followed the nurses orders to stay away from public places for fear of RSV. When the flu season ended in late April, we decided to celebrate! I knew that I wanted to do something based on song, You Are My Sunshine, since I sang this tune to…
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DIY High Contrast Books for Babies
During our first visit with the Parents as Teachers program, our coordinator emphasized how fascinating black and white images were to infants. She recommended this popular board book to help stimulate Olivia’s brain development. It features a total of 10 large and familiar shapes for babies to study. I loved the concept of this simple…
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“Posting” Our First Father’s Day Memories
I might be a bit biased, but this beautiful baby girl has the most amazing Dad. To celebrate Father’s Day this year, I was inspired by Paige’s “Post-It Pictures” idea on The Dating Divas. Instead of leaving general fun captions, however, I tailored each message to be a specific reason explaining why James is a…