My favorite pumpkin decoration tutorial

Hi there! I’m back with a fun DIY home decoration today. Autumn is my favorite season of the year! I adore the cozy evenings, the colorful falling leaves, and the beautiful sunsets, and like every year I can’t wait to decorate my home with some fall-themed creations. These little paper pumpkins cheer up my desk this year. They are super cute and so easy to create!

2 super quick valentine DIY gift ideas ❤

Hi there! Happy Friday! The good news is that we have a whole weekend ahead to prepare gifts for our loved ones to cheer up their Valentine's Day. 

I have two easy and fun ideas to create for you, I hope you will be inspired to create something pretty with paper and embellishments.

 

Advent Calendar 2021 tutorial

Happy December, everyone! If you know me, it's not a surprise that I start December with an Advent Calendar project. As my children grow up, we’ve switched chocolate and small gifts to ‘Christmas coupons’ in the Advent calendar. A cookie-baking afternoon or a movie night is a real pleasure for them, as is putting together a charity gift package or making a postcard for people living in a nursing home.

Valentine’s Day Gift Boxes with the Button Press

Hello, friends! Handmade gift boxes with tiny surprises for Valentine’s Day are always so special. They are pretty, represent your love and care, and so easy and fun to create! Today I’m showing you some super sweet paper gift boxes you can create with your Button Press tool.

Here is the video about the basic steps of the assemble:

Summer Layout with Paper Chain Background

Hello, Ladies! I'm back with a new layout featuring a fun, paper chain inspired background technique. In summer, we always do a lot of DIY projects with my kids, and one of these was a paper chain wall hanging decoration. We had so much fun with creating colorful paper rings, and I thought it would be fun to turn this technique into a scrapbook layout background.

DIY Fall Leaves with Premium Trimmer | We R Memory Keepers DT

Hi Friends! I'm back with a fun fall-themed layout today. Autumn is my favorite season of the year! I adore the cozy evenings, the colorful falling leaves, and the beautiful sunsets.

DIY Travel Kit | Volar collection

Hi, everyone! I'm sharing a special project with you today! Although traveling could be complicated this year, fortunately, we live in such a beautiful country that we have many opportunities to spend our holidays in beautiful places. If you know me, you already know that I love working ahead and put together journals or mini-book before we go on our holiday. This makes it much easier to document our travel memories. This time I created a complete travel kit that includes a pretty shaker plastic bag, a file folder, a journal, and mini-book with a lot of pockets and tags for photos.

I chose the super pretty a Volar collection by Mintopia Studio. I absolutely love the soft colors and the travel-themed embellishments, perfect to document vacation memories. 

Here is the walkthrough video of my project and the steps of the basic assembly of the plastic bag and the mini-album.

Easy DIY Journal with step by step instructions

Hi, Ladies! I have to admit that I'm totally obsessed with DIY journals recently! This is the reason why I start organizing summer plans with creating a new journal :) This time I went with a super fun fruit shape journal.

Home decoration with Magical Forest collection | Crate Paper DT

Hi, Ladies! I'm here with my very first project using the ah-dorable Magical Forest collection by Crate Paper! To be honest, I couldn’t be more excited about this collection! The papers are so bright and fun, and it’s made for feminine and masculine layouts! This is perfect for me since we have three boys and a girl! I love these types of collections. But there are other fun ways you could use them too. This time, I decided to create a home decoration that is perfectly usable as an organizer.

DIY Organizer | Crate Paper DT

Happy New Year Crate Paper friends. We might already be a few days into 2020, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to start getting organized and planning our days a little better right now! After all, sometimes it takes a bit to settle into new routines that include things like New Year’s Resolutions. That’s why I start the year by creating a DIY organizer that will help me reach my maximum productivity potential in the coming year!

Stitched Winter Journal + Process video

Hi Ladies! Maybe you remember that I shared a DIY Winter Journal with snowflake-inspired stitching some days ago. This project was very popular and I got a lot of questions about the process. I think the easiest way to show you the steps of the binding and the stitching is to make a process video. 

Holiday gift | Crate Paper DT

Hey Ladies! I’m so excited to share my new project with the stunning Snowflake collection by Crate Paper. It’s the 1st of December, and we are slightly getting into the festive spirit figuring out gift ideas and new cookie receipts.  All of us like to receive gifts, but I find it’s always better to give gifts. Apart from buying gifts for children I always try to create something handmade and festive for my friends and adult family members to show our thoughtfulness.

Advent Calendar | Crate Paper

Hey Crate Paper fans, its Bea here with you today! Christmas prep is in full swing over here at Crate Paper blog and I have been so excited to share my new project using the adorable Snowflake collection with you!  Advent calendars are an age-old Christmas tradition that are fun for all ages. Every year, I create a design to put a fresh and fun spin on this classic concept. This year, I came up with this super easy and fun, shadowbox inspired DIY advent calendar. After you’ve assembled this design, fill each window with surprises to be unveiled every day of December.

First, here is a video, so you can see how works the advent calendar, and then the basic assembly of the shadow box and the decoration:

Winter journal

I'm definitely a goal journaler! Most of the time I start my day with a long to-do list, and I'm the happiest if I can check off them at the end of the day 💪 ...and when December is near, my lists become longer and longer... but with a pretty To-do journal is everything easier, right? I customized my journal with al snowflakes inspired stitching using my We R Memorykeepers Book Binding Guide and with cute pieces from Snowflake collection from Crate paper ❤ 

DEAR DECEMBER, I'M READY!

Magic Castle

Hey everyone, I am kicking off ‘Designer Destination’ week on the Crate Paper blog. Heritage collection joined Designer Destination at Joann Stores and apart of a wide range of embellishments they offer a special Project Pad. This Project Pad includes patterned papers, glittered papers, cardstock papers, and stickers.  For today’s project, I was inspired by the beautiful cardstock papers from the Project Pad.

Hey Pumpkin decoration | Crate Paper DT

Hello Crate Paper fans! It’s Bea and I’m excited to share my super easy Halloween decoration idea with you today! To be honest, for me the funniest part of preparing Halloween party is creating the decoration! I love playing with orange / black papers and cute embellishments, and literally can’t stop creating banners or centerpieces. This year, I thought it would be fun to welcome my guests with a cute door hanger. All I needed was a stitching hoop and some pieces from the Hey Pumpkin collection.

Pumpkin Garland | American Crafts DT

Hi, Ladies! I have a fun fall decor project to share with you today! We all have beautiful paper leftover from a variety of projects. To keep with a fall theme I decided to create a pumpkin garland, each a different color with some of those fabulous leftover pieces from Slice of Life collection.  Although the patterned paper is not traditional fall colors it still works because I’ve grouped them together with die-cut leaves and attached them with black and white bakers twine.

Halloween DIY card stand | Crate Paper DT

Hello Ladies! I’m excited to share my super easy Halloween decoration idea with you today! To be honest, the funniest part of preparing Halloween party for me is creating the invitation cards! I love playing with the orange and black papers and cute embellishments and literally can’t stop creating the cards. I thought it would be fun to use those pretty cards to decorate our party table. All I need is some cute Halloween cards, and a pretty card stand!

4 ways to use Heritage stamp and die set | Crate Paper DT

Hi, everybody! I share 4 easy projects using the Heritagedie and stamp set today. This set includes swan, ribbon, frames, and sentiments clear acrylic stamps and coordinating thin metal dies designed by Maggie Holmes. Possibilities are endless!

Kids craft with Wild Card collection | American crafts DT

Hi American Crafts fans! Are you ready for a fantastic crafting afternoon with your kids? Today I’m sharing an easy-peasy and super fun summer craft project which I made with my daughter on a rainy day. This time we decided to create a colorful banner to decorate my daughter’s room. To start, we grabbed circle punches and some cute ephemera pieces or stickers from the Wild Card collection.