Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Holiday Village Shops

A fun little ring bound photo album to create. Or if you prefer, you could use the backs of the tabs to write favorite holiday phrases or sentiments.

If interested, you can find this kit at My Porch Prints. Here is their easy to follow video tutorial . 

Sometimes I just prefer a simple cut and paste project...must take me back to my childhood when I spent hours doing just that; cutting and pasting! 

Below is my short flip thru video

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Saturday, December 6, 2025

Flip Flap Folio Winter Village

Another little meditative project of just cutting and pasting. Cutting is a breeze these days thanks to my ScanNCut!

This project and more can be found over at My Porch Prints. 

A short flip thru below 

 


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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Origami Book ~ 'Twas The Night Before Christmas

An old classic Christmas Poem creatively bound in an origami book.

'Twas The Night Before Christmas' was first published anonymously in 1823. And according to Wiki; "The poem has been called arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American and is largely responsible for some of the conception of Santa Claus from the mid-19th century to today."

The construction of the book pages start by folding 4 inch square size papers and you end up with an adorable little book 2 inches square. A sweet 'freebie' project offered by My Porch Prints here.

View a short flip thru of my book below 


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Monday, December 1, 2025

25 Days Till Christmas

Another Chunky Holiday Junk Journal with lots of Tim Holtz Classic Nostalgic Christmas Ephemera!

Don't recall the particular scrapbook paper pad I used as the base, but there are lots of tabs, tags, pockets clips and stickers throughout. Tab binding method using TH linen holiday tape. I incorporated many tea-stained notepads creating plenty of pages for journaling and list making.

This little chunky journal measures 5"W x 6.5"H x 1.5" thick.

You can view a short flip thu below 


 

 

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Ho Ho Hum ...


 

Christmas Tag Box ~ 25 Days

Another relaxing project completed for the month of December. A box of 25 Christmas Tags each numbered and decorated with pockets, a few notepads added for shopping lists and the backs have room for recipes or just lists of favorites.

Once again ScanNCut saves the day and does all the fussy-cutting!

If interested, you can find the project over at My Porch Prints. I did alter mine a bit and added other images and found just the right wooden box to store them in.

Short flip thru below

 


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Saturday, November 29, 2025

'Cricut' Cards

These are the first cards I created with my Cricut Explore 3. They have a vast library of projects to choose from in their Design Space.

 I chose to make a few cards using Cricut Fine Point (0.4mm) Markers. It was amazing to watch as it drew the delicate designs. And of course there was some cutting involved in crafting the cards as well.

I'm loving my new Cricut!  

Origami Spring Basket

I discovered an easy to follow video tutorial to construct this sweet origami basket demonstrated by   Easy Origami and Crafts .   Used a 12...