Documenting Your Christmas Memories: Why It Matters & How to Do It The holiday season always seems to fly by in a blur of twinkling lights, laughter, and the smell of freshly baked cookies. Before we know it, the decorations are packed away and another year has come and gone. That’s why documenting your Christmas memories is so special —…
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Let’s have some fun with this Christmas mini album class to go! This year we are turning a hanging file folder into a fun, interactive way to document your holiday memories. AND you’ll get two options for the price of one! This is definitely something you’ll want to recreate over and over using different supplies. Check out the video below…
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Welcome to the monthly APPT blog hop where we will showcase alternate projects using the October 2025 Cozy Christmas Paper Pumpkin kit. I created a simple mini album but make sure you check out the other blogs (linked below) for additional creative ideas. For those of you not familiar with Paper Pumpkin kits, they are a crafty subscription kit that…
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Stampin’ Up!® recently released a 12 days of crafting advent calendar and it is fabulous! I was so excited to get mine and did an unboxing on my Facebook page but then didn’t get a chance to craft with it until this past weekend. Not only did I create 6 cards for the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar tutorial…
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Last week I participated in the Traditions of Christmas Craft Class that Stampin’ Up! offered. It was their first virtual craft class – apart from the virtual retreat they offered in July. What a fabulous event! Over the course of a couple hours, we created the four projects shown above using the Traditions of Christmas suite. Along the way the…
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In today’s post I’m sharing some light & wonder card ideas. These cards use products from Stampin’ Up!’s Lights of Aurora suite. This collection will let the heavenly light of the aurora borealis inspire your crafting. It includes gorgeous paper showcasing waves of cosmic colour, dies for creating stunning natural landscapes, and elegant all-occasion sentiment stamps—everything you need for dreamy…
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Today I’m sharing a few fun envelope pocket ideas with you. These are simple projects that can be used for so many different things: gift cards, small gifts, hidden journaling or memorabilia on a scrapbook layout, or added to your junk journal. They are also perfect little projects to create using some of the pattern paper we always seem to…
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In today’s post I’m sharing an 8 Christmas card one sheet wonder. One sheet wonders are perfect for getting lots of cards done at once and using up some of your pattern paper. Like the layout of these cards? Switch out the pattern paper and how you embellish and the cards will look completely different. And don’t limit yourself to…
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I’m sharing something a little different today – an altered Christmas book. This is definitely a show stopper project that would be pulled out and admired year after year. The base is an old Reader’s Digest book that I’ve altered. I was inspired by this video by Natasa from Treasure Books. Here’s what it looks like from the front. It…
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Welcome to the monthly APPT blog hop where we will showcase alternate projects using the September 2025 Fall for Toile Paper Pumpkin kit. I created a scrapbook layout to share with you today but make sure you check out the other blogs (linked below) for additional creative ideas. For those of you not familiar with Paper Pumpkin kits, they are…
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Today I’m sharing a quick & easy gift packaging idea. If you’ve been crafting for awhile, you’ve likely seen these. They are called tea bag holders or a diaper fold. I’ve seen lots of the small version – created with a 6×6 piece of pattern paper but not many larger ones. The smaller ones are perfect for your seasonal table…
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