Win a One Year Membership to Paper Crafter’s Library & the September and October 1st Winners!

This past January Paper Crafter’s Library celebrated our first year anniversary – and in that time we have established ourselves as the THE all-in-one learning solution for paper crafters with the largest {and best} online library of video tutorials on the internet. From beginner through to advanced, covering product instruction, techniques and project ideas for …

2nd Preorder for Bundles of Calendars and Bundles of Notepads

Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking about the bundles of calendars and notepads. I’m excited to announce that we will be doing a second preorder for the bundles of Note Pads and Calendars. For those of you unfamiliar with the Calendar and Note Pad tins let me tell …

Project Ideas Newsletter Challenge: Fall Thank You

Welcome to the Project Ideas Newsletter Challenge. Every Monday, we will design a card, scrapbook page or 3D item. Your challenge – is to use our piece as inspiration and make it into a card, scrapbook page, or other project. You can use the layout, the colors, an element you like…it can look like our …

May Arts Spotlight With Designer Jennifer Ingle

Today we have our monthly May Arts Designer!  After our successful May Arts week back in May, we asked them to come back with another Guest Designer each month for you. So, we’re so excited to have another designer from May Arts with us today. Here at Paper Crafter’s Library we’re ribbon lovers – you’ll find ribbon …

Graphic 45 Spotlight With Designer Jim Hankins

Here is the latest installment of our Grahpi 45 Guest Designers. Many of you may remember that back in April we hosted a Graphic 45 Week on the Paper Crafter’s Library Blog. It was week filled with projects and inspiration using Graphic 45’s Tropical Travelogue Collection. We had such a great experience partnering with Graphic …

Trendy Tuesday – Chunky Glitter

Trendy Tuesday – All that Glitters… by Katherine Elliot  “All that glitters is not gold, ” is a true statement in the papercraft world. And what glitters may not even be glitter… but today we”ll focus on some chic stuff that can turn your basic project into something truly lustrous.  True glass glitter is made up of tiny, thin shards of …

September Design Team Project: Garland Card by Keren Baker

 Hi Everybody! Today’s my day at the Paper Crafters Library and my project  is based on a trend that seems to be gaining popularity. The bunting craze which has swept the crafting world off its feet looks like it might have some competition. I guess you could say that its simply bunting but vertical ! It’s another …

Celebrating STAMPtember with Simon Says Stamp

It’s STAMPtember at Simon Says Stamp – and if you haven’t already stopped by their blog to check out all the fantastic project ideas and tutorials, I encourage you to do so.  I’m honored to have been invited to participate their STAMPtember event, and wanted to share with you a bit about Simon Says Stamp …

Technique Thursday: Ribbon Bow Embellishment

Now that Club 52 is officially over, we’ve decided to dedicated Thursdays to a variety of different things – things like techniques, 3D items, scrapbook pages, the occasional mini album, maybe even an altered art, art journaling or mixed media piece! Today’s card is one that I created using all of those left-over bits and pieces of ribbon …

Trendy Tuesday – Mustaches

Trendy Tuesday – Silly Mustaches by Katherine Elliot I “mustache,” have you seen these images lately?   Now, I know it”s not a new trend, just one of those trends not yet going away.  Searching for the origins of  the “mustache on a stick” craze, very popular at party photo booths, hasn”t given me any more insight, but I have to …