Happy Harvest Pumpkin Basket on the Silhouette

The weather is definitely cooling off, and today’s project is meant to celebrate the change of the seasons.  I love this little rustic basket, and the 3-D pumpkins which inhabit it!  Of course, my trusty Silhouette was part of my project lol.  I simply can’t get enough of this machine, and I know that when …

Lunchbox Love Notes

Every year the older kids struggle with having to go back to school.  While they are excited to see their friends, they’re not so happy to leave behind the fun and freedom of summer.  For them – and I’m sure just about every child out there – school days, while jam-packed with activities, can seem …

Sweets for the Sweet

  Today’s card was designed with sweet lovers in mind! This card is glossy, and sparkly, and has such a fun pattern to set off this whole design. The candies have a thick glossy coating to simulate the hard candy of the lollipop.  This coating was achieved with lots of layers of UTEE, and this of course …

Keeping Track of Children’s Backpacks with Backpack Tags

It was back to school again for my three older children today. I decided this year to create some backpack tags for ALL my children, to attach to their backpacks.   Last year I created some for the youngest children, and found it was wonderful for helping them find their backpacks in the huge pile that would inevitably …

Strawberry Box

Well we are finally back!!  CHA was a blast!  there are so many fun new lines and products coming out.  It was amazing to see all the vendors together, and all the samples which were displayed.  There were papers of all colors and patterns, new die releases, new products for trying out new techniques, and …

Pop-up Fruit Drink Card

Today’s card is a cute little pop-up card.  I originally designed this half cylinder pop-up about a year ago for an online class.  The original one that I did was a pop-up princess in a tower.  This time I wanted to alter it to be a fruit drink on a sandy beach.  The card is …

Pool Party Invite

I wanted to create some cool invites using one of the newer cartridges called Pack Your Bags.  I love the images on this Cricut Cartridge, they are perfect for both summer and vacationing!  This card uses the image found on page 55.  This cute coconut drink is the perfect image to conjure up visions of …

Simple Bookbinding for Journals

  I am so excited to share today’s project!  What is it?  Well it is a handmade book in which I bound my own pages.  Now you first question may be, why would you make your own book?  Well for starters, I can never find a book with the papers I like!  I like doing …

Make a Splash Birthday Card

We’ve recently been making some BIG changes to our video content on Paper Crafter’s Library.  One of the changes is to create themed projects – with the theme changing every 1-2 weeks (maybe longer) depending on how many ideas we have for a given theme ( we are doing a bunch of other types of …

Just Saying Hello

Today’s card is a simple scene.  While the card layout is very simple, I actually found that it took me a long time to make.  I don’t know what it is about simple cards, but I find them harder to do then intricate cards lol.  So here is my “Simple” card which was hard for …